Whoa!1 This is more about Liz & BRANDO, not really about Michael JACKSON

I've never bought the poor-little-me line from him and without knowing the caseworker case about his dealings with minors I can't judge definitively BUT the flags are too big and too red for me to dismiss them. What pretty much stunned me was the shake-down "friends" Liz and BRANDO, neither of whom, I think, needed cash?!1


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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/jacko_terror_of_kin_friends_cWqVJHnus0oQ0Ur48UCPjI
[font size=5]Michael Jackson’s family and friends took advantage of him, book claims[/font]

In journalist Randall Sullivan’s shocking new book, “Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson,” out this week, family and “friends” take the superstar for all he’s worth — demanding payment for favors and looting his house after his death. ....

When Michael’s brother Jermaine learned that Michael’s take from the shows would reach $10 million, he convinced his parents that they should demand another $500,000 each. ....



Michael tried to have them sent away, the book reports, but they claimed that Michael’s mother needed to use the restroom. As soon as they barged their way inside, “they literally ransacked the place” searching for Michael to get him to sign the contracts. ...



His family weren’t the only ones whose love was for sale. Jackson’s “good friend” Marlon Brando, whom the singer took acting lessons from for years, charged him $1 million for his rambling video tribute — an awful investment, it turned out, since the Madison Square Garden crowd wound up booing Brando’s nonsensical ramblings.

By comparison, his famously close relationship with Elizabeth Taylor came cheap. When Taylor was once asked to participate in a video to help counter some horrible press Jackson received, all she demanded for her time was a $638,000 necklace. ....

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