BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The contents of the home where Michael Jackson lived with his three children before his death in 2009 have sold for nearly one million dollars at auction.  

The president of Julien’s Auctions was still tallying the totals Saturday after the daylong auction, which brought in nearly triple the company’s pre-auction estimate of 200-to-400 thousand dollars.  

Among the highlights were a chalkboard inscribed with a message from Jackson’s children, which sold for five-thousand dollars, and an armoire upon which Jackson wrote a message to himself on the mirror, which fetched nearly 19-thousand dollars.  
The headboard from the bed where the pop star died at age 50 was removed from the sale at the family’s request, but the rug that was under the bed sold for 15-thousand-360 dollars.

The estimate had been 400-to-600 dollars.