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Tony Bennett's family is auctioning off a trove of the late crooner's personal items, including letters from Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga.

Tony would find them very distracting.” The archives included microphones from his live shows, letters from presidents and celebrities, paintings Bennett both collected and created himself, and even a San Francisco cable-car bell given to him after he’d supported then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein’s campaign to rebuild the city’s system in the Eighties. A red leather scrapbook, with a preliminary price of $8,000 to $12,000, contains letters to Bennett from Martin Scorsese, Madonna, Robert De Niro, Quincy Jones and Barbra Streisand, among others. Danny himself is holding onto a painting his father created while sitting on the front porch of the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, in the Sixties.

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