Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe CHICAGO, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Clumps of hair belonging to such celebrities as Mickey Mantle, Elizabeth Taylor and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis went up for auction in Chicago Tuesday. Brian Marren, a vice president with Mastro Auctions, said the online auction will close in April, and the tresses and locks came from the estate of Robert Champion, a "hairdresser of the stars" in New York and Hollywood. Mantle's hair came from a former business manager, the Chicago Sun-Times said. Advertisement Mastro auctioned a clump of Elvis Presley's hair in 2002 for $115,000. John Reznikoff, one of the nation's foremost hair collectors, told the newspaper the hobby is growing, and likely because of the possibility of owning DNA belonging to someone famous. However, science hasn't reached the stage of being able to combine extracted hair DNA into the reproductive cycle, the report said.
