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More than 2000 items belonging to the 'King of Pop', Michael Jackson, will go under the hammer in April.
Darren Julien, an LA-based auctioneer of celebrity merchandise who is in charge of the sale, told the Telegraph Jackson had never held an auction of his belongings before.
"We have been working closely with him for five months and he is in complete control of this," Julien said.
The multiple-day auction is expected to garner bids from enthusiastic collectors all over the world and will be streamed online, allowing fans to bid on lots in real time.
Items being auctioned include arcade games from Neverland Ranch, the Swarovski crystal-enscrusted glove Jackson wore in the Billie Jean music video and a 1999 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph Limousine.
Also on the block is a 1911 edition of Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie.
Neverland Ranch, the themepark-style home Jackson created for himself in the late '80s, was named after a magical island in the Peter Pan story, whose inhabitants never grow old.
The auction will run from April 22 - 25 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California.
- NZ HERALD STAFF
