The Daily Mail is having fun with this story from Hugh Grant about how he ended up buying the Turquoise Liz that he sold recently for a huge profit:

Grant, 49, had been on a two-day drinking spree when he ordered an assistant to bid for the painting at an auction in New York. ‘And to my horror, she did, and even worse, got it.’

It all began with drink. I’d been having a drunken dinner with my father the night before, and I said, “We ought to go see my brother Jamie. You know, the Concorde’s amazing.”

‘And he said, “I hear it is.” So I bought him a Concorde ticket and we went. We had lunch, drank a lot of beer. ‘And I was thinking about some stuff in the Sotheby’s auction and I saw the Liz Taylor. I slightly regret selling it now, even though it made me rich.’

Hugh-Grant I drunk I bought Elizabeth Taylor painting 11m profit (Daily Mail)