TOUTS are selling tickets to see Michael Jackson for up to £20,000 a pair.

Auction websites have been filled with desperate fans and people eager to cash in on the music legend’s 44-gig run at the O2 Arena.

One Sidcup seller is demanding £15,000 while another offers two hospitality package tickets for an incredible £20,000.

Even standard tickets for the final night of the run are going for £599.

And on the official fan exchange website Viagogo, tickets are being offered for as much as £1,318 a pair.

Presale tickets for the Thriller star’s initial run sold out yesterday and massive demand for the shows led to the star’s website crashing.

The residency, which now runs to 44 dates after new gigs were announced today, will start on July 8 and continue into August and September before resuming again in January and February 2010.

Visit MichaelJacksonLive.com or text ‘MJ’ to 81707 for your chance to join the presale. Text costs 10p to 12p dependent on network. UK only.

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