A leather jacket worn by Angelina Jolie in the new film Wanted is up for auction on both eBay and CharityFolks.com, with proceeds from the sale benefiting Plan!t Now.
Participants can bid on either eBay (Item #220248632393) or at CharityFolks.com (Item #11745):
Marketing Description:
Take on Angelina Jolie’s character, “Fox,” from her latest film, Wanted, when you bid for her jacket worn in the film! The jacket is black leather, in extra small, with a diagonal front zipper and tassles on the zipper pulls.
Wanted, loosely based on the comic book miniseries by Mark Millar, is directed by Timur Bekmambetov. Wanted stars James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Konstantin Khabensky, Common and Angelina Jolie
In the film, Wesley Gibson (McAvoy) is offered the opportunity to seek revenge in the murder of his assassain father. Gibson is invited by his father’s partner, Sloan (Freeman), to follow in his father’s footsteps. Sloan’s second-in-command (Jolie) mentors Gibson, who follows the death orders issued by the Fates, weavers who read individuals’ destinies in fabrics produced by mystical looms.
Angelina Jolie is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and an Academy Award.
Jolie has received wide recognition for her humanitarian work. In 2003, she was the first recipient of the newly created Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association, and in 2005, she was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA. Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country on August 12, 2005; she has pledged $5 million to set up a wildlife sanctuary in the north-western province of Battambang and owns property there.
In 2007, Jolie became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and she received the Freedom Award by the International Rescue.
TERMS: Item cannot be resold.
About the Charity – Plan!t Now (www.planitnow.org)
PLAN!T NOW advocates empowerment of people through information and connection and provides dialogue between people living in hurricane and severe-storm affected areas and those who should prepare in coastal regions of the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. Operating with the understanding that no matter where you live, a natural disaster can happen at any time, PLAN!T NOW advocates the power of preparedness.
About Charity Folks (www.charityfolks.com)
CHARITY FOLKS is an online auction marketplace that has fast become THE place to find one of a kind celebrity experiences, backstage encounters and sold out seats to major shows and events. CHARITY FOLKS auctions have helped to raise millions of dollars for various causes with the help of celebrity and newsmaker clients such as Rachael Ray, Tiger Woods, Jonas Brothers, Billy Baldwin, President Bill Clinton & Bruce Springsteen.
Note: The “Terms” of the auction state that the “[i]tem cannot be resold”, which is an interesting condition on the sale.
Jason De Bord