Including the Dallas-based auction house’s fee, the unknown buyer will ultimately pay $32.5 million. The slippers are one of four surviving pairs from the 1939 movie and were once stolen from a museum that housed them. Live bidding for the pair of ruby red heels started at $1.55 million, according to Heritage Auctions, and were initially estimated to go for $3 million or more.
The auction house said in a news release that the slippers passed that number "within seconds" and that no other pair of ruby slippers has gone for close to that amount. One pair sold in 2000 for $666,000, Heritage Auctions said. In 2012, Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio paid $2 million for another pair and donated them to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
THAT is how you know you have too much money. I wonder how many homeless and/or needy vets could have been helped with that much money. Jeez...
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Always remember that the Wizard of Oz is essentially two women fighting over a pair of shoes
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