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The Wizard of Oz: Judge puts a “brake” on Dorothy’s dress auction

Blue and white dress worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” will not be sold to auctionas a judge blocked the sale of the emblematic garment.

The sale price of Dorothy plaid dress was estimated at $ 800,000 to $ 1.2 million at the house’s Hollywood souvenir auction. Bonham in Los Angeles.

The dress was found last July at Universal University of Washington during a renovationς.

U.S. District Attorney Paul Gadderf in New York issued a preliminary injunction to stop the sale after a relative of a Catholic priest at the university filed a lawsuit claiming that the dress belonged to her.

Priest Gilbert Hartke, who died in 1986, was head of the Department of Theater at Catholic University and had received the dress as a gift in 1973 from the actress Mercedes McCambridge, as stated in the lawsuit.

Gilbert Hartke was photographed holding the dress in many photographs during the 1970s.

«The university has no ownership interest in the fund“There is no evidence that the clergyman ever formally or unofficially donated the dress to the Catholic University,” said Gilbert Hartke’s niece Barbara Ann Hartke in a lawsuit filed against the university and the auction house.

The priest withdrew the 1986 Mr.he left the dress to his successors who are in charge of the theatrical department.

«We look forward to presenting our position and the overwhelming evidence that contradicts Mrs Hartke’s claim in courtSaid the university’s lawyers as reported by the Athens News Agency.

Source: News Beast

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