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..."Schniedel-Friedel" hat doch nix anderes zu tun als Mike auf irgend 'ne Art und Weise runter zu machen

@ 2Bad: Deine Siggi von "Give in to me" oder?

...klar ist oft ein Hauch von Wahrheit dran, leider, aber ist eben eine Sache des Charakters bzw. des Geltungsbedürfnisses, wie man das ein oder andere darstellt oder ausschlachtet... ...und wir haben was zum diskutieren

Nur mal so nebenbei bemerkt..."Give in to me" Song wie Aussehen

Michael Jackson May Tour to Pay Debts

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
By Roger Friedman

There is nothing written in stone about this, so let’s not get crazy. But when certain stories come in, I have a mandate to tell you what’s happening.

During this four-day Led Zeppelin reverie in London, my sources report the following: Michael Jackson is in talks with AEG Live’s Randy Phillips to go on tour for three months from March through May 2008.

Of course, this could be a total unfounded rumor. I saw Phillips a couple of times through the whole Zepisode, but we never discussed this matter. When I put in an official call to him Tuesday, there was no response. He may have been returning to Los Angeles.

Phillips, now the head of AEG Live, was for a long time partnered with Arnold Stiefel managing Rod Stewart, among others. He’s a nice guy and much respected in the industry.

But a Michael Jackson tour? Set to begin in March? There are many problems with this scenario, including issues like insurance for Jackson, who has a habit of not making dates.

There’s also the matter of Jackson not being in shape, of no musicians, dancers, choreographers and no exact concept.

Right now, Jackson’s publicist and manager are the same person, Raymone Bain. It remains to be seen whether she would be capable of handling those duties during an actual tour. Perhaps Jackson’s recent photo shoots for Italian Vogue and Ebony along with white-washed stories were the precursors of such a notion.

But the real impetus for Jackson to tour now, even with little preparation, is money. He is so deeply in debt and at such a crisis point in his finances that he and Bain may be using potential proceeds from a tour as leverage for refinancing his $325 million in loans.

The refinancing was due on Dec. 1. Not only did it not happen, but Jackson is now in default on $300 million secured by his Neverland Ranch.

But this also begs the question about to whom Jackson is already promised for tours. German promoter Marcel Avram won a legal case against Jackson in 2005 and since claims to hold the rights to any world tours. Prince Abdulla of Bahrain is suing Jackson for $7 million and may also stake a claim against proceeds from a tour.

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Zitat von TLC

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But this also begs the question about to whom Jackson is already promised for tours. German promoter Marcel Avram won a legal case against Jackson in 2005 and since claims to hold the rights to any world tours. Prince Abdulla of Bahrain is suing Jackson for $7 million and may also stake a claim against proceeds from a tour.

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Und da haben wirs baddy...:tatort

Zitat von Screamlouder

Und da haben wirs baddy...:tatort

schöne schei$$e...mann mann... das hätte doch vermeidbar sein können, oder? ich meine...freunde...
was da nur wieder schief gelaufen ist
das ist eine geschichte, die ich net nachvollziehen kann...anstatt man sich so jemanden "warm hält". das hätte - zumindest finanziell - die antwort auf mikes probleme sein können.
was der gute prinz finanziert hätte - damit hätten sie beide profit gemacht.
nun is der prinz stinkig - wohl zu recht - und nun kostet es noch, anstelle es was bringt. *kopfschüttel*
avram... na bravo. das macht die sache nicht leichter für mike.

mann, da kann man nicht glauben, dass der mann sich die besten berater, die besten manager und finanzmakler ranziehen könnte...da müsste eine maschinerie laufen, wie bei disney...nicht so nen krupperladen wie das offensichtlich der fall is.
die werdens schon noch hinbekommen, und die letzte chance versaubeuteln....:rolleyes

...mhm..so wie es aussieht, ist es finanziell interessanter für ihn nicht zu touren.lol* Na mal abwarten!

