Michael Jackson’s glove sold for 350,000 dollars

Assam News · November 22, 2009

On Saturday, King of Pop Michael Jackson’s famous sequined white glove, introduced at his first moonwalking concert, fetched an astounding 350,000 dollars in an auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City. The buyer was identified as a Hong Kong hotel executive Hoffman Ma, who plans to display it as part of the company’s King of Pop collection at the Ponte 16 hotel in Macau, according to The New York Daily News.

Michael Jackson Gloves Michael Jackson wore the left-handed glove in the 1983 televised concert that celebrated the 25th anniversary of Motown, the Detroit record label that brought black performers to a nationwide audience. Jackson, who died June 25 at age 50, had given the glove to Walter "Clyde" Orange of the singing group the Commodores after the concert. Orange got the glove instead of the autograph he had asked for, Julien’s said on its website. The glove, covered with a mesh of rhinestones, became the trademark, along with his fedora, for the idiosyncratic Jackson.

Hoffman Ma’s final bill will be 420,000 dollars, to cover taxes and fees. Julien’s Auctions, which managed the auction of Jackson and other rock memorabilia at the Times Square restaurant, had given a pre- auction estimate of 40,000 to 60,000 dollars for the glove. A jacket Jackson once wore during tour fetched 270,000 dollars. His handwritten text for "Beat It" took in 60,000 dollars, and a Jackson hat from the Victory Tour fetched 27,000 dollars.

 

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