Michael Jackson's White Glove Sold for £85,000 at Auction

The glove worn by Jackson during the 1983 ‘Motown 25’ TV special ( Getty Images )
The glove worn by Jackson during the 1983 ‘Motown 25’ TV special ( Getty Images )
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Michael Jackson's White Glove Sold for £85,000 at Auction

The glove worn by Jackson during the 1983 ‘Motown 25’ TV special ( Getty Images )
The glove worn by Jackson during the 1983 ‘Motown 25’ TV special ( Getty Images )

Michael Jackson's iconic crystal-studded white glove has sold for more than £85,000 at an auction in Texas. According to The Sun, the anonymous buyer received a letter confirming it was donated to Unicef in 1998, alongside an envelope from the MJJ production company founded by Jackson. Jackson is thought to have said of his experience wearing the glove on his Bad Tour: "I felt one glove was cool. Wearing two seemed so ordinary."

The first leather glove worn by Jackson in 1983 during his famous moonwalk dance was sold for $350,000 in 2009, at a New York auction that was selling many of the late American star's memorabilia. The price fetched by the glove, which was sold alongside about 70 of Michael Jackson's possessions, was nine times the number projected by the curators. A coat Jackson wore during his Bad Tour concerts in 1989 was also sold for $225,000, along with a hat for $22,000.

The New York auction gathered thousands of the late pop star's fans. Auctions curator Darren Julien said the glove worn by Jackson during the moonwalk dance was among the most valuable and symbolic items, yet he didn't expect it to fetch such price.

The singer's iconic glove is not the only musician's belonging to have fetched thousands at auction in recent years. In 2019, John Lennon's legendary round sunglasses sold for £137,000 at Sotheby's auction, while sketches of Paul McCartney's piano designs were recently sold for £2,000.

Micheal Jackson died of a heart attack in his house in Los Angeles, California, on June 25, 2009.



Hundreds of Firefighters Battling Wildfire in Southern France

An Airbus H125 helicopter drops water over a wildfire in Saint-Julien Les Martigues, northwest of Marseille in southern France on July 18, 2025. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP)
An Airbus H125 helicopter drops water over a wildfire in Saint-Julien Les Martigues, northwest of Marseille in southern France on July 18, 2025. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP)
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Hundreds of Firefighters Battling Wildfire in Southern France

An Airbus H125 helicopter drops water over a wildfire in Saint-Julien Les Martigues, northwest of Marseille in southern France on July 18, 2025. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP)
An Airbus H125 helicopter drops water over a wildfire in Saint-Julien Les Martigues, northwest of Marseille in southern France on July 18, 2025. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP)

Nearly 1,000 firefighters and helicopters battled a wildfire about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of France's second-largest city Marseille on Friday, but officials said lower temperatures and increased humidity had improved the situation.

The 240-hectare (593 acres) wildfire flared up a week after a separate conflagration reached the northwestern outskirts of Marseille, forcing people to evacuate or into lockdown and temporarily shuttering the area's airport.

Pierre Bepoix, the colonel of rescue operations and deputy director for the area's firefighters, said 150 people had been evacuated, but firefighters had managed to save 150 homes and portions of the area's forests.

"It was a fire that swept through relatively dense vegetation ... which made our work particularly complicated," Bepoix told Reuters. "Obviously, priority was given to the preservation and protection of these homes and the lives that could be in these buildings."

Local officials said in a statement that 120 homes had been threatened by the fire, adding that it was not possible yet to identify any possible damage to them, and that two firefighters had been injured.

Meanwhile in Spain, a wildfire that broke out on Thursday evening in the central Toledo province and could be seen from downtown Madrid, ravaged 3,200 hectares of woodland.

Regional emergency services said early on Friday firefighters had secured the perimeter, though there were concerns over strong winds and high temperatures forecast throughout the day.