Anger as Cher tries to sell key to the city of Adelaide on eBay

Officials in Adelaide, Australia, have voiced their disappointment at revelations that US singer Cher had apparently put her key to the city up for sale on internet auction house eBay.



The key and accompanying memorial plaque was being sold online by a user called Authentic_Cher who claims to be the musician's "personal consignor" selling her personal effects. But the move offended officials in the city of some 1.2 million people, with Adelaide mayor Stephen Yarwood saying he was "exceptionally disappointed."

"It must be very embarrassing for her if she is selling it because she needs the money," Yarwood said. The man who presented Cher the key, former mayor Steve Condous, said the award had been in recognition of her performance at the 1990 Formula One Grand Prix and the fact that she "added a lot of charisma" to the event.



"I'm disappointed. I would have thought that getting the key to a city like Adelaide would have had some value to her, but obviously it doesn't because she wouldn't have got rid of it," said Condous. "If she didn't want to keep it she should have returned it back to the city."