Beloved Real Housewives of Miami matriarch “Mama” Elsa Patton died in 2019, but now fans will get the chance to own some of her personal belongings. Her daughter, Marysol Patton, is set to auction $2.5-3.5 million dollars worth of her most prized possessions.

“My parents were big collectors of antiques, art and jewelry and had so many pieces across their three homes. My brother and I kept the pieces we really cherish, but so many other pieces were sitting unused. We decided to give the opportunity to others who share my parents’ passion for antiques and jewels,” RHOM alum Marysol, 54, said in a press release.

Among the items that will be up for auction are gems, collectibles, arts and antiques — including a 25-carat emerald ring estimated to go for anywhere between $100,000 – $125,000 and a Patek Philippe Nautilus watch estimated to go for about $200,000 – $300,000.

Other items that will be available are a coveted collection of nautical paintings by artists like Antonio de Simone and Antonio Jacobson. Mama Elsa, who was known for being spiritual and a psychic, also owned several beloved rosaries and gems that are a part of the collection that will go up for auction.

“I personally feel some of the most amazing jewels are the emeralds — my mother had a real love of them, and the collection was amazing. She was also very spiritual and loved her rosaries and jewels that gave her good energy, so those are also some of the most special pieces in the auction,” Marysol explained. “My father had a very substantial collection of coveted marine art as he was a yacht builder and he and my mother shared a love of sailing.”

Elsa starred on the Bravo series from 2011 to 2013 with a role in Marysol’s story line on seasons 1, 2 and 3. She became so beloved on the show that she starred in her own spinoff, Havana Elsa, in the form of a nine-episode web series that aired online while season 2 of RHOM was airing on TV. The show followed Elsa as she prepared to launch her own coffee line. The Cuba native died over Mother’s Day weekend in May 2019 at 84 years old.

The auction items are available for viewing now at Kodner.com. The auction will take place live on June 23 at Kodner Galleries in Dania Beach, Florida.

Keep scrolling below for a preview of items from “Mama” Elsa Patton’s estate auction.

Some of your favorite musical artists have transformed themselves for music videos to the point their fans don’t even recognize them!

Take The Weeknd‘s single “Save Your Tears,” as a prime example. The Grammy Award winner, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, shocked viewers everywhere when the January 2021 video first dropped.

In the clip, which is a little over four minutes long, The Weeknd’s features were completely exaggerated with fuller cheeks, a thinned nose, surgery scars and plump lips — think Jim Carrey in The Mask. Of course, the Toronto, Canada, native didn’t actually get plastic surgery in the name of his art. In fact, The Weeknd’s over-the-top look was the result of CGI and prosthetics.

To date, The Weeknd has never fully explained the meaning behind his “Save Your Tears” transformation. However, many fans and outlets believe it is the final installation to a story he began telling through his music with 2019’s “Heartless” video.

Obviously, not every artist is as mysterious with their metaphors, and Taylor Swift‘s video for “The Man” fits the bill. “I’m so sick of running as fast I can/ Wondering if I’d get there quicker/ If I was a man/ And I’m so sick of them coming at me again/ ‘Cause if I was a man/ Then I’d be the man/ I’d be the man/ I’d be the man,” are the lyrics to the chorus of the 2019 single off Taylor’s Lover album.

With that, the songwriter turned herself into a — you guessed it — man for the music video. The transformation was so believable that Swifties didn’t immediately realize the video’s main character, Tyler, was actually Taylor herself. As entertaining as “The Man” is to watch, the track has a much more significant meaning.

“It was a song that I wrote from my personal experience, but also from a general experience that I’ve heard from women in all parts of our industry. And I think that, the more we can talk about it in a song like that, the better off we’ll be in a place to call it out when it’s happening,” Taylor explained during a December 2019 interview with Billboard.

“So many of these things are ingrained in even women, these perceptions, and it’s really about retraining your own brain to be less critical of women when we are not criticizing men for the same things,” she added. “So many things that men do, you know, can be phoned-in that cannot be phoned-in for us. We have to really — God, we have to curate and cater everything, but we have to make it look like an accident. Because if we make a mistake, that’s our fault, but if we strategize so that we won’t make a mistake, we’re calculating.”

