Timmy84 said:

No, there was an actual promo photo, mabye it was just him, but he was standing in front of water. Don't make me go into the archives, pulling up old threads is funny, especially MJ threads.

I want to see him in court, with the london fans going ape shit outside. This is the best MJ fans can get nowadays, closest thing to a concert.

lilgish said:

unfortunately, cause my heart cries out for him-
I think he's a fool- and that's why he's estranged from his family- 'cause they'd tell him so. he really has not hit rock bottom yet- if he had- he would have changed the way he treat people.

Mike is the time of person that thinks he can use his influence and image to control people. he did it with his wives and with those families that extorted him.

they felt the same way as this Sheik- used- you woo me and sweet talk- then you act like you don't know who the hell I am- He used LMP and Debbie- hell he got her at home puttin' pictures of horses and dogs on the wall and crying over those children.

He was f(&*&%#d up as a child and it turned him into a fake user. when his money runs out and fans stop kissing his arse- he'll wake up and make some changes in his attitude and morals

you are not the KING of anything Mike- with your fake pseudo-humbleness- that ish is played out- he does it to psyche everybody out and then he use the mess out of them-I think he believes it himself- but his actions speak louder than any words that will come out of his mouth

and yes I too feel like a scorned MJ "follower"- seeing who he is really....

UPDATE


His lawyer says Michael Jackson may be too sick to travel to trial

at 11:45 on November 18, 2008, EDT.
By Raphael G. Satter, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


Sheikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa arrives at the High Court in London on Tuesday. The Sheikh, who is the son of an Arab monarch, has taken US singer Michael Jackson to court, charging that the King of Pop took millions as an advance on an album and an autobiography that he never produced. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Matt Dunham


LONDON - Michael Jackson might be too sick to travel to London to testify in a suit claiming he owes an Arab sheik US$7 million, the pop star's lawyer said Tuesday.

Jackson is seeking to give his testimony by video link from the United States.

"It would be unwise for him to travel, given what's he's got now," lawyer Robert Englehart said, declining to elaborate "for the obvious reasons."

Al Khalifa's lawyer, Bankim Thanki, said the medical evidence presented by Jackson's legal team was "very unsatisfactory" and Jackson's illness could be treated with a bandage "if the diagnosis is positive."

"It's not the first time a sick note has been presented by Mr. Jackson," Thanki said, also without elaborating.

Jackson has often been seen wearing a surgical mask in public. In one infamous 2002 court appearance in California, he appeared to have a bandage hanging from his hollowed-out nose.

Despite much speculation about his radically changed appearance over the years, he has denied having had any alterations to his face other than two operations on his nose to help him breathe better to hit higher notes.

The judge in the current case, Nigel Sweeney, said he would decide the question of Jackson's travel on Thursday to allow time for medical experts on both legal teams to talk.

Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the second son of the king of Bahrain, claims that Jackson reneged on a contract for an album, a candid autobiography and a stage play, after accepting millions from the sheik.

Al Khalifa was in court Tuesday for the second day of arguments and testimony.

The case is being tried in London by mutual agreement, Al Khalifa's representatives have said. It is due to wrap up by the end of the month.

Al Khalifa felt betrayed when the pop star pulled out of the deal, Thanki said.

After Jackson left Bahrain, never to return, his publicist later called Al Khalifa to say Jackson no longer wanted any part of the contract. Thanki said.

"It's fair to say my client felt a considerable sense of betrayal by someone he thought was a close friend," Thanki said, adding that the sheik, an amateur songwriter, also felt "a sense of professional failure."

Thanki said Al Khalifa and Jackson were planning to establish a joint venture to put out a new Michael Jackson album, an autobiography, and a stage play.

They hoped to make millions from the project - Jackson's autobiography, intended to be "a frank and personal account" of the singer's life, was alone expected to rack up $24 million, Thanki said. In the meanwhile, Al Khalifa gave Jackson millions of dollars to help shore up his finances and subsidize Jackson's lifestyle in the small Gulf state.

Thanki said Al Khalifa considered the money an advance on the profits Jackson would reap from their pop music project, but Englehart said the money was a gift.

"Sheik Abdulla, fortunately for himself, had the resources to be so generous," Englehart said.

Englehart argued that Jackson wasn't bound by the deal he struck because the contract was technically signed on behalf of 2 Seas Records, a venture which never got off the ground.

"This (contract) was one brick in the building that was never built," Englehart said.


