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According to TMZ, an irate Michael Jackson fan is suing his Estate because she thinks MJ was not the lead singer on 3 of his songs on the 2010 CD, “Michael” … the first release after his death.
The woman filed the suit today in L.A. claiming she bought the disc in 2011, but didn’t hear enough Michael on 3 particular tracks.
In the suit she claims she hired an audio expert to analyze her CD and he determined it was very likely that MJ did not sing lead vocals on “Breaking News” … “Monster” … and “Keep Your Head Up.”
The woman wants this to be a class action — meaning if the allegation is true the Estate would owe money to everyone who bought the full album, or any of the 3 tracks in question.
The Estate’s lawyer, Howard Weitzman, has previously said Michael did provide lead vocals for all the tracks on the album.
Michael Jackson has been gone since 2009, but his legacy lives on as a hologram at the Billboard Music Awards, in a posthumous hit album … and in a spot-on rendition by a young man during a talent show — theYouTube video of which racked up nearly 2 million views in a single day.
Brett Nichols, a 17-year-old junior, stole the show at Pitman High School’s talent show last week in Turlock, Calif. To the tune of “Billie Jean,” Jackson’s 1983 No. 1 hit, Nichols mimics the smooth dance shuffle and leg bends the King of Pop made famous. He even moonwalks — a step that generates cries of delight from the audience, just as it did when Jackson first did it on the “Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever” NBC special in 1983.
Nichols told News10 that old Jackson YouTube videos got him hooked, and led to the natural next step: “This is something that really inspires me, and then it was later I thought, ‘Why isn’t this something I can’t do?'”
His segment starts around 1:11 in the video — don’t miss it!
h/t – Today
His performance was one if the best performances of the entire night.
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Michael Jackson may not be around to tour in support of his new posthumous album, Xscape, but the annual Billboard Music Awards will still feature a performance from the late King of Pop. A Michael Jackson hologram will take the stage at Sunday night’s event.
According to the Los Angeles Times, plans for the awards ceremony include the hologram image of Jackson performing the new Xscape track “Slave to the Rhythm.” Sources affiliated with the show said the event will be a “history-making performance” and that the “technology is so spectacular and groundbreaking.”
From his new album “Xscape”, this is Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake.
It’s like, Michael Jackson reincarnated.
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There’s a 99.9% chance a 31-year-old man is Michael Jackson’s illegitimate son … at least that’s the claim after an alleged DNA test turned up a match.
According to the test results — obtained by Alki David and his company, FilmOn.com — Brandon Howard is almost certainly Michael’s son. David told TMZ Live he got MJ’s dental impression from a Beverly Hills doctor that he got at an auction. The impression is 30 years old but David says its filled with DNA.
Brandon — who now goes by B Howard and looks and acts very much like Michael — was not present for the unveiling, but David says he had Howard’s DNA and it matched up.
David would not say which lab performed the DNA test, but says it showed a clear match.
Brandon’s mom — Miki Howard — is a famous gospel singer who Michael knew. She went by the name “Billy” back in 1982. Interestingly … a year later Michael released “Billie Jean,” which included the lyrics, “Billie Jean’s not my lover” and “The kid is not my son.”
For B Howard’s part — he’s distancing himself from the whole spectacle, insisting he had nothing to do with it.
h/t TMZ
In the interview, Murray claimed that he and Michael Jackson joked that neither would have sex with Rowe, the mother of Jackson’s kids.
Rowe fired back to TMZ, saying she believes within 18 months, “A Jackson fan will shoot him dead, and I’d buy the bullet.” Rowe added, “I wouldn’t shoot him but I’d buy the bullet … a hollowpoint.”
Rowe continued, “If I had a dog as ugly as him [Murray] I’d shave its ass, make it walk backwards and put a wig on it.” And, she says, “It takes 2 to f**k and there’s not enough alcohol in the world.”
Rowe, who raises horses on her ranch, says, “At least I can breed. He can’t even write prescriptions anymore.”
She’s also indignant that Murray is claiming MJ took his own life by injecting himself with the fatal dose of Propofol while Murray was out of the room. She says, “It’s so disgusting he’s trashing the dead. The jury sure didn’t buy his story.”
View Murray’s “60 Minutes Australia” interview below.
Dr. Conrad Murray left the Los Angeles County jail under sheriff’s escort, avoiding reporters and Michael Jackson fans waiting for his release early Monday.
Murray, who served two years of a four-year sentence for causing Michael Jackson’s death, was driven away in a sheriff’s car for the “safety and security” of the jail, sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
The handful of Jackson fans gathered outside the jail accused the Los Angeles County sheriff of showing favoritism to Murray by slipping him out of the jail through a back exit, instead of the door where freed prisoners normally leave.
Murray, who the sheriff’s spokesman described as an exemplary inmate, was kept away from the general inmate population during his two years in the jail. He was also allowed to have liberal use of a telephone inside his cell during his last year.
Murray’s lawyer told reporters outside the jail that he would try to get his medical licenses reinstated in California, Texas and Nevada so he can resume the medical career interrupted by his conviction on the involuntary manslaughter in 2011.