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.

[PatriotGames]

Spabook is from a kids' language that I grew up knowing as Double-Dutch, taught to me by my older sisters, in the New Orleans area. It's similar in nature to Pig Latin.

Spabook = Spook

[DoughtyOne]

As someone else so rightly pointed out, he's having an out of "mind" experience by now. First off, those kids need rescuing right away. I can't believe anyone would think they are safe. Then Jackson needs to recieve round-the-clock treatment.

[PatriotGames]

Spabook = Spook

Michael Jackson said it. Not I.

Do NOT label me a racist since I was quoting him. :-)

[way-right-of-center]

Thanks for the welcome.

www.spabook.com is odd- beer and hitler youth discussed on the same site. lol, maybe thats why I didn't know what a "spabook" was

[general_re]

New one on me. So how does a mentally deranged person who is originally from Gary, Indiana pick up N.O. slang like that?

Nevermind. I'm happier not knowing...

[per loin]

Then Jackson needs to recieve round-the-clock treatment.

This jerk just contracted with a hit man to have 25 people murdered at $6000 per murder. Is that not a crime when the perp is rich and famous?

[ArcLight]

So you really think paying $150,000 for a voodoo curse should subject Jackson to prosecution for conspiracy to commit murder? That only makes sense if you think voodoo curses work, in which case you might belong in a padded cell right next to Jacko...:-)

[nmh]

"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."

Besides being a pedaphile he dabbles in voodoo ... odd but since this guy is nuts, it's not too surprising.

"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."

It's obvious he hates his skin color. Notice how his kids are NOT black? Notice how the sperm incubator is NOT black? Notice how he has WHITE kids over for his sleepovers? Notice how he aligns himself with WHTIE females in general - even marrying one ... ? Oh, when it's convenient, and sales are sinking, THEN he shrieks that it's racisim.

Hopefully his money will run out and those scared of his wealth will now have the balls to pursue a child molestation charge.

[ArcLight]

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.

Now that there's what I call investigative journalism. After all these years, they've figured it out! Jackson doesn't wanna be black. Stop the presses!

[per loin]

The point is that "he" thought it would work. If I hire a gunman to shoot 25 people, and he turns out to be such a bad shot that he can't hit any of them, do I walk away innocent?

If I hire a chemist to poison 25 people, and what he gives them doesn't even make them sick, does the law say "no problem"?

[Centurion2000]

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

So who exactly do you have to kill to get a credit rating like this ?

[uglybiker]

The 44-year-old singer sometimes refers to black people as "spabooks," the magazine said

Pardon my ignorance but, just what the &%#$ is a spabook?

[PatriotGames]

Daboo yaboo rebeallabe wabant mebee toboo tebell yaboo hobow hebee cabame toboo knobow hobow toboo spebeak dobouble dubutch?

I have no idea and for all these years I thought that all kids knew double-dutch. I had no idea that it was a regional or maybe cultural thing. Maybe he knows someone from N.O. I'm caucasian and we all spoke it as kids just to drive the parents insane. Worked pretty well, too. :-)

[ArcLight]

Sorry per, but that's a deeply lame-oid argument. If I thought I could kill you by praying for your death, and proceeded to do so, could you have me thrown into prison for praying? Of course not--because you'd almost certainly not die just because I prayed that you would. By the same token, Spielberg et al were looking hale and hearty at last report, voodoo blood baths notwithstanding.

One's actions must have some reasonable likelihood to result in the victim's death in order to be actionable. If you purchase something you believe to be poison and give it to somebody, that's one thing. If you cast a magic spell on him, that's something else. Unless you live in Middle Earth, I suppose.

[ET(end tyranny)]

a prosthesis that serves as the tip of his nose.

Should have bought a better one! lol

[ArcLight]

Hold up, y'all. Nobody's mentioned the really interesting part of this--the Swiss witch doctor! There are Swiss witch doctors? Is that where witch doctors go when they retire? Do they fly in special for celebrity voodoo? What is up with this?

[per loin]

If, in a sting, you give a FBI plant money to kill someone, there is no reasonable liklihood that he is going to do it. Instead he is going to arrest you for paying him to kill someone.

[ambrose]

This guy is one sick dude.

You are a master of understatement at times... He is a bloody freak. If he wasn't rich, he'd be on Skid Row trying to catch imaginary flies. Or in a straightjacket in a home for criminally insane.

[ArcLight]

If an FBI agent posed as a witch doctor, and I paid him to cast a death hex on somebody, do you seriously suppose I'd be brought to trial? Give it up, mate. This isn't Burundi.

[ladyinred]

I thought this was from the Enquirer, I don't know what to believe with this guy,thing,ET ummm whatever.

LOL! It does sound like a tabloid headline, but instead to our surprise it is Vanity Fair reporting this BIZARRE story about this very sick, strange young man! Who knew? What a weirdo!