The jacket Michael Jackson wore in the classic Thriller video went for $1.8 million at auction. The winning bidder, a Texas commodities trader, alleged the jacket was to be sold with some of the proceeds going to help children's charities. Some of the $1.8m allegedly goes to a California animal reserve, where Michael Jackson's two Bengal tigers now live.
Michael Jackson is remembered by some as one of the first black performers to be shown on MTV. His Thriller album became, and remains, the best-selling album of all time. The long-play video premiere of Thriller was heavily promoted and was critically lauded. It was nominated for six MTV Video Music Awards and won three. Thriller was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2009, the first music video to be included.
The glove Michael Jackson wore to the 1983 MTV Video Awards show also became iconic, and was also sold at the auction.
© C Harris Lynn, 2011
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