The slippers are up for sale atHeritage Auctionsin Dallas, with bidding set to run through Dec. 7.
(As of publication, the current highest bid is just over $810,000.)
Martin earned a lenient sentence in part because he is in hospice care for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Judy Garland as Dorothy, wearing the ruby slippers in ‘The Wizard of Oz.‘Everett Collection
(That pair was sold at the aforementioned 1970 auction, then donated to the Smithsonian in 1979.)
In pleading guilty, Martin took responsibility for the heist but declined to name anyone else involved.
