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LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The iconic black dress worn by
Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" sold
for 410,000 pounds ($800,000) on Tuesday, around seven times its
pre-sale estimate.
    Including a premium paid to auctioneers Christie's, the
total cost for the sleeveless, floor-length Givenchy dress rose
to 467,200 pounds ($920,000).
    The sale room at Christie's broke into applause at the end
of a long and tense session when it was bought by an anonymous
telephone bidder.
    The dress, one of three versions made for Hepburn for her
role as gamine socialite Holly Golightly in the classic romantic
comedy, was being auctioned on behalf of the City of Joy Aid
charity which helps underprivileged children in India.
    "There are tears in my eyes," said Dominic Lapierre, who
runs the charity.
    "I am absolutely dumbfounded to believe that a piece of
cloth which belonged to such a magical actress will now enable
me to buy bricks and cement to put the most destitute children
in the world into schools."
    Christie's said the dress set a new world record for one
made for a film, but it fell short of the auction house's own
world record for any dress.
    That belongs to the white silk evening gown worn by Marilyn
Monroe the night she sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to
John F. Kennedy in 1962, which fetched $1.27 million at a New
York auction in 1999.
    The Hepburn dress was the star lot of the annual film and
entertainment sale at Christie's, in London's upmarket South
Kensington.
    According to Christie's, a second version of the dress
remains in the Givenchy archives while a third is part of a
collection of the Museum of Costume in Madrid.
    Hepburn wears the black fashion classic as she emerges from
a cab onto a deserted, early-morning New York street and peers
through the window of jeweller Tiffany while she eats her
breakfast from a brown paper bag.