NYC media mogul buys rare Napoleon hat for $1.4 million

Bryan Goldberg — whose company BDG owns Bustle, Elite Daily, Gawker and other websites — purchased the hat, also called a bicorne, in September from Sothebys in Paris for $1.4 million. Gotham news big shot Bryan Goldberg added a powerful new resource for his domain — Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's intriguing two-cornered cap — which he intends to wear in and out of town. Bryan Goldberg Napoleon Hat "I couldn't say whether I will have a crowning ceremony party however I will have companions over when I put on the cap, yet no other person is permitted to wear it. Just I am permitted to wear the cap," Goldberg told The Post. "I will wear the cap in select honorary pathway circumstances and I mean to wear the cap at my wedding. I'll realize I have found the right spouse when she allows me to wear this cap at our big day," he said. Goldberg — whose organization BDG possesses Bustle, Elite Daily, Gawker and different sites — bought the cap, likewise called a bicorne, in September from Sotheby's in Paris for $1.4 million. It was somewhat more than whatever he paid for Gawker in 2018. Postage attached an extra $10,000. "It was unimaginably economical contrasted with a ton of different collectables that individuals are purchasing at closeout in the present day," said Goldberg, 38, demanding he got a deal. "It's 100th the cost of a costly current workmanship painting. I, to be honest, can't really accept that the value I got it at." After extended defers provoked by the worldwide production network emergency, the chapeau showed up securely in the United States recently and is currently being safely put away at an undisclosed area in Delaware.