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| Gruppe: Administrator Rang: ghost  Beiträge: 973 Mitglied seit: 01.09.2005 IP-Adresse: gespeichert  | Former Michael Jackson adviser files $64 mln suit LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former adviser to Michael Jackson has filed a $64 million lawsuit against the pop star, alleging breach of contract and fraud. Dieter Wiesner filed a civil suit against Jackson on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming he paid Jackson, who was acquitted in June of sexual molestation charges, millions of dollars for rights to merchandise his name and likeness that were not Jackson's to sell. The complaint alleges Jackson had sold the rights to another buyer prior to Wiesner, who wound up suing Wiesner. That suit was settled with Wiesner lending Jackson even more money, costing Wiesner a total of $9 million to secure the rights and pay the settlement. The complaint alleges the rights yielded Wiesner little income because Jackson refused to cooperate and actually interfered with merchandising efforts. Wiesner also claims Jackson fired several advisers and implored Wiesner to step in around 2002 to serve as a personal manager. Wiesner said he was then rudely and abruptly fired when Jackson's criminal problems surfaced in 2003 with allegations the pop stars had an improper relationship with a young cancer survivor. Jackson was cleared of child molestation charges in June after a four-month trial and has been spending much of his time in Bahrain. "True to form, Jackson never paid Wiesner for the countless hours he spent rescuing Jackson from the brink of financial disaster," the complaint said. A lawyer for Jackson was not immediately available for comment. Reuters
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| Gruppe: Administrator Rang: ghost Beiträge: 973 Mitglied seit: 01.09.2005 IP-Adresse: gespeichert | Jackson's sicko Jewish rant By MICHELLE CARUSO in Los Angeles and CORKY SIEMASZKO in New York DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Michael Jackson picked a familiar target to blame for his mounting money problems - the Jews. In phone messages obtained by ABC News, the apparently prejudiced pop star likens them to "leeches" and claims they conspired to leave him "penniless." "They suck...they're like leeches...I'm so tired of it," Jackson tells former adviser Dieter Wiesner in one of them. "The Jews do it on purpose." The ugly message, which was made two years ago and aired yesterday on "Good Morning America," was one of several provided by Wiesner's lawyer, Howard King. Wiesner and another former Jackson adviser, Marc Schaffel, were fired by the singer and are suing him to recoup the millions they say he owes them. Jackson had to apologize to Jewish groups a decade ago after he included lyrics like "Jew me/Sue me/Everybody do me/Kick me/Kike me" on the song "They Don't Care About Us." Jackson, who relocated to Bahrain after he was acquitted of child molesting charges, did not respond to the revelations. Brian Oxman, a Jackson family attorney, insisted in a statement that the messages were actually "telephone conversations recorded without permission." Jackson used Schaffel and Wiesner to get around the restrictions his bankers imposed to keep the free-spending freak from going broke, according to King. "Hello Marc, it's Michael," Jackson tells Schaffel in one message. "Please, please never let me down. I really like you. I love you...Mark, I really need you to get...seven million for me as soon as possible . . . Seven, seven and a half, umm, as an advance." New York Daily News
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| Gruppe: Administrator Rang: ghost Beiträge: 973 Mitglied seit: 01.09.2005 IP-Adresse: gespeichert | JERKO JACKSON'S UGLY JABS AT JEWS By TODD VENEZIA November 23, 2005 -- Michael Jackson may love the children of the world — but he doesn't like Jews, according to a blockbuster new audiotape that apparently captures the Gloved One waxing anti-Semitic to a former business manager. "They suck," the King of Pop is allegedly heard saying on a voicemail message left the ex-adviser. "They're like leeches . . . I'm so tired of it . . . they start out the most popular person in the world, make a lot of money, big house, cars and everything. End up penniless. It is conspiracy. The Jews do it on purpose." Jackson was also heard on other tapes demanding lackeys get wads of cash for him from accounts the financially troubled troubadour wasn't supposed to be touching — and courier them to him in paper fast-food bags. "You got to get me some fries," is how Jackson is heard describing one of the transactions. "When he wanted large amounts, he would call and say supersize them," said Marc Schaffel, a gay-porn producer and former Jackson confidant now suing the singer for some $3 million, saying he was not paid for work or repaid loans. The tapes were played for the first time in public yesterday on ABC's "Good Morning America" — a day after another one of Jackson's former business managers, Dieter Wiesner, filed a separate, $64 million lawsuit against him claiming fraud and breach of contract. Howard King, the lawyer for both Schaffel and Wiesner, told the show that the Hebrew-hating bit of audio was from a message Jackson left with Wiesner. This