"Dancing" finale tickets sell for over $10,000 (AP)

LOS ANGELES - a trip to the final of "Dancing with the Stars" next month is a value of more than $10,000.

The winning bidder paid $11,000 for a ticket to attend the final of the season of the ABC hit during a broadcast Auction Friday at the 18th annual race to erase MS gala benefit at the century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.

"Dancing with the Stars" professional dancers Cheryl Burke, Kym Johnson, Louis Van Amstel and Anna Trebunskaya presented the award in the course of the auction of the gala, which also presented a ticket for "american idol" and a trip chartered on a private yacht (sale price)(: $35,000).

Race to erase MS founder Nancy Davis said that the auction of the fundraising campaign raised more than 10 million for research towards finding a cure for multiple sclerosis.