(April 15, 2007)—Two diaries written by Anna Nicole Smith in the early 1990s failed to sell at an auction this weekend, but the journals are now available for a minimum bid of $25,000 each, according to an official at the Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas.

Doug Norwine, the auction house's director of music and entertainment memorabilia, says there were at least two bidders on the diaries but both pulled out of the auction.

Among their concerns were allegations that the diaries had been stolen and should be returned to her estate.

The auction house obtained the journals and other items from an anonymous German businessman who purchased the items on eBay for more than $500,000 several weeks ago.

Norwine says he had vetted the history of the journals and believed a celebrity memorabilia dealer in Los Angeles legitimately obtained them before they went for sale on eBay.

The diaries from 1992 and 1994 cover a range of topics, from Smith's love of octogenarian oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II to concerns about her eating.

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