Ok, here's the first part written of my conference call with Andy Picheta, I had 4 different subjects I wanted to discuss, and the first was Michael's children. Please don't alter, change or summarize it since I wrote it the exact way it has been said. Thank you
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Interview between Jackson Québec and Andy Picheta on September 1st 2011 at 5h30pm, Quebec time.
Note: What is written between ( ) has been said or something that meant the same as been said, but the sound was cut on the recording due to speaker phone.
1st concern: THE CHILDREN
(Hi, presentation etc...)
AP: Sorry we couldn’t join you yesterday. So what I’m doing or what I’m trying to do is start correcting, try to address some of the issues the fans had, the issues that led you to co-sign that open letter to Chris Hunt at GLE. And just try to explain a little bit about what we’re doing and hopefully get (your side) to see that you may not agree with the timing or you may not agree with necessarily the structure but to see, you know that we have the (best intentions to go on with) that family tribute at Cardiff.
JQ: Yeah I get that...
AP: So do you want to tell me about some of the concerns you’ve had representing Quebecers MJ fans?
JQ: Well, actually my biggest concern would be about the children. So my first question would be really easy: Do you think Michael Jackson’s children are poor?
AP: Do we think they are poor? We think that the terms of... from the Estate is doing with Michael’s children, that they are safe started later on in life and we wanted to, if Katherine Jackson is the legal guardian, she has small degree of financial independence, because as a matter the only money that she gets, she gets it from the Estate. The children of course, are incredibly rich, with legacy I suppose, but their access to is terms I believe in a way that we felt we wanted to help Katherine Jackson, Ms. Jackson earlier that the Estate had in mind.
JQ: So since you just said that the Estate manages the trust for the children, you felt the need to give Katherine a new trust for the children, so why is she in charge of this new trust you’ve just set?
AP: Because she’s the children guardian.
JQ: But, I thought Michael chose the Estate to take care financially of his kids and the way I read his will, it was like very well done, in a way that they don’t get all the money already so, it’s better for their future...
AP: But I need to make it clear, we are not against anything that the Estate is doing, we respect what the Estate is doing, we respect what they’re doing for Michael’s children. But we felt as that a gesture, a proper gesture from us would be to (help Katherine) as well as the (children).
JQ: So the money goes to Katherine?
AP: It goes to the trust fund.
JQ: Ok, why does the kids appear in the terms and conditions of the concert?
AP: I know! This one caught me by surprise cause I didn’t read it. Another fan did ask the same question. The terms and conditions were written by lawyers and we are presenting the official Jackson family tribute concert and out of that, is the fact that the children are family (and it proves that we are not imposters). But to be honest, I expect they put it in to give (credibility) to the fact that this is the official family tribute concert and I know that Jermaine and Randy are very aggressively against and I know that Janet has very diplomatically and very, in a dignified way said (she won’t be taking part).
JQ: So you don’t think they put the kids in the terms and conditions to sell more tickets?
AP: No, Absolutely not. Absolutely not. I know the lawyers, and I know that they were probably trying to show that this is an official concert. I really don’t think that the selling of tickets has anything to do with that, the children aren’t performing, they don’t want to be on stage, as far as I know they aren’t gonna do anything except to be there with Katherine.
JQ: Are the kids gonna perform at the concert?.
AP: Absolutely not, absolutely not.
JQ: So no speech either?
AP: I’ve seen a very rough (appearing) order and they are not there either at all.
JQ: Who made the 100 000$ check and who signed it?
AP: It was signed by Chris Hunt, the president of Global Live.
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Next subject to come as soon as I'm finished writting it
