Notorious B.I.G. crown fetches $822,000

Updated September 16 2020 - 6:01pm, first published 5:55pm
The crown for Biggie Smalls' "King of New York" photograph was bought at a party shop.
The crown for Biggie Smalls' "King of New York" photograph was bought at a party shop.

The plastic gold-coloured crown that US rapper Notorious B.I.G. wore on the last photo shoot before his death has fetched $US600,000 ($A821,700) at the first hip-hop auction held by an international house, Sotheby's says.