Originally Posted by shimar
This is what I heard:
There was a creepy clause in MJs latest contract regarding his career demise or death and the catalog reverting to Sony.
What is unclear to me is if it is the MJ Catalog or the entire Sony-ATV ownership.
I read that when the Mijac catalogue expires with Warners, Sony have first refusal, but I'm not knowing when the expiry date for that is, do you know?
... Not sure about the death clause, I've not heard that mentioned before
But a financial demise would have put them both a risk.
I believe Sony can exercise the right to claim back a further 25% of the Sony/ATV if they wish to, due to past borrowings against it, but I think it would have looked really really suss to do it right away in any case I think?
There's a thread in the investigation forum called Let's look at Sony, I think this info could do with being in there too, then it will be noticed more by people interested in looking into these things.
Thanks Shimar! IF that is true then the conspiracy theories make a lot more sense!
Where did you hear this? I'm sure there must be some way to verify whether or not that was in MJ's contract. If he was always fearing for his life, and worried about a conspiracy against him when it came to the catalog, (which I KNOW he was,) then I can't understand why he would stipulate the catalog reverting to Sony in ANY contract.
He wouldn't have stipulated it, they would have. I think that was legit though, 'cos it had something to do with taking out the loans against it, but there again, he didn't know there was a quirky clause in his recording contract that significantly delayed his maters returning to him, which he now never got in his life time
I'm not certain, but I think off the top of my head they can go to his descendants? This is all in that other thread I think though anyway.
I'm glad to see someone else who knows Michael's fears were rational based on real threats and manipulations. I'm fed up of people buying the he was paranoid angle ... these death threats really do happen
Why is this Radaronline site the only one coming forward with this? Why no CNN and other more...'reliable' sites?
I know, I thought news like this would have blown up! ~ there's was snippet on 3am Girls in The Mirror & it's on the Philip Anschultz (AEG) backed Entertainment.com website, Radar as you said, but you really have to search for them in amongst a sea of Klein files lawsuits hmmmm ... strange that isn't it?
There's obviously media control going on for it not to have been picked up by any other outlets at all. I'm wondering if some sort of strategy or game play is going on behind the scenes, or if it was just to put the death threats out there. It reads a bit differently to me today, tricky legal uses of words that don't always mean what I thought at first, in those letters, so I've lost that OMG factor
I definitely think there's more to all this than it just being about Murray though.