Posted May 14th 2008 8:35AM by TMZ Staff
The Library of Congress has chosen Michael Jackson's ghoul-orious "Thriller" album to add to its National Recording Registry, deeming it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." After all, no mere mortal can resist...
Michael's train wreck of a face might also be considered "aesthetically significant." We're just sayin'.
Jackson's 1982 best selling album of all time was the most contemporary of the 25 recordings picked with nothing being added from the 21st century. What, is Flo Rida not culturally significant?
The funk of 40,000 years indeed.
Filed under: Music, Michael Jackson
Posted Mar 21st 2008 8:13AM by TMZ Staff
Being confined in a wheelchair won't keep Elizabeth Taylor from happy hour with her gays.
The 76-year-old acting legend and her dog, Daisy, were caught getting wheeled out of WeHo restaurant/bar The Abbey yesterday -- where she was bombarded with questions about random longtime buddy Michael Jackson. Gladiator!
Filed under: Michael Jackson
Posted Mar 18th 2008 10:00PM by TMZ Staff
Jermaine Jackson insists MJ's Neverland ranch was never in foreclosure -- and it's for sale "over his dead body."
That's not exactly the truth though. Check out the story from TMZ TV and check your local listings for show times.
Filed under: Wacky and Weird, Michael Jackson
Posted Mar 18th 2008 3:02PM by TMZ Staff
Jacko may have saved his beloved playland from being auctioned off, but he couldn't save the animals. Poor Bubbles!
All of Jacko's pets, including giraffes, giant pythons, parrots and a menagerie of other species, were purchased by Banjoko Nature Preserve in Arizona. The creatures are intended to be "presented center-stage at a 185 acre planned multi-million dollar wildlife preserve."
Yeah, a zoo in the desert. Ironically, the pets look happier than ever.
Filed under: Wacky and Weird, Michael Jackson, Critters
Posted Mar 13th 2008 12:45PM by TMZ Staff
Michael Jackson has pulled some financial strings to save Neverland ranch from public auction just six days before it was supposed to go down.
An auction date had been set for March 19 because Jacko owed $24.5 million on the 2,500-acre spread northwest of Santa Barbara.
Question is -- who would have bought that place, anyway? It looks like the circus left town!
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Michael Jackson
Posted Mar 3rd 2008 5:16PM by TMZ Staff
Attorney Mark Geragos won a personal judgment in the XtraJet case that could qualify him to buy Neverland if it goes up for auction.
According to the order, the people responsible for illegally taping Geragos' conversations with Michael Jackson the day Jacko surrendered to face molestation charges must pay him $2 million in compensatory damages and $16 million in punitive damages. Those punitive damages are divided equally between Jeffrey Borer, the former owner of the jet company and the now bankrupt company itself.
But Geragos may want to hold on to his wallet, the lawyers for Borer says he will appeal.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Michael Jackson
Posted Mar 3rd 2008 3:11PM by TMZ Staff
A judge has ordered the former owner of a charter jet company to pay uber-attorney Mark Geragos and an associate lawyer $2.25 million for secretly taping them and Michael Jackson aboard a chartered plane as Jacko was en route from Vegas to Santa Barbara to surrender to child molestation charges in November of 2003.
Click here... it's not over yet
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Michael Jackson
Posted Mar 3rd 2008 12:46PM by TMZ Staff
Brother and sister Michael and LaToya Jackson are both apparent victims of the same debilitating disease, Incredible Shrinking Nose Syndrome.
How do those sunglasses stay on her face?!?
Filed under: Wacky and Weird, Beauty, Michael Jackson
Posted Feb 28th 2008 2:06PM by TMZ Staff
Wearing John Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever" disco suit, Jacko's brother Tito Jackson was snapped at LAX on Wednesday -- with a fetching Nicole Scherzinger look-alike traveling companion. Don'tcha wish your girlfriend was hot like her?!
Wonder what she $ee$ in him?
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Fly Me, Michael Jackson
Posted Feb 26th 2008 4:32PM by TMZ Staff
Michael Jackson is going the way of many American homeowners these days, only this foreclosure is a real circus.
