Judy Garland<\/a>\u2019s hometown is raising money to buy a pair of the ultra-rare ruby slippers she wore in \u2018The Wizard of Oz\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Judy Garland\u2019s hometown is raising money to buy a pair of the ultra-rare ruby slippers she wore in \u2018The Wizard of Oz\u2019<\/p>\n
The footwear worn by the late actress \u2013 who was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota in 1922 \u2013 was stolen from a local museum and then later turned over to an auction company, and locals are now drumming up cash to bring them back to the city.<\/p>\n
They want to bring the slippers back after an auction company takes them on an international tour before offering them up to prospective buyers in December.<\/p>\n
Joe Maddalena, Heritage Auctions executive vice president, told Minnesota Public Radio about their huge cash value: \u201cThey could sell for $1 million \u2013 they could sell for $10 million: they\u2019re priceless.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce they\u2019re gone, all the money in the world can\u2019t buy them back.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe funds currently being raised with be added to the $100,000 set aside this year by Minnesota lawmakers to buy Judy\u2019s shiny slippers.<\/p>\n
\nDallas-based Heritage Auctions received them from Michael Shaw, a memorabilia collector who originally owned the iconic shoes. <\/p>\n
\nHe had loaned them in 2005 to the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, but that summer someone smashed through a display case and stole the sequins-and-beads-bejewelled slippers. <\/p>\n
\nTheir whereabouts remained a mystery until the FBI recovered them in 2018.<\/p>\n
\nThe man who stole the slippers, Terry Jon Martin, 76, pleaded guilty in October to theft of a major artwork.<\/p>\n
\nHe admitted to using a hammer to smash the glass of the museum\u2019s door and display case.<\/p>\n
\nHis attorney said it was an attempt to pull off \u201cone last score\u201d after turning away from a life of crime. <\/p>\n
\nHe was sentenced in January to time served because of his poor health.<\/p>\n
\nIn March, a second man, 76-year-old Jerry Hal Saliterman, was charged in connection with the theft.<\/p>\n
\nThe ruby slippers were at the heart of 1939\u2019s \u2018The Wizard of Oz\u2019, which saw Judy\u2019s character Dorothy danced down the Yellow Brick Road in the slippers along with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion.<\/p>\n
\nJudy, who died in 1969 aged 47 from an overdose of barbiturates, wore several pairs during filming, but one four remain.<\/p>\n
\nLeonardo DiCaprio, 49, and a group of the Oscar-winning actor\u2019s friends bought one set for the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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