Audrey Hepburn’s personal shooting script for Breakfast at Tiffany’s has been sold for just over £630,000, seven times its pre-sale estimate, at a London auction of the actor’s private possessions.

The script, which included Hepburn’s annotations, was one of many lots that smashed exceptions, with the sale generating a total of £4.6m, the auctioneer Christie’s said on Thursday.

The sale, the largest of her personal possessions, included items from Hepburn’s wardrobe and dressing table, as well as photographs. A bidder paid £332,750 for a Tiffany bangle that was a gift to Hepburn from the director Steven Spielberg, inscribed with the message: “You are my ‘inspiration’.”

A black satin Givenchy cocktail gown, worn in the 1963 film Charade, and a Burberry trenchcoat each sold for £68,750. The designer Hubert de Givenchy was a close friend of Hepburn’s and advised her on her wardrobe. He described her as his muse and the pair eventually became business partners.

A colourless tiara, worn by Hepburn to the London premiere of The Nun’s Story in 1959 and in the 1967 film Two for the Road fetched £43,750.

A bidder paid £56,250 for a Cartier lipstick holder, almost 19 times the pre-sale estimate, while a satin sleep mask that had been expected to fetch up to £150 sold for £6,250.



Tiara worn by Audrey Hepburn. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

A 1963 photograph of Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, taken by the celebrated portrait photographer Cecil Beaton, went for £93,750, more than 30 times the estimate.

The items were made available by Hepburn’s sons, who are selling about 500 items in total through live and online sales at Christie’s. The online sale continues until 4 October.

Overall, the sale at the auction house fetched seven times the expected amount, Christie’s said.

Many of the lots were in flawless condition, having been kept by Hepburn in a closet in Switzerland, according to Luca Dotti, her younger son by her second husband, the psychiatrist Andrea Dotti.

Hepburn died in 1993 from cancer, aged 63, but her popularity has endured, winning her a new generation of fans.

Her eldest son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, said: “Now, 50% of her fanbase are teens and tweens. She has replaced James Dean on that closet drawer in kids’ bedrooms. It’s quite extraordinary.”