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Michael Jackson Neverland Ranch Auction Schedule Revealed

Julien's Auctions has just announced a more detailed schedule for the four-day auction scheduled to begin April 22nd in Beverly Hills, California. Each day, a different genre of memorabilia items will be auctioned off in a series of eight individual sessions. The thematic arrangement has been designed to match that found within the five-volume catalog set. The specific details are as follows:

King of Pop: a Once in a Lifetime Auction Featuring
The Personal Property of
Michael Jackson

With a Portion of the Proceeds Benefiting MusiCares®

April 22nd -- 25th, 2009

Exhibition:

9900 Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills, California 90210
Adjacent to The Beverly Hilton
April 14th -- April 21st (10:00 a.m.-- 6:00 p.m. Daily)

$20.00 per person for Exhibition and Auction
Designed by WRJ Design Associates, LLC

Auction:

9900 Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills, California 90210
Adjacent to The Beverly Hilton

April 22nd:
* Session I: Garden Statuary and Outdoor Furniture
* Session II: Furniture and Decorative Arts

April 23rd:
* Session III: Furniture and Decorative Arts
* Session IV: Antiques, Paintings and Fine Art

April 24th:
* Session V: Amusements, Arcade Games and Disneyana
* Session VI: Amusements, Arcade Games and Disneyana

April 25th:
* Session VII: Memorabilia From the Life and Career of Michael Jackson
* Session VIII: Memorabilia From the Life and Career of Michael Jackson

Proxy bids and online exploration of roughly 2,000 Jackson-owned one-of-a-kind items is scheduled to kick-off later this week, on February 15, 2009. The entire auction will be streamed live online in April, and a week long museum-quality exhibit will be held prior to the auction. It is also anticipated that numerous international promotional events will be held in the weeks leading up to the big event.

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Michael Jackson auctioning contents of Neverland

Posted in MUSIC by Ben on Feb 16, 06:00AM

Michael Jackson is in money trouble. So he's offering crazy bargains, on a set of golden gates, portraits and custom-made crowns. Everything must go.

In April, the lot will go up for auction. Before that, though, a glitzy suite of items will be put on exhibition in London, Dublin ("a private tour, Mr Bono?") and LA.

The auction house openly admits this tour is a marketing exercise, a way to push up interest and prices. Even if the auctioneers say the items are "priced as if you and I had owned them, not as if they were owned by Michael Jackson," the auction and exhitibion, presumably, won't go under some generic banner but be emblazoned with Jackson's name.

In a fascinating article for the Guardian over the weekend, Chris Campion wrote of visiting the warehouse where the auction goods are currently in store:
Before [Neverland] was recently renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch, and at Jackson's request, Darren Julien and his team were brought in to scrutinise the ranch. What they found inside was the most astonishing collection of objects these experienced auctioneers said they had ever seen in a celebrity home. "It seemed as if everything he owned was made of bronze and marble and gold," says Michael Doyle, who catalogued the sale items, as well as determining their value.
Jackson surrounded himself with regal finery. There were suits of armour, display cases of custom-made crowns and an ornately carved throne with red velvet upholstering in his bedroom. "King Michael" even had a royal cape, a Father's Day present inscribed inside with a message from his children "Princess Paris" and "Prince Michael". In the lobby of the house was a commissioned portrait of Jackson as a young man in Elizabethan dress, holding a crown on a velvet pillow. Julien and his team spent almost two months at Neverland last summer, meticulously cataloguing 2,000 items, which will be sorted into 1,500 lots. Cranes and forklifts were brought in to dismantle the fairground rides and move the ornate bronze sculptures scattered across 38 acres of the estate.

In a nondescript warehouse on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the famed gates of the Neverland ranch now sit against a wall. The interior of the warehouse is littered with the ornaments that once decorated the grounds. There are bronze statues of frolicking cherubs, replica marble busts of Roman emperors, a huge statue of Prometheus that used to sit on a skull near the entrance. On shelves there are child-size diesel-powered race cars that used to zoom around the grounds. There is a Pope-mobile-style electric buggy fitted with tinted windows and stereo system. Another buggy has the King of Pop's face painted on its bonnet.

Start setting aside your golden coins and maybe the Jackson-mobile could be yours... Or perhaps you could settle for a fedora from the film clip for 'Billie Jean'?

