Julie Couillard's infamously revealing dress sold at a charity auction on Tuesday night for $1,000.

Couillard wore the dress in 2007 when she accompanied her then-boyfriend, Tory MP Maxime Bernier, to Rideau Hall for his swearing-in ceremony as Canada's foreign affairs minister.

The dress was sold at a charity auction in Montreal to raise money for epilepsy research.

It was purchased by Lucie Morin, a Montreal gynecologist whose husband is involved with epilepsy research.

Couillard said the sale of the dress represented the end of a chapter in her life -- one she wasn't sad to see close.

However, she did say she thought the dress should have fetched a higher price.

Nearly two years ago, the image of a beautiful, buxom woman walking arm-in-arm with a powerful politician captivated Canadians and was splashed on the front pages of newspapers around the world.

"The dress ended up on the front page of (papers) in 61 countries; there is no other dress in Montreal that had this type of publicity," Couillard told CTV Montreal on Tuesday.

Bernier's cabinet tenure has long since ended. But the dress is an enduring image of the political scandal he faced over Couillard's past -- she had been romantically involved with men linked to biker gangs.

"Woman to woman, if I would have been four-feet-tall, a bit chubby, not very pretty, we would have never heard this story, ever," she said.

"It's as simple as that -- it's a man's world."

Guests at the fundraiser also bid on celeb swag like an autographed Guy Lafleur jersey and received a copy of Couillard's book "My Story," which was released to lukewarm sales last fall.

Epilepsy specialist Dr. Lionel Carmant said Couillard contacted him a couple months ago, and he jumped at the opportunity to work with her.

"We've tried for years to have someone who is well-known to come out publicly and be the face of epilepsy," he said Tuesday.

While Couillard wasn't sure who would take the dress home Tuesday night, she was certain it wouldn't be Bernier.

"He's not invited to the evening," she said with a smile. "So he will not have opportunity to bid."

With files from CTV's Genevieve Beauchemin