DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The City of Dallas will make back the money it spent to remove the Robert E. Lee statue from a city park in 2017; and then some.
The Statue was removed per city council vote and has since been in a storage facility. The same council voted last month to sell the piece at auction for no less than $450,000 to recoup the money spent to take it down.
The piece was bid on 84 times and sold for $1,435,000. The majority of the bids were made in the final 20 minutes of the auction. The high bid was made by the user ‘LawDude’ who was in a bidding war with ‘Mustang Jerry.’ The final bid was posted to the LSO Auctions website.
A stipulation of the sale was that the statue can’t be displayed publicly in Dallas City limits. The identities of the top bidders was unclear when the auction closed. It’s unknown what the plans for the buyer are after the sale is complete.
The sale won’t become official until approved by the city council next week.
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