BOULDER, Colo.—A member of the Boulder Human Relations Commission hopes to convert to cash several paperweights commemorating a banner year for John Ramsey’s company given out just days before his daughter, JonBenet Ramsey, died in 1996.
The memento paperweights, given to Access Graphics employees during a dinner in December 1996, celebrate the company’s first $1 billion year and bear a replica of Ramsey’s signature.
There was one bid for $59.99 on eBay late Wednesday for the bronze-colored medal encased in Lucite.
“It sounds like a good example of what’s been referred to as JonBenet Inc.,” Ramsey family attorney L. Lin Wood said. “The brutal murder of this child has been utilized by entities worldwide to advance their careers and fatten their pocketbooks. . . . TV movies, books and careers have been made through the tragedy of the Ramsey family—I regret it, but it does not surprise me.”
Rob Smoke, an occasional freelance journalist selling the paperweights, said somebody gave him about a dozen of them years ago. He gave one away and sold another for $100 and has nine of them left.
Smoke said money raised from the sale might fund a political campaign he’s contemplating this fall.
John Ramsey found his daughter’s strangled and bludgeoned body on Dec. 26, 1996. Her slaying remains unsolved.
The Ramsey family moved to Atlanta after JonBenet’s death. Her mother, Patsy Ramsey, died in June 2006 of ovarian cancer.
