Michael Jackson

DARSITA

rasa rasanya kali ini MJ tak boleh lari dah sebab budak tu beri kerjasama dekat Polis.

Passport dia pun polis dah tahan. TV dekat sini tunjuk live airport Santa Babara penih dengan polis ..dia orang tunggu MJ balik California.

Ish kalau dia didapati bersalah untunglah wife dia sebab hak penjagaan anak mungkin makamah beri dekat ex-wife dia.'

Tak sabar nak tunggu berita terbaru.

Originally posted by DragonLady82 at 15-11-2003 10:13 AM:

Aku rasa ni lakaran gambar Michael dgn Lisa...
2 org lagi anak depa yg tak sempat nak lahir

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rhoyo

Roffle And Lol

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Jackson DA: 'We're going to handle it like any other case'

(Court TV) -- The district attorney spearheading the child molestation case against Michael Jackson is not out for revenge, he said Thursday in an exclusive interview with Court TV's Diane Dimond on "Hollywood at Large."

"We're going to handle it like any other case," said Thomas Sneddon, who led an aborted investigation into similar charges a decade ago and was attacked by Jackson in a thinly veiled song entitled "D.S."

"It's part of our jobs. But for anybody to think this is something we're doing because he wrote some song about me or something that happened 10 years ago, it's just not true."

Sneddon, 61, has earned a reputation for his no-holds-barred approach to prosecution. The veteran district attorney slammed assertions that he had ulterior motives to bring multiple charges of child molestation against the 45-year-old pop icon -- including revenge for Jackson's 1995 song ridiculing a man named "Don Sheldon."

"I got more important things going on in my life than to listen to a song by a guy everybody calls Jacko Wacko," Sneddon said. "I have my life and I do my job, and anybody who thinks I've spent 10 years sitting here waiting to read [lyrics] from Michael Jackson just has not got a clue. Or anybody who thinks that I'm doing this for political reasons is totally poppycock because I'm not running for re-election. I'm retiring in three years. And I've been successful, I have a good career. I'm not worried about getting another notch on my belt."

Jackson turned himself over to Santa Barbara sheriff's officers Thursday afternoon, arriving in a caravan at the main county jail where he was fingerprinted, photographed for a mug shot, and given an arraignment date of January 9. The highly anticipated surrender came on the heels of a daylong police search of three of Jackson's properties, including Neverland, his palacial ranch estate outside Santa Barbara.

Published reports have singled out a 12-year-old boy as the accuser. Unlike the family behind the 1993 abuse allegations, however, this child's family is more concerned with justice than money, according to Sneddon.

"They're aware of the risks involved, and they've still cooperated with us," Sneddon said. "I think it would be really unfair to be talking about these people as if they want to get even with Michael Jackson or something like that."

Sneddon said the alleged victim's family has much in common with other families affected by sexual abuse of a child. "There are difficulties, it's tough, it's emotional ... and I ... just see the people involved are not any different than most of the cases this office gets of child victims."

Compared to the 1993 case, however, the current allegations could be settlement-proof, Sneddon said.

"In the 1993-94 case, a child victim had the right not to testify if they chose not to, and could still have a civil settlement," Sneddon said. "The law has been changed now. If you take a civil settlement you don't have that privilege not to testify anymore."

Though it remains unknown whether the alleged 1993 victim, now in his 20s, would be willing to testify in the current case should it go to trial, Sneddon said the evidence would be admissible to demonstrate prior criminal behavior -- so long as the man backed up his claim in court.

"Otherwise you just could bring in anybody off the street to say 'Oh, this happened, this happened, I heard it third-hand hearsay -- which is totally unfair."

Jackson reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with his alleged victim in the 1993 case, drawing an end to criminal charges brought against him.

rhoyo

Kesian MJ ni..... memang dah teruk dah kes dia ni...... He shouldn't be sleeping with the kids in his house....

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rasanyer tak salah bawak budak2 ke umah utk sleep over ...
naper pelik n menjadi isu biler budak2 tido dlm bilik org dewasa?
rasanyer kat M'sia ada gak .. budak2 5 tahun ke atas ada tido ngan parent lagi atau ngan org dewasa yg dikenali ...

tak caya MJ molested budak2 ....
isk .. keje giler tul ... :stp:

kesian MJ. lagu2 die maintain best!

