The once-lost ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz” have now found a new home.

Nearly 20 years after they were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, the slippers were sold at a live auction Saturday for $28 million, along with a $4.5 million buyer’s premium. It was not immediately clear who the buyer was, but it was sold to a phone bidder, according to auction records.

The 2005 theft of the ruby slippers — one of only a few existing pairs that Garland wore while playing Dorothy Gale in “The Wizard of Oz” — haunted authorities, who had billed the shoes as “one of the most recognizable pieces of memorabilia in American film history.”

— The Washington Post