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Jackson Shuts Out Closest Aides
Thursday, November 10, 2005
By Roger Friedman
Michael Jackson’s world is one of constant upheaval. But the latest news from Jackson is more disturbing than usual. Sources tell me the disloyal, capricious ex-King of Pop has fired both of his closest confidantes.
More headaches: His website, www.mjjsource.com, which was run by his brother Randy and former stylist Karen Faye, is gone as well, leaving subscribers and fan club members high and dry.
Now I’m told that Faye has been dismissed along with aide de camp/keeper of all secrets, Evvy Tavasci.
The loss of Tavasci, more than Faye, is a huge blow to Jackson’s equilibrium even if he doesn’t know it. She’s been the backstop for all of his kookiness as well as legal and personal wrangling. In the last couple of years she moved Jackson’s MJJ Productions out of rental offices in Los Angeles and into her own home. When Jackson got into trouble with the Arvizo family, it was Tavasci who kept track of them. Her name came up in court last spring dozens of times.
Faye is a different story. She’s operated as Jackson’s confidante also, and appears with him in the outtakes of Martin Bashir’s documentary. Toward the end of the trial last spring it was rumored that Faye was no longer doing Jackson’s makeup because her fee was too high. But she continued to help run his website, www.mjjforum.com. Unfortunately, the site is now shut down for the second time this year. There isn’t even a page left up to explain what happened.
This is the second time this year that the website has abruptly been closed. It was the invention of Michael’s brother Randy, who had two assistants. “They’re all gone,” says a source, including Randy. I told you a couple of weeks ago in this space that Jackson was in trouble again financially, that Neverland was for sale, and that employees were leaving because of missed payroll checks. Now the end really seems to be in sight for this bloated enterprise.
As if to make matters worse, Michael’s father, Joseph Jackson, has kept busy promoting himself at Michael’s expense with his new “Hip Hop Boot Camp.” Jackson senior, always eager to make a buck off his son, recently gave interviews about this sort of quasi-reality show accompanied by a man named “Charles Kopay,” who happily supplied quotes to the wire services.
But “Kopay,” is in fact Charles Coupet, a New Yorker who runs a miscellaneous company called Tech Systems Ltd. Last spring I reported that Coupet was in business with freelance “international journalist” Daphne Barak, who’d recommended Coupet as a literary agent to Macaulay Culkin’s father when he wanted to publish a book. Why did Coupet change the spelling of his name for this new round of interviews? It’s unclear, but his secretary—who returned a call—told me she’d never heard of the Jacksons, hip hop boot camp, or Barak.
“You must have the wrong person,” she said. Alas, we have precisely the right person based on an extensive investigation.
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