Jackson trial asks the other burning question: where did his millions go?

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Jackson trial asks the other burning question: where did his millions go?
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
15 May 2005


Officially, the burning question at the heart of the Michael Jackson trial is whether the 46-year-old performer can be shown beyond reasonable doubt to be a child molester. But a second, equally intriguing set of questions has been eating away at the case from day one. Just how badly does he mismanage his money? And, whether or not he is found guilty, how soon can we expect him to plunge into bankruptcy?

Over the past three months, we have heard stories from the witness stand of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash being withdrawn from his bank accounts - for what purpose remains unclear - of debts soaring over the $300m (£160m) mark, of lavish expenditure that far outpaces the star's still considerable earning power, of loans and offshore accounts and emergency bridging loans arranged by his brother Tito.

Last week, one of Jackson's former lawyers, David LeGrand, testified for the defence that he had found almost a million dollars missing from Jackson's accounts early in 2003. According to the defence, the suspicion is that the superstar was being given the runaround by his aides in whom he foolishly placed far too much trust.

According to the prosecution, the money may have been siphoned out of the bank to arrange for the family now accusing Jackson of child sexual abuse to be whisked away to Brazil against their will.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=638523

HE AIN'T Jackson. He's a lookalike hired by Sony after the real Jackson died in an anaesthetics cock-up on the operating table of a LA rhinoplasty clinic some twelve years ago.

And still people buy this shit.

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1. He can't be shown beyond a reasonable doubt

to be a child molester, but he can be shown to be chronically eccentric. Where did his millions go??? He spends like a son of a bitch!! In a documentary I watched about 18 months ago, he went through this exclusive shop, just waving his hand at everything he wanted to buy.

IMHO, I personally believe that family is so frucked up and the father (in his own way) made them that way.

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2. compared to the bushes, they're angels

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