JOHN MAYER AT MICHAEL JACKSON’S MEMORIAL | Weekly World News
LOS ANGELES, CA – John Mayer performed at Michael Jackson’s memorial last night. Sources confirm that Mayer was never invited and instead snuck in.
Crowds were surprised at the Staples Center last night in Los Angeles when John Mayer took to the stage. Up to that point the performers at Michael Jackson’s tribute memorial had been people close with the star.
Sources confirm that John Mayer snuck into the Staples Center to perform last night. Security camera footage shows the 31-year-old crooner climbing fences and sneaking past guards to get in the building. At one point he put a lone security guard in a sleeper hold, then stuffed him in a locker before moving closer to the stage. Once in the backstage area, no one questioned Mayer’s presence.
Backstage Mayer attempted to fit in with the properly billed artists. He tried to make small talk with Diana Ross, and other legends of Motown but was consistently shot down. Quincy Jones tried to make the boy feel welcome before quickly losing his patience with him. In the end Mayer spent most of his time standing in a corner with Corey Feldman, whose Michael Jackson outfit made many wonder if he had started doing drugs again.
At what was supposed to be an intermission John Mayer took to the stage. The audience wondered why the house lights had come up for his performance, and why he was not on the program. Mayer’s performance was highly out of place between the various musical legends and tribute acts. Both Bubbles the Chimp and LaToya Jackson had to be kept from flinging poo at the stage. At the end of his song Mayer received polite applause from the bewildered crowd before he ran off stage and into the night.
No official criminal charges will be filed against John Mayer for trespassing at the Staples Center. However Macauley Culkin has sworn a vendetta against John Mayer and is believed to be seeking vigilante justice.
July 8, 2009
JOHN MAYER AT MICHAEL JACKSON’S MEMORIAL | Weekly World News
The Jackson-Liz Drug Link -- The Daily Beast
The Jackson-Liz Drug Link - Page 2 - The Daily Beast
As the world said goodbye to Michael Jackson, new reports revealed signs of IV drug use. Gerald Posner uncovers details about his pill habit and the role of an influential friend—Liz Taylor.
Questions continue to swirl about how Michael Jackson apparently died from a prescription-drug overdose. After discussing Jackson’s medical history with several people personally familiar with it, The Daily Beast has uncovered new details about his early pill dependencies, including the role of an influential friend: Elizabeth Taylor.
Jackson idolized Taylor, multiple sources confirmed, holding her up as if she were the actual title character from Cleopatra, which he had watched dozens of times, bringing his friends regularly to meet her. Jackson told one she was “a mythical figure.”
And it was Taylor who endorsed Arnold Klein, the cosmetic dermatologist to Hollywood’s A-list, to Jackson. One of Klein’s nurses, Debbie Rowe, later married Jackson and was the surrogate mother for his first two children. One tabloid report even suggested since the pop star’s death that Klein was the biological father of those children, something he dismissed outright.
Jackson was twice warned by a good friend that his relationship with Taylor was toxic because she unwittingly fed his addiction.
In the mid-'80s, when Jackson was a new patient at Dr. Klein’s office, Taylor was seeking help for her own prescription-drug and alcohol problem. According to a source intimately familiar with Taylor’s medical history in the 1980s, she sought help from at least two doctors to counter her growing drug dependence. After multiple visits to one of them, she abandoned the pretense of wanting to be drug-free and instead asked for Dilaudid and Ativan, the first a powerful opiate that street users dub “the Bentley of heroin,” and the latter a tranquilizer.
The doctor refused and demanded she come clean on her entire prescription history. He then discovered that Taylor was using more prescriptions than she had disclosed during her earlier visits. A source close to the doctor said that when she was pressed about who was prescribing such a wide mix of drugs, she said it was Dr. Klein. The doctor urged her to enter rehab—she did in 1988—and much later remarked to an associate, “I’m surprised she’s still alive.”
A person familiar with Jackson’s medical history says this was around the time Jackson first began using some of the same pain and sleeping pills as Taylor. Dr. Klein was treating Jackson for vitiligo (which causes depigmentation and patchiness in the skin), this person says, and Jackson often complained about residual pain from his 1984 accident in which his hair caught on fire while filming a Pepsi ad.
