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Over 2,000 personal items belonging to Michael Jackson from his Neverland Ranch, which he left last fall, will be up for sale during a five-day public auction at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles in April.
The fallen king of pop will part ways with his numerous treasured possessions, including his famous jeweled white glove and a robotic head, as well as his American Music Award for “Thriller,” a velvet cape given to him by his children for Father's Day in 1998, a pair of rhinestone-trimmed socks from 1981, a basketball signed by Michael Jordan and his own original artwork.
A similar white glove once owned by Jackson garnered $35,000 at an auction in 2006, while a pair of the singer's white socks went for $15,000 in 2005.
According auctioneer Darren Julien, Jackson sorted through his art collection from Neverland Ranch and thousands of personal items for the auction.
“He has never had one (an auction),” Julien said. “We have been working closely with him for five months and he is in complete control of this.”
The five-day sale was announced in December by Julien's Auctions, but the full extent of the items available wasn't known until Tuesday, when the auction house released images of the lots.
The items are so many that a six-volume book has been printed to lay out what’s in every lot. Two pricey versions of catalogues are available for $100 and $500. The latter is a limited-edition catalogue box set signed and numbered by “Thriller” singer himself.
The auction begins April 21, with a portion of the proceeds going to charity MusiCares, an organization founded by the Recording Academy to help musicians in need.
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