Jackson foresaw demise years ago, Lisa Marie Presley writes on blog

The daughter of the late Elvis Presley says her former husband said he was afraid he was going to end up like her father.

If you believe Lisa Marie Presley, Michael Jackson foresaw his own demise years ago.

"He knew," wrote Presley, Jackson's wife from 1994 to 1996, , in a revealing post on her MySpace blog Friday morning.

The daughter of the late Elvis Presley, she has become a tragic link between two great music legends, whose untimely deaths shocked the world as much as their lives had captivated it.

Jackson saw the parallel, Presley wrote, and spoke about it during a conversation the two once had about her father.

"At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, 'I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did,' " Presley, 41, recalled in her MySpace post.

When she tried to dissuade Jackson from his grim prediction, she wrote, he just shrugged. "He knew what he knew and that was kind of that."

Presley wrote fondly of Jackson, saying their marriage was not a "sham," as the media had labeled it, but rather "an unusual relationship . . . where two unusual people who did not live or know a 'Normal life' found a connection."

Presley could not be reached, but her publicist, Cindy Guagenti, said Presley had done all her blogging on her MySpace page and that "we have had very positive reaction to the blog."

Guagenti said she did not know if Presley's post had attracted any reaction from Jackson's family.

But the reaction from fans was clear: By the end of the day, the post had generated nearly 1,000 comments, many of them sympathetic.

Activity on Jackson's MySpace page, now a kind of musical memorial, was even more intense. The singer's friend count was increasing by nearly 100 every minute and was on track to be the largest one-day increase in site history, according to the company.

With a huge number of Jackson songs available through the page, MySpace said nearly 100,000 songs were being played every 10 minutes.

Izvor
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-et-jackson-lisamarie27-2009jun27,0,462322.story

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Jackson’s Estate: Piles of Assets, Loads of Debt



As Hollywood reacted with sadness and shock to the death of Michael Jackson, Sony executives in New York were on the phone all night Thursday with advisers to Mr. Jackson trying to understand the financial morass the pop star is leaving behind.

“It’s all a mess,” said one executive involved in Mr. Jackson’s financial affairs who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of respect for the entertainer’s family. “No one really knows what is going on, but these are early days.”

Mr. Jackson’s business life, like his public life, was a perplexing mass of contradictions. Unlike many performers, he was a keen negotiator and shrewd investor — in 1985 he pulled off one of the great deals in music business history when he bought the publishing rights to the Beatles catalog for $47.5 million. Today it is part of a larger collection of songs worth more than $1 billion, and owned in partnership with Sony.

But his personal finances, at least in recent years, were perpetually in tatters, as he burned through millions of dollars to maintain his Neverland ranch, go on art-buying sprees and indulge in whimsies like traveling with a pet chimpanzee named Bubbles. And he burned through financial advisers almost as swiftly, with a revolving door of characters coming in and out of his life.

“Michael never thought his personal finances were out of control,” said Alvin Malnik, a former adviser to Mr. Jackson who is the godfather of Prince Michael II, the youngest of his three children. “He never kept track of what he was spending. He would indiscriminately charter jets. He would buy paintings for $1.5 million. You couldn’t do that every other week and expect your books to balance.”

The big question now is what happens to his assets. So far, that is unclear even to Mr. Jackson’s closest representatives, several of whom were hired only weeks ago, in Mr. Jackson’s latest round of managerial housecleaning. They say it could take years to sort through the financial and legal mess left after the singer’s death, not to mention millions of dollars worth of tickets sold for a series of 50 concerts Mr. Jackson had planned in London.

Mr. Malnik, for example, said that in 2004 he agreed to be the executor of Mr. Jackson’s estate. “I said yes, but I never inquired further, and I don’t know what’s happened since then,” he said. Mr. Malnik said there was still a chance that he was an executor, but had not heard anything since the death. Other advisers said that Mr. Jackson left behind at least two wills.

It is also unclear how much would be left for any heirs. It has been estimated that Mr. Jackson earned about $700 million as a performer and songwriter from the 1980s on, much of it spent. And his debts have been estimated at $400 million to $500 million.

