US EditionBillionaire who bought $6 million fruit at art auction offers to buy 100,000 bananas from NYC vendor
- A Bitcoin billionaire named Justin Sun pledged to buy 100,000 bananas from Shah Alam, a New York City vendor, after spending over $6 million at an art auction.
- Sun stated that he wants to thank Alam for selling the banana that inspired a famous art piece.
- The bananas will be distributed for free worldwide through Alam's stand to share his story and express gratitude.
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We have already made almost every possible joke about the cunning Maurizio Cattelan, the artist who sold a banana stuck to a wall with a silver ribbon at the price of $6.2 million, under the pretext of ironizing about the artwork. Today we are going to talk about the fruitmaker who sold that same banana to him for 35 cents. The subject is called Shah Alam, is 74 years old and a vegetable stand in front of Sotheby’s Manhattan. He is from Banglade…
He would give 25 cents a piece and then distribute them all.
Fruit Vendor’s 25-Cent Banana Sold for $6M. Now the Man Who Bought It Wants 100,000 More.
Imagine working 12-hour shifts for $12 per hour and witnessing one of your 25-cent products being resold for $6.2 million. Such an occurrence sounds like a fever dream, but it was the odd reality for 74-year-old fruit vendor Shah Alam who works a sidewalk stand outside of Sotheby’s on the Upper East Side. When Alam, a widower from Bangladesh, started working as a fruit vendor, he never considered one of his bananas would be taped to a wall and …
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