Carrie Fisher’s Star Wars: Episode VI Return Of The Jedi bikini has sold for almost $300,000

Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, wearing the iconic gold bikini in 1983’s Return of the Jedi.

A bikini worn by Carrie Fisher in Star Wars: Episode VI Return Of The Jedi has sold for US$175,000 ($296,585).

The iconic gold costume, which also included hip rings and bracelets and was worn by the late actress when her character Princess Leia was captured and chained up by Jabba the Hut, went under the hammer at Heritage Auctions in Dallas on Friday, July 26.

The auction also saw a miniature Y-Wing starfighter ship used in a mission to destroy the Death Star in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope sell for a huge US$1.55m ($2.63m) following a bidding war.

The model was one of just two “hero” Y-Wing filming miniatures built by the Industrial Light and Magic visual effects team.

Carrie Fisher poses on the beach, wearing her bikini outfit from Return on the Jedi, with Darth Vader, an Ewok and a Gamorrean guard for Rolling Stone's July 1983 summer double issue. pic.twitter.com/TOgZLkEj4L

— Killer Force Stuff (@StarWarsTHX) July 1, 2022

Heritage auctions said on X: “It’s never seen daylight.”

The sale included lots from other movies, with a wand used by Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban selling for $52,000 ($88,128), a hammer prop used in a Thor film changing hands for $81,000 ($137,276), and an outfit worn by Macauley Culkin in Home Alone going for $47,500 ($80,501).

The Star Wars costume is one of the most iconic in film history, but Fisher – who died in December 2016 – previously admitted she thought filmmaker George Lucas was “kidding” when he showed her the outfit.

She told NPR: “I felt nearly naked, which is not a style choice for me. [It made me] very nervous”.

And the costume made filming difficult.

She explained: “I had to sit very straight because I couldn’t have lines on my sides, like little creases. No creases were allowed, so I had to sit very, very rigid straight.”

There wasn't an earthquake in Dallas--it was the #StarWars Y-wing hitting the auction block. We're talking the ship made by team at @ILMVFX for Star Wars, one of only two HERO filming miniatures created for filming--it's never seen daylight...

It just sold after a bidding war… pic.twitter.com/EEJJPHqWKu

— Heritage Auctions (@HeritageAuction) July 26, 2024

But the actress enjoyed getting hands-on when it came to using the chains to kill Jabba.

“They asked me if I wanted my stunt double to kill him, but I wanted to,” she said.

“I sawed his neck off with that chain. I really wanted to kill him.”