Movie Memorabilia Facts

A mob-connected thief broke into the Judy Garland Museum in 2005 and took Dorothy's ruby slippers, convinced by an associate that the $1 million insured shoes were set with real rubies. A fence told him they were glass. He got rid of them in under two days. The FBI recovered the slippers 13 years later in a 2018 sting. In December 2024, they sold at Heritage Auctions for $32.5 million - a record for movie memorabilia.