A single glittery sock worn by late pop superstar Michael Jackson during a concert in France in the 1990s sold for more than $8,000 on Wednesday, July 30, a French auctioneer said.

 

A technician found the used sock discarded near Jackson’s dressing room after the concert in the southern city of Nimes in July 1997, auctioneer Aurore Illy told AFP.

 

Michael Jackson wore white athletic socks adorned with rhinestones during his “HIStory World Tour” in 1997, according to specialist website interencheres.com.

 

Jackson can be seen wearing them in clips of him performing his hit “Billie Jean”.

 

Decades later, the sock is seen covered in stains and the rhinestones adorning it have yellowed with age, in a picture posted on the website.

“It really is an exceptional object — even a cult one for Michael Jackson fans,” Illy said.

 

The sock, initially valued at 3,000 to 4,000 euros ($3,400-4,500), sold for 7,688 euros ($8,822) at the Nimes auction house.

 

A Macau gaming resort in 2009 paid $350,000 for a glittery glove Jackson wore when he performed his first “moonwalk” dance in 1983.

 

A hat he wore just before that performance sold for more than $80,000 in Paris in 2023.

 

Jackson di£d of a fatal overdose in 2009 aged 50.