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CELEBRITIES who once served as Michael Jackson's pre-pubescent playmates weren't exactly leaping to the defense of the accused moonwalking molester yesterday.
* Macaulay Culkin, who used to sleep over at Jackson's Neverland Ranch as a boy and who once told New York magazine that it was "the only place where I feel absolutely, 100 percent comfortable," refused to talk about charges that Jackson had molested a 12-year-old cancer survivor.

* Emmanuel Lewis, the pint-size former TV sitcom star who famously accompanied Jackson to the 1984 Grammys, was out of the country and could not be reached, said his agent, Greg Mayo. Lewis, whose mother once forbade him from hanging out with Jackson, is still friends with him, Mayo said: "They go back a long way."

* Wade Robson, 21, the Britney Spears choreographer who danced in three of Jackson's videos by the time he was nine and was a frequent guest at Jackson's Neverland ranch, declined comment.

* Equally mum was Aldo Cascio, the owner of Aldo's restaurant in Wykoff, N.J., whose nephews Frank and Eddie Cascio traveled the world with Jackson in 1993 when they were 13 and 9.

Their relationship with Jackson made headlines soon after another 13-year-old boy accused Jackson of molesting him at Neverland, but later refused to testify after his family accepted a settlement of as much as $20 million.

Aldo Cascio defended Jackson as "a very nice man" back in 1993, but did not return our calls yesterday.

* One former friend who may be smug over the latest sex scandal surrounding Jackson is Corey Feldman. One-half of the 1980s duo the Coreys, with Corey Haim, Feldman hung out with Jacko and even dressed like him when he wasn't starring in movies like 1987's "The Lost Boys."

Feldman had a falling out with Jackson after an argument on Sept. 11, 2001, the day after Jackson's concert at Madison Square Garden. When Jackson and his entourage tried to flee New York after the terrorist attack, Feldman tried to board their bus, but Jackson refused. His brother Jermaine snuck Feldman on, but Feldman later wrote a song dissing his former friend.

Ironically, Feldman and Emmanuel Lewis recently co-starred together on the reality show "The Surreal Life."

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - An attorney who has tangled with Michael Jackson called Friday for child welfare authorities to temporarily remove the pop star's three children from his custody because of new child molestation allegations.

Gloria Allred's demand came as quiet descended on Santa Barbara following Jackson's media-saturated surrender Thursday.

An arrest warrant alleges Jackson committed lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14. The Santa Barbara district attorney has said he does not plan to file charges until after Thanksgiving.

After posting $3 million bail Thursday, Jackson returned to a Las Vegas-area hotel-casino, but his whereabouts Friday were unclear.

"He's with his kids and his family. That's all I can say," Jackson family spokesman Steve Manning said Friday.

A spokeswoman for Green Valley Ranch in Henderson, Nev., declined comment on a report that Michael Jackson was seen leaving the hotel-casino about 4 a.m. Friday.

The Jackson family was at the Las Vegas studio of CMX Productions Inc. on Friday, company spokesman Dean DeLorean said. He would not say whether Michael Jackson was among the group.

At a news conference Friday, Allred said she has twice asked child-welfare officials to investigate Jackson.

"I believe the children should be temporarily removed from Mr. Jackson's care and custody because of the history of Michael Jackson with children ... combined with present criminal allegations," she said at a news conference.

Allred cited statements Jackson has made about having sleep-overs with children, a previous molestation allegation and an incident in which he dangled his infant son outside the window of a German hotel last year.

In 1993 Allred briefly represented a 13-year-old boy involved in a molestation allegation that never led to criminal charges. The case reportedly ended with Jackson paying a multimillion-dollar civil settlement.

Jackson spokesman Stuart Backerman had no comment on Allred's demand, but it was denounced by Brian Oxman, an attorney who has represented Jackson family members, but not Michael Jackson.

"It is outrageous that she should seek such media attention for her own aggrandizement. She is attacking Michael for her own benefit," Oxman said.

Allred said she was "acting as a citizen."

Jackson has three children: 6-year-old Prince Michael I, 5-year-old Paris and a baby, Prince Michael II. Little is known about the youngest child, whose mother has not been identified. Prince Michael I and Paris were born during his marriage to nurse Debbie Rowe, which ended in 1999.

Michael X. Dean, deputy director of Santa Barbara County Social Services, on Thursday declined to say whether there were plans to take Jackson's children into custody, citing confidentiality rules.

Dean said that generally, criminal charges can prompt a child welfare investigation, but he added that such an investigation is not automatic.

