Twenty Years Later, William Shatner’s $25,000 Kidney Stone Sale Returns to the Spotlight

Overview

• In January 2006, the Star Trek actor sold a passed kidney stone for $25,000 to online casino GoldenPalace.com.
• Shatner has said the money helped build a house for a family of five through Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans.
• The sale was presented as the most expensive kidney stone ever sold, aligning with GoldenPalace’s penchant for publicity-grabbing curios.
• Around the same time, Shatner’s Star Trek tunics sold for more than $100,000 and joined the casino’s collection.
• The retrospectives also recall his 2021 Blue Origin flight at age 90, a brief oldest-in-space milestone later surpassed by Ed Dwight.