(21 Jun 2022)
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New York - 20 June 2022
1. Wide of auction, Nobel laureate journalist Dmitry Muratov welcomed to the front, applause
2. Muratov speaking in Russian, UPSOUND of translator (English) "Today is an international refugee day, and it's not a holiday, it is a day of difficult human solidarity."
3. Muratov leaves, applause, hugs interpreter
4. Auctioneer of Heritage Auctions introducing 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal, UPSOUND (English) "The sale is one item, that's it it's one item. I normally do sales of hundreds of items but this going to be pretty easy but probably the most important sale I've ever presided over and there is the item folks. This is one, of one of the seven categories the Nobel Committee chooses and of course Dmitry was awarded it for peace, for peace." Zoom into medal seen on screen
5. Audience during bidding
6. Auctioneer taking bids UPSOUND (English) "4.1 (million US dollars) I need 4.1, 4.1 now to go to 4.2, let's get this thing going. 4.1 now 4.2."
7. Screen showing bids up to 4.8 million US dollars
8. Muratov in audience filming on mobile phone
9. Auctioneer speaking as bid reaches 13 million US dollars UPSOUND (English) "We are 13 million dollars already, there it is. 13 million dollars, 13 million dollars. Wow."
10. Auctioneer speaking to new bidder UPSOUND (English) "You're 16.8, would do you think 16.8? Want to go to 16.8? He said he's thinking about it, 16.8. New bidder, completely new guy. (Audience gasps) Can I just hear that one more time? Take your mask off so I can hear you please?", camera pans to man in the audience with 303 paddle
11. Pan from auctioneer to screen showing bid of 103.5 million US dollars UPSOUND (English) "Hold on a second. Wow that's a lot of dough."
12. Bidding close, crowd cheers, Muratov applauded and embraced
13. Muratov embraces auctioneer
14. Muratov embraces bidder
STORYLINE:
The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov was auctioning off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night for $103.5 million, shattering the old record for a Nobel.
A spokesperson for Heritage Auctions, which handled the sale, could not confirm the identity of the buyer but said the winning bid was made by proxy. The $103.5 million sale translates to $100 million Swiss francs, hinting that the buyer is from overseas.
The live auction happened on World Refugee Day. Previously, the most ever paid for a Nobel Prize medal was $4.76 million in 2014, when James Watson, whose co-discovery of the structure of DNA earned him a Nobel Prize in 1962, sold his.
Three years later, the family of his co-recipient, Francis Crick, received $2.27 million in bidding also run by Heritage Auctions.
Muratov, who was awarded the gold medal in October 2021, helped found the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and was the publication’s editor-in-chief when it shut down in March amid the Kremlin’s clampdown on journalists and public dissent in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
It was Muratov’s idea to auction off his prize, having already announced he was donating the accompanying $500,000 cash award to charity. The idea of the donation, he said, “is to give the children refugees a chance for a future.”
Muratov has said the proceeds will go directly to UNICEF in its efforts to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine.
Melted down, the 175 grams of 23-karat gold contained in Muratov’s medal would be worth about $10,000.
“We want to return their future," he said.
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