Beiträge von c.parente

  • Michael's Europa-Mini-Tour : Hamburg/Venedig/Florenz/Sorrent/Rom/London

    Fridman sagt das mike erst nach münchen und dann nach venedig fliegen wird.....



    Jacko Globe-Trots With Neverland in Crisis


    Friday, January 27, 2006
    By Roger Friedman


    The 60 or so remaining employees at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch have not been paid for their work since Dec. 23, 2005.


    That's five weeks without pay, without being able to pay for their groceries or rent or utilities. Things are so bad that ranch manager Joe Marcus, who testified for Jackson in his child molestation trial, has picked up and moved to Arizona.


    "Every employee of Michael Jackson in California is in trouble," one of the staffers told me yesterday.


    And yet Jackson does not seem to care one way or another.


    Yesterday, he globe-trotted from the Mideast island of Bahrain to Hamburg, Germany, with his three kids, nannies and security.


    Jackson is said to be visiting his friend Anton Schleiter, a 20-year-old, and Schleiter's family. Schleiter's father, Wolfgang, works for Sony BMG music in Hamburg.


    Jackson's next stops are said to be Munich and then Venice, Italy. How he's paying for all this is anyone's guess, since he's technically in default on a huge loan, with threat of foreclosure on all his assets, including the home in which his parents and siblings live.


    The situation at Neverland is said to be dire. Back on Dec. 23, four weeks had passed before those paychecks were delivered. Now five more weeks have passed, and the word at the ranch is that there's no date set for a resolution.


    Marcus, I am told, comes and goes at this point, making infrequent visits.


    He hasn't actually told anyone that he's moved houses from nearby Santa Maria, but his staff has noted that Marcus has to be picked up at the airport in Los Angeles when he comes to work — a sure hint his commute is longer than usual.


    Jackson, meanwhile, has not seen his ranch or its loyal staff since the end of June 2005. And according to my sources, he hasn't bothered to pick up a phone and call anyone who works for him in the United States in at least two months.


    At the same time, a Hamburg newspaper yesterday put a bounty on Jackson's head, offering thousands of euros to anyone who could get a picture of the former King of Pop while he was in town.

  • I H T D - kommt es oder nicht, und wenn ja - wann?! [+ Umfrage]

    Michael Jackson will mit acht Künstlern Benefizsong aufnehmen


    15.09.2005 07:09





    Los Angeles - Popstar Michael Jackson hat nach Angaben seiner Sprecherin acht Spitzenmusiker gebeten, mit ihm ein Benefizlied für die Opfer des Hurrikans »Katrina« aufzunehmen. Raymone Bain teilte mit, an dem vorläufig »From the Bottom of My Heart« genannten Song sollten Stars wie James Brown, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott, Lenny Kravitz, R. Kelly, Snoop Dogg und Ciara mitwirken.


    Nach ihren Angaben rief Jackson seine Kollegen persönlich von Bahrain aus an, wo er sich seit mehreren Wochen als Gast des Königssohns Scheich Abdulla bin Hamad al Chalifa aufhält. Um das bestätigen zu lassen, reichte sie bei dem Telefoninterview den Hörer an Scheich Abdulla weiter, der bekräftigte: »Er hat jeden Anruf persönlich getätigt.«
    Der Song soll an Jacksons Benefiz-Hit »We Are the World« anknüpfen, der 1984 gegen den Hunger in Afrika herauskam und ein weltweiter Erfolg wurde. Nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September wollte Jackson ein ähnliches Projekt machen, das aber nie umgesetzt wurde. Auch diesmal könnte es Schwierigkeiten geben: Eine Sprecherin des Rappers Jay-Z, Jana Fleischman, bestätigte zwar die Anfrage. Jay-Z habe ihr aber gesagt, dass er noch nicht endgültig entschieden habe, an Jacksons Lied mitzuwirken.


    Bain sagte, das Lied für die »Katrina«-Opfer sei noch in der Planung; Ort und Zeit seiner Aufnahme stünden noch nicht fest.(AP)


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