His single biggest asset is a 50 percent share in Sony/ATV Music Publishing — which owns the rights to more than 200 Beatles songs, along with thousands of others — valued at more than $500 million, but he has about $300 million of debt against it held by Barclays, Mr. Jackson’s biggest creditor. He also owns his own publishing catalog, called Mijac, which is estimated to be worth $50 million to $100 million, and has an unknown amount of debt attached.

In late 2005, while Mr. Jackson was living in the Middle East after being acquitted of child molestation, his finances were particularly precarious. Sony then negotiated a deal with the singer that resulted in Mr. Jackson paying a lower interest rate on his debt in return for Sony gaining more authority to operate Sony/ATV and the option to buy half of Mr. Jackson’s share.

One question Sony executives have now is with whom they will negotiate. Mr. Jackson’s share is owned by a trust that he set up around the time of his molestation trial in 2005; people close to the situation say that his mother, Katherine, now controls it.

Mr. Jackson’s investment in song catalogs was no accident. Contrary to his popular image as a naïf, he took an active interest in the wider music business, associates say, with a shrewdness he inherited from his father, who shaped the careers of Michael and his brothers.

Martin Bandier, chairman and chief executive of Sony/ATV, said that Michael Jackson “had a keen sense of the value of music copyrights” and was a highly effective dealmaker.

“There was nobody better to close a deal,” Mr. Bandier said. “Michael called Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller a few years back to tell them that he wanted to buy their copyrights and that they would have a safe home at Sony/ATV.”

Mr. Jackson also negotiated a favorable royalty rate with Sony for his recordings; according to some estimates, he earned at least $300 million in record royalties since the early 1980s. And since Sony’s rights to his master recordings are set to expire in the next several years and would become owned by Mr. Jackson, according to one of his advisers, his estate would stand to earn even more from sales and from the licensing of music to film, television and any other media.

On the other side of the ledger, however, was Mr. Jackson’s biggest liability: his exorbitant lifestyle. His large Neverland estate in California, which contained a zoo and an amusement park and at its peak had as many as 150 employees, cost millions of dollars each year to maintain. He nearly lost it last year when he defaulted on a $24.5 million loan.

Neverland was saved by a real estate company, Colony Capital, and according to court papers, Mr. Jackson then contracted for an auction of memorabilia from the ranch. About 2,000 items — like statues of E. T. and 13 of Mr. Jackson’s trademark glittering gloves — were to be put up for sale in April 2009, and the value of the auction was estimated at up to $20 million.

But with only weeks before the sale was to begin, Mr. Jackson sued to prevent it, saying that he had never been given an opportunity to review the contents. In a settlement, the auctioneer, Julien’s Auctions of Los Angeles, returned all of the property to him.

Another big question left by his death is his deal with AEG Live, the big concert promoter behind the London shows. The company invested at least $20 million to produce the concerts and might have to refund more than $80 million in tickets, according to industry estimates. Randy Phillips, the chief executive of AEG Live, said in a telephone interview on Friday that that the concerts were insured, but that the company needed to wait for the coroner’s report before filing a claim.

“Over the weekend we’re all going to be working late trying to figure out what the basis of our insurance claim might be,” Mr. Phillips said. “It’s very, very critical for us that we get the toxicology report from the coroner so we know what the cause of death is.”

Perversely, the fortunes of Mr. Jackson’s estate could benefit from his death. First, there will undoubtedly be an influx of revenue from music sales after the entertainer’s death. Together, the sales from his own recordings, plus income from Sony/ATV and his own catalog would be worth $30 million a year, according to one of his business associates. And the amounts he spent on his lifestyle would be gone.

The winners in all of this could be his family.

“I’m of the view that Michael’s passing, as untimely as it is, is the one opportunity his family and his children have to preserve his asset legacy,” said Charles Koppelman, who is chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and a former music industry executive who several years ago was a financial adviser to Mr. Jackson. “They will earn a tremendous amount of money over the next 12 to 18 months given the outpouring, and he won’t be spending.”