FOX 411's Roger Friedman is reporting the King of Debt has just received word from Financial Title Company, the trustee of Neverland, unless he ponies up the $24,525,906.61 he owes on the monstrous mansion by March 19, it will be put up for public sale on the steps of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse!
A search on the Santa Barbara County Recorder website confirms that a "Notice of Trustees Sale" was filed yesterday by Financial Title Company.
Click here... it's not over yet
Filed under: Wacky and Weird, Celebrity Pay Dirt, Michael Jackson
Posted Feb 4th 2008 12:33PM by TMZ Staff
No, that's not Roseanne Barr or Wynonna Judd. It's Michael Jackson's lovely second ex-wife, Debbie Rowe -- 'memba huh?! Rowe was snapped leaving a clinic over the weekend.
In 2001, Debbie gave up all parental rights to her two recently unmasked children with Michael. In 2006, she tried to get her parental rights reinstated, but instead reached a "$ettlement of all issues."
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Beauty, Michael Jackson
Posted Jan 31st 2008 3:39PM by TMZ Staff
Michael Jackson (left) let two of his kids, Paris and Prince Michael, roam the Luxor Casino in Las Vegas without their usual masks -- and they're damned cute!
Looks like the apple fell far from the tree. Very, very far.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Baby Watch, Michael Jackson
Posted Jan 17th 2008 11:35AM by TMZ Staff
Got a spare $200k? If so, you can snap up Michael Jackson's suped-up 1975 Rolls-Royce Corniche Turbo.
The luxury ride has been fitted with a turbocharged engine, making it a one of a kind, just like Jackson's face -- excepting Janet and Latoya, of course.
Filed under: Michael Jackson
Posted Dec 24th 2007 6:52AM by TMZ Staff
Maybe he's on Team Heather, maybe he's just jealous that Paul's still got a face, but Michael Jackson has a message for Paul McCartney on the 25th anniversary release of "Thriller" -- the song is mine!
FOX News reports that the new mixes on the re-release of "Thriller" are out, and Paul is nowhere to be seen on the new version of "The Girl is Mine." Jacko and producer Will.I.Am have scrubbed Macca out of the song, which was originally, of course, a duet. He's a real nowhere man!
Kanye West does a version of "Billie Jean," while Akon has his own rendition of "Wanna Be Starting Something."
Katherine Weds – No Sign of Isaiah
"Grey's Anatomy" star Katherine Heigl got hitched last night to Josh Kelley, and while plenty of the "Grey's" cast were there, including T.R. Knight, one guy wasn't -- Isaiah Washington.
OK! reports that the Oscar de la Renta-clad Katherine walked down the aisle to a song written for her by her now-husband, musician Josh Kelley, and that pal T.R. was a groomsman. Sandra Oh, Kate Walsh and Justin Chambers from the show were also there, says the mag, and the ladies celebrated Kate's last day of singledom with an all-day trip to the spa.
No word on when Katherine's last cigarette was smoked.
Party Favors: Jessica's "Blonde Ambition" Bombs ... Olsen Twins Grovel at PETA's Feet
Jessica Simpson's star vehicle "Blonde Ambition" was originally going to go sraight to DVD, but instead had a short run in a few theaters in Texas. Well, as
Perez Hilton points out, it crashed. It made a whopping $1,122 for the whole weekend, which is roughly a tenth of what "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" made per theater on its way to $45.5 million. ... The
New York Post reports that the Olsen twins are actually asking PETA for forgiveness after the animal-rights group parodied MK and Ashley for their fur-love, calling them the Trollsen Twins.
Filed under: Let's Get This Party Started, Michael Jackson
Posted Dec 17th 2007 1:01PM by TMZ Staff
Looking like a character from "Star Wars," a wrapped and bandaged Michael Jackson haunted a Las Vegas bookstore over the weekend. The funk of 40,000 years!
The mummyish 49-year-old former King of Pop hit up a Barnes & Noble with his three kids -- and it seems he may have come fresh from a surgeon's office -- in Iraq! Leave me alone! Jacko's disintegrating face made headlines a few years ago, when he was seen in court -- with a nose that appeared to be falling off. Makes me want to scream!
TMZ is awaiting a response from Jackson's rep regarding the bandages. It's unknown if Michael was able to speak.
Filed under: Wacky and Weird, Beauty, Michael Jackson
