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  Promoter Knew of Michael Jackson's Fading Health Days Before His Death, Emails Show

  May 24, 2013 – An email sent from a stage manager to a concert executive who both worked on Michael Jackson's ill-fated "This Is It" show run supports claims that the pop icon's business associates were aware of his deteriorating mental and physical health in the days leading up to his death. …
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  Michael Jackson Hit With New Child Molestation Claim

  May 8, 2013 – Michael Jackson's posthumous legal troubles continue to grow. Almost four years after the King of Pop's death, his family's wrongful-death lawsuit against his final concert promoter continues to wind its way through trial. …
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  'Wacko Jacko' Will Play Role in Michael Jackson's Wrongful-Death Lawsuit

  April 2, 2013 – The wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Michael Jackson's family against the pop singer's final concert promoter goes to trial today in a Los Angeles courtroom, and early indications show it's going to be ugly.Lawyers for AEG Live will contend that Jackson was responsible for his own death, CNN reports. …
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  Dr. Conrad Murray Pressured Into Making Exhausted Michael Jackson Perform

  March 4, 2013 – As a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael Jackson's mother and children against concert promoter AEG Live moves toward a jury trial, Jackson's lawyers have presented what they say is a "smoking gun" email.According to CNN, less than two weeks before Jackson's June 25, 2009, death, AEG Live co-CEO Paul Gongaware wrote an e-mail suggesting the company wanted to use the $150,000 monthly salary of Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, to pres …
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  Another Michael Jackson Cirque Du Soleil Spectacle Unmercifully Planned

  February 22, 2013 – Cirque du Soleil won't stop till it gets enough Michael Jackson. According to the Associated Press, the Canadian entertainment troupe is planning a new Las Vegas show based on the King of Pop's life and music.The program, titled "Michael Jackson ONE," will begin its residency at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Vegas Strip this summer. …
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  Michael Jackson's Son Becomes Celebrity Journalist, Discovers Meaning of 'Irony'

  February 19, 2013 – "Hiding, getting away. You can't go that way because they're over there, we won't, let's go this way and pretend we're going that way and we'll go that way. Someone should say HOLD ON, STOP. This person deserves their privacy. You are not allowed to go there. I mean I go around the world dealing with, running, and hiding, you can't…I can't take a walk in the park. I can't go to the store. I can't. …
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  !!!'s Nic Offer: No One Needs 'Another Disco-Punk Record'

  February 13, 2013 – As Nic Offer tells it, there were plenty of ballsy titles in play for !!!'s upcoming fifth album: "It Takes a Nation of M!!!ions to Hold Us Back, K!!! Em All, Jagged Little P!!!, and the English press would've loved for us to finally fess up to a Happy Mondays influence and call it P!!!s 'n' Thr!!!s & B!!!yaches," the frontman shared via e-mail from Dakar, Senegal, where he's been traveling. …
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  Michael Jackson Fans Declare Troll War Against Salacious Biography

  January 21, 2013 – More than three years after his death, Michael Jackson remains the King of Pop — and the King of the Internet Trolls. In the cutthroat world of book publishing, an endorsement from Oprah Winfrey could mean millions of dollars, while bad reviews from Amazon.com likely ensures that a book will never enjoy a second pressing after its first run. …
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  Not Bad: Michael Jackson Song Hackers Sentenced to Community Service

  January 14, 2013 – Yup, you could call them a couple of smooth criminals. James Marks, 27, and James McCormick, 26, who pled guilty last September on charges accusing them of downloading almost 8,000 files from Sony's servers — including unreleased Michael Jackson recordings — won't serve any jail time over the incident. As the AP reports, a U.K. …
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  Terrorized 'Thriller' Actress Scares Up $55,000 Payday From Michael Jackson's Estate

  January 4, 2013 – "There ain't no second chance against the thing with 40 eyes, girl," Michael Jackson warns on "Thriller." No word on how many eyes belong to the late King of Pop's estate, but Ola Ray, the model and actress who starred alongside Jackson in that song's classic 1983 video, has successfully gone back for a second payout.According to TMZ, Ray settled her breach of contract claims with the estate last year for $55,000, plus $20,000 in legal  …
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