Michael Jackson's crystal glove sold at highest price at auction

One of Michael Jackson's iconic single gloves sold for nearly $200,000 this week in Los Angeles, Nate D. Sanders Auction said Thursday, AFP reported.

        

At $199,069, the Swarovski-crystal-encrusted glove earned the record for the highest price fetched for memorabilia from the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, the Nate D. Sanders Auction house said.

The autographs and memorabilia specialty seller said Jackson wore this black glove at the 1984 American Music Awards, when he was honored for "Thriller," still the best-selling album of all time. The megastar had originally given the glove to a terminally ill boy during a visit arranged by a charity organization. It was accompanied by a book with three Jackson autographs and an inscription that reads "My original glove, love, MJ." The auction house did not specify who the buyer was.