Latest on MJJC

Monday, April 13, 2009 News / Mentionings

MsSnoop

MsSnoop

Proud Member
Joined
Jul 25, 2011
Messages
447
Points
0
Location
Las Vegas
What is it about Michael Jackson?
Why do we love him?
What does he have that NO other entertainer has?



*******************************​

​


Michael Jackson News:​


Morning Edition, April 13, 2009 - Next week in Beverly Hills, more than 2,000 items belonging to pop star Michael Jackson will be sold to the highest bidder. Everything, from Jackson's antique cars to a statue of him as a California Raisin, is up for grabs.

The items come from Jackson's 2,700-acre Neverland Ranch, which he vacated after being acquitted of child molestation charges. He later sold the property to an investment company.

Darren Julien of Julien's Auctions, which is running the sale, says he tried to re-create Neverland, room by room, to give the public a never-before-seen glimpse into Jackson's life.

Highlights from the lot include the singer's signature white sparkling glove, elaborate costumes, memorabilia and even the gold-crested gates that once hung at the entrance to the ranch.

Even though Jackson stands to make a lot of money from the auction, he's filed suit to stop the sale. Jackson wants the right to remove some of his most prized possessions, but so far the courts say no.

Julien says the show will go on, and that even the recession won't dissuade bidders. He expects the auction to bring in $12 million.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102988386


**********************​
West end fills up with transfer shows

By DAVID BENEDICT


The West End is no longer hospitable to drama. At least, that's what the doom merchants would have us believe. And with tuners like "Avenue Q" and Michael Jackson tribute "Thriller" occupying playhouses, a casual glance might support that claim. But it's far from the truth​
​
​




**********************​

Michael Jackson Mentionings: (the world cannot get by without mentioning his talent, his business sense, and how he affects history! )

U2, Urban reduce seat prices for US fans

The West Australian -
As an example, he cited Michael Jackson's summer shows at the O2 arena in London. "The top ticket price is STG75 ($A155). People think I'm crazy because we ...

PARP celebration held in Forestville Elementary gym

Evening Observer -
The skit was actually a dream sequence and after the the students sang a line from "We are the Children", composed by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson for ...

45th Anniversary of the Ford Mustang

Gizmag - ‎
And Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” wins the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. From 1983 to 1993, the emphasis at Ford was on the resurgence of a performance ...

​






Today in
Michael Jackson History​
1985 - The single "We Are the World" hit #1 in the U.S.

1999 - Michael Jackson announced that all proceeds from his single "What More Can I Give?" would be donated to help ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo.

2006 - Attorneys for Michael Jackson announced that Michael Jackson had restructured his finances with the help of Sony Corp

​
 
Last edited:
More mentionings:

Final bow for NYC sheet music retailer

It’s curtains for a renowned Manhattan sheet music retailer. Marsha Patelson, the daughter-in-law of the founder, says she plans to close Joseph Patelson Music House by the end of April. She also will sell its home — an 1879 carriage house near the Carnegie Hall stage door. It’s been around for more than six decades. Patelson says the store has been losing money for years. Famous shoppers have included Isaac Stern, Aaron Copland, Beverly Sills, Van Cliburn, and Kurt Masur as well as Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Bette Midler, and Kevin Kline.

http://www.journalinquirer.com/articles/2009/04/13/politics_and_courts/doc49e32c2b33950054592628.txt


The Kids are back

Canada.com -
(New Kids on the Block)
At one point, their audience approval ratings threatened even those of Madonna and Michael Jackson, the era's two biggest pop stars. ...

****************************************************​

So....does anyone have this print? (I do!)

thumbnail.aspx
 
AllTheLovelyFlowers said:
Wow, Michael's tickets prices are still way more than U2's.
Click to expand...

there are some tickets for the U2 concert in Pasadena that go for ten thousand dollars. the rest of them are equal to Michael's, from what i saw on the site that i posted in the music makes the world go round section.
 
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1609143/20090413/jackson_michael.jhtml

Michael Jackson Auction Set To Start Next Week

Preview opens to the public Tuesday; a motion to stop the sale will be heard Wednesday.

