A silver duct-taped banana, once sold at a Manhattan fruit stand where bananas are sold for 35 cents each, went for millions at a Sotheby’s auction last week

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.

The fruit vendor behind the banana duct-taped to a wall – which sold for £5,000,000 at an auction in New York last week – had no idea about the fruit’s fate. 74-year-old Shah Alam runs a fruit stand outside of Sotheby’s in Manhattan,