{"id":134862,"date":"2024-12-08T22:27:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T15:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134862"},"modified":"2024-12-08T22:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T15:27:53","slug":"dorothys-wizard-of-oz-ruby-slippers-sell-for-record-breaking-28m-at-auction-the-wizard-of-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134862","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy\u2019s Wizard of Oz ruby slippers sell for record-breaking $28m at auction | The Wizard Of Oz"},"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 class=\"dcr-106f06m\">A pair of iconic ruby slippers that were worn by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/judy-garland\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Judy Garland<\/a> in The Wizard of Oz and stolen from a museum nearly two decades ago sold for a winning bid of $28m at auction Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Heritage Auctions had estimated that they would fetch $3m or more, but the fast-paced bidding far outpaced that amount within seconds and tripled it within minutes. A few bidders making offers by phone volleyed back and forth for 15 minutes as the price climbed to the final, eye-popping sum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Including the Dallas-based auction house\u2019s fee, the unknown buyer will ultimately pay $32.5m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Online bidding, which opened last month, had stood at $1.55m before live bidding began late Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The sparkly red heels were on display at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/judy-garland\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Judy Garland<\/a> Museum in the actor\u2019s 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 class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Their whereabouts remained a mystery until the FBI recovered them in 2018. Martin, now 77, who lives near Grand Rapids in northern Minnesota, wasn\u2019t publicly exposed as the thief until he was indicted in May 2023. He pleaded guilty in October 2023. He was in a wheelchair and on supplementary oxygen when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/jan\/29\/dying-man-stole-ruby-slippers-wizard-of-oz\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">he was sentenced<\/a> last January to time served because of his poor health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">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 $1m insured value. But a fence \u2013 a person who buys stolen goods \u2013 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 class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The alleged fence, 77-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/18\/wizard-of-oz-ruby-slippers-stolen-second-man-charged\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Jerry Hal Saliterman<\/a> of the Minneapolis suburb of Crystal, was indicted in March. 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 class=\"dcr-106f06m\">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 class=\"dcr-106f06m\">As Rhys Thomas, author of The Ruby Slippers of Oz, put it, the sequined shoes from the beloved 1939 musical have seen \u201cmore twists and turns than the Yellow Brick Road\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Over 800 people had been tracking the slippers, and the company\u2019s webpage for the auction had hit nearly 43,000 page views by Thursday, said Robert Wilonsky, a vice-president with the auction house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Among those bidding to bring the slippers home was the Judy Garland Museum, which posted on Facebook shortly after that it did not place the winning bid. The museum had campaigned for donations to supplement money raised by the city of Grand Rapids at its annual Judy Garland festival and the $100,000 set aside this year by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minnesota\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Minnesota<\/a> lawmakers to help the museum purchase the slippers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">After the slippers sold, the auctioneer told bidders and spectators in the room and watching online that the previous record for a piece of entertainment memorabilia was $5.52m, for the white dress Marilyn Monroe famously wore atop a windy subway grate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The auction also included other memorabilia from The Wizard of Oz, such as a hat worn by Margaret Hamilton, who played the original Wicked Witch of the West. That item went for $2.4m, or a total final cost to the buyer of $2.93m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The Wizard of Oz story has gained new attention in recent weeks with the release of the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/dec\/04\/wicked-oscar-race-national-board-of-review\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Wicked<\/a>, an adaptation of the mega-hit Broadway musical, a prequel of sorts that reimagines the character of the Wicked Witch of the West.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<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<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:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/dec\/08\/wizard-of-oz-ruby-slippers-auction\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of iconic ruby slippers that were worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz and stolen from a museum nearly two decades ago sold for a winning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134862\" 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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134862","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=134862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}