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• Elvis has left ... the barber shop.
Elvis Presley's personal barber, Homer Gilleland, scooped up snippings of the King's hair over multiple haircuts and kept the baseball-sized ball of tresses in a plastic bag, which he then gifted to Thomas Morgan, a friend of both men.
United Press International reported on Sept. 8 that the hair, now in a sealed jar and backed up by "extensive documentation," sold at auction for $72,500.
A Los Angeles auction house offered the hair alongside one of Presley's concert jumpsuits and other items. [UPI, 9/8/2021]