This list is based on some of the outright disturbing items recently put up for auction from Michael Jackson’s estate. The auction was meant to raise funds to pay off some of his debts and it was scheduled before he died. Many of these items were gifts but the fact that he kept them testifies to the bizarre character that was Michael Jackson. As always, click the image for a larger view.
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Items 1 – 5
1. Ice-cream Girl [Source]
2. Speechless [Source]
3. WTF?! [Source]
4. Such Humility [Source]
5. Chucky’s Sister [Source]
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Items 6 – 10
6. Car Hood [Source]
7. His Royal Highness [Source]
8. Coffee Machine [Source]
9. Lifesize Superman [Source]
10. Scary [Source]
Bonus
Virtual Boy
What a weirdo
The coffee machine looks perfectly reasonable to me.
@astraya: agreed
ok the little kid paintings and stuff are weird and same with the car hood and him as a king or whatever. but seriously, if you had as much money as him then why the f***k wouldnt you buy a life sized super man???
and i actually kinda like the painting with einstein and washington and the mona lisa with the glasses on haha idk maybe its just me.
Whats the bonus supposed to be? Im confused.
I notice that this was a collection for sale to pay for debts. No doubt because of many of the legal costs in order to defend him against the depictions in the paintings.
PS. I offer $5 for the coffee machine.
The kids paintings are a bit weird but I agree with optimus_grim: why wouldn’t you get a lifesize superman?!
I want that coffee machine.
So modest.
dude what about the painting of him at the last supper?? that one is nuts and yes it is real and was in his house
Ahhh, the Virtual Boy. A very bad console.
I wonder if they’re auctioning a signed copy of Micheal Jackson’s Moonwalker. I loved that game.
He was a strange strange man. Most talented people have thier quirks mind you!
hehe cool list on a weird guy
A strange, strange life.
Nice list. never thought that MJ collected weird things.
2 and 3 are wierd, nothing to bad about the rest
i think E.T is more out of place in number 4 than michael jackson
i want to be like him!
a man that have a extra ordinary brain!
The coffee machine and the Superman aren’t too weird, but the rest are very odd.
Virtual Boy….haaaa
wtf?
if i had his money i would buy a virtual Jessica Simpson
What I want to know is who painted pictures 2 & 3?
@Handrejka (18): Hey, I agree with you. although the coffee machine is kinda cool.
I have a place where dreams are born,
And time is never planned.
It’s not on any chart,
You must find it with your heart.
Never Never Land.
It might be miles beyond the moon,
Or right there where you stand.
Just keep an open mind,
And then suddenly you’ll find
Never Never Land.
You’ll have a treasure if you stay there,
More precious far than gold.
For once you have found your way there,
You can never, never grow old.
And that’s my home where dreams are born,
And time is never planned.
Just think of lovely things.
And your heart will fly on wings,
Forever in Never Never Land.
Somehow I don’t think he was expecting a video game system when he bought the “Virtual Boy”.
He had a Virtual Boy model that made sense for what it was used for? Holy Hell.
That coffee machine is bad ass, too.
He probably didn’t keep all those paintings up, I’m sure the man had some semblance of taste.
Haha, good one ScubaSteve.
@astraya (2): “The coffee machine looks perfectly reasonable to me.” Yeah, all my friends have coffee machines like that! ;D (Great comment BTW)
That coffee machine looks like something right out of the Weimar Republic.
Interesting list. I can’t imagine that someone else would want to buy some of this stuff at auction, but still, each to his own I say!! Great list. Thanks. D
Does nothing for me…Holiday list quickly put together.
i dont find the paintings weird except for the painting of monalisa and the aliens with shade, i would love to have the
coffee maker
chucky sister
lifesize superman
the grandma looks scary
and what is the virtual boy?
#2 is a bit queer.
#1 & #3 is just your dirty mind.
The rest is about what you’d expect for someone so famous. I’m actually disappointed. These items aren’t really all THAT weird. Where’s the elephant man skeleton and the oxygen tent?
The only one I could understand on this list is the Lifesize Superman
I want that espresso machine. That’s restaurant caliber!
hey there. I like most of these, as art. Even the art of making coffee. The fortune telling granny is the only real ‘sideshow’ piece, and even that isn’t so freaky to me. I’ve never even heard of the virtual boy; it looks like a gameboy with a headset. Surely the whole point of the gameboy was that it was portable?
Just in case anyone else has keen eyes, I’m pretty sure items 2 & 3 are either parts of the same picture or are a two part set. Note the man with the child on his back appears to the right of 2 and to the left of 3. Perhaps the top three items make a huge spread?
