--- title: 'Star Wars' Princess Leia Bikini Sells for $96,000 description: Carrie Fisher famously donned the sexy metal outfit in 'Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi' canonical: https://time.com/4061195/star-wars-bikini-princess-leia/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-05T14:25:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:30:48.508Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Star Wars' Princess Leia Bikini Sells for $96,000 og:description: Carrie Fisher donned the sexy metal outfit in 'Star Wars: Episode VI' og:url: https://time.com/4061195/star-wars-bikini-princess-leia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2cf969687240be5/698866dcbc6cfcad523d9c09/princess-leia.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Princess-Leia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Star Wars' Princess Leia Bikini Sells for $96,000 twitter:description: Carrie Fisher donned the sexy metal outfit in 'Star Wars: Episode VI' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2cf969687240be5/698866dcbc6cfcad523d9c09/princess-leia.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Star Wars_ Princess Leia Bikini Sells for $96,000 by [Jodi Guglielmi / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Jodi Guglielmi / People Oct 5, 2015 2:25 PM UTC  20th Century Fox by [Jodi Guglielmi / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Jodi Guglielmi / People Oct 5, 2015 2:25 PM UTC Apparently it costs a pretty penny to look like Princess Leia. “Slave Leia’s” bikini fetched an impressive $96,000 in the “Profiles of History” online auction on Friday. It was one of the most highly anticipated items included in the event, which featured a number of high-profile pieces of movie memorabilia. [Carrie Fisher](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:CarrieFisher,00.html) famously donned the sexy metal outfit in _Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi_. According to [CNN](http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/02/news/princess-leia-bikini-auctioned-for-96000/index.html), bidding opened on Thursday at $80,000 before it sold on Friday. The winner, who was not named, also received the collar, several chain links and a letter of authenticity provided by Industrial Light and Magic designer Richard Miller. Despite the sky-high price of the costume, it was not the most expensive item to sell. A miniature model of Leia’s “Blockade Runner,” the first spacecraft seen in the [_Star Wars_](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,MediaProductsTax:StarWars,00.html) franchise, sold for $450,000 – having doubled it’s opening price of $200,000\. The sale set the record sale for any _Star Wars_ artifact in the auction. Fisher will [reprise her role](http://www.people.com/article/carrie-fisher-daughter-billie-lourd-not-princess-leia-star-wars-force-awakens) in the seventh installment of the series, [_Star Wars: Force Awakens_](http://www.people.com/article/star-wars-force-awakens-interactive-video), in theaters Dec. 18. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4061195/star-wars-bikini-princess-leia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4061195/star-wars-bikini-princess-leia/"},"headline":"Star Wars Princess Leia Bikini Sells for $96,000","datePublished":"2015-10-05T14:25:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:30:48.508Z","description":"Carrie Fisher donned the sexy metal outfit in Star Wars: Episode VI","url":"https://time.com/4061195/star-wars-bikini-princess-leia/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2cf969687240be5/698866dcbc6cfcad523d9c09/princess-leia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jodi Guglielmi / People"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2cf969687240be5/698866dcbc6cfcad523d9c09/princess-leia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Princess-Leia","caption":"","creditText":"20th Century Fox","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4061195/star-wars-bikini-princess-leia/","name":"Star Wars Princess Leia Bikini Sells for $96,000"}}]}] ```