Popjustice
  • Home
    • Briefing archive
  • Features
  • Playlists
  • Get Popjustice emails
  • About Popjustice
    • About
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Contact
    • General contact details
    • Submit music
  • Forum
Recent Posts
  • Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • The 2024 Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
  • The 2023 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
  • Fine, let's do a Substack then.
  • The 2022 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist
Hello! In theory you should only be seeing this if you're using a mobile or tablet. How's the site looking? If anything's wonky click here and tell us so we can fix it. Thanks! x
Popjustice
  • Briefing
  • Features
  • Playlists
    • New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
    • Big Hit Energy
    • 21st Century Pop
    • 2018% Solid Pop Music
    • Full archive
  • About
    • About Popjustice
    • Contacting Popjustice
    • Send music
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Forum
  • The News

Some Jacko and Madonna pop memorabilia has been flogged in an auction

  • June 26, 2012
  • Joel Freeman

An auction held on the eve of the third anniversary of Michael Jackson's death sold off some items of pop mem­or­ab­ilia — and Madonna's underwear — for ridicu­lous sums of money.

Among the items sold were the hand­writ­ten lyrics to 'Billie Jean' — sold for $40,625 — and a Video Music Award won by Michael Jackson, which sold for the modest amount of $50,000.

Meanwhile, if you had $34,375 to hand in the auction you could have bought a negligee worn by Madonna on her Blonde Ambition tour, or a pair of her pants for $13,750.

What a bargain.

Other items included a dress Whitney Houston wore to the Grammys and a jumpsuit she performed in, selling for $20,480 and $10,240 respectively.

No news of the figure obtained by Faye Tozer's manky old scarf but we'll keep you posted.

  • Madonna
  • Michael Jackson
  • Whitney Houston
Previous Article
  • Videos

Lana Del Rey — National Anthem (Trailer)

  • June 26, 2012
  • Brad O'Mance
Have a read
Next Article
  • The News

Jessie J has been sued for copyright infringement

  • June 27, 2012
  • Brad O'Mance
Have a read
Further listening
Greatest hits
  • Ten features we want in the Lady Gaga iPad app
  • Calvin Harris interview: "I don’t work on anyone else’s songs any more. I’ve had enough of all that"
  • Alison Goldfrapp interview: "I feel good about this"
Further reading
  • 1
    Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • 2
    The 2024 Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
  • 3
    The 2023 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
  • 4
    Fine, let's do a Substack then.
  • 5
    The 2022 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist
  • 6
    2021 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Laura Mvula wins
Est 2000. Still going.
Socials

 Spotify
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 Soundcloud

'Quick links'

About Popjustice
Contact Popjustice
Sign up for the newsletter 
Submit music
Est 2000
Twenty Quid Music Prize 

Playlists

21st Century Pop 
New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit 
2018% Solid Pop Music 
The Sound Of Popjustice 
Playlist archive

© 2020 Popjustice Ltd. Scrolled to the bottom now you're here
  • Privacy, Ts & Cs, cookies etc
  • Corrections

Input your search keywords and press Enter.