Michael Jackson confirms new management deal

[Trauma-san]

Well, all 3 of them look pimpadelic, we'll have to see where it goes.

I know the scene you're talking about in the video.  When he walks down the stairs (I think), he walks into the dark, then once he's in there it's another room and he dances with this girl.  Well, as he's dancing down the stairs into the dark, he has his shoulders all hunched up like Frankenstein or something.  I thought it was pretty funny, myself.  It's one of his self-created dance steps, he did the same exact move in the concert in 2001 in NYC.  It was pretty funny because he grins at the camera just before he did it, he must have known how stupid it looks. 

I like the move he does in the video when him and the 5 guys are dancing during the little breakdown part, he does this bit where it looks like he's falling backwards or collapsing or something, and then catches himself and does it with the other shoulder, kind of hard to explain.

I wish he could ever get back to doing the fun stuff like that again, when I was a kid I saw him on the Motown 25th anniversary show and used to beg my dad to play it again so I could watch him dance. 

With the recent restructure of his assets, maybe he'll be able to get into a good position financially and mentally to work at making good music again instead of living out of control. 

[QuietTruth]

Man how can ya'll not like the way MICHAEL JACKSON dances??

Thats his trademark 

[Trauma-san]

Small example of the drama Michael goes through.  This is just the shit we hear about, his life must be hell.  Imagine what his legal bills are, just for bullshit cases like this where he has to defend himself even though it's obviously fabricated. 

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Judge: Michael Jackson in California when man claimed abuse

NEW ORLEANS -- Michael Jackson proved that he was in California when a New Orleans-area man claimed the pop star kidnapped and molested him for nine days in 1984, a federal judge ruled.


U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon's reasons for tossing a lawsuit filed by Joseph Bartucci Jr. against Jackson were posted Tuesday on the court's Web site.

Bartucci had claimed that he was forced into a white limousine on May 19, 1984, during the New Orleans World's Fair, and driven to California while being molested, held at gunpoint and cut with steel wire and a razor blade.

His attorney, Louis Koerner, did not answer his telephone Tuesday. On Monday, he had said he was shocked by the dismissal but could not comment more until he saw the judge's reasons.

Bartucci claimed the emotional and physical trauma cost him his memories of everything that happened until 2003, when he saw a Court TV show about child molestation charges brought against Jackson in California. Jackson was acquitted in that case.

Fallon said Wayne Nagin, who kept Jackson's appointment calendar in the spring of 1984, provided a sworn statement saying Jackson was rehearsing in California for his Victory Tour from May 20-27, 1984.

"The calendar reflects a series of appointments each day during the period," Fallon wrote.

Moreover, he said, Charilette R. Sweeney of Encino, Calif., swore that she had known Jackson since 1976 and remembered talking to him on May 13, 17 and 20, 1984, about getting an award from President Reagan on May 14 of that year.

"This evidence conclusively demonstrates that Mr. Jackson was in California from May 19 to May 27, 1984, and could not have been in New Orleans to participate in the events alleged" by Bartucci, Fallon wrote.

To counter this, Bartucci provided only Michael Boudreaux, a retired New Orleans Levee Board police officer who said he saw a white limousine with California plates "near the Convention Center in the spring of 1984," and that the driver told him Jackson was inside.

However, Boudreaux could not give specific dates, and never saw or spoke to Jackson, Fallon noted.

The Convention Center opened in 1985 in what had been an exhibition hall built for the world's fair.

"There's no question we believe the entire case is trumped up by Mr. Bartucci," said Jackson's lead attorney, Charles Fenner Gay Jr.

Bartucci could appeal the decision.

The lawsuit was filed in 2004. There is a one-year statue of limitations on the crime when victims are adults. However, Bartucci, who was 18 in 1984, argued that the law applied only from when he remembered what had happened.

Fallon said he was not ruling on that claim because he was dismissing the suit.

The judge noted, but did not rule on Jackson's contention that Bartucci is a "professional litigator."

In a December 2005 motion asking for dismissal, Jackson's lawyers said Bartucci had been involved in 18 civil and criminal suits over the previous 17 years. They included four damage suits filed by Bartucci, including one raising allegations of sexual abuse against a minister, according to the motion.

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[QuietTruth]

It ridiculous now becuz people just suing him to jump on the bandwagon and get some money. 

[late night]

...he should get into shape...

yeah he needs to lift some weights and grow some hair on his fucking chest, BE A MAN MIKE!!!!!

[Sikotic™]

Maxwell's producer is sick. He would mesh well with MJ's style. It sounds like he's making the right moves. At least he;s actually doing something for a change lol.

[The Big Bad Ass]

Good news. Hope he comes correct with this album.