Blue Ivy Carter, the 10-year-old daughter of musicians Jay-Z and Beyoncé, placed an $80,000 bid at the Wearable Art Gala in Los Angeles.
The child bid on a pair of Lorraine Schwartz diamond earrings Saturday, shocking auctioneers Keke Palmer, an actress, and Tina Knowles-Lawson, a businesswoman and Blue Ivy’s grandmother.
Video on social media showed Blue Ivy jumping up to place the bid under the supervision of her famous parents. She ended up getting into a bidding war with Mielle Organics founder Monique Rodriguez and her husband.
Rodriguez posted a video of her husband, Melvin Rodriguez, bidding on the earrings. He went back and forth several times with Blue Ivy until ultimately winning the jewelry for $105,000. Rodriguez showed off the large diamond earrings on Instagram.
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The theme of the gala was “Harlem Nights,” celebrating fashion from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Blue Ivy is not a newcomer to making high auction bids.
In 2018, when she was just 6 years old, she bid $19,000 on an acrylic painting of a young Sidney Poitier at that year’s Wearable Art Gala.
She ended up being outbid by filmmaker Tyler Perry who won the art at $20,000.
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However, she did not go home empty-handed.
Vanity Fair reports Blue Ivy bid on a 36″ x 36″ piece of art composed of deconstructed law books from Indiana and medical books from California.
Blue Ivy won the art for $10,000.
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