©The Canadian Press, 2008

Evvy said:

lilgish said:

heres the pic - with Mj is the prince and guy holmes. Released in 06 to announce
the creation of 2Seas Records.

Evvy said:

I really wish I could argue against you, but unfortunately, you are pretty much spot on.

xlad said:

Mike is screwed.

xlad said:

I hate the way he’s standing in that pic.

You know there isn't much difference between what MJ has done here and when abuses kids/families. First off they are ALL FANS and they assume all the things we all hear in the media is a lie about the guy - so they trust him. Then like usual MJ screws them and then they are the ones suing him and or saying bad things about him as Other Fans scream about you the one that just got fucked over.

It's one big Catch 22 for fans!

If you meet him befriend him he fucks you over in allot of ways.

If you never meet him you are always defending him.

This Sheikh is just the most recent. He took MJ's word which he does " Oh thats the media, thats all lies" ... You hang with him and then you find out it isn't "all lies".

MJ has been doing this since the mid 1980's. Its one long Groundhog Day - over & over & over & yes over!

JackieBlue said:

the guys look self assured but Mj just looks like a simpering prissy
loon.

xlad said:

Good to see some of the fans waking up and smelling the coffee about this guy's character (although I see a few die hards are trying to make the Sheikh out to be the villain ). Hopefully, your next realisation will be that he's a paedophile.

And by the way, this latest "illness" is no more ridiculous than his "vitiligo" or Janet's "vertigo".

midnightmover said:

Friedman said that MiJac's attorney claims it was "a skin condition".

Timmy84 said:

Whatever.

midnightmover said:

I rolled my eyes at that too.

bboy87 said:

What you think gonna happen tomorrow?

Timmy84 said:

hopefully, the truth

It's hilarious at people complaining about this. I mean come on, how many times has this guy been sued in the past 25 years? Did that thread on KOPD really need to garner 61 pages? (notice how everybody ignored my post calling them about it?) or that MJJC thread garner over 200 replies? Is it really that serious?

It's a lawsuit and they're gonna go to court to resolve it.

what gets me are some fans saying "Darn, all this is gonna do is postpone the new album"

And if the muthafucka's sick, he is, and if he ain't. That's his business. We obviously don't know what the hell is going on so why bother speculating when all we've read is reports.

Michael and the Prince fucked up because of mismanagement, miscommunication, straight up laziness. It's Michael's issue so let the man and his camp handle it.


One thing's for sure: You ain't gonna see my black ass outside of no court room with posters and candles singing Scream

bboy87 said:

Yeah, lol.
Sometimes, some of the fans make me sick with all that talk.
Most of my posts were quotes and spreading information. All them pages would've been damn avoided had several people kept on fighting with each other, which IS the reason why the threads at the KOP and MJJC are so damn long. It ain't as long at Max-Jax because...well JUST BECAUSE!

i think they'll settle. i just read that the shiekh paid for some creativity guru to come assist mj to the tune of $37K per session. that's some crazy, embarrassing s*** all around. i hope that mj settles for his sake.

kibbles said:

I kept looking at the article like " ".

Man...I just want this shit to be over with. Fans already ready to kill each other over this bullshit.

Timmy84 said:

It's a deal that went wrong. Point blank

all I care about is Off The Wall 30 and if they're gonna do it right

bboy87 said:

And if they don't, we're gonna do a drive-by at Sony's offices. Marks!

But yeah, that's all it is: a deal that went down the fucking toilet, er, I mean doo-doo, feces...

The thing that Im interested in with this case is that this Prince Abdullah is a wealthy man - is this the first time that Mj has been sued by someone with potentially more money than him??
[Edited 11/19/08 10:57am]

xlad said:

Yeah.

Evvy said:

O come on!

The sheik used him too!

He couldn't get any other singer in the world but down on his luck Michael Jackson?

If Michael Jackson is such a loser, why do people keep fucking with him? What does that make you? When you're a billionaire and you go into business with a loser?

xlad said:

Motown sued him and the family(in 2 lawsuits separetely and together) back in 1980/81 that resulted in them losing some rights to the J5 catalog

bboy87 said:

Doesn't Motown own the Jackson 5's recordings? They couldn't even use that name anymore after they left in 1975. I wouldn't say "some", I'll say they ain't got rights to the Motown catalog. None of them.

Timmy84 said:

the only one they didn't sue was Jermaine