Zitat von Screamlouder

...mhm..so wie es aussieht, ist es finanziell interessanter für ihn nicht zu touren.lol* Na mal abwarten!

das is doch krank, oder?

Zitat von badwoman

das is doch krank, oder?

findest du?:sneddi

Zitat von Screamlouder

findest du?:sneddi

du nicht?
also mir wäre ne bereinigte situation lieber, wo es michael freisteht, wann, wo und mit wem er tourt (so er es will...)
du net?

Michael Jackson: Funds Found, Shows Planned

Monday, December 17, 2007
By Roger Friedman

First of all, Michael Jackson has evidently found someone to buy his $300 million main loan from Fortress Investments.

The dubious winner of this prize is said to be HSBC, the same bank that recently wrote down $3.4 billion in losses on bad credit and closed several hundred branches.

Details are sketchy, but the international bank — with Sony’s help — is nevertheless taking on the debt. The refinancing should kick out about $20-$25 million in cash for the liquidity-free singer.

But it’s not all a golden story. Jackson still owes Fortress $23 million for the loan secured by his Neverland Ranch. The default notice issued Oct. 12, 2007, had a 90-day moratorium, which means time is running out. The deadline before foreclosure would run somewhere between Jan. 12 and 19.

And guess what? Jackson, my sources say, will not use that new cash to pay the Neverland debt

“It’s all the money he has,” one source says. “And you know how fast he can run through that.”

More than likely he won’t pay off the $4 million mortgage he’s got on his parents’ home in Encino, either.

But Jackson may have a way to make money. As I told you last week exclusively, AEG Live has been talking to Jackson about doing a tour. Now I hear that the proposal is to do a series of shows just at the O2 Arena outside of London, the same venue where Led Zeppelin just played.

The shows would run from March through April, all at O2. They’d be stripped down, and not big productions. Fans would be expected to travel to Jackson rather than make him go around the world.

They’d also be pricey for fans, because Jackson would by then need some big, big bucks to fill his emptying coffers. But it might be worth it: the word is that the basis of the show would be, soup to nuts, a 25th anniversary re-creation of “Thriller” to go along with the soon-to-be-released Sony CD and video package.

AEG’s Randy Phillips, who used to co-manage Rod Stewart, is behind the plan. Sources say he and Jackson have met several times, and that Michael “is in good shape.”

But insurance is still an obstacle, and so is Jackson’s mental health. Whether he would actually be able to fulfill such a contract remains to be seen.

“This is just in the talking stages and you never know what will happen,” says a source.

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Michael Jackson Settles Millions in Debts

Friday, January 04, 2008
By Roger Friedman

Michael Jackson apparently has gotten his money.

On Thursday, he began paying off millions of dollars in debts, thanks to settlements and lost legal cases.

The payoffs could amount to at least $20 million, by some accounts.

That’s good news for the creditors, but bad for Jackson. In this latest refinancing of a $300 million loan secured by his interest in Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Jackson may only have received about $25 million in fresh cash. He was otherwise so cash poor that he and his kids were living in Las Vegas with his mother, waiting for the deal to be finalized.

Still pending is a deal to let him set up shop at London’s O2 Arena for performances over a three-month period beginning in February. (We reported that story first exclusively on Dec. 11.) But Jackson’s legendary eccentricities have made getting insurance for him nearly impossible.

Sources tell me the new owner of Jackson’s humungous debt is HSBC Private Banking, with Sony Music acting as a guarantor.

It seems that every 18 months, Jackson manages to refinance the loan, originally begun at Bank of America in 1995. Always at risk is his 50 percent stake in the publishing company that contains all the songs written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

“The Beatles catalog,” as it is known, has come to be Jackson’s only security and the smartest investment ever made by a performer. He can thank his then-attorney John Branca for leaving him with some protection against his own whims.

