Michael Jackson (1958 - 2009)
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I absolutely love this performance:
Michael Jackson - 1988 Grammy Awards.
I have watched his Man In The Mirror performance at least 20 times. I did not really know his music until after he passed away, and the performances I have found on YouTube just blew me away. He can sing; he can write and compose songs; he can dance; at the peak of his celebrity, he co-wrote We Are The World to bring attention and money to a devastated Africa. We really do not know what we got until it is gone. It is sad that crap overshadowed his talent in his later life.
Michael Jackson - 1988 Grammy Awards.
I have watched his Man In The Mirror performance at least 20 times. I did not really know his music until after he passed away, and the performances I have found on YouTube just blew me away. He can sing; he can write and compose songs; he can dance; at the peak of his celebrity, he co-wrote We Are The World to bring attention and money to a devastated Africa. We really do not know what we got until it is gone. It is sad that crap overshadowed his talent in his later life.
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I pray this is just a rumor. Katherine needs to get a restraining order against him ASAP. Something that will keep him as far away from these children as humanly possible.
DEBBIE ROWE DROPS CUSTODY FIGHT
$4M MOTHER LODE FOR MICHAEL JACKSON EX
Michael Jackson's baby mama Debbie Rowe has sold her kids again -- this time squeezing about $4 million from her former mother-in-law in exchange for giving up her parental rights, a family source told The Post yesterday.
"It's one final payday," the disgusted Jackson confidant said.
The family isn't happy about the mega-payout -- which was set to be sealed in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon -- but they consider it a necessary evil, the source said.
"They felt it was like a ransom-type thing. [Rowe] jumped back into the picture because she wanted money," the friend said.
Rowe -- a former dental assistant who bore a boy and girl for Jacko -- had forfeited her parental rights once before in exchange for big bucks.
After the birth of son Prince Michael, now 12, and daughter Paris, 11, she agreed to allow Jackson to raise them in exchange for a lump sum of $8 million, plus $900,000 annually for five years, the source said.
When Jacko was accused of child molestation in 2001, Rowe resurfaced to reclaim her rights. But she wound up giving her ex-husband full custody of the kids anyway -- in exchange for another $4 million plus a $900,000 home.
This time around, she is forfeiting her restored parental rights to Jackson's mom, Katherine, in exchange for yet another roughly $4 million, the family source said.
"This would be it. This takes away any rights she has to challenge custody at any given time," the source said.
"If something happens to Katherine, [Rowe] can't challenge the next [guardian], whether that be Diana Ross or someone in the family."
Neither lawyers for Rowe nor Katherine Jackson returned phone calls or e-mails.
While it had been thought that Rowe was demanding that Jacko's abusive father, Joe, have nothing to do with the kids, the source said there is no such language in the agreement.
Still, the family will keep him in check, the source said.
Joe Jackson is reportedly pushing his dead son's children -- also including Prince Michael II, a k a "Blanket," born to an unidentified surrogate using donor sperm -- to form a new group, The Jackson 3.
But "that's something the family would absolutely not tolerate," the source said.
The King of Pop's siblings are themselves involved in a venture that has become much more lucrative since his death.
Jacko's five remaining brothers were filming an A&E pilot for what they hoped would be a reality series about them launching a reunion tour.
While the five initially agreed to be paid a total of between $200,000 and $300,000 for the pilot, they now want to add footage of Michael's funeral into the mix -- and boost their take to "between $10 million and $20 million," the family source said.
Jacko's body -- still undergoing testing as part of a police probe -- was abruptly moved from its temporary resting place in a crypt at the famed Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills last week.
It now rests in a refrigerated unit in the basement of the cemetery's main building for security reasons, according to the site RadarOnline.com.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07142009/news/nationalnews/mother_lode_for_jacko_ex_179174.htm
$4M MOTHER LODE FOR MICHAEL JACKSON EX
Michael Jackson's baby mama Debbie Rowe has sold her kids again -- this time squeezing about $4 million from her former mother-in-law in exchange for giving up her parental rights, a family source told The Post yesterday.