Bill Werde, the editorial director of Billboard, compared Mr. Jackson with Elvis Presley as a star whose very likeness would remain a valuable asset for decades to come.

“If this estate finds smart management, his image and likeness is going to be very easy to exploit,” he said. “There’s a fan base that is hungry for seemingly as much Michael as they can ever get.”

Just how much the outside world learns about the details of Mr. Jackson’s finances may well turn on whether he set up a trust intended to distribute his assets privately, limiting the role of a court. If there is not enough money left behind to satisfy his creditors, the ensuing battle could make the details public, according to lawyers interviewed on Friday.

“If there’s going to be litigation by creditors against these assets, that’s what would happen,” said Andrew S. Garb, a lawyer at Loeb & Loeb in Santa Monica, Calif. Creditors could essentially demand an accounting of the assets left in the trust by Mr. Jackson to satisfy claims, he said.

If instead Mr. Jackson relied on a will, and advisers think there are at least two, then personal financial information would be revealed through probate proceedings. (In the case of multiple wills, generally the most recent valid document prevails.)

Regardless of how Mr. Jackson structured his financial affairs, someone could try to challenge the validity of the documents. For example, someone might argue that he signed a document under duress or that he did not understand the import of signing.

“If, for example, he left everything to some unrelated person and did not provide for his children, that may be another basis to indicate he didn’t know what he was doing,” said Lawrence Heller, a partner in the Los Angeles office of the law firm Bryan Cave.

Mr. Koppelman says he believes the delays, even with the costs of litigation, could ultimately benefit the estate. “I think it’s going to be so confusing that they’ll be able to pile up a lot of money. There’s a real opportunity to save his financial empire.”

“He was a fantastic visionary on the business front,” Mr. Koppelman added. “He just couldn’t deal with his personal finances.”

Izvor:
NY Times

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Michael Jackson's Doc Quit Medical Practice

Dr. Conrad Murray sent the note on his letterhead from his medical practice in Las Vegas. He says, "I am deeply saddened to leave you at this point, but please know my absence is not permanent." He continues, "In my absence, I will continue to manage the practice, and be involved as much as possible but from a distance."

The letter says "My absence is not permanent."

Izvor:
http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/26/michael-jacksons-doc-quit-medical-practice/

Na pomolu pravna bitka za starateljstvo
Neizvesna sudbina dece kralja popa
Autor: Blic online | Foto:Reuters | 26.06.2009. - 20:04

Posle iznenadne smrti Majkla Džeksona neizvesna je budućnost njegovo troje dece, piše NBC, navodeći da stručnjaci predviđaju pravnu bitku za starateljstvo nad decom koju će voditi članovi Džeksonove porodice i biološka majka dvoje starije dece.

Džekson je u braku, koji je 1996. godine sklopio sa Australijkom Debi Rou, dobio dvoje dece - Princa Majkla Prvog (12) i Paris (11). Razveo se 1999. godine, a njegovo treće dete Prinsa Majkla Drugog (7) rodila je 2002. godine surogat majka.
Posle razvoda i duge pravne bitke deca su pripala Majklu, dok se Rou odrekla starateljstva, i tako je Majkl u suštini bio jedini roditelj kojeg su deca poznavala.
Novinarka i spisateljica Dajen Dajmond, koja je tokom svoje karijere opsežno pisala o kralju popa, rekla je da će se o deci za sada starati Majklova majka Ketrin Džekson, ali da je moguće da će se voditi pravna bitka za starateljstvo jer, kako tvrdi Dajmond, iako je Rou predala sva roditeljska prava Džeksonu, ona bi mogla da posle njegove smrti zatraži starateljstvo.
Nije poznato da li je Džekson ostavio testament u kojem se poteže pitanje starateljstva, a i u slučaju da postoji, ne mora da znači da će sud prihvatiti njegove želje, navode pravni stručnjaci.