What remains a mystery is the fate of Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos, Calif. Technically, the Ranch is still in danger of being foreclosed on. A default notice, first reported in this column, for $23 million, has been in effect since Oct. 19. Its 90-day grace period runs out in two weeks.

Thursday, a title company sent a smaller lien holder on Neverland, F. Marc Schaffel, a “Request for Payoff of Lien or Judgment,” asking for information so they could remove him from the bill. But that still leaves Fortress Investments, and their $23 million. It’s unclear whether Jackson has the money or inclination to save Neverland. He hasn’t lived there since June 30, 2005.

In the current rash of payoffs to eagerly waiting parties, Jackson is thought to have divided about $4 million between Schaffel and a former manager, Dieter Wiesner. Another million may have gone to sometime lawyer Brian Oxman. About $5 million is thought to have been owed to Darien Dash, cousin of Damon Dash, who sued Jackson almost 10 times that last year. There are also about four different sets of legal teams awaiting unpaid bills, and one major accountant.

One pending question will be a payoff for Prince Abdulla of Bahrain. He recently sued Jackson in the UK for $7 million.

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Zitat

It seems that every 18 months, Jackson manages to refinance the loan, originally begun at Bank of America in 1995

heheh datt passt dir wohl net schweinebacke wah?!

Michael Jackson's Neverland on Verge of Foreclosure

Friday, January 11, 2008
By Roger Friedman

Michael Jackson’s 2,900-acre Neverland Ranch is about to go the way of all things.

The fabled ranch, scene of many parties for children and at least a couple of police raids, may be vulnerable to foreclosure next Friday.

According to sources, the mortgage broker trying to find refinancing for Jackson on a $23 million loan held by Fortress Investments using Neverland as security has so far come up empty. There is literally no interest from anyone in saving Jackson in this situation.

If Neverland is not refinanced, Fortress can foreclose and sell the ranch at auction. Recently, Fortress laid off $300 million in loans to Jackson on HSBC. The refinancing resulted in Jackson's paying off around $20 million in debt, but it still left him cash-strapped and unable to deal with the Neverland crisis.

Sources say Jackson has recently been living rent-free with his three children in the Palms casino in Las Vegas as a guest of the Maloof brothers. The Maloofs would be the latest hosts upon whom Jackson has mooched, following Prince Abdullah of Bahrain, dancer Michael Flatley and Prince Jefri of Brunei. The former is suing Jackson in the U.K. for $7 million.

The inability to find Jackson a lender for Neverland comes just as a title company optimistically issued notices to lien holders on the properties. The notices turned out to be premature, as no one turned up to loan Jackson the $23 million.

According to the Web site for Santa Barbara County’s Grant Assessor, no action has taken place on Neverland since Oct. 22, when Fortress, doing business as DBCG LLC, issued a default notice for the property.

Jackson, of course, has not lived at Neverland in Los Olivos, Calif., since June 30, 2005. Two weeks after he was acquitted on charges of child molestation and conspiracy, Jackson decamped to Bahrain. Within a year, Neverland was shut down when the pop star fell behind on wages for the remaining employees and did not maintain insurance or workmen’s comp for them.

For a long time, Neverland — which Jackson bought in the mid '80s — with its playgrounds, carnival rides and zoo, was akin to the Hearst Castle as a Valhalla for children. But it soon came also to represent a dark cloud in Jackson’s life as his devotion to the children continually came under scrutiny.

It’s not his only piece of real estate. Jackson also has a $4 million mortgage on his parents’ home in Encino, Calif.

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Jackson Brings Neverland Debt to Brink

Friday, January 18, 2008
By Roger Friedman

Sometime between Friday and Tuesday, Fortress Investments will be able to foreclose on Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.

As of Friday morning, Jackson had not responded to the default notice served on him by Fortress approximately 90 days ago for $23 million.

