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A rare, white glove famously worn by Michael Jackson has sold for almost $65,000 (£41,000) at auction. The garment, one of several hand coverings the King of Pop sported onstage and in music promos, was given by the star to his personal artist Paul Bedard in 1984, and he later sold it to a private collector.
It went up for auction via Nate D. Sanders in Los Angeles on Thursday (30Jul15) and fetched an impressive $64,850 (£40,531). The sale also featured a prototype of the iconic jacket Jackson wore in the video for his 1987 hit Bad, which attracted a top bid of $12,500 (£7,812).
Months after Jackson’s death in 2009 from a lethal overdose of sedatives, the entertainer’s estate signed a $200-million deal with Sony recording company, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Under the agreement, Sony can bring out up to seven albums over a decade, including new or remixed Michael Jackson songs. Two posthumous albums have already been released, in 2010 and 2014, but Sony told AFP on Thursday that no others were currently in the works. Prince, who was Jackson’s audio engineer from 1995 up to his death, told Le Parisien in an interview from Germany: “I have on my computer 20 unreleased (songs) by Michael, all of them unfinished”.
He explained that Jackson hadn’t sung the choruses for the tracks, so “someone would have to be found” to perform them whenever they did get released, if Sony and Jackson’s family gave the go-ahead.
“That would mean duets,” he said.
Prince added that he believed there would be further Michael Jackson albums in the future, “but for the moment, we are thinking more about bringing out new songs every six months”. Jackson died aged 50 on June 25, 2009 as he was readying to give a series of concerts in London. His personal doctor, Conrad Murray, was jailed in 2011 for involuntary manslaughter but served only half of his four-year sentence because of prison overcrowding and good behaviour.