"It's one final payday," the disgusted Jackson confidant said.
The family isn't happy about the mega-payout -- which was set to be sealed in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon -- but they consider it a necessary evil, the source said.
"They felt it was like a ransom-type thing. [Rowe] jumped back into the picture because she wanted money," the friend said.
Rowe -- a former dental assistant who bore a boy and girl for Jacko -- had forfeited her parental rights once before in exchange for big bucks.
After the birth of son Prince Michael, now 12, and daughter Paris, 11, she agreed to allow Jackson to raise them in exchange for a lump sum of $8 million, plus $900,000 annually for five years, the source said.
When Jacko was accused of child molestation in 2001, Rowe resurfaced to reclaim her rights. But she wound up giving her ex-husband full custody of the kids anyway -- in exchange for another $4 million plus a $900,000 home.
This time around, she is forfeiting her restored parental rights to Jackson's mom, Katherine, in exchange for yet another roughly $4 million, the family source said.
"This would be it. This takes away any rights she has to challenge custody at any given time," the source said.
"If something happens to Katherine, [Rowe] can't challenge the next [guardian], whether that be Diana Ross or someone in the family."
Neither lawyers for Rowe nor Katherine Jackson returned phone calls or e-mails.
While it had been thought that Rowe was demanding that Jacko's abusive father, Joe, have nothing to do with the kids, the source said there is no such language in the agreement.
Still, the family will keep him in check, the source said.
Joe Jackson is reportedly pushing his dead son's children -- also including Prince Michael II, a k a "Blanket," born to an unidentified surrogate using donor sperm -- to form a new group, The Jackson 3.
But "that's something the family would absolutely not tolerate," the source said.
The King of Pop's siblings are themselves involved in a venture that has become much more lucrative since his death.
Jacko's five remaining brothers were filming an A&E pilot for what they hoped would be a reality series about them launching a reunion tour.
While the five initially agreed to be paid a total of between $200,000 and $300,000 for the pilot, they now want to add footage of Michael's funeral into the mix -- and boost their take to "between $10 million and $20 million," the family source said.
Jacko's body -- still undergoing testing as part of a police probe -- was abruptly moved from its temporary resting place in a crypt at the famed Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills last week.
It now rests in a refrigerated unit in the basement of the cemetery's main building for security reasons, according to the site RadarOnline.com.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07142009/news/nationalnews/mother_lode_for_jacko_ex_179174.htm
How the He** did she go through that kind of $$$ in such a short period of time that she needs yet a THIRD huge influx of cash???
Not surprising, though. I knew the only reason she resurfaced was to get some more money out of the family. She has no desire to be in these kids' lives.
Not surprising, though. I knew the only reason she resurfaced was to get some more money out of the family. She has no desire to be in these kids' lives.
This woman is a disgrace. I said it from the beginning that she doesn't care about those kids!
All she wanted was another paycheck!! I hope one of her horses give her a swift kick in the buttocks!
I hope the children were shielded through all of this!! They lose again...
All she wanted was another paycheck!! I hope one of her horses give her a swift kick in the buttocks!
I hope the children were shielded through all of this!! They lose again...
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Well, Debbie is predictable. Give her money and she will go away... at least for a while. She lived with Michael for a few years and he was known for his incredible spending sprees, maybe that's where she learned to blow through cash.
I'm wondering where the $4 million is coming from. Wasn't Michael hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and that's why he had to do the London concerts? Does Debbie go to the front of the line of people who are owed money?
That woman really is absolutely disgusting. Didn't she publicly speak about wanting to give these children as a "gift" to Michael? Sure, a "gift" that would earn her $$$, or make that $$$$$$$$$$$.
Oh how I hope the children know NOTHING of this new development.
Sickening - absolutely sickening.
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Sickening - absolutely sickening.
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