Debi Rou i Majkl Džekson 1996. godine
Rou je navodno imala malo kontakta sa decom koja su uglavnom odrastala uz dadilje i oca koji ih je obrazovao kod kuće, vodio u muzeje i kupovao im knjige.
"Bio je vrlo privržen otac" rekla je Dajmond, dodajući da se Džekson posle optužbi i suđenja za pedofiliju povukao na svoj ranč "Neverland" i da je od 2005. godine živeo daleko od očiju javnosti.
"Nakon što je bio oslobođen optužbi zaista se posvetio svojoj deci", objasnila je Dajmond.
"Knjige su mu bile veoma bitne u podizanju dece, ali deca nisu išla u školu i nažalost nisu se družila sa svojim vršnjacima."

Iako je Džekson tvrdio da su on i Rou dvoje starije dece dobili prirodnim putem, Rou je jednom prilikom rekla da su deca začeta veštačkom oplodnjom sa doniranom spermom. Džekson je dalje tvrdio da je njegova sperma korišćena za treće dete koje je rodila surogat majka, ali ni to nije bilo potvrđeno.
U slučaju da Rou, koja se trebutno bavi gajenjem konja na ranču u Kaliforniji, odluči da zatraži starateljstvo nad decom, sud će morati da odluči da li njeno pravo kao biološki roditelj ima veću težinu u odnosu na prava Džeksonove porodice koju deca možda bolje poznaju.

Iako se smatra da je Džekson ostavio dug od 400 miliona dolara, Dajmond veruje da deca neće živeti u siromaštvu, ističući da Džekson poseduje autorska prava na sva svoja muzička izdanja kao i udeo u dela "Bitlsa". Pitanje ko će podizati decu neće se rešiti lako, tvrdi Dajmond.
"To je veliko i tužno pitanje. Majkl je bio njihov ceo život".
"Deca su izložena ogromnom psihološkom pritisku", navodi Dajmond. "Pre svega, oni su izgubili roditelja. Nisu odrastali na tradicionalan način. Oni nisu kao druga deca. Oni će se sada odjednom naći u stvarnom svetu, za šta su potpuno nepripremljeni."

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Vest o smrti Kralja popa obarala servere na internetu
Google: Mislili smo da je u pitanju napad
Autor: Blic online | 26.06.2009. - 23:32

Internet gigant Gugl je potvrdio da su tehničari pomislili da je u pitanju neki napad, kada je vest o smrti Majkla Džeksona počela da se širi na mreži.

Milioni ljudi su pokušali da oko ponoći po našem vremenu "izguglaju" ime poznatog pevača, ali ih je zbog neverovatnog saobraćaja umesto rezultata dočekala poruka sa upozorenjem: "your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application".
"Tačno je da je negde oko ponoći po evropskom vremenu jedan broj korisnika našeg News servisa imao teškoća sa radom i upitima sa imenom Majkla Džeksona. Oni su umesto rezultata dobijali strane sa greškom", rekao je portparol kompanije i dodao se u prvi mah mislilo da je opterećenje servera izazvala neka vrsta napada.
Broj ulazaka na Gugl je bio za 50 odsto veći od uobičajenog, a upit "Majkl Džekson" je na Google Trends skali "najvrelijih" tema dobio status "vulkanski".

Slično se dogodilo i na svim popularnijim socijalnim mrežama na mreži, a pojedini serveri popularnog sajta za mikroblogove Tviter nisu izdržali nalet. Pre nego što su serveri pali, "Majkl Džekson" se pojavio na više od 66,500 novih poruka, posle čega je broj poruka po satu sa imenom pop ikone porastao na više od 100.000.
Probleme je imala i Vikipedija zbog velikog broja pokušaja da se izmeni stranica o Majklu Džeksonu, a zabeležene su teškoće u radu sajtova AOL, CBS, CNN, MSNBC i Yahoo. Prema navodima stručnjaka vreme prstupa stranicama je proseku uvećano za dva puta.

Izvor: Blic

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Autopsijom nije utvrđen uzrok smrti Džeksona
Subota, 27. jun 2009. 11:53    

Obdukcija obavljena u Los Anđelesu nije definitivno utvrdila od čega je pevač umro. U njegovom organizmu pronađeni tragovi "više lekova".

