{"id":134560,"date":"2024-12-08T02:37:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T19:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134560"},"modified":"2024-12-08T02:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T19:37:46","slug":"ruby-slippers-worn-in-the-wizard-of-oz-will-be-auctioned-after-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134560","title":{"rendered":"Ruby slippers worn in &#8216;The Wizard of Oz&#8217; will be auctioned after theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Nearly two decades after a pair of ruby slippers that were worn by Judy Garland in \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d were stolen from a Minnesota museum, the iconic shoes are <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wizard-of-oz-ruby-slippers-theft-bb24b48c839675719772b3717895161e\">set to be auctioned off<\/a><\/span> to the highest bidder Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage Auctions estimates the slippers will fetch $3 million or more. Online bidding opened last month and by Friday had reached $1.55 million, or $1.91 million including the buyer\u2019s premium, a commission that the buyer pays, said Robert Wilonsky, a vice president with the Dallas-based auction house. Over 800 people were tracking the slippers, and the company\u2019s <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/entertainment.ha.com\/itm\/movie-tv-memorabilia\/props\/the-wizard-of-oz-mgm-1939-judy-garland-dorothy-gale-screen-matched-ruby-slippers\/a\/7388-89182.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">web page for the auction<\/a><\/span> had hit nearly 43,000 page views by Thursday, he said.<\/p>\n<p>As Rhys Thomas, author of the book, \u201cThe Ruby Slippers of Oz,\u201d puts it, the sequined shoes from the beloved 1939 musical have seen \u201cmore twists and turns than the Yellow Brick Road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They were on display at the Judy Garland Museum in her hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in 2005 when Terry Jon Martin used a hammer to smash the glass of the museum\u2019s door and display case. <\/p>\n<p>Their whereabouts remained a mystery until <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/5f15402e28f04341b6a25d179b070fc5\">the FBI recovered them in 2018.<\/a><\/span> Martin, now 77, who lives near Grand Rapids in northern Minnesota, wasn\u2019t publicly exposed as the thief <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/solen-ruby-slippers-wizard-of-oz-5d142469ad5f052f6af053d20dbf20c4\">until he was indicted<\/a><\/span> in May 2023. He <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wizard-oz-stolen-ruby-slippers-judy-garland-f2bd6d4455a9821c311d1d0a03f6d77a\">pleaded guilty in October 2023.<\/a><\/span> He was in a wheelchair and on supplementary oxygen when he was <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oz-stolen-ruby-slippers-sentencing-2479d587123b97eda5c47672322d2d6e\">sentenced last January<\/a><\/span> to time served because of his poor health. <\/p>\n<p>His attorney, Dane DeKrey, explained ahead of sentencing that Martin, who had a long history of burglary and receiving stolen property, was attempting to pull off \u201cone last score\u201d after an old associate with connections to the mob told him the shoes had to be adorned with real jewels to justify their $1 million insured value. But a fence \u2014 a person who buys stolen goods \u2014 later told him the rubies were just glass, DeKrey said. So Martin got rid of the slippers. The attorney didn\u2019t specify how.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged fence, Jerry Hal Saliterman, 77, of the Minneapolis suburb of Crystal, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wizard-oz-ruby-slippers-dorothy-judy-garland-e96057028c8d1b5ab6c4ffeef28fd123\">was indicted in March<\/a><\/span>. He was also in a wheelchair and on oxygen when he made his first court appearance. He\u2019s scheduled to go on trial in January and hasn\u2019t entered a plea, though his attorney has said he\u2019s not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The shoes were returned in February to memorabilia collector Michael Shaw, who had loaned them to the museum. They were one of several pairs that Garland wore during the filming, but only four pairs are known to have survived. In the movie, to return from Oz to Kansas, Dorothy had to click her heels three times and repeat, \u201cThere\u2019s no place like home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among those bidding will be the Judy Garland Museum. The city of Grand Rapids <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/stolen-ruby-slippers-wizard-of-oz-minnesota-6a5231773021fab3ef7e39b4a2568799\">raised money<\/a><\/span> for the slippers at its annual <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/judygarlandmuseum.com\/judy-garland-museum-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judy Garland festival<\/a><\/span> to supplement the $100,000 set aside this year by Minnesota lawmakers to help the museum purchase the slippers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d story has gained new attention in recent weeks with the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/movie-review-wicked-cynthia-erivo-ariana-grande-784258a509b990dbd34206c4991e2c6b\">release of the movie \u201cWicked,\u201d<\/a><\/span> an adaptation of the megahit Broadway musical, a prequel of sorts that <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/movie-review-wicked-cynthia-erivo-ariana-grande-784258a509b990dbd34206c4991e2c6b\">reimagines the character<\/a><\/span> of the Wicked Witch of the West.<\/p>\n<p>The auction also includes other memorabilia from \u201cThe Wizard of Oz,\u201d including a hat worn by Margaret Hamilton, who played the original Wicked Witch of the West.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/stolen-ruby-slippers-wizard-of-oz-auction-6d5ccf8af71e1d7941d6f01ae4653b76\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Nearly two decades after a pair of ruby slippers that were worn by Judy Garland in \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d were stolen from a Minnesota museum, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134560\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}