Michael Jackson fans love us writing about their favourite popstar. We pull their noses and they get to try and outdo each other with hyperbolic claims of infatuation and true fandom. We all prop each other up, like recovering drunks in a day centre.
Someone who loves Michael Jackson more than any of us is his dad Joe. Or, more accurately, Joe really loves those pennies that MJ earned in his life.
As such, Joe Jackson is now going through the courts to get his mitts on the moolah.
Joe has been granted a court date to argue that his son Michael’s estate executors should be removed. Presumably, he’s not too impressed with the way that the current team are respecting Michael’s wishes to leave his dad piss-all money.
And now, a court in California set a court date (if you’re the kind of idiot who hangs around these court houses with pointless placards, then the date is October 6) for Joe’s appeal, which will see the man who used to make Michael Jackson vomit with fear attempting to oust estate executors John Branca and John McClain.
Michael didn’t include Joe in his will, but that’s not stopping our heavy-handed soul parent. He’s claiming that he should have the right to dismiss any potential executors because he was financially dependant on his son during the popstar’s final years.
Of course, since Jacko died, his corpse has been raking it in, and if we’ve noticed, then our Joe will have noticed even more. Tune in next week when Joe Jackson grafts a beak, wings and vulture’s hump onto his body and he circles car-crashes looking for bones to lick clean.
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malcy says
He is his dad, after all!
Eric Straus says
Joe isn’t the vulture here, and if Michael was taking care of his father in his final years, then we should let any animosity rest with Michael, for are all on the outside looking in. It’s the vultures who made a billion dollars last year off Mike, that they inherited through an arguably fishy will that the media never spends the time to publicly analyze. Everytime MJ recieved an award, or went to court for the molestation allegations, Katherine and Joe were right their, and he always gave them a shout out. Certain media outlets who report in biased fashion do not know all the details about the relationship between MJ and Joseph.
Cookie Monster says
Not a single comment from MJ’s number one fans? What is wrong here? Is Google broken? Is MJ’s shine wearing-off? In how many directions can a question about MJ’s shine lead? Can I comment with only questions?
Alas, unless Joe provides some solid grave-digging (litteral) material, or his wider family gifts the MJ masses with some grave-robbing (metaphorical) substance, it may be time to wrap the MJ line.
Am I kidding?
dimple says
stop hating on joe you assholes. its the media that killed MJ and made him hide away and take those drugs cus he couldnt sleep. media sucks
Dana says
Come on Joe Jackson…you were not dependent on Michael..you got your money from Michael through Katherine.
All you have to do is read everything that Michael has said about you in either exposed private conversations or from Michael’s mouth himself and you know that although he loved you because you were his father, he did not respect you as a person and in no way did he ever want to emulate you. Nor did he want you friviously wasting his hard earned money on bad business investments as you have been known to do in the past.
Respect your son’s wishes in that he did not want you handling his money during his life and made sure you would not handle it after his death.
I realize you chased your dream and beat it into your sons who thankfully were born with talent but the price Michael paid as a result was not worth the hundreds of millions of dollars that he earned. All the man ever wanted was love, acceptance and appreciation for his musical gifts and humanity and it is a real tragedy that in the last ten years of his life he saw none of it and now after his death the accolades continue to come.
Let his life story be a cautionary tale about the power of unconditional love from a parent to a child as he himself once said that ‘one hungers for the basic stuff’. God bless his soul and may his art and love for humanity live forever.
Revolted says
As somebody musically trained with opportunistic vultures for parents, I feel for any child who had to live through that. Joe Jackson only saw his children in terms of how much money he could make off their backs. Now, if he had access to Michael’s money, how much would be left for Michael’s children? So far, the executors have stopped questionable ways Joe (and let’s be frank, Katherine) has tried to profit off his dead son. Let’s not forget this the same man who tried to exploit his grandchildren, by having them sign something in order to make money off Michael’s name. Thankfully, the executors stopped it. I don’t doubt Michael left him out of the will for a reason. Joe is a pimp who has never changed his sleazy ways. Katherine is no better or she would have stopped him.