Shah Alam, a 74-year-old Bangladeshi fruit vendor in Manhattan, was shocked to discover that a banana he sold for 35 cents was later auctioned off for $6.2 million at Sotheby's auction house as the centerpiece of artist Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork called "Comedian.

A 74-year-old immigrant who works outside Sotheby’s shares a basement in the Bronx and works 12-hour shifts. He was stunned to hear what his banana went for at auction.

It went bananas. The New York City fruit vendor who sold an ordinary banana that was duct-taped to a gallery wall inside Sotheby’s and sold for a whopping $6.2 million was devastated to learn that he was made the butt of the joke — but New Yorkers and the art buyer are now lining up to support him.

Upon hearing how much Sun bought the fruit for, the vendor, Shah Alam, was in disbelief. Sun then promised to buy 100,000 more bananas from Alam, or $25,000 worth of produce, in a series of posts on X/Twitter.

The crypto entrepreneur who bought a banana duct-taped to a wall for $6.2 million ate the artwork. Justin Sun chowed down on the banana proclaiming, "It’s much better than other bananas. It’s really quite good.

Shah Alam, a 74-year-old Bangladeshi migrant street vendor in Manhattan, sold the original fruit for the artwork for only 25 cents

This banana may have just become the world’s most expensive snack. Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun has eaten the fruit he purchased as part of Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian for a cool $6.2 million.

Justin Sun, a Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur, is making waves on social media after he ate the. The artwork featured a banana duct-taped to a wall. Sun peeled off the duct tape and enjoyed the banana during a press conference held in The Peninsula Hong Kong,