The Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota has been fundraising for months in hopes of buying a pair of ruby slippers stolen from museum in 2005.

DALLAS — A pair of iconic ruby slippers that were worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” and stolen from a museum nearly two decades ago fetched $28 million in an auction Saturday.

Bids for ruby slippers stolen from Grand Rapids museum surpass $1 million in online auction. The live auction for the shoes, worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz,” starts at 11 a.m. Saturday.

DALLAS — A pair of iconic ruby slippers that were worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” and stolen from a museum nearly two decades ago fetched $28 million in an auction Saturday.

The ruby slippers worn by Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz". The pair sold Saturday had been loaned by Shaw to the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minn., until 2005 when they were stolen.

MINNEAPOLIS — A pair of iconic ruby slippers that were worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” and stolen from a museum nearly two decades ago sold for a winning bid of $28 million at ...

Federal charges against a Minnesota man, accused of hiding a stolen pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, were dropped Monday after the man died.

Including the Dallas-based auction house's fee, the unknown buyer will ultimately pay $32.5 million for the pair of iconic ruby slippers that were stolen from a museum nearly two decades ago.

A pair of iconic ruby slippers that were worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” and stolen from a museum nearly two decades ago sold for a winning bid of $28 million at auction Saturday.

A pair of iconic ruby slippers that were worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” and stolen from a museum nearly two decades ago sold for a winning bid of $28 million at auction Saturday.