'I had to be stitched into them': Olivia Newton-John's skintight Grease outfit goes to auction

'I had to be stitched into them': Olivia Newton-John's skintight Grease outfit goes to auction

Olivia Newton-John as sexy Sandy Olson in Grease. Photograph: PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy Stock Photo

Olivia Newton-John’s black leather jacket and tight black pants from the 1978 musical film Grease – complete with a broken zipper – will be auctioned this week as the top item in a sale to help raise money for Newton-John’s cancer treatment centre in Australia.

The outfit that marks the character’s transition from demure high-schooler to sexy Sandy Olson in her final duet with John Travolta, You’re the One That I Want, is expected to fetch up to $200,000, Julien’s Auctions said.

“The pants have a broken zip and I had to be stitched into them because they were made in the 50s,” Newton-John, 71, told Reuters Television.

The British-born and Australian-raised actress has breast cancer for a third time and is selling more than 500 items including: her original script from the film, estimated at up to $4,000; the pink gown she wore to the Grease premiere in Los Angeles, estimated at $3,000–$5,000; a custom Pink Ladies jacket given to her by the Grease cast and crew.

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