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Michael Jackson: King of Pop Really Wants to Be Prince
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
The one-time King of Pop wants to be Prince in the worst way.
I'm told that on Sunday night, Michael Jackson sneaked into Prince's show
following the NBA All-Star Game in Las Vegas.
Jackson is interested in Prince's current run of shows at the Rio Nightclub,
part of Harrah's, where the Purple One has installed himself for a long
schedule at his own 3121 Club.
Jackson, of course, would like to do the same thing, maybe with a Club
Thriller.
The difference would be that Prince likes to perform and shows up, while
Jackson may continue to have trouble getting insurance for such an endeavor,
since he's known for canceling dates without notice.
And surprisingly, Jackson's companion for the evening was none other than
comedian and actor Chris Tucker. It was Tucker who helped Jackson get
involved with the Arvizo family a few years ago, leading to Jackson's
eventual involvement with them and his consequent trial for child
molestation and conspiracy. It took concrete testimony from Tucker and his
ex-girlfriend to exonerate Jackson.
Jackson either wasn't paying attention at the trial or doesn't mind hooking
up with folks held over from that era.
In the last year or so, he has also rekindled a friendship with Carol
Lamere, the woman who introduced him to the Arvizos in the first place.
Lamere has replaced Karen Faye, Jackson's long time makeup artist. Even
though it was Faye who painted Jackson white every morning and sent him off
to court, the former pop star jettisoned her in 2005, I'm told, at the
behest of his children's territorial nanny, Grace Rwaramba.
Lamere became the girlfriend of David Arvizo, the father of Jackson's
accuser, after meeting him through a dance academy where the boy and his two
siblings wound up getting free lessons.
Not only that: Lamere then became a host to Arvizo's daughter, then 16, who
lived with her for long stretches because the girl no longer wanted to stay
with her mother, the now-infamous Janet Jackson.
Defense investigator Scott Ross interviewed Lamere in November 2004. The
interview states that Lamere tried to warn Michael Jackson about the Arvizo
family but his secretary, Evvy Tavasci, didn't pass along the message.
She told Ross that Janet Arvizo was quite skilled at manipulating her kids
to say anything she wanted, and that she was gifted at playing poor to get
money out of strangers.
Ross's report stated: "Carol's opinion of Janet is that she should be in a
mental institution."
Maybe Lamere and Jackson can reminisce about all this now while she's
applying the whitening cream for which he still owes a Beverly Hills
pharmacy $50,000.
In the meantime, Internet sources are going crazy over a "new" Jackson
single that's surfaced on the MySpace page belonging to a group fronted by
Pras of the Fugees.
But I'm told the track - called "No Friend of Mine" - is simply recycled
from 1995, when Pras and the Fugees worked with Jackson remixing songs from
Jackson's 11-year-old, poor-selling "Blood on the Dance Floor" CD.
Michael Jackson: King of Pop Really Wants to Be Prince
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
The one-time King of Pop wants to be Prince in the worst way.
I'm told that on Sunday night, Michael Jackson sneaked into Prince's show
following the NBA All-Star Game in Las Vegas.
Jackson is interested in Prince's current run of shows at the Rio Nightclub,
part of Harrah's, where the Purple One has installed himself for a long
schedule at his own 3121 Club.
Jackson, of course, would like to do the same thing, maybe with a Club
Thriller.
The difference would be that Prince likes to perform and shows up, while
Jackson may continue to have trouble getting insurance for such an endeavor,
since he's known for canceling dates without notice.
And surprisingly, Jackson's companion for the evening was none other than
comedian and actor Chris Tucker. It was Tucker who helped Jackson get
involved with the Arvizo family a few years ago, leading to Jackson's
eventual involvement with them and his consequent trial for child
molestation and conspiracy. It took concrete testimony from Tucker and his
ex-girlfriend to exonerate Jackson.
Jackson either wasn't paying attention at the trial or doesn't mind hooking
up with folks held over from that era.
In the last year or so, he has also rekindled a friendship with Carol
Lamere, the woman who introduced him to the Arvizos in the first place.
Lamere has replaced Karen Faye, Jackson's long time makeup artist. Even
though it was Faye who painted Jackson white every morning and sent him off
to court, the former pop star jettisoned her in 2005, I'm told, at the
behest of his children's territorial nanny, Grace Rwaramba.
Lamere became the girlfriend of David Arvizo, the father of Jackson's
accuser, after meeting him through a dance academy where the boy and his two
siblings wound up getting free lessons.
Not only that: Lamere then became a host to Arvizo's daughter, then 16, who
lived with her for long stretches because the girl no longer wanted to stay
with her mother, the now-infamous Janet Jackson.
Defense investigator Scott Ross interviewed Lamere in November 2004. The
interview states that Lamere tried to warn Michael Jackson about the Arvizo
family but his secretary, Evvy Tavasci, didn't pass along the message.
She told Ross that Janet Arvizo was quite skilled at manipulating her kids
to say anything she wanted, and that she was gifted at playing poor to get
money out of strangers.
Ross's report stated: "Carol's opinion of Janet is that she should be in a
mental institution."
Maybe Lamere and Jackson can reminisce about all this now while she's
applying the whitening cream for which he still owes a Beverly Hills
pharmacy $50,000.
In the meantime, Internet sources are going crazy over a "new" Jackson
single that's surfaced on the MySpace page belonging to a group fronted by
Pras of the Fugees.
But I'm told the track - called "No Friend of Mine" - is simply recycled
from 1995, when Pras and the Fugees worked with Jackson remixing songs from
Jackson's 11-year-old, poor-selling "Blood on the Dance Floor" CD.