Jacko put a "curse" on Spielberg

[Guest wwF1587]

LOS ANGELES (March 4) - 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.

[Guest Downhome]

You know, I would just like to say that he's no different than anyone else. He's just a guy trying to make it in this wild and crazy world, right?

 

I mean, who DOESN'T wire money to someone to slaughter cattle in order to curse someone? Tell me, who, WHO!?

[Guest bob_barron]

Some of this is probably BS I think

[Guest Retro Rob]

Some of this is probably BS I think

Only some of it?

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

Drudge gives Michael Jackson so much hell. I mean he's merciless. I'm ok with his relentless assaults when he does it to Barbara Streisand, but Michael Jackson is such a sad story. He's been screwed up in so many ways. I really feel sorry for the guy.

[Guest DrTom]

Perhaps Jackson could inquire as to whether he can get his money back, seeing as the curse was not a success. I'm sure Steven Spielberg has only made a few billion since he was hexed, as opposed to several billion.

 

Really, where do people get this stuff?

[Guest Youth N Asia]

The One time King of Pop

I just like that quote.

 

That story sounds too fake to be true

[Guest Plushy Al Logan]

And people say I'm nuts.

[Guest HecateRose]

Tell you one thing, I don't feel as sorry for Michael Jackson as I do for his kids. I mean geez, making them cover their heads all the time. Those kids are the ones who will be screwed up in the end. It's sad.

[Guest Eyeball Kid]

When I read this, the first thing that popped into my mind is "Isn't Jackson a vegetarian?"

 

Yeah.

[Guest Retro Rob]

Tell you one thing, I don't feel as sorry for Michael Jackson as I do for his kids. I mean geez, making them cover their heads all the time. Those kids are the ones who will be screwed up in the end. It's sad.

They only keep their faces covered when they could be seen by the public. In the house they don't wear them. During the documentry they did because millions of people would be watching.

[Guest converge241]

didnt Spielberg disown Jacko after Jacko sang "Jew Me"?

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

didnt Spielberg disown Jacko after Jacko sang "Jew Me"?

Think you may need your hearing checked, dude. Last time I checked, the word that was always associated with him was "Pedophile," not "Palestinian."

[Guest Eyeball Kid]

didnt Spielberg disown Jacko after Jacko sang "Jew Me"?

Think you may need your hearing checked, dude. Last time I checked, the word that was always associated with him was "Pedophile," not "Palestinian."

No, he had that song called "They Don't Really Care...blah blah blah" (or something). There was a line in the song that went "sue me/jew me/everyone do me/kick me/kike me/don't you black-and-white me." There was a minor uproar about it at the time.