Debbie Reynolds never raised the money for her Hollywood museum, sold her 3,500-item collection in 2011, and her estate auctioned more after she died a day after Carrie Fisher

Over about 40 years Debbie Reynolds bought props, costumes and scripts from MGM, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros. and Paramount. She wanted a public museum and said she never raised the money, and that she could no longer maintain the collection. On 18 June 2011 Profiles in History began selling more than 3,500 items at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills. Marilyn Monroe's white dress from The Seven Year Itch sold to a telephone bidder for $4.6 million, more than twice the auctioneers' estimate. Reporting puts the 2011 sales at about $22.8 million across two auctions, June and December^†. Her daughter Carrie Fisher died on 27 December 2016 and Reynolds died the next day, 28 December. In October 2017 Profiles in History sold their personal property over three days for more than $2 million, including Audrey Hepburn's Sabrina gown at $204,000 and Fisher's annotated Empire Strikes Back script at $51,000. The Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio sold for $6.1 million before the auction. Fisher's and Reynolds' ashes are in one urn at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills^†.