Michael Jackson auctioning contents of Neverland - Music | thevine.com.au

It's the sale of the century: The contents of Neverland are officially up for auction.

Chris Campion enjoys a world exclusive preview
Chris Campion
The Observer, Sunday 15 February 2009

In April, an extraordinary auction will provide an unprecedented look into the private world of Michael Jackson. More than 2,000 items, ranging from personal effects and costumes to pieces from Jackson's private art collection as well as fittings and furnishings from his Neverland ranch, will be up for sale at a four-day public auction at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles.

Given the continuing fascination that the self-styled King of Pop exerts over the public imagination, Darren Julien, the affable Los Angeles-based auctioneer of celebrity merchandise who is directing the sale, expects a media circus to descend on the hotel as well as tribes of devoted Jackson fans from all corners of the globe. Select lots are to be sent on a touring exhibition that will arrive in Dublin and London in March before a full-scale exhibition opens for one week in Beverly Hills prior to the sale.

The idea, Julien says, is to create the kind of spectacle with which Michael Jackson has been so often associated throughout his career. This is the first sale that the superstar has sanctioned of his property. Michael took legal action in 2007 to try, unsuccessfully, to halt an auction held in Las Vegas of Jackson family items that had been acquired by New Jersey businessman Henry Vaccaro.

This new auction seems to mark Jackson's severance from Neverland, his Xanadu and a symbol of his success as well as his largesse. The ranch opened as a private amusement park in 1988, with its own zoo and Ferris wheel, roller coaster and bumper cars. It was named after Peter Pan's fantasy island where children never grow up, and for years children would arrive by the busload, invited to play freely in its grounds. But following the 2005 child molestation trial - which saw Jackson acquitted of all charges - the singer never returned to the 2,800-acre property in the Santa Ynez Valley, 130 miles west of Los Angeles. There were stories of him pitching up in Dubai, Dublin and Las Vegas before he started renting a seven-bedroom mansion in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, earlier this year. The 50-year-old star was said to be defaulting on payments on vast loans, and while he is thought to retain an interest in Neverland through his involvement with a private investment company, Colony Capital, he has said that the police investigation of the premises "violated" it in his eyes.

Before it was recently renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch, and at Jackson's request, Darren Julien and his team were brought in to scrutinise the ranch. What they found inside was the most astonishing collection of objects these experienced auctioneers said they had ever seen in a celebrity home. "It seemed as if everything he owned was made of bronze and marble and gold," says Michael Doyle, who catalogued the sale items, as well as determining their value.

Jackson surrounded himself with regal finery. There were suits of armour, display cases of custom-made crowns and an ornately carved throne with red velvet upholstering in his bedroom. "King Michael" even had a royal cape, a Father's Day present inscribed inside with a message from his children "Princess Paris" and "Prince Michael". In the lobby of the house was a commissioned portrait of Jackson as a young man in Elizabethan dress, holding a crown on a velvet pillow. Julien and his team spent almost two months at Neverland last summer, meticulously cataloguing 2,000 items, which will be sorted into 1,500 lots. Cranes and forklifts were brought in to dismantle the fairground rides and move the ornate bronze sculptures scattered across 38 acres of the estate.

In a nondescript warehouse on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the famed gates of the Neverland ranch now sit against a wall. The interior of the warehouse is littered with the ornaments that once decorated the grounds. There are bronze statues of frolicking cherubs, replica marble busts of Roman emperors, a huge statue of Prometheus that used to sit on a skull near the entrance. On shelves there are child-size diesel-powered race cars that used to zoom around the grounds. There is a Pope-mobile-style electric buggy fitted with tinted windows and stereo system. Another buggy has the King of Pop's face painted on its bonnet.

The sale also includes vintage video game machines, as well as Jackson's collection of 18th- and 19th-century art. There are books about Disney, the Three Stooges, Peter Pan and Alfred Hitchcock, as well as a collection of black history books, including the autobiography of Malcolm X. Then there is a selection of his own stage costumes, dating back from the days of the Jackson 5 through to the present. There is one of the fedoras he wore in the video for Billie Jean; a pair of trousers so studded with diamanté that they feel as heavy as chain mail; there are customised military jackets, featuring insignia surely acquired on his global travels - including badges from the Royal Air Force and the Thai Narcotics Bureau.