isn't the first time Jackson has been caught in an anti-Semitic controversy — his 1996 song "They Don't Care About Us" included the lyrics "Jew me, sue me," and "kike me, kike me." "Good Morning America" said it could not verify the message beyond a doubt — and Jackson's lawyers would not comment for ABC. However, the show says it has verified the voice-mail messages made to Schaffel about getting cash. "Marc, I really need you to get . . . $7 million for me as soon as possible . . . seven, seven and a half, umm, as an advance," Jackson allegedly said in a message to Schaffel. Like Wiesner, Schaffel was one of the unindicted co-conspirators involved in Jackson's kid-sex case from earlier this year — in which the wacky warbler was acquitted of molesting a young cancer patient. Jackson is countersuing Schaffel, saying the bizman owes him money. Jackson civil attorney Brent Ayscough told The Post, when asked about the tapes, that "I would be very suspicious of anything that Schaffel put out." According to Schaffel lawyer King, Jackson was not allowed to touch much of his own money because of the various restrictions placed on him by bankers, "GMA" reported. The singer would resort to using middlemen in a clandestine cash drop-off, in order to get around the restrictions and fund his bizarre lifestyle of monkeys, llamas and toy-store shopping sprees, the show said. And he when he wanted his money, he apparently wanted it now, according to the tapes. "I don't want no ifs ands or buts," he could be heard saying on one tape. "Do it now, do it now, OK?" New York Post
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| Gruppe: Administrator Rang: ghost Beiträge: 973 Mitglied seit: 01.09.2005 IP-Adresse: gespeichert | Jacko: $60M Lawsuit From Former Manager It's no surprise. Now Dieter Wiesner, Michael Jackson's manager from the early part of this decade through his arrest for child molestation, has filed suit against the singer. The many charges of fraud Wiesner claims in his Los Angeles Superior Court action total over $60 million. Wiesner was one of the five unindicted, unnamed co-conspirators in Jackson's trial this year. He's using the same attorney as Marc Schaffel, who's suing Jackson for much less -- just about $4 million -- in a separate case. Wiesner, I reported in December 2003, owns or has owned legal sex clubs in Germany. He has disputed this. But the outcry over our report sent Wiesner running from Los Angeles and Jackson back to Hamburg at that time. The result, if you recall, was that Michael's brother Jermaine Jackson moved in with the Nation of Islam and kicked Wiesner and his partner Ronald Konitzer out. According to Wiesner's papers, he was still paid $15,000 a month through the summer of 2004. But all of his deals were canceled, and he was out in the cold. Konitzer is not involved in this suit. My guess is he'll file his own. So far, that means Jackson is under fire from five different lawsuits, including one for $48 million from Prescient Partners. For the Schaffel suit, Jackson was deposed in London earlier this fall. He so far refuses to return to the U.S., and you can see why. Wiesner's complaint compares Jackson to Max Bialystock, the scheming character from "The Producers," constantly moving money around, promising to pay one party while borrowing from another. If depositions ever proceed in this case, though, it may be Wiesner whose reputation gets churned up. He was with Jackson in a Berlin hotel room in the fall of 2002 when the singer dangled his baby son out of a window. Wiesner did nothing to stop it. He was also with Jackson when he was arrested in November 2003, and had been with him all through the previous winter when Jackson was housing the Arvizo family at Neverland. FOX411
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| 23.11.2005 11:07:53 | | |
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| Gruppe: Administrator Rang: ghost Beiträge: 973 Mitglied seit: 01.09.2005 IP-Adresse: gespeichert | Manager verklagt Jackson auf 64 Millionen Michael Jackson ist von seinem ehemaligen Manager auf Zahlung von insgesamt 64 Millionen Dollar verklagt worden. Dieter Wiesner reichte am Montag in Los Angeles Klage ein. Die Forderung setzt Wiesner aus mehreren Teilforderungen zusammen: Zunächst habe er Jackson das Recht abgekauft, dessen Namen und Aussehen zu vermarkten. Allerdings hätten diese Rechte zum Zeitpunkt des Verkaufs schon gar nicht mehr dem Popstar gehört, der sie zuvor schon an jemand anders vergeben gehabt habe. Dieser Rechteinhaber habe Wiesner dann verklagt. Das Problem habe man gelöst, indem Wiesner Jackson weiteres Geld lieh, damit der den anderen Rechteinhaber auszahlen konnte. Insgesamt neun Millionen Dollar habe die Aktion am Ende gekostet. Später habe Jackson ihm dann um das Jahr 2002 herum angeboten, für ihn als persönlicher Manager zu arbeiten. Allerdings sei er ein Jahr später plötzlich und nicht sehr freundlich entlassen worden, als Beschuldigungen aufkamen, Michael Jackson habe sich an einem krebskranken Jungen vergangen. "De facto war es so, dass Jackson Wiesner niemals für die unzähligen Stunden bezahlt hat, die er damit zubrachte, Jackson vor der finanziellen Katastrophe zu retten", heißt es laut "ABC News" in der Klageschrift. (N24.de, Netzeitung)
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