Scroll through the gallery below to see photos of artists who completely transformed themselves for music videos. 

If some of the contestants from Katie Thurston’s season of The Bachelorette look familiar, it’s because they are friends, cousins and acquaintances of other Bachelor Nation members. 

It’s not rare for people to get cast on the reality dating show thanks to connections they have to the franchise. Hannah Ann Sluss from Peter Weber’s season is close friends with Hannah Godwin, who competed one season prior for Colton Underwood’s heart. Raven Gates spent season 21 vying for Nick Viall’s final rose, only to open the door for BFF Tia Booth to compete on Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s season. 

Of course, the most famous friend to get a chance in the spotlight is Bachelor Matt James. His New York City roommate, Tyler Cameron, was the runner-up on season 15 of The Bachelorette starring Hannah Brown. 

Matt was originally announced as a contestant on Clare Crawley’s season in March 2020. However, when the season was delayed four months amid the coronavirus pandemic, they bumped the real estate analyst to the leading man of his own season, making him the first Black Bachelor in franchise history.

“We know we have a responsibility to make sure the love stories we’re seeing onscreen are representative of the world we live in, and we are proudly in service to our audience,” a statement from ABC read on Good Morning America in June 2020. “This is just the beginning, and we will continue to take action with regard to diversity issues on this franchise. We feel so privileged to have Matt as our first Black Bachelor, and we cannot wait to embark on this journey with him.”

A new season means many new faces, and Katie, who was eliminated during week 5 of Matt’s season, has many eligible bachelors to choose from. According to her ABC bio, the reality TV babe is “the most loving and committed partner anyone could ask for.” Katie added that she “needs a man who can laugh along with her” but also wants a partner who can appreciate her skills as a “witty storyteller.”

Ultimately, the bank marketing manager is “looking for a mature man who has ambitions to succeed in everything he does, both personally and professionally,” her bio reads.

Keep scrolling to see Katie’s contestants who have ties to Bachelor Nation!

Becoming a reality TV star can change a person, and for the members of Bachelor Nation, that usually means a serious glow-up from the days of their cast photo introductions. Though they may have thought they were prepped to step in front of the cameras, it’s usually their transformations post-show that are even more dramatic.

Stepping up their beauty game starts before they even step into the Bachelor mansion. “I remember going to Sephora with my girlfriend. I was just like, ‘I need to stock up on everything,’” JoJo Fletcher previously told Allure about preparing to go on Ben Higgins’ season. “From things that I knew that I liked to things that I had never tried before — because A, you don’t know how long you’re going to be there for, and B, you don’t have an opportunity to go to a mall when you’re there.”

Contestant Olivia Caridi also sought outside help. “I’ve never been that great at doing makeup, so I had a professional makeup artist come to my house to teach me how to do everything and make me a list of everything I needed to buy,” the season 20 star told Allure. “She taught me how to contour. I didn’t even know what that was.”

After all, we know what it takes to look like a Bachelor Nation contestant, and it includes no shortage of eyelash extensions, contouring, lasering and even plastic surgery. Many Bachelor in Paradise contestants show up fresh off The Bachelor with a brand new boob job, ready to rock their bathing suits on the beach. Danielle Maltby, Raven Gates and Amanda Stanton are just a few contestants who’ve confirmed they’ve gotten breast augmentations. Cassie Randolph dished details about little tweaks she’s gotten since being in the reality franchise.

“Yes, I have gotten lip filler before, but I try to keep it as natural as possible … I have gotten a little Botox in my forehead,” the California babe said during an Instagram Q&A in summer 2020. “I’ve had people ask me if I’ve gotten jaw reshaping, cheek implants, chin something, nose, eyebrow lift — I don’t know. The answer is no. I have not gotten any of those things.”

Female contestants aren’t the only ones to make some changes. The men from The Bachelorette undergo some pretty serious glow-ups themselves. You know what they say: Facial hair is the contouring of the men’s beauty world. A new beard can totally change a face — and a new haircut can do wonders, too. Of course, the guys also seem to hit the gym the hardest and love showing off their hard work.

