Robin Williams' watches and artwork sell for $6.1 million at auction
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The gist
Robin Williams' watches and artwork fetched $6.1 million at auction, with proceeds going to charity.
The sale funds arts scholarships, wounded veterans, disabled athletes and sick children.
Background
Robin Williams was an actor and comedian known for stand-up, Mork & Mindy, Aladdin, Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting, for which he won an Oscar; he died in 2014 at 63. The auction is one of several recent Williams stories, alongside his children reactivating his Instagram account in the year he would have turned 75 and reports revisiting his films and friendships.
How it unfolded
- 1990Williams starred with Robert De Niro in Penny Marshall's Awakenings, a medical drama based on Oliver Sacks' memoir; the two actors spent time with Sacks and his patients while preparing.
- 1997Williams compared one of his 1997 movies to being pimped out; Flubber was his third release that year, and Good Will Hunting, his fourth, won him an Oscar.
- 2014Robin Williams died at the age of 63.
- 2026Williams would have turned 75 this year; his children Zak, Zelda and Cody reactivated his Instagram account to share his talent and humor.
- Oct 14, 2026Williams' watches and artwork fetched $6.1 million at auction, with money going to arts scholarships, wounded veterans, disabled athletes and sick children.
Who’s saying what
- Family
- In a joint statement, Zak, Zelda and Cody Williams said reactivating his Instagram is their way of sharing his unique talent and humor with the world as they remember his life and work.
- Williams
- Williams himself said of fatherhood: 'Am I The World's Greatest Dad? Not At All, I'm A Work-In-Progress, But...'
- Williams
- He also compared some of his movies to being pimped out, saying 'Sure, great.'
Still unverified
An unnamed source said Williams' final days were marked by increasingly 'erratic' behavior linked to a Parkinson's misdiagnosis.