Going for a song? Jackson to auction scores of outfits

Janet Jackson is cleaning out her closet, putting her wedding dress and dozens of her stage costumes up for auction in May for the first time. Julien’s auctions said on thursday that the five-time grammy winner is selling more than 1,000 of the costumes she wore on stage, on tour, on red carpets and in music videos over the past four decades. “Janet has never done an auction before. in fact, we find it very hard to find items at auction, any auction, from Janet Jackson because she’s kept everything,” Martin nolan, executive director of Julien’s auctions, told Reuters. “it’s cathartic for her ... she’s happy to let them go and to raise money for a charity that’s really important to her,” nolan said. Some of the top items in the May 14-16 sale in beverly

hills include the original Rhythm nation Jacket from her eponymous 1990 world tour. the singer’s most famous outfit — the black leather bustier that was ripped, briefly exposing her breast at the 2004 Super bowl halftime show — is not included in the auction.