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Friends Look to Help Bryson at Auction
Sun Dec 7, 1:57 PM ET


ATLANTA - Friends of Peabo Bryson (news) stepped in to help the award-winning singer keep some of his prized possessions, including at least one of his two Grammys (news - web sites).



Bryson's Grammy Awards for "Beauty and the Beast" and "A Whole New World" were auctioned during the weekend to help pay his $1.2 million tax debt. The Internal Revenue Service (news - web sites) seized all of Bryson's property from his Atlanta home in August.


A woman who cast the winning $9,400 bid for one of the Grammys identified herself and her associates only as "very close friends of the family."


"We're giving it back to him," she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.


Bryson, 52, won a Grammy in 1992 for his recording of "Beauty and the Beast" with Celine Dion (news) and another in 1993 for "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)" with Regina Belle.


Bryson's 1992 Grammy sold for $15,500 and one of his gold records went for $3,000.


The IRS said it would not disclose the amount raised through the sale