The New York Daily News reports today:
They can't lay a glove on him.
That was the decision German authorities announced last night after weighing charges against Michael Jackson, who touched off a furor this week when he dangled his wriggling baby boy from a hotel balcony window.
"No crime has been committed," said Berlin police spokesman Klaus Schubert.
That was welcome news for Jackson, who has been pilloried worldwide since Tuesday's sick stunt in which he dipped his youngest child, Prince Michael 2nd, over a fourth-floor railing as fans gasped below.
Despite some media reports, authorities in Santa Barbara, Calif., said the increasingly wacky dad won't face any penalty there. Jackson and his three kids live in the posh town northwest of Los Angeles on a ranch called Neverland.
"Because it happened in Germany, it's up to the local authorities to investigate," said John Gordon, spokesman for California's Department of Social Services.
Jackson made no mention of his troubles last night at a Berlin gala as he accepted the Bambi Award for Pop Artist of the Millennium from retired Teutonic tennis star Boris Becker.
Instead, Jackson, clad in a glittering black jacket, donned reading glasses and uttered four words that drew a rousing ovation: "Berlin, ich liebe dich" - "Berlin, I love you."
Jackson also got a boost yesterday from his brother Jermaine.
"It wasn't a wise thing to do," Jermaine Jackson told NBC, referring to his brother's twisted thriller. "He got caught up in the moment. It's being blown out of proportion."
Jackson, who later said he made a "terrible mistake," also has been criticized for making his two older kids - a 5-year-old son also named Prince Michael and 4-year-old daughter, Paris - don gauzy red veils on a trip to the Berlin Zoo on Wednesday.
The two older children didn't attempt to hide their faces when they appeared briefly in the window of the deluxe Adlon hotel yesterday, waving at the fans still gathered outside.
Jackson, wearing sunglasses and a dressing gown, also appeared in the window and acknowledged the crowd with a wave. So did a Jackson lookalike, who used the curtains to play a game of hide-and-seek with the fans.
Uber fan Alexandra Nowara, who has followed Jackson around the world, said the singer travels with several lookalikes to thwart would-be kidnappers.
"We know the real one from the doubles," said Nowara, 26, of Freiburg, Germany. "But we can recognize him by the way he moves and the way he gestures."
'Unusual family'
Little is known about Jackson's youngest glove child, who is believed to be 9 months old. The singer has not divulged the name of the boy's mother. Ex-wife Debbie Rowe is the mother of Jackson's other kids.
"It's an unusual family," said psychic Uri Geller, a Jackson family friend.
That's an understatement, if a report in London's Daily Mail newspaper is any indication.
Jackson lives, eats and sleeps in the same room with his kids. And in the rare moments when he is not with them, the children are watched around the clock by three nannies, a butler and two dozen guards, the paper reported without attribution yesterday.
The children get new toys every day, and their knives, forks and spoons are thrown out after every meal.
On the road, Michael has special filters installed in his hotel air conditioners to protect the kids from germs. Before they turn in, Jacko pumps in pure oxygen, the Mail said.
But Jackson keeps his children on a strange schedule. He takes them on bleary-eyed shopping trips and visits to museums between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m.
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