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Wizard Of Oz ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland will be auctioned for around $3.5M... after being stolen in 2005 then recovered 13 years later
The pair, which was worn by the late actress, was reunited with the owner, collector Michael Shaw, and will be shown on an international tour before being auctioned off later this year.
The famous ruby slippers, which is one of four surviving pairs from the 1939 film, had been stolen in August 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota when a thief who broke into the singer's childhood home. In the iconic movie, Garland played the beloved character Dorothy, who returned from Oz to Kansas by clicking the heels of her ruby red slippers and repeating the phrase: 'There's no place like home.' A career criminal named Terry Jon Martin, 76, was charged with theft of a major artwork after his confession in October 2023 and sentenced to no prison time due to his declining health.
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