Michael Jackson Trial Watch

‘Two men have pleaded guilty to charges of secretly taping Michael Jackson.

Jeffrey Borer and Arvel Jett Reeves admitted installing two video recorders on a private jet to tape Mr Jackson and his lawyer at the time, Mark Geragos.’

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‘Pop superstar Michael Jackson has sparked further speculation he is on the verge of converting to Islam, after pledging to erect a mosque in his adopted home of Bahrain.

The Thriller hitmaker has won planning permission to construct a 30-metre (98-foot) building just outside Manama on land adjoining the palace of the Bahraini royal family.’

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‘Eight days after Hurricane Katrina hit, Michael Jackson announced he would release an all-star charity single within two weeks.

Nearly six months later, after questions about exactly who would be participating, the prince who has been hosting Jackson during his self-imposed exile in Bahrain says the song will come out by the end of this month.

In a telephone interview from Dubai last week, Sheik Abdullah bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the son of Bahrain’s king, told The Associated Press, “The record is coming along great. We’ve been taking our time to perfect it and mix it.” ‘

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‘TMZ has obtained a ruling from a California Court of Appeal, issued today, rejecting Michael Jackson’s claim that Debbie Rowe gave up her parental rights. In the decision, there’s a revealing passage from the trial judge who commented on the marriage between Jackson and Rowe.

“It was an arranged deal from the beginning… This was not a mom and dad saying, ‘Hey, let’s have a family that we’re going to raise.’”‘

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‘An appeals court on Wednesday reinstated an order granting

Michael Jackson sole custody of his two children with ex-wife Debbie Rowe, despite her concerns over the singer’s child molestation trial.

California’s 2nd District Court of Appeals ruled that Rowe, who in 2001 signed away her parental rights to the 47-year-old performer’s two oldest children, Michael Jr. and Paris, had no legal grounds to terminate that arrangement.’

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‘Today will be the seventh week in a row that employees at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch have not received paychecks.

And now I have really bad news for them: Jackson has been cut off and kicked out by Prince Abdullah, son of the King of Bahrain. He is no longer, I repeat, not doing it anymore — not funding Jackson, his kids and nanny in an extended stay in Bahrain.

The first clue that this was the case was Jackson’s traveling last week from Bahrain to Germany, and then on to Italy — on commercial flights in business class. There was no more private plane.

But now I’m told that the prince has been informed by his family, the al-Khalifa clan, that Jackson is no longer welcome to unlimited generosity from the Bahraini royals.’

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‘U.S. pop star Michael Jackson has left Bahrain for an Italian vacation with his children, it was reported Thursday.

Jackson was mobbed by fans in Florence and Venice, but spent the last several days unnoticed in the Neapolitan Riviera resort of Sorrento, ANSA reported. ‘

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‘Have you heard the one about Michael Jackson and the Pope?

Turns out, they haven’t either.

On Monday, an Italian priest who runs a music label specializing in religious songs indicated that Jackson might be one of several artists to sing on a CD made up of Pope John Paul II’s prayers set to music.

“It is only a hope, an idea,” the Rev. Giuseppe Moscati told the Associated Press of his plans for the album, which would be released via the Edizioni Musicali Terzo Millennio label.

He said that his music industry contacts had attempted to discuss the project with Jackson, but “we haven’t met him or heard from him.”‘

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‘Controversial pop superstar MICHAEL JACKSON is considering recording a collaboration with Irish boyband WESTLIFE.

Plans have been underway since the group’s manager LOUIS WALSH met with one of Jackson’s agents in Germany three months ago (NOV05).

And the four piece are desperate to hit the studio to record a ballad with the BAD hitmaker.’

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‘Pop superstar Michael Jackson is at the centre of a bitter pay dispute after allegations from staff at his Neverland ranch that the singer hasn’t been paying their wages.

The workers claim they are owed six weeks’ salary by the Thriller hitmaker, who now lives in Bahrain.’

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