While the lots are "priced as if you and I had owned them, not as if they were owned by Michael Jackson", according to Martin J Nowlan, the Irish co-owner of Julien's Auctions, this is "certainly not a fire sale" of Jackson's belongings - there is, he says, much more to the singer's hoardings. But it would seem to have a personal significance, perhaps symbolising the point at which Jackson himself feels finally able to divest himself of much that conspired to tarnish his career in order to begin anew.

Portrait of Michael Jackson dressed as a King, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1995. Housed in an elaborate gold frame. Norman Oak (American, B. 20th Century) Guide price: $4,000 - $6,000. Photograph: Shaan Kokin/Julien's Auctions.

The contents of Neverland are up for auction: OMM takes a world exclusive peek into the mindset of Michael Jackson | Music | The Observer

An electric cart featuring an image of Jackson as Peter Pan on the bonnet and Peter Pan cushions. Guide price $4,000-$6,000

A close-up of the image of Jackson as Peter Pan

A robotic Michael Jackson head featured at the climax of his 1988 film Moonwalker, when he transforms into a robot and defeats Joe Pesci's evil character, Mr Big. Guide price $2,000-$3,000

The robotic head lights up as each piece of the face pushes out and expands before retracting back into the shape of Jackson's face. It still animates at the push of a button

A painting on stretched canvas featuring iconic figures such as Abraham Lincoln and Albert Einstein wearing Jackson's trademark sunglasses and glove. Guide price $1,000-$2,000*

Jackson's MTV Video Music award for Best Group Video USA For Africa 1984-1985. Guide price $6,000-$8,000

A Brevetti Gaggia espresso and cappuccino machine. Two tone metal featuring polished chrome with bands of repouss&ecute; and reticulated brass. Tank bears a Neverland plaque, is flanked by decorative Turkish tea vessels and is crested by an eagle finial. Guide price $1,000-$2,000

The prop 'scissorhand' gloves that Johnny Depp wore in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands. Stan Winston, the visual effects artist for the film, worked with Jackson on the 1997 short film Ghosts. Guide price $4,000-$6,000

A pair of record awards presented to Michael Jackson by Epic (Thailand) for double platinum sales of Dangerous, and gold sales of Bad. Guide price $200-$400

It's the sale of the century

The contents of Neverland are officially up for auction. Chris Campion enjoys a world exclusive preview

A Sega flight simulation arcade game with safety barrier and attendant station. Guide price $4,000-$6,000

A statue of Jacques-Louis David's painting depicting Napoleon crossing the Alps. Guide price $300-$500

A larger-than-life figure of Superman. Guide price $1,000-$1,500

Jackson's gold metal crown brooch set with multicoloured faceted stones. Guide price $80-$120

Accessory pieces from Jackson's Moonwalker costume including: a black leather and gold metal belt, a gold metal necklace with matching purple and blue stones and matching bracelet and rectangular epaulets. The belt can be seen in the opening sequence of the film Moonwalker. Guide price $1,000-$1,500

A marble chess table supported by four parcel gilt horses on marble pillars. Guide price $2,000-$3,000

A fire engine tea kettle with moving wheels. Guide price $100-$200

A Katherine Baumann crown-shaped minaudiere with red, green and gold jewels. Guide price $800-$1,200

A Victory tour jacket worn by Jackson at the Kansas City opening of the 1984 tour with the Jackson. It is currently on exhibit at the Los Angeles Grammy Museum. Guide price $2,000-$4,000

A display of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in a setting created by the Walt Disney display team. A plaque reads: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Presented to Michael Jackson from the Cast of Walt Disney World". Guide price $1,000-$1,500

A hanging swing featuring scenic wild animal panels and elaborate carvings. Guide price $1,200-$1,800

A coin-operated Grandmother Predictions fortune teller in wooden cabinet. Guide price $1,500-$2,500

A mirror model of Falkenstein Castle. Guide price $1,000-$2,000

Jackson's Rolls Royce with interior designed by himself. Guide price $140,000 - $160,000

Inside the Rolls Royce, as designed by Jackson. Guide price $140,000 - $160,000

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Jackson's Crapo Up for Auction

