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Hong Kong hotel exec buys Michael Jackson's sparkly glove for shocking $350G at auction
The sparkly white glove Michael Jackson wore for his first moonwalk was the star of a rock auction Saturday, fetching an astounding $350,000.
The winning bidder counted himself lucky to be taking home the prize of the auction.
"It was a bargain - we were expecting to pay more," said Hoffman Ma, a Hong Kong hotel executive. "We're going to put it on display in our hotel. It will be free for everyone."
Ma traveled to New York just for the auction but some of his staff bid on other items online - to round out their new King of Pop collection, set for display at his Ponte 16 hotel in Macau.
Jackson, who died in June, had given the glove to Walter Orange of the Commodores after his 1983 moonwalk at Motown's 25th anniversary special. A jacket he wore on the 1989 "Bad" tour brought in $225,000.
Other Jackson keepsakes included a fang tooth mold used in the "Thriller" video - which fetched $16,000 - and a black fedora the music icon wore to the 1995 MTV music awards - for which a Swiss collector paid $60,000.
Even a 1985 Mercedes-Benz 500 SEL he gave as a birthday gift to an aunt went for $104,500.
In all, the auction at the Times Square Hard Rock Cafe raised about $2 million.
One upper East Side resident, who declined to give his name, came dressed as the late King of Pop for the occasion - complete with his own replica of MJ's iconic white glove.
"I don't have thousands and thousands of dollars. But it's as close as I'll ever get to [the glove]," he said.
"The glove was the main thing ... his career exploded after that."
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