Michael Jackson Put 'Curse' on Spielberg-Magazine

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[per loin]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Embattled pop star Michael Jackson wears a prosthetic nose and once paid $150,000 for a "voodoo curse" to kill director Steven Spielberg despite being deep in debt, Vanity Fair magazine reported on Monday.

Vanity Fair, in an article for its March 11 edition, also reports that Jackson bleaches his skin white because he does not like being black. The 44-year-old singer sometimes refers to black people as "spabooks," the magazine said

Jackson's manager did not immediately return phone calls and a faxed request for comment on the article. Jackson's London publicist could not be reached for comment.

The onetime King of Pop has been dogged by controversy for months, first over his odd appearance in a California courtroom last November. That same month, Jackson stunned fans in Berlin by briefly dangling his young son from a hotel balcony.

And in February a British television documentary that aired to blockbuster ratings both in England and the United States caused a stir when Jackson told his interviewer that he slept in the same room, and sometimes the same bed, as young boys.

Vanity Fair reported in the article that in 2000 Jackson attended a voodoo ritual in Switzerland where a witch doctor promised that Spielberg, music mogul David Geffen and 23 other people on the entertainer's list of enemies would die.

Jackson, who underwent a "blood bath" as part of the ritual, then ordered his former business adviser Myung-Ho Lee to wire $150,000 to a bank in Mali for a voodoo chief named Baba, who sacrificed 42 cows for the ceremony, the magazine reported.

Vanity Fair reported that Jackson wears a page-boy wig and a prosthesis that serves as the tip of his nose. The magazine interviewed a source close to Jackson who said that, without the device Jackson resembles a mummy with two nostril holes.

According to the magazine, Jackson's extravagant lifestyle and declining record sales have left him $240 million in debt.

The article, which relies in part on court filings in a $12 million lawsuit against Jackson by Lee, said that since the mid-1990s the reclusive entertainer has relied on a series of multimillion-dollar loans to cover his expenses.

In addition to the lawsuit by Lee, Jackson is also enmeshed in a $21 million court battle with German concert promoter Marcel Avram over canceled Millennium concerts and has been sued by Sotheby's auction house for $1.6 million.

The magazine reported that Jackson must pay off the principal on a $200 million loan within a few years, which will be nearly impossible unless he sells his most valuable asset, the Beatles song catalog. He owns only half of the catalog while Sony Corp. owns the other half in an arrangement that might make selling his share difficult, Vanity Fair reported.

Jackson has also run up nearly $4 million per year in expenses from his Neverland Valley ranch in central California, where in April 2001 his amusement park equipment was nearly repossessed for late payments, the magazine said.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

ROTFLMAOAY thinking of you two as laywers. Good one. When the vodo man goes to hollywood and tries to scale the walls surrounding one of these guys homes, with a vial of poison in one hand and a bunch of shrunken heads in the other, then I think you may have a case.

Until then it is not only doubtful the vodo happened in the first place.. it is less then criminal if it did.

[vin-one]

wacko alert, or should I say wacko Jacko alert.
From what I saw of part of one of those Jacko shows,
Is that he will start the Tabloid rumors for attention/publicity.
He will actually have his press person, leak some of these nutty stories.
The guy is a bowl of frootloops.....

[Xenalyte]

A few loops short of a bowl, more like. :)

[per loin]

Wrong. Look up the legal term "factual impossibility". You will find that it is in general not a valid defense in American law. More particularly, it is not a valid defense for crimes of attempt.

[PatriotGames]

He gives me the creeps.

Gives you the creeps?

I saw a preview of his last big interview.

I got goosebumps and was scrambing for the remote.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Either you are a laywer and that is why you ignore my questions and reply with mumbo jumbo, or you are not a laywer and you are playing dress up today. Which one is it?

[PatriotGames]

What did you first write ? What's the " Daboo yaboo rebeallabe .... " stuff ?

That is the double dutch that I know. I'm sure there are different dialects. :-)

[per loin]

I am not a lawyer. Have you looked up the term?

[PatriotGames]

Haba Haba! Wabe caballed abit "Ab Talk" aband maby mabothaber tabaught abus! ;-D

ROFL

[twigs]

Well, since the trend has been for judges to try and glean intention of crime, it seems to me that Michael Jackson intended to commit murder. Therefore he's guilty at least of conspiracy to commit it, isn't he?

[cajun-jack]

google says it is a book on spa and swimming pool care. lol

[SarahW]

It's a cute way to say "spooks"...

[per loin]

I believe he is.

[Landru]

Lemme guess, their noses will curl upward in a most distorted way?

Either that or they'll become pedophiles.

...is this rich, or what. :o)

[FrdmLvr]

without the device Jackson resembles a mummy with two nostril holes. Well, that about wraps up this case...

Leave it to someone on FR to come up with that! I don't know what I love more about this website, the info or the humor. Keep it up!

[SarahW]

Maybe he has warts. I did notice, during his latest infamous interview, that he had taped/bandaged fingers.

I wondered why. Spider bites?

[PatriotGames]

Opit dropives mope cropazopy.

ROFL

Or something like that. :-)

From Post # 33.

we all spoke it as kids just to drive the parents insane. Worked pretty well, too. :-)

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I have not looked up the term, and have no plans to do so. You and I both know the law can be twisted to mean just about anything. There is one person in my life who can twist a knot from thin air. He can look you in the eye and tell you Clinton was not impeached because he was not removed from office. Since that was the intent of the bil in the first place... the impeacheachment did not happen. This person is of course a laywer. And this is typical laywer speak for twisting and turning to prove my point.

I said I would like to see a jury on your point. I doubt they would convict based upon a vodo docter sacrificing cows..I doubt you would be able to bring a case at all, therefore, this act can not be called criminal.

[per loin]

I have not looked up the term, and have no plans to do so

Then, as you find wilfull ignorance so comfortable, I'll not bother replying to you again on this thread.

[far sider]

Wasn't there a guy in Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids who talked like that? Mush-Mouth?