Posted Feb 17th 2009 12:50PM by TMZ Staff

From bejeweled gloves and a tacky robe, to the Neverland Gate and even the "scissorhands" from "Edward Scissorhands," perennially broke Michael Jackson needs dough and is auctioning off tons of his overpriced weird stuff. Check out why Jackson is the King of Pop:

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Jacket worn in the 2003 "What More Can I Give" video

This photo released by Julien's Auctions shows "Prince, The Boy King", oil on linen, depicting a sleeping Prince Michael on a throne with attendants, signed lower left. David Nordahl (American, B. 1941) Auction Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000. The item is among many owned by Michael Jackson and being auctioned on the Auction Network on April 22- 25. A public exhibition of the items will be held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills from April 14- 21.

This photo released by Julien's Auctions shows a canvas with original art by Macaulay Culkin signed in black sharpie "Macaulay C. Culkin 1991." Estimate: $200 - $300. The item is among many owned by Michael Jackson and being auctioned on the Auction Network on April 22- 25. A public exhibition of the items will be held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills from April 14- 21.

This photo released by Julien's Auctions shows a Seeburg Select-O-Matic directional stereo in 33 1/3 jukebox, model DS100H. Serial number 310495. The item is among many owned by Michael Jackson and being auctioned on the Auction Network on April 22- 25. A public exhibition of the items will be held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills from April 14- 21. Auction Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000.

This photo released by Julien's Auctions shows A Monumental Model of Schloss Neuschwanstein Disneyland's model for Sleeping Beauty Castle Replica of Castle. Together with a reproduction photograph of Schloss Neuschwanstein (29 by 36 inches framed). Auction Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000. The item is among many owned by Michael Jackson and being auctioned on the Auction Network on April 22- 25. A public exhibition of the items will be held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills from April 14- 21.

This photo released by Julien's Auctions shows a Fantasy Entertainment, Portrait Studio, black and white photo booth machine with four portrait options sharp pencil, soft pencil, charcoal, pen & ink. The item is among many owned by Michael Jackson and being auctioned on the Auction Network on April 22- 25. A public exhibition of the items will be held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills from April 14- 21. Auction Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000.

This photo released by Julien's Auctions shows a thirteen by ten vintage sepia photograph of Roddy Mcdowall in an elaborately decorated frame, inscribed in black ink, "To Estelle In appreciation for all the lovely things you have done for me Love Roddy". The item is among many owned by Michael Jackson and being auctioned on the Auction Network on April 22- 25. A public exhibition of the items will be held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills from April 14- 21. Auction Estimate: $100 - $150.

This photo released by Julien's Auctions shows Oscar's Wild Ride Gumball Machine by Creative Coin Contraptions, Utah, kinetic gumball machine designed by Ross Mann, that debuted in 1995. Serial number 1907. Auction Estimate: $800 - $1,200. The item is among many owned by Michael Jackson and being auctioned on the Auction Network on April 22- 25. A public exhibition of the items will be held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills from April 14- 21.

This photo released by Julien's Auctions shows a 1911 Grosset and Dunlap edition of "Peter Pan: The Story of Peter and Wendy," by J.M.Barrie, with embossed cover and scenes from the photoplay featuring Betty Bronson, that belongs to singer Michael Jackson. Julien's Auction estimate: $50 - $100.

A custom jacket worn for the November 10, 1984 Hollywood Walk of Fame star dedication ceremony (estimated bid: $15,000-$20,000).

Jackson Gives Blessing on Neverland Auction

Fans of the King of Pop may soon have the opportunity to own a piece of his former estate.

Michael Jackson has given his blessing to Julien's Auctioneers and their attempts to raise money by selling off items in his former residence, the Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara, California.

In November of last year, the cash-strapped singer transferred ownership of the ranch to the Sycamore Valley Ranch Co. - but left many items on the premises.

Julien's will be auctioning nearly two-thousand of those items from April 22 - 25. The estimated total value of all the items on the block is $1.5 million to $3 million.

Jackson is reported to have already gone through the home and kept pieces for himself "that were personal and sentimental."

The singer will get the proceeds from the auction except for a portion to benefit MusiCares, a charity that helps musicians when they are down and out.

