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Mussolini's brain for sale on eBay

21st November 2009

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ITALIAN dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and brain went on sale for 15,000 euros ($A24,343) on online auction website eBay before the company pulled the ad posted by an anonymous seller.

"No bid was made during the brief time the advert was visible," eBay said on its website on Friday, explaining the removal on the grounds that the company did not authorise sales of human matter.

"It's a disgrace trying to sell my grandfather's brain and blood," Alessandra Mussolini, the neo-fascist granddaughter of Il Duce, told Sky TG24 television.

She said the remains of her grandfather, who was hanged by partisans at the end of World War II, were normally kept in a Milan hospital.

The television station said the hospital denied the claim.

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