Michael Jackson’s Thriller Jacket Goes For $1.8 Million!

June 27, 2011 | Posted by bLavish as Auctions at 11:47 pm | Comments off

A few weeks ago, I wrote about Michael Jackson’s famed Thriller jacket going up for auction. The famed jacket was expected to go for between $200,000 and $400,000. I don’t know who actually expected the thing to go that cheaply. It must have been some new jack, because there’s no way that anyone who was actually conscious in the 1980′s thought for a second that it would sell for less than a million dollars. Seriously, this was THE jacket to have for no less than half a decade.

The previous owners of the jacket were the designers themselves, Dennis Tompkins and Michael Bush. He even had it inscribed to them with the words, “Love Michael Jackson”. The name of the buyer hasn’t been released, but plenty other auction goers got lucky that day. CNN says:

The signature fedora Jackson wore during his Bad Tour was sold for $16,250, a handwritten note to friend Elizabeth Taylor went for $5,625 and a signed pillowcase fetched $3,584. And a bidder paid out $330,000 — more than 10 times what Julien’s had expected to get — for one of the famous, shiny, crystal-covered gloves that Jackson wore during the 1980s.

 

 

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