The car Tupac Shakur was riding in when he was shot and killed could be yours - provided you have a couple million bucks to spare.
The BMW 750iL is being sold by an auction house for a fixed price of US$1.5 million (NZ$2 million), TMZ reports.
In September 1996 Tupac was riding in the passenger seat, with record producer Suge Knight behind the wheel, when the 'California Love' rapper was fatally shot. No one was ever charged with the murder.
Photos of the BMW show it's been largely restored, but there are reminders of its central role in one of the great unsolved crimes of the modern era - bullet indentations on the door panels, for example.
The car was reportedly auctioned off not long after the shooting, and has changed hands a number of times since then.
The sale comes ahead of a biopic on the 'Hit Em Up' hitmaker - All Eyez on Me, named after the last album released while he was still alive.
Death for sale
Tupac's 'deathmobile', as TMZ labelled it, is hardly the first time money's been made out of misfortune.
The album John Lennon signed for his killer, Mark David Chapman, went under the hammer a few years back. The sellers claimed the copy of Double Fantasy even had Chapman's "forensically enhanced" fingerprints. It sold for £535,000.
The gun used to kill the Beatles star remains in police custody, as does the gun Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain used to kill himself in 1994.
Though you can't (yet) buy the gun Cobain once sang he never had, the sweater he wore during the band's infamous MTV Unplugged set sold in 2015 for US$137,500 - despite its missing a button and "burn hole".
Another top you might want to get your hands on is the one Napoleon wore as he lay dying in exile on the island of St Helena.
It was to go on sale in 2014, but the auctioneers were stopped by a court injunction. Descendants of Napoleon's stablemaster, who'd saved the shirt, were worried France's heritage was being stripped. (Which didn't stop one of his a death mask of Napoleon's somehow ending up at Auckland Art Gallery).
Sometimes, a celebrity doesn't have to die for an auction to seem a bit off. In 2012, a single drop of blood belonging to former US President Ronald Reagan went on sale.
Bids topped US$30,000 before it was withdrawn. The blood was drawn after a failed attempt on his life in 1981. The owner, who'd purchased it in 2010 for US$3550, instead donated it to the Reagan Foundation.
Body parts are also a regular appearance at celebrity auctions - buyers with unique tastes have snapped up Lennon's teeth and hair Michael Jackson burned off during the filming of his infamous Pepsi commercial in 1984. Going where no one had gone before, in 2006 Star Trek star William Shatner auctioned off a kidney stone - raising £14,000 for Habitat for Humanity.
On a lighter note, the remains of Frisky the Coronation Street cat sold at auction for £844 in 2010. Frisky starred in the opening credits of more than 1000 episodes of the British soap.
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