Michael Jackson might also be getting the Cirque du Soleil treatment.
Though he is gone, the King of Pop lives on in his music and the Canadian-based performance group is “heavily courting” the late singer’s estate with an “astronomical” amount of money in hopes of creating a Las Vegas-style show based on Jackson’s timeless classics.
According to a scoop from Showbiz411, Cirque producers are confident that a Jackson-inspired production would have the same success as “Love,” the Beatles-themed show, which is currently heating up the Vegas strip at the Mirage Hotel & Casino.
Cirque du Soleil is currently hard at work on a show inspired by the King of Rock n’ Roll; “Viva Elvis” is scheduled to open at the ARIA Hotel in Las Vegas next month.
The original marriage certificate isssued to Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley following their Spring 1994 wedding in the Dominican Republic is set to go under the hammer.
The couple was issued the document, which boasts both stars’ signatures, following a 15-minute ceremony on May 26, 1994. The certificate will go up for auction at an estate sale by Philip Weiss Auctions in New York January 10. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Jackson’s private family funeral was fit for a king and with costs topping approximately $1 million, the pop star’s final sendoff had a price tag to match.
You gotta love British TV. London’s Sky Television broadcast psychic medium Derek Acorah’s attempt to contact Michael Jackson in a live televised séance over the weekend……..Lordy….Two newly commissioned shows, Michael Jackson: The Live Séance and Michael Jackson: The Search For His Spirit, were broadcast back-to-back on Sky on Saturday.
Acorah was joined by psychic Bobby Marchesso, as well as close friends of Jackson including “Thriller” video co-star Ola Ray, Ian Halperin, author of controversial Michael Jackson Biography Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, and Jackson’s spiritual healer, Reverend June Gatlin.
Joe wants his money! Michael Jackson’s “allegedly” abusive father is seeking a monthly allowance from his late son’s estate, The Associated Press has learned.
Let that marinate for a moment.
An attorney for Jackson Family patriarch Joe Jackson filed papers in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday seeking a stipend from the millions that should go toward caring for Michael’s three young children. According to court documents, Joe, 81, feels there’s “no apparent reason” for the administrators of the estate to not seek an allowance for him.
You’ve gotta give it to the ole Battle Axe, he’s got a pair of onions. What an opportunist….The strategic move comes just as cash pours into the Jackson estate from Michael’s hit concert documentary, This Is It. Michael 2002 will, however, only called for money to be paid to his mother, Katherine, his kids, and various charities. A judge has approved more than $26,000 in payments to Katherine Jackson each month, and a $60,000 monthly payment for the care of Prince, Paris and Blanket.
Lindsay Lohan, who branded her estranged father Michael a “lunatic” just last week, has called in her lawyers to sue the backside off the elder Lohan, who recently sold audio of his daughter having a meltdown to RadarOnline.com.
In the alleged recording made from New York, a female voice can be heard wimpering: “No one cares about me. They don’t, by the way. It’s about how they feel, not how I feel. It’s not about me. It’s never been about me, unless I fight for it.”
Now the Lindsay’s lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley says he will stop at nothing to get pay back for his client. According to Holley, the actress is “exploring all options both civilly, and criminally. We are talking to legal authorities in New York and Los Angeles to determine if any laws were broken.”
‘This was a private phone conversation, and if this conversation took place in California then it was a violation of the law,” Holley said Wednesday.
Michael Jackson’s This Is It was the No. 1 “Thriller” for movie audiences this Halloween.
The King of Pop’s highly anticipated musical documentary — comprised of This Is It Tour behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage — led the box office with $21.3 million in weekend ticket sales, knocking low-budget horror fest Paranormal Activity down to No. 2. This Is It has raised its five-day total worldwide to $101 million. Paranormal has raised $84.8 million total, according to The AP.
This mofo….Now that Michael Jackson’s new concert documentary, This Is It, is breaking box office records across the globe, Joe Jackson is getting plenty of opportunities to speak with the press…..And we all know that’s never a good thing.
In his latest interview snafu, the 80-year-old stage dad tells Extra that his legendary son has made a bigger impact than ever since his death from an apparent drug overdose in June.
“He’s worth more dead than when he was alive,” Joe tells Extra in an interview airing Thursday night. “I’d rather have him alive,” he quickly added.
Nice save, Joe, but somehow we don’t think that remark is going to go over very well with the masses.
A new report has surfaced suggesting a photo of Michael Jackson, taken as the late pop legend’s lifeless corpse lay on an autopsy table, has been leaked.
On Wednesday, The Daily Beast’s Gerald Posner reported that a person he described as a “prominent restaurant owner” in Los Angeles has reportedly obtained “a high-resolution copy of what is evidently a photo from the Jackson autopsy” from a leak in the Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s Office.