This is the way it works: Once Fortress announces foreclosure, Jackson will still have four weeks to cure the debt and pay off the amount due. At the end of that month, if nothing has happened, Fortress can conduct an auction and sell the ranch.

Of course, it would have to find a bidder with $23 million. Since none has come forward so far, it’s unlikely one will at the auction. At that point, Fortress would take possession of Neverland. That seems to be the most plausible scenario. They would then hire a real estate broker who would fix up the property and market it to potential buyers.

Jackson, meantime, remains mum and indisposed. As this column reported, he paid off several million dollars in debts recently. But he’s still being sued by Prince Abdulla of Bahrain for $7 million. Jackson took the money, the prince claims, in exchange for work he was supposed to do on an album, a book and a musical. They started a record label together, too, but Michael bolted.

Maybe Michael should have stuck around. One of Sheryl Crow’s new songs, “Peace Be Upon Us,” is said to feature an Arab artist from the prince's TwoSeas Records.

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Jackson Finally Pays Neverland Workers

Friday, January 25, 2008
By Roger Friedman

Filed with the Santa Barbara County Thursday: a satisfaction of judgment by the temp company that sued Michael Jackson.

Real Staffing Inc. had supplied Jackson with workers at his Neverland Ranch but never got paid. They were part of the late 2005 action by the state against Jackson regarding employees’ back pay and workmen's comp insurance.

This latest payment comes from the refinancing of Jackson’s $300 million loan by HSBC, when they bought out Fortress Investments.

But this doesn’t change Jackson’s pending foreclosure by Fortress on the $23 million loan secured by Neverland. This week, the 90-day period of grace since Jackson’s Oct. 19 default came and went. At any time, Fortress can begin foreclosure proceedings. Jackson’s reps had hired a mortgage broker to try and find a new lender, but no one came along with the money.

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Michael Jackson's Nanny Is Gone

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
By Roger Friedman

The world of Michael Jackson is in the usual chaos this week, as the pop singer faces foreclosure on his Neverland Ranch for $23 million secured by Fortress Investments.

Several things have happened all at once. Out in the cold are publicist/manager Raymone Bain, who denies it to anyone who asks. But also apparently out, or iced for the moment, is nanny Grace Rwaramba.

“She’s sick, she’s got something, and Michael hates germs,” says a source. “So Grace is out. She’s over at her luxury condo in Las Vegas while Michael and his kids remain at the Palms casino.”

Jackson, flush with a little cash since his recent refinancing, is said to be shopping for a Vegas home. This might seem strange since his own home, Neverland, is about to be foreclosed on. But the word is that grocery store magnate Ron Burkle may have interceded with Fortress and gotten his old friend an extension. Calls to Burkle Monday were not returned.

Believe it or not, the other new name in the Jackson mix is none other than Dieter Wiesner. You may recall the former German manager was part of Jackson’s 2003-2005 child molestation/conspiracy trial/scandal. He was replaced by the Nation of Islam, then sued Jackson for millions.

Jackson recently paid him about $2 million after a short trial and many depositions. You’d think Jackson would be done with Wiesner, but I’m told the singer misses him and wants him back. (Ooh ooh baby, wants him back.)

With the much-despised Grace and Raymone both gone, the question is: who’s managing Jackson now? No one seems to know the answer to that question, which means the singer’s possible appearance at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards is highly suspect. Recent reports that he would join Kanye West, Akon and will.i.am to perform remixes of “Thriller” on the Grammy show sounded good, but without a manager, Jackson is unlikely to show up or do anything productive.

And what about Neverland? Even with Burkle’s intervention, the big finale is drawing near if no one comes up with the money.

As for the big 25th anniversary edition of “Thriller” that’s coming Feb. 12 — and could certainly be promoted on the Grammys two nights earlier: preorders on amazon.com put it at a ho hum No. 200. The available version of “Thriller,” reissued in 2001, is holding tight around No. 691.

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:hurra!!!!!!!!!!!

:denknach