Sharon Stone wants her kids to auction off her iconic screen looks after she dies.
The 64-year-old actress made the announcement on social media, sharing a clip from the film Casino writing, ‘Just in case I die one day and my kids notice I never got equal pay & want to auction them, the costume budget for Casino was $1 million’ Stone’s contract for the film and many others stipulated she got to keep her costumes.
In a February essay for Stone, who recently discussed her illustrious career at in , wrote, ‘People thought I was crazy, but the truth is I wasn’t getting paid much compared to my male co-star. So keeping my costumes was a really smart thing to do.’
Auction: Sharon Stone wants her kids to auction off some of her iconic film looks, including her clothes from Casino, after her death
The posting came as the Emmy winner spoke out about the Hollywood pay gap at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, where she participated in a question and answer session about her decades long career.
Stone had been steadily building her career through the 1980s when she became a seemingly overnight sensation and her life was turned upside down when she starred as a sexy murder suspect in 1992’s Basic Instinct.
‘I made $500,000, and Michael Douglas made $14 million. Michael could afford the car, driver, bodyguard. I had to move because people were on my roof and breaking my door down. I couldn’t afford the things I needed because of the sudden fame I had.’
Crime drama: The actress co-starred in the 1995 crime drama with Robert De Niro. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese
Equal pay: Stone made the announcement on social media, sharing a clip of the film and writing, Just in case I die one day and my kids notice I never got equal pay & want to auction them, the costume budget for Casino was $1 million’
Smart: Stone kept the white dress from her breakthrough role in Basic Instinct, writing in an February essay for InStyle ‘People thought I was crazy, but the truth is I wasn’t getting paid much compared to my male co-star. So keeping my costumes was a really smart thing to do’