Media reports have said the alleged victim in the latest case is a 12- or 13-year-old cancer survivor who visited Jackson at his Neverland Ranch, a storybook playland where the singer, who has befriended several cancer victims, was known to hold sleep-overs for children and share his bed with youngsters.

A lawyer for the father of one young cancer patient told The Associated Press his client's son was invited to a sleep-over at the ranch. But his client doesn't know whether his son is the child at the center of the molestation investigation, attorney H. Russell Halpern said.

The father is seeking custody of the boy from his ex-wife.

Halpern reiterated Friday that media reports were "assuming that my client's son is the object of the child molestation case. I can't say for certain he's the boy in the case. ... Other people believe my client's son is the boy, but I can't confirm it."

Jackson, meanwhile, was finding some sympathy among music associates and neighbors.

Quincy Jones, producer of Jackson's landmark "Thriller" album, told the syndicated TV program "Access Hollywood" he was concerned about the media coverage of the case.

"I don't know what to think about it. We are bombarded all day with choices from the Beltway Sniper to Laci Peterson. It never stops, you know, sensationalism in the media," Jones said.

In the town of Los Olivos near Neverland, store owners defended Jackson.

"Around this town people are used to seeing Michael. He's been known to walk up and down the street here," said Sharon Frowiss, manager of Jedlicka's Saddlery Inc., where he recently bought a $229 tricycle.

"When he walked in the door you said, 'Oh my gosh,' but then you keep it to yourself and go about your business," she said.

p/s: tambah simpati kat MJ sebb 3 org anak dia akan diambil n ditempatkan di umah kebajikan kanak2 ...

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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21

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LAS VEGAS

vixen

Honestly,I feel saddened by this...evethough I am not his fan or anything.
Used to be,when I was like 8 or 9... have to admit.

Despite his eccentricity,I still find it a little hard to believe that Michael Jackson is really capable of such despicable behaviour or hurt a child in any way.He seems to be a gentle and kind human being,at least that's how he projects himself to be.Anyway,I hope truth will prevail.

Darsita since you are such an expert in Celebrities and so well-informed,please keep me posted on this latest news.Thanks.

And by the way,was this the same boy(he was suffering from some form of cancer) featured on the last MJ interview.I saw the boy in the interview(holding hands with Michael),he seems to be handsome and looked very mature and quite well built for his age...

[ Last edited by vixen on 23-11-2003 at 09:37 PM ]

DARSITA

This pic is just for fun ..



I think some blame should be aimed towards the parents. MJ's track record with young boys has been highly publicised yet this boys parents let their cancer stricken son be in MJ's presence unchapparoned?

Another point I'd like to make. The accusations came from the boy's psychiatrist. Young boys are very susceptible to fantasys and suggestion. I wonder if the psychiatrist gave the boy the ideas that he was molested even if he was not. Does the psychiatrist have his own agenda? Maybe a book deal in the making?

And by the way,was this the same boy(he was suffering from some form of cancer) featured on the last MJ interview.I saw the boy in the interview(holding hands with Michael),he seems to be handsome and looked very mature and quite well built for his age...

Yes Vixen, I think he is the one.

I think we all agree that MJ is guilty of wierdness, which, who knows, might be a crime as defined somewhere in the patriot act

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Lawman hunting Michael Jackson makes his move
But legions of fans say pop star is not guilty

This is the way Neverland ends.

Not with a bombshell, but a long-simmering showdown between two unlikely men: a dogged, slow-speaking Santa Barbara prosecutor and the self-proclaimed King of Pop.

Contrary to impressions from the media, this is a battle both men have been slowly, deliberately wheeling toward for the last 10 years.

District Attorney Thomas Sneddon only sounded the final bell this week when he announced Michael Jackson would be charged with molesting a child younger than 14. The charges, which involve a boy who stayed at Jackson's Santa Barbara ranch, carry a three- to eight-year prison term. Even if acquitted, Jackson most certainly faces the end of a spectacular career, dogged in later years by waning popularity, mounting debt, scandal

vixen

Yes Darsita,the pic is quite funny.. but it still saddens me when people humiliate him in such way,refer him as wacko-jacko,etc.

Aren't we as human beings a little eccentric,a little weird in some ways? And how do we define normality,by the way? Is the any perfectly normal individual?

And you are absolutely correct about how a child can be very vulnerable to 'suggestions',especially when done with expertise.

Somehow,my intuition tells me that he is not capable of such acts although I could be wrong.But lets hope the truth will prevail.