I suspect the author wanted to stir the feelings of the readership with this list, but I don’t think this one is going to explode with anything more than curiosity/apathy.
Oh my! o.O
I am sitting seeing these items with my mouth hanging open. What was he thinking? Ok, we know what he was thinking but … Holy Hell! Several more reasons why he was an oddball.
However, the only exception is that coffee maker. It’s just elaborate.
@ScubaSteve (23): *clap, clap* Brilliant!
Fcha – the paintings look like they’re in the style of the way paradise is typically depicted in the Jehovah’s Witness’ publication “The Watchtower”. Its always creepy.
Actually, how did you keep it down to ten?
The Fortune Telling machine at #10 looks like an old carnival arcade unit. Those things are insanely collectible and could very well go at auction for much more than he paid.
I forgot to add that the fortune telling machine is kinda cool. Remember the one from the movie “Big”? I have a mini version of it on my desk at work. It’s functional as well and gives out a little fortune.
The first three look like they are all from the same painting
@oouchan (38): I was just going to mention ‘Big’.
Even though I loath coffee, I wouldn’t turn down the coffee machine. I’d display it as a piece of art.
The fortune telling machine is cool, but I want the life sized Superman.
The rest of it is just creepy.
After watching that British documentary on Michael I learned that his tastes were insane. Remember that shopping trip? He was like those stories you hear of a hick who wins the lottery & fills his house with random crap only caring that it’s expensive.
he said in the docu, that he had the same taste as loui the 14th, he spent 12 million in that shop in just under 30 minutes :O
You’d have to be crazy to buy a Virtual Boy!
CRAAAAAAAAAAZY!
I think the girl with the messed up face that approaches the camera in in the Aphex Twin video Windowlicker was inspired by No.5. Anyone know the girl I am talking about?
Statues he owns:
Little boy w/ turquoise overalls on stand
Boy with accordion
Boy sitting on bricks
Boy w/ baton and hat w/ feathers
Two boys on swing bar
Two boys with ladder
Boys sleeping on bench
Boys milking goat
Boy on a toy car with girl
Boy pulling 2 boys on bike
Boy lifting girl
2 Boys sitting on a sunflower
haha i want these!!! specially the car hood ahaha…
RIP! i know its been a while…but i still miss him =[[
@moonbeam (26): There was a degree of sarcasm about my original comment that seems to have been lost in the plain text format. While the coffee machine is considerably less weird than some other items, it is still w-a-a-a-a-y in excess of anything that might be thought reasonably necessary to make a cup of coffee.
I wonder what the coffee tasted like? Like you’d get from a $20 kettle?
@Rising Falls(44): Do you think there’s some common theme connecting all those statues. Let me see, um, boys, boys, boys, boys. Well, um, maybe.
@43 ImElvis: I was thinking the same thing, only from Aphex Twin’s “Come To Daddy” video (where it’s all children with that face). Not inspired by that statue, though- they’re actually warps of the face of Richard David James, the guy behind Aphex Twin.
this is a waste of a list. If you gave someone a GIFT you would wnt them to keep it as well…
We all have our own little quirks.
He also owned one of those ice cream bicycles, that you peddle around the streets selling lolly pops and such.
If my memory serves me correctly it was a gift from Liz Taylor.
Interesting. But the strangest minds are the brilliant ones.
Really, there was more bizarre items than these owned by Jackson. And #2 and #3 are apart of the same picture, if you’d look carefully.
Sorry JFrater, but this list is a thumbs down. It wasn’t interesting and there wasn’t anything I could learn from it.
er Oxygen Tent, NEVERLAND!, his nose?
meh, nothing new, nothing really unexpected. In fact, all stuff that I would expect a 12 year old boy (ok, there would be more boobs in the paintings) to buy if he had no guidance and tons of bucks. I think he bought them to please himself – not as a lure.
The arcade fortune teller isn’t scary – it’s cool and worth tons of money. The samovar (fancy ass coffee machine/hot water urn) is not that wild – we’ve rented the exact one for fancy banquets/weddings.
aside from the “wtf painting” and “chucky’s sister” I really dont see nothin weird about none of this *****….the dude was a bit eccentric yes but what the hell. most people who our special in some way are misunderstood and out of sync with the rest of the world. I personally think he wore his heart on his sleeve. If more people did the same, I’M PRETTY SURE Michael wouldnt seem so odd afterall.
dude, have some respect for the dead.
i don’t find anything on this list exceptionally weird. there’s some quirky stuff, but he did have a lot of money to spend.
I think the 3 paintings are part of a larger painting.
That Superman is awesome!!
Number 5 is just scary>