WEST HOLLYWOOD—Pop legend Michael Jackson, who is scheduled to announced a set of new tour dates today, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to stop the sale of more than 2,000 personal items from his now-defunct dream ranch Neverland, the International Herald Tribune reports.

The sale is scheduled to take place April 22–25 at Julien's Auction House in West Hollywood and is to include fine and decorative art, gold and platinum records, a customized Harley Davidson, a Rolls Royce limousine, stage costumes, a jeweled white glove, the ranch's entry gates, and a throne. A preview of several hundred items from the sale is to open in Newbridge, Ireland, to the press today and the public tomorrow.

Jackson's company MJJ Productions filed a lawsuit against the auction house describing the attempt to sell the items as "malicious, fraudulent, extreme, outrageous, and without any legal justification whatsoever," according to the Tribune.

Auctioneer Darren Julien said that he was surprised by the suit and that the pop giant  "had been apprised of everything since the day we started."

Julien says the preview exhibition will go on as planned.

Jackson was forced to give up the deed to Neverland, his 2,500-acre California ranch and amusement park, late last year amid financial troubles.