Originally posted by DARSITA at 23-11-2003 11:22 PM:
This pic is just for fun ..



I think some blame should be aimed towards the parents. MJ's track record with young boys has been hig ...

biar betul...

rhoyo

he he michael jackson

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Jacko Speaks Out
Michael Jackson has set up a new Web site to speak directly to "fans, friends and family" about the child molestation charges leveled against him. "As you know, the charges recently directed at me are terribly serious," he wrote. "They are, however, predicated on a big lie. This will be shown in court, and we will be able to put this horrible time behind us." Jackson says MJNews.us will serve as "a source of official communications on my case." Conspicuously missing from the site: A certain official mug shot. I'm sure it's just an oversight.

Liz Taylor Defends Jacko
In other Jacko news, Elizabeth Taylor is coming to the pop star's defense. On Sunday, the actress dangled a statement to the press saying she believes her good buddy is "absolutely innocent" and will be "vindicated." She ended the statement by begging someone

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Unless he has another thriller up his sleeve, the self-proclaimed King of Pop could wind up the king of paupers.

Michael Jackson's career, already in decline before his arrest last week, could lie in ruins if he's convicted of child molestation charges. If he's exonerated, Jackson faces the formidable task of restoring radiance and riches to a musical legacy that has been overshadowed by off-the-wall behavior and vile accusations.

Number Ones, a greatest-hits album that arrived the same day authorities searched his California homes, is not expected to enter Billboard's top 10 when Nielsen SoundScan rankings are released Wednesday.

Saturation media coverage isn't dwelling on Jackson's music. Any mention of his new single One More Chance tends to focus on the connection to its composer R. Kelly, who coincidentally faces child-porn charges in Chicago. In its fourth week, Chance went to No. 14 from No. 16 on the relatively inconsequential adult R&B format. It has not reached the top 40 at any major format.

Chance's lackluster reception fits a falling trajectory established after 1982's Thriller turned Jackson into a global sensation. Sales have been sinking ever since follow-up Bad in 1987. In the '80s, Jackson was pulling in about $50 million a year. Forbes, which estimates his lifetime earnings at $500 million, placed his income at $35 million in 1996 and $20 million in 1997.

Jackson hasn't scaled back his lavish lifestyle to keep his finances from dwindling, and a trial could capsize what's left of Jackson's earning power.

"I don't think he has earning potential on the music side anymore," says Craig Marks, editor of music magazine Blender. "He has it on the TV side, on the rubber-necking freak-show side. People will tune in to watch him do anything, but they won't buy his records anymore."

Slackening sales are inevitable for any 45-year-old artist, Marks says. Jackson's "record sales are better than Prince's and no worse than Madonna's, but he has had more of a spectacular media flameout. It's almost impossible to hear his records and not conjure that scary weird guy."

Musically, a faded giant

When Jackson signed a $65 million contract with Sony in 1991, his spin machine touted its potential $1 billion windfall. The truth fell short: 1991's Dangerous sold 5.8 million copies and 1995's HIStory sold 2.5 million, respectable sums for midlevel artists but well below expectations for a pop giant.

"For anyone else, 2.1 million records sold, especially in today's declining record market, would be considered a hit," music consultant Tom Vickers says. "But for the guy who made Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad, this can only be an indication of his diminishing popularity."

In 2001, for instance, his greatest-hits album entered the chart at No. 85 after selling only 20,000 copies. That week, Madonna's oldies set landed at No. 7 with 150,000, and greatest hits compilations by Barenaked Ladies, Green Day, The Cure and Rod Stewart all outsold Jackson's.

Invincible, out the same year, was far from profitable. By some estimates it cost $40 million to make and $25 million to market. It has sold 2.1 million copies domestically since late 2001. If sold at a typical wholesale price of $10, the album grossed $21 million, with Sony netting half. Invincible entered Billboard at No. 1 with sales of 366,000, roughly 25,000 copies shy of 1995's HIStory, and fell out of the top 10 four weeks later despite a publicity blitz.

Jackson's most successful album, 1982's Thriller, has had a respectable shelf life. It has sold 26 million copies and is second to the Eagles' Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 in top-selling domestic albums. It sold 248,000 copies in 2001, 163,000 in 2002 and 172,000 so far this year. (Jackson's contract terms aren't public, but it's reasonable to assume he earns about $3 in performance and publishing royalties on each CD.)

