Re: MJ Estate Sues Katherine Jackson's Business Partner Howard Mann
I'm more curious about Adam Streisand , where is he? I mean we know that Katherine - Mann contract has been signed without a lawyer. Is she doing deals , giving out statements without the guidance of a lawyer? That's what I wonder.
According to this page he still represents Katherine
http://www.loeb.com/adam_streisand/
maybe he only reps her on estate issues. this is her own private biz deal
Or he could had just given up, took his paycheck, and shut up, since no one in that family seems to listen to him. You can only argue with a brick wall for so long.
Last year when she signed the deal with Mann, Streisnad said he was kept in the dark. He only represents Katherine on estate matters, Katherine is her own rep when it comes to Mann.
I realize that Streisand is an estate lawyer (and probably this new lawsuit doesn't fall into his area of specialty) but I also see some confusion / misinformation on Katherine's parts about how an estate works as well.
For example in the recent interview she says "they say to me you have to ask the estate get the permission" and then we have also seen the "MJ belts agreement" in which Katherine and Joe thought they can licence Michael's image and likeliness as they are the parents of Michael. In other words they don't really seem like they understand what an estate is and how it works.
As for the Mann - there was an interview with Katherine some time back in which she says "what estate is giving her is not enough and her business deal with Mann is based on her need for money".
Now let's talk about how an allowance is determined
You go to court and say I have this and that expenses and the court says okay here's that amount as your allowance.
If the allowance isn't enough to cover your expenses you can go to court and say "well it's not enough I also have this and that new expenses" and the court will say "okay let's increase it then".
Here we need to ask that "if the money Katherine gets from the Estate isn't enough why we haven't seen a request for allowance increase?"
It's been done for the MJ's kids allowance and Streisand is no dummy so why no request of allowance increase? and I guess you all know the answer : it's because the "need of money" Katherine is talking about isn't for her expenses but probably for other Jackson's expenses therefore she have no basis to make an increase request. And that's not something the estate has to pay for according to the will so they shouldn't be blamed for it.
And this is what I meant by "where's Adam Streisand?"
I know a lot of people is boycotting TMZ so this is what was asked and answered at TMZ Live today
Question : If Katherine Jackson keeps making accusations about the Estate administrators can they get an injunction against her to stop her from talking?
Harvey : No. It's free speech. She can say whatever she wants to say. The issue is "Is she doing the right thing by ragging on the Estate which gives her $26K per month in cash?" They paid her mortgage, they paid for cars, chefs, vacations and remodeling and whole things.
Charles : It's odd that she continues to poke them.
Harvey : Somebody is in her ear I'm telling you.
Well, if others know that someone is in her ear, her children should know too. They need to tweet one of the 3Ts to speak to grandma. I recall they did not like it when fans talked about grandma, so maybe someone should tweet him to have a chat with her for her own good.
I don't think Jackson's will be of any help due to their stand against the estate.
First of all I think Howard Mann is the one that's in her ear in this case. and it seems like Mann does stuff that the family isn't aware of (as we can see from Randy's and Taj's tweets).
However it's also common knowledge that some family members are against the estate executors for one reason or another.
In short to me it looks like nobody sits down and say "hey you are shady, Michael didn't like you, he sued you in the past". On the contrary they seem to say "forget the past, if you are against the estate then you are my new best friend".
There's an idiom that goes "a drowning man will clutch at a straw". In my home country it's modified to say "a drowning man will clutch at a snake" (snake meaning enemies/bad/shady people).
