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Jacko racing to 270M ruin
NY Daily News ^ | Dec. 8, 2005 | MICHELLE CARUSO

Posted on 12/08/2005 8:44:58 AM PST by COUNTrecount

LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson faces a crushing $270 million foreclosure in two weeks that could mean he loses his Neverland Ranch and Sony Beatles music catalog, the Daily News has learned. And as the fallen star's financial D-day, Dec. 20, looms, he is "isolated and intoxicated" on prescription pills in Bahrain while frantic family members rush to plan a rescue mission to the Middle Eastern nation, sources said yesterday.

"It's a meltdown - Michael's life is on the line, physically, and his finances are in ruins because he has listened to the wrong people," said one source familiar with Jackson's business woes.

His family, especially brother Randy and sister Janet, are frantic. "Janet thinks he needs 12 months of rehab. ...Randy wants to get Michael out of the clutches of handlers who don't have his best interests at heart," alleged the business source.

"All of the chickens have come home to roost. Michael will be homeless - a houseguest of the prince [of Bahrain]," said a family source familiar with the crisis.

Jackson's three kids and nanny Grace Rwaramba are with him, guests of the royal family. "Grace has been calling the shots. She has made it difficult for the family to communicate with Michael," said the business source.

The heavily mortgaged and leveraged pop star's financial woes heated up last spring while he was on trial for child molestation, according to the business source.

At the time, Jackson owed $270 million to Bank of America (two loans, one for $70 million and another for $200 million.), the source said. The debt was secured by the singer's Neverland Ranch and his share of the SONY/ATV music catalog, which some experts think may be worth $1 billion or more.

In April, Jackson defaulted on the smaller loan, triggering a total revamp of his finances, the source said. In May, Fortress Investments bought Jackson's $270 million loan package from the bank and tried to work out a payment plan with the pop star, who was acquitted of all criminal charges last June.

But Jackson failed to make his payments and defaulted in October, according to the source. Now, Dec. 20 looms as the foreclosure date and sources say Jackson has no way of paying off the massive note. That means Fortress will have to sell off his assets to recoup their $270 million, the source said.

In addition, Jackson has failed to make payments on a $2.2 million second mortgage he took out on the family's Hayvenhurst mansion in Encino, Calif., and his kin expect to get the boot in the new year.

Jackson bought the home for his family in the 1970s, and his mom, Katherine, brothers Randy and Jermaine, Jermaine's ex-wife Alejandra and several of Randy and Jermaine's kids now live there. Dad Joe is said to spend little time there.

"They are making plans to move. This is the home where Katherine raised her children and now she has to leave," said the source. Fortunately, Janet Jackson bought her 75-year-old mom a house in Las Vegas, so she won't be homeless.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: guiltyconscience; jacko; karma; michaeljackson; pervert
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I think the "nose" was already repossessed.


21 posted on 12/08/2005 8:56:01 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: COUNTrecount

He'll be dead within a year.


22 posted on 12/08/2005 8:56:13 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Slings and Arrows

Or a nicer family of pedophile enablers.


23 posted on 12/08/2005 8:56:56 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: COUNTrecount

24 posted on 12/08/2005 8:59:11 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: COUNTrecount
Got a banking question.... If the beatles music catalog's is worth 1 billion. and he has used it as collateral, if they foreclose does that mean the entire value goes to the Bankers or is it sold and money above the servicing of the debt is returned to Jacko?
25 posted on 12/08/2005 8:59:45 AM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: COUNTrecount

If his share of the catalog is worth a BILLION and he owes 270Million... you simply quick fire sell the catalog for 1/2 a Billion and pocket a cool 100 Million after taxes.

Of course, that would be if you were dealing witha reasonable human being.


26 posted on 12/08/2005 9:00:29 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: sgtbono2002

That's a lot of people living in one house. Had they done what was right 20 years ago instead of enabling MJ they would all be rich. Meanwhile there are 2 little kids who will be living a very tragic life.


27 posted on 12/08/2005 9:01:30 AM PST by babaloo
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To: COUNTrecount

It's cause he's bla.......uh that is cause he used to be bla.........

Three kids? When did the third one come along?


28 posted on 12/08/2005 9:02:35 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Okay, bring our troops home. But don't feign suprise when the terrorists tag along.)
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To: babaloo

Very sad...doesn't he have 3?


29 posted on 12/08/2005 9:03:02 AM PST by EX52D ((I have shifted to "Christmas Survival Mode"))
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To: Slings and Arrows

heh.

What are we supposed to feel sorry for him now?


30 posted on 12/08/2005 9:04:01 AM PST by Tenny
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To: F.J. Mitchell

That was the baby he "dangled" over the balcony.


31 posted on 12/08/2005 9:04:04 AM PST by EX52D ((I have shifted to "Christmas Survival Mode"))
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To: rlmorel

Watch the radical arabs buy the Sony music catalog just to lock it up and deprive western culture of one of it's huge sources of commerical music.


32 posted on 12/08/2005 9:04:29 AM PST by Rebelbase (Food stamps, section-8, State paid Child support, etc. pay more than the min. wage.)
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To: EX52D

You are right. I forgot about the dangle baby.


33 posted on 12/08/2005 9:05:02 AM PST by babaloo
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To: COUNTrecount
Future Bahrain Headline: Michael Jackson former American pop star and pedophile, lost his nose today when a camel he developed a friendship with, swallow it and ran off...
Jackson was seen limping and holding his face and was reported to have said," mmfiffose,mmfiffose" before treated with tranquilizers and retiring to his now short lived stay at the princes palace.


Doogle
34 posted on 12/08/2005 9:05:18 AM PST by Doogle (USAF...7thAF ..4077th TFW...408th MMS..Ubon Thailand.."69",,Night Line Delivery..AMMO)
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To: babaloo

It's so sad that those kids will never have to opportunity to lead a normal life.


35 posted on 12/08/2005 9:06:27 AM PST by EX52D ((I have shifted to "Christmas Survival Mode"))
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To: COUNTrecount

let him rot.


36 posted on 12/08/2005 9:07:01 AM PST by sit-rep (If you acquire, hit it again to verify...)
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To: EX52D

Sadly, they have already been scarred for life, whatever their future situations may be.


37 posted on 12/08/2005 9:11:05 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Okay, bring our troops home. But don't feign suprise when the terrorists tag along.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell

I agree with you there...poor kids.


38 posted on 12/08/2005 9:12:35 AM PST by EX52D ((I have shifted to "Christmas Survival Mode"))
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To: COUNTrecount
I have the answer for Jacko: become a Muslim. Yea, right, that'll fix all his problems.

/sarc

39 posted on 12/08/2005 9:12:39 AM PST by manwiththehands ("Attack (Democrats) until they stop twitching and then attack some more." -J. Peter Mulhern)
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To: COUNTrecount

"Michael will be homeless - a houseguest of the prince [of Bahrain],"

Somehow being the houseguest of royalty isn't quite "homeless" in any meaningful sense of the word.

Besides, he's got plenty of fame to cash in on yet.


40 posted on 12/08/2005 9:14:07 AM PST by Pessimist
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