Lekar okruga Los Anđelesa koji je izvršio autopsiju naložio je da se izvrše dodatni toksikološki testovi, kojima će biti utvrđene tačne količine različitih hemijskih supstanci u telu Majkla Džeksona.

Rezultati ovih testova biće poznati tek za šest do osam nedelja.

Sudski veštak Kreg Harvi rekao je novinarima da su u krvi kralja popa pronađeni "razni lekovi koji se izdaju na recept", ali nije precizirao o kojim lekovima je reč.

Džekson je početkom devedesetih lečen zbog zavisnosti od lekova za smirenje i analgetika.

Harvi je dodao da na telu nije bilo znakova nasilja ili sumnjivih povreda.

Prema pisanju američkih tabloida, izvor blizak Džeksonovima otkrio je da je pevaču pola sata pre srčanog zastoja ubrizgan "demerol", lek protiv bolova. Policija će detaljno ispitati njegovog ličnog lekara Konrada Mareja zbog ovih navoda.

Telo preminulog kralja popa predato je njegovoj porodici, koja će uskoro objaviti kada i gde će biti upriličena sahrana.


Izvor: MTS-Mondo

   

"Džekson živ - kod Elvisa, sa Eskimima..."
Subota, 27. jun 2009. 13:14    

Internet su preplavile teorije zavere o smrti američkog pevača.

Kao što to obično biva, svaka teorija je luđa i besmislenija od prethodne, ali svi "teoretičari" slažu se u jednom - Majkl Džekson (50) izlažirao je sopstvenu smrt.

Sajt "68comeback" piše da se Džekson pridružio svom (pokojnom) bivšem tastu, kralju rokenrola Elvisu Prisliju.

"Svi znamo da je Elvis izgradio bunker od sedam nivoa ispod svog imanja Grejslend. Ne brinite, Majkl mu se pridružio, kao i mnoge druge slavne ličnosti za koje glupaci misle da su mrtve".

Jedan nezaposleni muškarac koji se zatekao kod losanđeleske bolnice u kojoj je Džekson preminuo rekao je novinarima da je video pevača kako izlazi na zadnja vrata.

"Bio je prerušen u kaluđericu, ali to je bio on. Rekao mi je u poverenju da će se preseliti na Karibe, gde će prodavati voće", rekao je Dvajt Santos svakome ko je bio voljan da sluša.

Još fantastičniji "beg" pevača prijavila je njegova obožavateljka Eliza Čan, koja se kune da je videla Majkla kako navlači ranac na mlazni pogon, i leti ka aerodromu Los Anđelesa.

"Planirao je da poseti svoj rodni grad Geri, a zatim da ode na Grenland i živi sa Eskimima", rekla je ona.

Fanovi ili kritičari pevača, koji nisu spremni da njegov odlazak pripišu "malim zelenim" ili sličnim objašnjenjima, slažu se da je Džekson iscenirao svoju smrt.

"Bio je u ogromnim dugovima, i pod velikim stresom zbog povratničke turneje. Siguran sam da je izveo ovaj trik kako bi se izvukao od obaveza. Isto je uradio i 1995, kada se navodno srušio na probi", napisao je poznati bloger Perez Hilton.

Drugi blogeri smatraju da je Džekson već nabavio novi identitet, i da će se "povući na neku egzotičnu lokaciju".


Izvor: MTS-Mondo

Pandorina kutija je otvorena.Sada ce izaci na svetlost dana koliko su ga opljackali rodjaci,razni agenti,menadzeri,roditelji koji su podizali lazne optuzbe za pedofiliju i olaksali ga po nekim procenama za  50 miliona dolara i posle pojeo vuk magarca,nikad nista nije dokazano.

Pa to za pedofiliju nije dokazano jer su "nestale" slike koje su bile odkaz i to iz suda. A da je pljacke bilo, sigurno da je tako. Amerika je to, jednim potpisom ako ne procitas dobro, dobijas za dzabe TV-magazin na godinu dana i poklanjas svoje bubrege i
Al opet dobar agent te dere, al nece te unistiti, niko ne ubija koku sto nosi zlatna jaja.