Up for grabs are several of Jacksons rhinestone studded gloves and socks. His 1999 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph limo, and the gates to the Neverland Ranch.

Jackson Gives Blessing on Neverland Auction | News10.net | Sacramento, California | Good Morning

Michael Jackson auctions awards, albums, art, etc.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The King of Pop is lightening his load. At an April auction featuring more than 2,000 personal items, Michael Jackson is set to sell his American Music Award for Thriller, a velvet cape given to him by his children for Father's Day in 1998, a pair of rhinestone-trimmed socks from 1981, a basketball signed by Michael Jordan and his own original artwork.

The 50-year-old singer is also parting with his platinum and gold records, a customized Harley Davidson and a Rolls Royce limousine.

The five-day sale was announced in December by Julien's Auctions, but the full extent of the items available wasn't known until Tuesday, when the auction house released images of the lots. The auction begins April 21.

Michael Jackson auctions awards, albums, art, etc. - USATODAY.com

Michael Jackson Auction -- Including White Glove! -- Expected To Take In Millions

Feb 17 2009 3:44 PM EST
By Jocelyn Vena

Items up for sale include his famous white glove, gates to Neverland Ranch.

Back in December MTV News reported that Michael Jackson will be auctioning off more than 2,000 items from his Neverland Ranch this spring. During the four-day public auction, everything from his throne (he is the "King" of Pop!) to his Rolls-Royce will hit the auction block.

The auction is set for April 22 - 25 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, with some of the items being shown in London and Dublin before the sale. The items have filled a six-volume book detailing every item up for auction, and the Auction Network is set to broadcast the auction live on both national TV and the Internet.

"Michael Jackson was a collector of everything," Darren Julien, president of Julien's Auctions, told Fox News. "We've never seen a collection that is as extensive and eccentric as his."

The extensive list of items being auctioned off includes a custom-created costume jacket worn by Jackson for his Hollywood Walk of Fame star dedication ceremony, which is expected to fetch $15,000 to $20,000, the auction house shared with MTV News. There's also a pair of acrylic, rhinestoned tube socks (perfect for display under short pants) worn during his 1981 Triumph tour with the Jackson brothers, expected to bring in between $600 and $800. Also, a custom-designed white spandex, right-hand glove completely covered in clear Swarovski crystals is expected to be auctioned off for somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000.

Other items include three suits of armor, fine paintings, costumes, baubles, massive statuary, awards, furniture and even the gates to the ranch. An estimated total value of all the items on the block is $1.5 million to $3 million.

Julien added that despite Jackson's recent financial troubles, he has not been "forced" into this decision. "He has never had an auction. We have been working closely with him for five months and he is in complete control of this. This is something that Michael is doing of his own free will. He is not being forced into it."

Michael Jackson Auction Expected To Take In Millions - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News

MICHAEL JACKSON MEMORABILIA FOR SALE: Glittered glove, Neverland gates among items up for auction in April.

(February 18, 2009)

In April, Michael Jackson is scheduled to auction off more than 2,000 personal belongings from his debt-ridden Neverland Ranch estate at the Julien's Auctions sale in Beverly Hills.

Investors at the Sycamore Valley Ranch Co., a joint venture between Jackson and an affiliate of Colony Capital LLC, agreed to take over the singer's $24.5 million debt on the property after he couldn't keep up the $3 million-per-year operating costs and was forced to sell.

Items on the auction block include a glittering white glove covered in Swarovski crystals that Jackson wore for a stage performance of Billie Jean - estimated to sell for as much as $15,000; and the gates to the 120-acre ranch, which are expected to go for at least $20,000. Jackson's 1999 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph limo, decorated in 24-karat gold, is expected to fetch another $140,000.

Julien's Auctions president Darren Julien tells the New York Post, "Michael Jackson was a collector of everything. We've never seen a collection that is as extensive and eccentric as his."

Jackson plans to donate a portion of the proceeds from the auction to MusiCares, a charity which aims to help musicians in need.

A preview of the auction items will be held from March 24 to 29 at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York's Times Square. The sale itself will take place from April 22 to 25 and will be broadcast on television.

EURweb.com - MICHAEL JACKSON MEMORABILIA FOR SALE: Glittered glove, Neverland gates among items up for auction in April.