{"id":2285180,"date":"2026-02-17T05:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2285180"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:06:24","slug":"logan-paul-gets-record-price-for-rare-pokemon-card-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/logan-paul-gets-record-price-for-rare-pokemon-card-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Paul Gets Record Price For Rare Pok\u00e9mon Card At Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/logan-jake-paul-fight-hbo-max-8bb77544572adeb2f1879a9e17f9f2b3\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Logan Paul\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6993497ae4b0330fe927b672\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/logan-jake-paul-fight-hbo-max-8bb77544572adeb2f1879a9e17f9f2b3\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">Logan Paul<\/a> has set a new world\u2019s record \u2014 for the auction price of a trading card.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The wrestling and social media star\u2019s rare Pickachu Illustrator Pok\u00e9mon card, a \u201cHoly Grail\u201d for collectors, sold for $16.5 million Monday at Goldin Auctions after 41 days of bidding. Paul had purchased the card in 2021 for $5.275 million, a Guinness record at the time for a Pok\u00e9mon card. He had added a diamond necklace and custom case and wore the card at WrestleMania 38 in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Guinness World Records adjudicator Sarah Casson was on hand Monday for the auction\u2019s closure, which was livestreamed on YouTube, and confirmed the price was a record not just for a Pok\u00e9mon card, but for any trading card sold at auction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cOh my gosh, this is crazy,\u201d said Paul, who placed the card around the neck of winning bidder A.J. Scaramucci, a venture capitalist and son of former White House communications director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/9db30443543a498ebef18555cbc738c9\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Anthony Scaramucci\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6993497ae4b0330fe927b672\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/9db30443543a498ebef18555cbc738c9\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">Anthony Scaramucci<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The card was designed by Atsuko Nishida for a 1998 contest. Only a few dozen are believed to exist, and Paul\u2019s card is believed the only with a quality rating of 10.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Logan Paul has set a new world\u2019s record \u2014 for the auction price of a trading card. The wrestling and social media star\u2019s rare Pickachu Illustrator Pok\u00e9mon card, a \u201cHoly Grail\u201d for collectors, sold for $16.5 million Monday at Goldin Auctions after 41 days of bidding. Paul had purchased the card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2285181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[442780,442779,349216,23089,442778,442632,22893,23844],"class_list":["post-2285180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-a-j-scaramucci","tag-goldin-auctions","tag-logan-paul","tag-new-york","tag-pickachu","tag-sarah-casson","tag-white-house","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Logan-Paul-Gets-Record-Price-For-Rare-Pokemon-Card-At.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285182,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285180\/revisions\/2285182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}