Dr. Klein not only counted Taylor and Jackson as patients but socialized with both. When Liz celebrated her birthday, for instance in 1999 at Las Vegas’ Bellagio Hotel, at an Andrea Bocelli concert, she only invited Michael, Klein, her hairdresser, and her then-boyfriend, a Beverly Hills dentist and his two sons.
“Michael was often visiting Liz,” Michael LaPerruque, head of Jackson’s security for different periods this decade, told me. “And at different times, I met Dr. Klein. He would also be around.”
In January 1993, Michael Jackson performed at the 20th-annual American Music Awards at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium. Liz Taylor gave him a special award, and Jackson and Taylor were walking together after the show. “She was teetering, and you could smell the alcohol on her,” recalls a witness. “Her eyes were glazed.”
Jackson was twice warned by a good friend that his relationship with Taylor was toxic because she unwittingly fed his addiction—she would never encourage him to straighten out as she had the same problem. In each instance, the normally nonconfrontational Jackson abruptly cut off any discussion. “He would hear none of it,” says the friend.
This shared relationship—Jackson, Taylor and Klein—continued all the way to the days before Jackson’s death. I spoke to Ben Evenstad, the 29-year-old founder of The National Photo Group, which had Michael Jackson as its primary subject for the past few years whenever he was in Los Angeles. Evenstad assigned a photographer to Jackson six to seven days a week since he returned to Los Angeles, from Las Vegas, in September 2008.
Two to three times a week, the photographers trailed Jackson to the Beverly Hills building where Dr. Klein has his office. He’d stay there anywhere from 30 minutes to five hours. The only other person the pop star regularly visited, says Evenstad, was Elizabeth Taylor. He saw her four to five times a week, usually spending hours there, until the pace slowed up when his rehearsals started in February.
Three days before Michael Jackson died, Elizabeth Taylor, who has a Twitter account as “Dame Elizabeth” (an honorary title bestowed on her by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth in 1999), Tweeted the following: “I will never be able to thank my dear friend, Dr. Arnold Klein enough for the stunning drawing by Matisse.”
A Los Angeles Police spokesman refused to confirm or deny whether Dr. Klein was one of the five physicians reportedly the subject of their Jackson investigation. Neither Dr. Klein nor his attorney would comment. When asked about the shared dependencies of Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson, Taylor’s spokesman, Dick Guttman, said, “I have no knowledge of any of that.”
Jacko, King of pop 1958-2009 | Michael Jacksons final journey | 18 black cars, 20 choppers and a world in mourning | The Sun |News
Jacko, King of pop 1958-2009 | Michael Jacksons final journey | 18 black cars, 20 choppers and a world in mourning | The Sun |News
Final journey ... one side of the LA freeway is empty -
save for the 18 limos in Michael's funeral motercade
THIS is the amazing scene as Michael Jackson - escorted by 18 limos and with 20 helicopters flying overhead - made his final journey through LA.
Farewell ... Jacko bows
out in styleIt marked the end of a remarkable 12 days since the King Of Pop died on June 25 and left the entertainment world in mourning. By the next day it had emerged that Jacko's frail body had been full of a cocktail of prescription-only drugs - which meant his doctors would be questioned.
In the days that followed, a host of stars paid tribute to him at to him at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset. Also the true state of the singer's condition became known. He was revealed in his autopsy to be completely bald and weigh just 8st 1oz.
Then footage which had never been seen before was released showing Jacko rehearsing for his This Is It tour which was set to open at London's O2 later this month.
The next day it was announced there would be a lottery for public tickets to the memorial.
And on the day of the memorial it was announced that Britain's Got Talent child star Shaheen Jafargholi was to sing at the service, joining a line-up including Stevie Wonder and Mariah Carey.
Here we outline those final closing chapters in the story of the King Of Pop - which showed he could still make the headlines after his death.
Dad threatens to drop 8th floor tot in protest over Jackson tickets| The Sun |News
Dad threatens to drop 8th floor tot
Terrifying ... toddler is dangled out of window
Dad threatens to drop 8th floor tot | The Sun |NewsA DRUG addict dangles his two-year-old daughter from an eighth floor window before threatening to jump.
Suicidal Hu Binjun, 34, held the terrified child out of the window for THREE hours before a fireman crawled along the ledge and rescued her, as our amazing pictures show.
Binjun had been threatening to drop the tot from the window of his flat in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, before killing himself and all attempts to talk him down had failed.