WMA Party abgesagt... Was war los?

Abgesagt

Joint Statement from MJ News Online and MJJ Forum Regarding Canceled MJWMA After-Party:

On November 07, 2007, Ms. Raymone K. Bain contacted MJ News Online and MJJ Forum requesting that the event organizers call her office to speak to a Mr. William Marshall regarding the proposed MJWMA Party. Michael expressed to his team that he wanted to attend. Paul from MJNO contacted Mr. Marshall and went over the logistics and security details of the event.

Please keep in mind that this has all been such short notice. We have been organizing the core of the event in the past 4 days, as Michael accepted the invite.

We met with Michael's team on Monday - they were excited about the party, and we shared our plans. We had secured the venue Club de Paris, for the event to take place and it was established that we would be selling tickets at the venue. But no, this was pulled from us the night before the day (Tuesday) so this is why we found the Conrad Hilton Hotel.. We knew most fans would be in London on Wednesday for the WMA's, so we decided to sell tickets this morning. We were able to sell tickets at the Conrad Hilton Hotel, so long as we kept it orderly, and organized. Of course, the tickets were set to sale from 10 AM to 2 PM., but, fans got there way too early (from 7) and bothered the venue a great deal, and our permission to sell tickets was revoked because of the unruly behavior that some fans exhibited. We did sell to some fans outside, as we did not want to send them away.

A new location was found where we could sell tickets, with was a place called "One Leicester Square" ... we were due to sell tickets at 1 PM.

But at the very last minute, our event managers gave us the terrible news that in fact we could no longer have Club de Paris due to the police risk assessment failing. The day before, we had warned our members not to email or call the venue, and to direct all questions to us. We feel that this played a part in the venue deciding to cancel. Also, Club de Paris never entertained a celebrity as famous as Michael Jackson, so the authorities were quite concerned. It would have been nice if they would have told us 24 hours ago.

Our event managers found a bigger venue for us, we went to check it out...but first needed to ensure that Michael's team would confirm they could attend the new venue, and get back to us. For many, many hours we tried, and got no response, and we had to make the heartbreaking decision that we needed to cancel. We were not about to do the night under the premise that Michael would attend the new venue, when we didn't know that 100%. Many associates tried contacting Michael's people, as we ALL had direct access to Michael's team. But no response. We simply had no other choice.

We spent nearly £1000 on Michael's gifts, and are also indebted £1000's for the venue hire. Also, the event organizers did not have a chance to even attend the WMA's because it was our priority to make sure the venue was secured that Michael and his fans attended a wonderful event.

Refunds will be made to those fans who did manage to purchase tickets from us - fans must email mjwmas@hotmail.co.uk and they shall be refunded within 7 days.

This is absolutely heartbreaking and we apologize for the inconvenience that this have caused. Please know that what we did, we did for Michael and his fans. It was a time to celebrate Michael's triumphant return to stage and for the fans to enjoy seeing The King of Pop once again.

MJJ