Want to know who’s had the most amazing glow-ups of the franchise?

Check out the gallery below to see how some of your favorite Bachelor and Bachelorette contestants have changed since their first cast photo. Get ready for the most dramatic before-and-after pictures yet!

Making tough choices! Who went home on The Bachelorette this week? Leading lady Katie Thurston eliminated seven contestants during week one, and some of the guys she sent packing were seriously surprising. 

Season 17 premiered on Monday, June 7, and the Washington native, 30, proved she was taking her journey to find love very seriously. An insider told Life & Style in early June the bank marketing manager “threatened to quit” amid a “drama-filled” season. 

“It’s definitely an emotional roller coaster for Katie. She doesn’t hold back and will tell it like it is. At one point, she threatened to quit the show. It really got to her and she couldn’t take it anymore,” the source explained. “She just walked away from cameras. She kept changing how she felt and her thoughts were all over the place. You will see later on this season how difficult it was for her.”

The insider added, “Like every season there’s a villain, guys who are on the show for the wrong reasons, guys who have a secret or some kind of scandal and surprises.”

Of course, she had some fun along the way with cohosts and former Bachelorettes Kaitlyn Bristowe and Tayshia Adams. 

Kaitlyn acknowledged it “was really nice to be there as a mentor and support system” for the leading lady during an appearance on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast with Becca Kufrin and Catherine Giudici. 

“One thing [Tayshia and I] kept saying is, ‘My gosh, it would have been so nice to have this when we were the Bachelorette, to have women who have been in our shoes before come in and be there,’” the “Off the Vine” podcast host, 35, said. “If it’s just a shoulder to cry on, if it’s you need advice, if you’re feeling alone in it or if you’re feeling like you can’t do it, which we all feel at a certain point.”

As for Tayshia, 30, she confessed during an interview with Entertainment Tonight in May that she was “shocked” to land the major hosting gig amid Chris Harrison’s hiatus but had a blast with the Dew Edit designer. 

“Kaitlyn and I just created this really fun dynamic duo that has never been done before with The Bachelorette,” the season 16 leading lady gushed. “I feel like it really provided strength behind Katie, and confidence as well, because when you’re in that situation, sometimes you don’t know what to do. We were able to provide a little clarity and comfort for her.”

Keep scrolling to see who Katie eliminated this week on The Bachelorette!

Longtime Bachelor host Chris Harrison is exiting the franchise after 20 years, Life & Style confirmed on June 8. The emcee’s departure comes four months after his controversial comments about Rachael Kirkconnell‘s racism scandal — but what did he say? Here’s everything we know about his problematic statements concerning Matt James‘ contestant.

It all started when Harrison, 49, was interviewed by Bachelorette alum Rachel Lindsay on Extra on February 9, after Kirkconnell, 24, was accused of racism and bullying.

“First and foremost, I don’t know. I haven’t talked to Rachael about it. And this is, again, where we all need to have a little grace, a little understanding, a little compassion,” Harrison said during the interview. “Because I’ve seen some stuff online — again this judge-jury-executioner thing — where people are just tearing this girl’s life apart and diving into, like, her parents and her parents’ voting record. It’s unbelievably alarming to watch this. I haven’t heard Rachael speak on this yet. And until I actually hear this woman have a chance to speak, who am I to say any of this?”

The season 13 lead, 36, went on to ask him about photos of Kirkconnell at an Antebellum-themed fraternity party at a plantation. Lindsay asserted that the photos, which were taken in 2018, were “not a good look” for Kirkconnell amid claims the contestant had liked racist Facebook posts and mistreated a high school classmate for “liking Black guys.”

“You’re 100 percent right in 2021,” Harrison responded to Lindsay. “That was not the case in 2018. And again, I’m not defending Rachael. I just know that, I don’t know, 50 million people did that in 2018. That was a type of party that a lot of people went to. And again, I’m not defending it; I didn’t go to it.”

