Judy Garland’s Wizard of Oz ruby slippers up for auction for $800k after theft by mobster

A pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 cinema classic The Wizard of Oz are going up for auction, two decades after they were stolen by a mobster who believed they were covered in real rubies.

Now, the Judy Garland Museum is among those vying to buy the slippers, which Shaw is auctioning through Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas.

They belong to memorabilia collector Michael Shaw, who in 2005 loaned them to the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.