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Street vendor who sold $6m banana devastated

NYC fruit vendor who sold $6.2M banana for pennies is still fuming: ‘I got 35 cents’

Shah Alam, 74, recently learned that a piece of his produce was used in Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s piece titled “Comedian” — taped to a gallery wall and sold at auction last week for the eye-popping price of $5.2 million plus more than $1 million in auction-house fees.

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Street vendor who sold $6m banana devastated as he did not receive a cent

Shah Alam doesn’t remember exactly which of the dozens of bananas he sold last Wednesday ended up being taken across the road, taped onto a wall and bought for $6.2 million (£4.9 million).

The Independent on MSN · 1d

Crypto mogul eats banana he bought for $6.2 million and offers to buy 100,000 more from fruit vendor

Upon hearing how much Sun bought the fruit for, the vendor, Shah Alam, was in disbelief. Sun then promised to buy 100,000 more bananas from Alam, or $25,000 worth of produce, in a series of posts on X/Twitter.

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New York City Fruit Seller's 35-Cent Banana Rockets to a Staggering $6.2M Art Sensation

NYC fruit vendor Shah Alam sold a banana that became a $6.2 million artwork, sparking discussions on value and disparity.

'Mr. Alam's contribution to this extraordinary artwork is indispensable'

A Bitcoin billionaire has vowed to purchase thousands of bananas from the sidewalk vendor who originally sold the now-famous ...

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Chinese crypto businessman eats his controversial $6.2 million banana art piece

Big Mike bananas — a common translation of the flavorful Gros Michel banana variety — were once ubiquitous and have now ...

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Man who bought $6m Banana offers to buy 1,00,000 more from original Bangladeshi vendor in NY

Shah Alam, a 74-year-old Bangladeshi migrant street vendor in Manhattan, sold the original fruit for the artwork for only 25 cents ...

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Collector Justin Sun Wants to ‘Thank’ the Vendor Behind the $6.2 Million Banana

Justin Sun said he will buy 100,000 bananas from the vendor who sold the fruit that was used for Maurizio Cattelan's $6.2 ...

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Justin Sun Eats Maurizio Cattelan's $6.2 Million Banana, Orders 100,000 More

Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian,” a banana taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million to cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun, who ate it to embody the concept of the work. The story also highlighted Shah ...

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