The following day, the Texas native took to Instagram to apologize for his comments during the interview. “To my Bachelor Nation family — I will always own a mistake when I make one, so I am here to extend a sincere apology,” he wrote via Instagram. “I have this incredible platform to speak about love, and yesterday, I took a stance on topics about which I should have been better informed. While I do not speak for Rachael Kirkconnell, my intentions were simply to ask for grace in offering her an opportunity to speak on her own behalf.”

“What I now realize I have done is cause harm by wrongly speaking in a manner that perpetuates racism, and for that, I am so deeply sorry,” he continued. “I also apologize to my friend Rachel Lindsay for not listening to her better on a topic she has a first-hand understanding of, and humbly thank the members of Bachelor Nation who have reached out to me to hold me accountable.”

On February 13, Harrison revealed he would be temporarily stepping back from his hosting role with the franchise in an effort to get “educated on a more profound and productive level than ever before.”

“I have spent the last few days listening to the pain my words have caused and I am deeply remorseful. My ignorance did damage to my friends, my colleagues and strangers alike,” the ABC personality wrote in an Instagram statement. “I have no one to blame but myself for what I said and the way I spoke. I set standards for myself and I have not met them. I feel that with every fiber of my being. Now, just as I taught my children to stand up, and to own their actions, I will do the same.”

He added, “This historic season of The Bachelor should not be marred or overshadowed by my mistakes or diminished by my actions. To that end, I have consulted with Warner Brothers and ABC and will be stepping aside for a period of time and will not join for the After the Final Rose special.”

The longtime host confirmed he plans to return to the franchise when he appeared for a follow-up interview with Good Morning America, which aired on March 4. “I believe that mistake doesn’t reflect who I am or what I stand for. I am committed to progress, not just for myself, also for the franchise. And this is a franchise that has been a part of my life for the better part of 20 years, and I love it,” Harrison said.

Kirkconnell released her own apology on February 11. “While there have been rumors circulating, there have also been truths that have come to light that I need to address. I hear you, and I’m here to say I was wrong,” the Cumming, Georgia, native wrote via Instagram. “At one point, I didn’t recognize how offensive and racist my actions were, but that doesn’t excuse them. My age or when it happened does not excuse anything. They are not acceptable or OK in any sense. I was ignorant, but my ignorance was racist.”

“I am sorry to the communities and individuals that my actions harmed and offended,” her statement continued. “I am ashamed about my lack of education, but it is no one’s responsibility to educate me. I am learning and will continue to learn how to be antiracist, because it’s important to speak up in the moment and not after you’re called out. If you are a person who doesn’t understand the offense in question, I urge you to learn from my mistakes and encourage you to use them as a teachable moment.”

Nearly two weeks later, James spoke out about the controversies surrounding Kirkconnell and Harrison. “The past few weeks have been some of the most challenging of my life,” the 29-year-old wrote in a statement on February 22.

“The reality is that I’m learning about these situations in real-time, and it has been devastating and heartbreaking, to put it bluntly,” he continued via Instagram. “Chris’ failure to receive and understand the emotional labor that my friend Rachel Lindsay was taking on by graciously and patiently explaining the racist history of the Antebellum South, a painful history that every American should understand immediately, was troubling and painful to watch. As Black people and allies immediately knew and understood, it was a clear reflection of a much larger issue that The Bachelor franchise has fallen short on addressing adequately for years.”

He added, “It has also pushed me to reevaluate and process what my experience on The Bachelor represents, not just for me, but for all of the contestants of color, especially the Black contestants of this season and seasons past, and for you, the viewers at home. I will continue to process this experience, and you will hear more from me in the end.”

On March 12, ABC revealed that Harrison would not be hosting season 17 of The Bachelorette.

“We support Chris in the work that he is committed to doing. In his absence, former Bachelorettes Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe will support the new Bachelorette through next season,” the network revealed via an Instagram statement. “As we continue the dialogue around achieving greater equality and inclusion within The Bachelor franchise, we are dedicated to improving the BIPOC representation of our crew, including among the executive producer ranks. These are important steps in effecting fundamental change so that our franchise is a celebration of love that is reflective of our world.”

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