Consumers clearly prefer his oldies and an earlier healthier image, which may be why the Number Ones cover sports the Thriller-era Jackson with his darker complexion and fuller nose.

Still spending

Though his commercial clout has waned, his shopping habits apparently haven't. Forbes estimates his net worth at $350 million and his debt at $200 million. Jackson's heavy borrowing over recent years has fueled predictions of imminent bankruptcy, loan defaults and the possibility that he may lose his remaining half of the lucrative Beatles song catalog, his most vital revenue source.

In 1985, Jackson paid $50 million for ATV Music, which includes the Northern Songs catalog of 251 Beatles tunes. After merging with Sony's publishing arm in 1995, it became Sony/ATV, now valued at more than $700 million. Four years ago, Jackson used his portion of ATV as collateral for a $200 million loan from Bank of America. If Jackson doesn't pay up, Sony can take the trove through its option on the loan.

The singer would have to earn about $400 million before taxes in two years to pay off the debt, according to an analysis of Jackson's finances by Vanity Fair reporter Maureen Orth, who calls the goal "a virtual impossibility."

A combination of lower earnings and runaway spending threatens to empty coffers that Thriller royalties can't replenish.

"A greatest-hits tour would be a viable platform to earn a lot of money if he can mount one without going bankrupt," says Marks, referring to Jackson's tendency to splurge on production. "Unlike Madonna or the Eagles, Jackson seems incapable of acknowledging the state of his career. While those artists can successfully stage incredibly profitable tours, I don't know if Jackson is intellectually capable of that. He seems unable to tour. And look at his recording schedule."

Invincible was Jackson's fourth studio album in 20 years; Madonna has done 10 and Springsteen seven during the same period.

Jackson also could sell off Neverland Ranch, his 2,500-acre estate outside Santa Barbara, Calif., other homes and real estate, which Forbes valued at $100 million total.

"There are fewer streams of income, and he seems to have a compulsion to spend money," Marks says.

$750,000 a month

Jackson's monthly expenses run about $750,000, including $250,000 for Neverland upkeep, according to documents in a lawsuit by a former financial adviser. Other legal papers reveal extravagant purchases: $10,000 for in-flight goods on Swiss Air, a $10,000 bottle of perfume, $100,000 for garments from a costume store, $43,000 for a three-month stay at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York.

While making the British documentary Living With Michael Jackson, reporter Martin Bashir watched the star pony up $6 million for marble chess sets, 10-foot urns and other opulent art objects.

Jackson has also paid huge amounts in legal fees and court judgments, including $1.7 million to Sotheby's auction house and $5.3 million to a German concert promoter, not to mention the multimillion-dollar settlement stemming from the 1993 molestation accusation. (The dollar amount has never been made public, but estimates have ranged from$15 million to $25 million.)

Jackson family lawyer Brian Oxman says the singer has been sued more than 1,000 times.

Number Ones is the final obligation on Jackson's Sony contract. Given the sex scandal, his fading appeal and last year's bitter feud with the label, Sony isn't likely to keep him.

"Even if he's found innocent of the charges, who's going to sign him?" Marks asks. "I don't know who his audience is anymore.

"The only way you can still make money off Jackson musically is overseas," he says, adding sarcastically, "where I guess they don't have CNN."

Much of his descent fits predictable patterns, says Billboard director of charts Geoff Mayfield.

"Jackson has declined, but who hasn't?" he says. "If you're lucky, you have that one album that finds an audience beyond your core. That happened with Thriller. It happened with Born in the USA, and I doubt if Bruce Springsteen will have another album like that. Artists who hang around are still relevant from a celebrity point of view and in terms of ticket sales, but it's harder to remain relevant in radio and album sales. When someone like Barbra Streisand debuts in the top 10, it's a rare situation."

Number Ones is expected to perform on par with The Essential Bruce Springsteen, which arrived at No. 14 last week and sold 90,000 copies.

"Before all these headlines, Number Ones was never viewed as a pied piper for the holiday season, but it wasn't a bottom-of-the-barrel priority," Mayfield says, noting that the release coincided with a prime-time special, which CBS yanked after last week's arrest.

The drop in Jackson's market value may have less to do with personal baggage than "with the fact that his music doesn't connect the way Bad or Thriller did," he adds. "A lot of people who become white-hot at one point get insecure. After Bad, Jackson hired whatever producers were hot at the moment and did a record that sounded like any other R&B record. The muse left him."