{"id":7967,"date":"2011-06-27T15:46:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7967"},"modified":"2011-06-27T15:33:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:33:14","slug":"michael-jackson-thriller-jacket-fetches-1-8m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7967","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson &#8216;Thriller&#8217; Jacket  Fetches $1.8M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. &#8212; A famed black-and-red calfskin jacket that <strong>Michael Jackson <\/strong>wore in the classic &#8220;Thriller&#8221; video has sold at auction for $1.8 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Darren Julien<\/strong>, president and CEO of Julien&#8217;s Auctions in Beverly Hills, says the jacket was purchased Sunday by <strong>Milton Verret<\/strong>, a commodities trader from Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The jacket is one of two<strong> Jackson<\/strong> wore during the filming of the 1983 &#8220;Thriller&#8221; video. <strong>Jackson <\/strong>wears the jacket in a scene with a troupe of zombies who rise from their graves and break into a dance routine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verret <\/strong>says the jacket will be sent on tour and used as a fundraising tool for children&#8217;s charities.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of the sale price will go to the Shambala Preserve, a big cat sanctuary caring for two tigers Jackson one owned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. &#8212; A famed black-and-red calfskin jacket that Michael Jackson wore in the classic &#8220;Thriller&#8221; video has sold at auction for $1.8 million. Darren Julien, president and CEO of Julien&#8217;s Auctions in Beverly Hills, says the jacket was purchased Sunday by Milton Verret, a commodities trader from Austin, Texas. The jacket is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}