June 17, 2019

Leonard Cohen's lover letters to Marianne sold for $876,000

Over 50 love letters from Leonard Cohen to Marianne Ihlen (who inspired 'So Long Marianne' and many other of his songs) have been sold for $876,000 at a recent Christie’s auction. The letters sold individually, with one from December 1960, where he wrote about being “alone with the vast dictionaries of language,” went for $56,250, another, which was from 1964 and had Cohen writing “I am famous but empty,” went for $35,000. You can check out some of the letters at Christie’s. Documentary 'Marianne & Leonard' is out in July. Ihlen died of leukemia in Oslo in July 2016 at age 81. Cohen, who was also suffering from leukemia, died in November 2016 at the age of 82. Reuters...