Tabloid Trash Talk: Newsracks Serve Up 'All You Can Eat' Of Dead Michael Jackson
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Tabloid Trash Talk
Newsracks Serve 'All-You-Can Eat' Of Dead Michael Jackson

I FELL ASLEEP TWICE READING ALL THE TABLOID CRAP ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON THIS WEEKEND. Even in death, Michael's the King of Controversy.
Two weeks after he died at age 50, MJ's reconstructed face remains pasted all over the newsstands. Now the drama turns to who gets custody of the children-turned-meal tickets.
Apparently Jackson's will states clearly that his mother Katherine, should be the guardian of his three children. But Debbie Rowe, the biological mom of Prince Michael and Paris, is going to challenge the custody arrangements. The fireworks have only just begun.
The thing that really gets me is this quote from Us magazine: "With the child arrangement fulfilled, they divorced in 1999, with Rowe giving full custody to Michael in return for an estimated $8.5 million settlement and a $1 million Beverly Hills home."
This makes it sound like she sold her children. And, if all of these reports are true, she kinda did. According to the Us story, Rowe's had no real contact with the kids since the divorce. But she secretly met with family members in 2004 to discuss shared concerns for their welfare when the superstar was being heavily influenced by members of the Nation of Islam.
Now that Jackson's out of the way, Rowe is signaling that she wants the kids back telling an NBC reporter that she would seek a restraining order to keep Joe Jackson away from the children. It's no secret that Michael hated is father and claimed Joe abused him, and ridiculed his nose and pimples when he was a child.
While Michael spent all of their lives trying to protect Prince Michael, Paris and Blanket's faces from the paparazzi, someone took his death as an opportunity to give (sell?) OK! seven pages of personal family photos. Tragically they look like a fairly normal family. Well, as normal as Michael was ever able to pull off.
There are pictures of Michael and the trio of kids celebrating Prince Michael's birthday with Spider Man decorations, and the kids squirting shots of Reddi Whip into each other’s mouths.
While sometimes overdressed, they are adorable and I feel bad for them caught in the media coverage.
And the stories keep coming. InTouch reports claims in a new tell-all biography by Ian Halperin.
According to the New York Times best-selling author, Michael was never a child molester but WAS gay (going so far as having a relationship with a construction worker in Las Vegas; he allegedly would dress like a woman for this guy! Wrap your brain around that image. Shiver.)
The book also claims that all of those women Michael has been linked to were beards, although Lisa Marie Presley maintains they had an intimate relationship. Oh, yeah and he was a drug addict, which is pretty fucking obvious at this point.
Speaking of Michael's recreation, the National Enquirer printed a scary looking list of prescription drugs that they believe Michael was taking at the time of his death. Twenty-eight different drugs! I don't even have twenty-eight different spices!
According to the Enquirer, Jackson may have gone to more than a dozen doctors in order to get that many scripts. The LAPD is looking closely at five specific doctors whom they suspect as "key enablers."
Jackson's private chef, Douglas Jones, told the Enquirer that he saw Dr. Conrad Murray removing oxygen tanks from the singer's home on the day he died. Oxygen tanks are a handy thing to have if you're taking Diprivan which is the powerful anesthetic that Michael was taking illegally.
Murray is the doctor who claims he tried to resuscitate the singer when he collapsed in his bedroom on June 25th. He won't comment on allegations that he administered Diprivan to Michael an hour before his death.
Supposedly the three children have been insulated from the onslaught of allegations of massive drug abuse. While I am sure they already know more than they need to about their father's faults, maybe those birthday parties will help keep "the best father" alive in their memories.
I never ever thought I would say this but Heidi and Spencer we NEED you! Do something outrageous! Britney!
You need to do more than have low blood sugar, get with the crazy antics! Someone needs to bump these morbid intrigues off the front page already!
Vegas is a gambler who always loses money on craps. She spends her time in Chicago with her husband, two cats and various artistic endeavors that take up way too much space in her house and hard drive. Visit her blog at jensaysanything.blogspot.com.
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