The slippers were recovered during an FBI sting in Minneapolis the next year. Federal prosecutors have put the slippers market value at $3.5 million. In the classic 1939 musical, Garland's character Dorothy had to click her heels together of these ruby slippers three times and then repeat, there's no place like home. In order for her to get back to Kansas, that is, from Oz. She wore several pairs of slippers during the film, but only four authentic pairs are known to remain in existence