Took them stacks and ran
Posted by Media Outrage on November 17th, 2008
Michael Jackson is getting sued by the son of an Arab Monarch. Sheikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa (hold on we’re out of breath from typing that long ass name), is alleging that he paid the King of Pop $7million as an advance for an autobiography and album but Mike hasn’t produced either.
Via Yahoo:
Lawyers for Sheikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa say their client paid’s Jackson expenses as an advance on the book and joint recording project with the sheikh, who is an amateur songwriter. Jackson claims the money was a gift.
Al Khalifa, 33, was due to testify at London’s Royal Courts of Justice Wednesday. Jackson’s lawyer Robert Englehart said he was seeking permission to have Jackson testify by video link from Los Angeles.
A lawyer for Al Khalifa said the royal first spoke to Jackson, 50, by telephone while the singer was on trial in California following his 2003 arrest on child molestation charges. Attorney Bankim Thanki said that Al Khalifa wanted to work with Jackson on rebuilding his career. Jackson’s finances fell apart after his arrest and he was desperately short of cash.
Al Khalifa’s first payment, for $35,000, went toward paying the utility bills at Neverland, Jackson’s 2,500-acre (1,000 hectare) ranch and miniature amusement park in California, Thanki said. When Jackson was found innocent of the molestation charges in June 2005, Al Khalifa footed $2.2 million in legal bills, the lawyer said.
Al Khalifa said he believed the money would be repaid once Jackson’s career recovered from the damaging trial.
“I saw the payment as an investment in Michael’s potential,” the sheikh in a statement he read out in court. “He said he would pay me back … through our work together.”
Al Khalifa moved Jackson and his entourage to Bahrain almost immediately after the trial, setting up a recording studio for him in Manama, the Gulf state’s capital. The sheikh, who is the governor of the Bahrain‘s Southern Province, supplied Jackson with $500,000 in cash to subsidize his lifestyle and splashed out on a $350,000 European vacation for Jackson and his associates in February of 2006, Thanki said.
“The costs even included the expenses of bringing out Mr. Jackson’s hairdresser,” he said.
The lawyer said Jackson and the sheikh became close friends and at one time both lived in a palace in Abu Dhabi owned by Al Khalifa’s father, Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahrain’s king. The singer stayed nearly a year in Bahrain as a guest of the son, but the relationship soured when Jackson repudiated a business deal Thanki said they had agreed to.
Jackson’s lawyers say the pair never entered a valid agreement and that Al Khalifa’s money was given freely.
Thanki acknowledged that Al Khalifa gave some gifts to Jackson but said that most of what the singer received was part of a business deal.
The gifts, he said, “were essentially personal effects — watches, jewelry.”
Thanki said the sheik was wealthy but that paying Jackson’s bills had taken a big bite out of his finances.
“Some of the payments were staggering by any standards,” Thanki said, saying the expenditure “should not be regarded as loose change for my client.”
As for Jackson, he still appears to be in difficult financial straits.
Last week he was forced to give up the deed on Neverland, which is named for the mythical land of Peter Pan.
The trial is being held in London because the parties had agreed to take any disputes over their deal to an English court, Al Khalifa’s representatives said. The trial is due to wrap up by the end of the month.
Mediaoutrage- Damn Mike is that what you do? If we were sheik “Long Name” after we won our money back in the courts, we’d definitely hit the remake of Thriller combined with A LOT of “A” TOWN STOMP all over that ASS! We’d definitely beat that @ss till he bled melanin.
November 17th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
LMAO @ MO “If we were sheik “Long Name” after we won our money back in the courts, we’d definitely hit the remake of Thriller combined with A LOT of “A” TOWN STOMP all over that ASS! We’d definitely beat that @ss till he bled melanin.”
You all are crazy!
First of all, everyone knows that Mike is broke and I personally don’t think anyone can resurrect his career…even if he did a song with Kanye West or Beyonce…no one would buy that ish! So that “Sheik” whatever his name is was stupid enough to give a crazy, broke washed out and washed up popstar money, before seeing some results…dumb a$$!
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November 17th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Po thang, You spent all that money on yo face and yo nose is fallin off, we can see damn near see your brains.
You spent all that money sittin in bleach, and you still black just look at yo navel it’s still black
You spent all that money for Debra to give up her kids to you and you can’t even buy them a bike now.
You spent all that money on Bubbles the monkey and he probably dead now
You really spent all yo money on nonsense and now you lying about another man giving you gifts? Mike you know you ugly as hell and aint no man giving you VD,let alone gifts. You runnin all around the world with bad ass credit, dumpin bills on yo name. Bet you can’t pay for a new perm.
Gone head move back in with yo abuser daddy and get the kids bunkbeds cause you aint got shit else….. This a damn shame!
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November 17th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
lmao!!! @ MO “Sheikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa (hold on we’re out of breath from typing that long ass name),”
“Damn Mike is that what you do? If we were sheik “Long Name” after we won our money back in the courts, we’d definitely hit the remake of Thriller combined with A LOT of “A” TOWN STOMP all over that ASS! We’d definitely beat that @ss till he bled melanin.”
lol
Mike that is a d@mn shame! how do you pilfer hundreds of millions?
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November 17th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
That is a damn shame!! But what man buys another man jewelry and gifts???? I understand the business deal gone sour, but he lived with you for a year… ya’ll seem to be close warm personal FRIENDS!!! I smell a dead cat… Come out MIKE/SHEIKH the door is now open.
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November 17th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
lol @ Ucanb2 lol
my thing is why was he splurgin like that on a grown ass man? but then again if he got cake like that then so be it. but mike is wrong for taking his paper and running and then acting like there wasn’t an agreement.
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November 18th, 2008 at 12:05 am
In a lot of places in he Middle East, their philosophy is this. Women are for making babies and men and boys are for fun. Thats probably why they been livin together and going on shopping sprees. I think Mike and sheik “Long Name” as Yeah I said it calls him…LOL, have been tip toeing through the tulips and rolling down sand dunes butt naked, getting up and cleaning the sand off of eachothers bootys, ole nasty ass bastards.
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November 18th, 2008 at 12:35 am
So I am wondering if anyone else has any of these 7 Million gifts. I’m available to recieve.
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November 18th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Jack O just showed us he is still got black in his ass.
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November 18th, 2008 at 12:57 am
@ cupcakestl … Yea he did. To bad he can’t go on Judge Mathis. That mess would be funny.
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November 18th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Mike,
What happened?…When u were black you had all the money, the ladies, and you were selling records like pussy at Hugh Hefner’s
Then you transformed into Elizabeth Taylor and now you sick white kids and your broke?……
Please Mike, get your tan back and nap up that pimp perm and get back to the king of pop status….please
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November 18th, 2008 at 9:22 am
No, I got one better. How about if Mike just bury’s his white ass alive and see if anyone thinks about him anymore. Or even gives a damn about any of his legal troubles.
Now, that is some Neverland monkey bullshit for yo ass there.
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November 18th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
LMAO @ DT & Cut Up!!
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