By Kathleen Newman-Bremang
Views32 injectFluxWidget('Rating', {uri: 'mgid:uma:content:mtv.com:1609143', customCss: 'yes', contentType:'Article'});


281x211.jpg






Michael Jackson might not want his personal items sold to the highest bidder, but it looks like the iconic collection will be up for grabs in a four-day auction beginning April 22 whether he likes it or not.
Jackson's fans can now get a glimpse of the exhibit — which has been tied up in legal drama for months — with the Beverly Hills re-creation of MJ's Neverland Ranch opening to the public Tuesday through April 21.



Despite alleged threats from Jackson's camp, Hollywood auction house Julien's Auctions is going ahead with the sale, which includes everything from the pop star's gloves to antique furniture to a Bentley to mannequins. But if you want to rock the iconic white glove Jackson made famous while belting out "Billie Jean" in 1983 at the Motown Records 25th-anniversary concert, be prepared to shell out as much as $100,000.
The display features eight gloves in total, but Julien's President and CEO Darren Julien told The Associated Press that the white glove is "the simplest" and "most iconic." Julien also said he's expecting the auction to bring in at least $3 million.
Most of the profits will go to Jackson. In early March, the pop star's production company filed a lawsuit to stop the sale, saying the items were "priceless and irreplaceable." A judge ruled that the auction could continue, but Jackson and his team could still stop the auction, with their final motion slated to be heard Wednesday.
In other attempts to ease his financial woes, MJ is slated to play a 50-show run at London's O2 Arena starting July 8.
 
I don't see this auction being stopped at this point. Don't know why once again we have this mess, but if all the T's were crossed and all the I's dotted, then this will surely go forward.
 
Michael's kids should get all that stuff... a museum on he's iconic life should be opened with this stuff one day not sold to random people!
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/arts/music/14jack.html?hp

Shuttering Neverland: Michael Jackson’s Effects Go to Auction function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1397361600&en=06691cea321fc125&ei=5124';}function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent('http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/arts/music/14jack.html');}function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent('Shuttering Neverland: Michael Jackson’s Effects Go to Auction');}function getShareDescription() { return encodeURIComponent('Items belonging to Michael Jackson are part of an auction so large that it has been installed in a former department store in Beverly Hills.');}function getShareKeywords() { return encodeURIComponent('Auctions,Art,Disney, Walt, Co,Michael Jackson');}function getShareSection() { return encodeURIComponent('arts');}function getShareSectionDisplay() { return encodeURIComponent('Arts / Music');}function getShareSubSection() { return encodeURIComponent('music');}function getShareByline() { return encodeURIComponent('By BEN SISARIO');}function getSharePubdate() { return encodeURIComponent('April 14, 2009');}


By BEN SISARIO
Published: April 13, 2009
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The king’s crown, scepter, ice cream cart and life-size Lego model of Darth Vader are for sale.
Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image
Monica Almeida/The New York Times
Among the nearly 1,400 lots of items set to be auctioned next week from Michael Jackson’s Neverland Valley Ranch is a costume cape. More Photos »

Multimedia

Slide Show The King of Pop’s Collection




Related

Times Topics: Michael Jackson


Enlarge This Image
Shaan Kokin/Julien's Auctions
Goodbye to all that: A Neverland sale includes a portrait of the King of Pop. More Photos >



Those items, along with the statues of E.T. and the cast-iron gate decorated with the royal coat of arms of Britain, could belong only to Michael Jackson, whose style of self-enshrinement has always mixed the regal and the childlike. They are part of an auction of Jacksoniana so large that it has been installed in a former Robinsons-May department store here.
In a preview for the news media on Monday, workers carried signs from Neverland painted with Maxfield Parrish-like pastorals, while inside Mr. Jackson’s goods were arranged in loose, thematic sections: glittering stage costumes over here, Disney collectibles over there, paintings of Mr. Jackson as an Elizabethan noble here and there.
“We’ve recreated Neverland,” said Darren Julien, the president of Julien’s Auctions, which is conducting the sale.
But Mr. Jackson’s financial troubles have been well publicized — Neverland Valley Ranch, Mr. Jackson’s former home (and amusement park and zoo) 125 miles northwest of Los Angeles, narrowly escaped foreclosure last year — and for a visitor browsing through his record-sales awards and rhinestone-encrusted socks, it’s never quite clear whether you are picking over the refuse of the most prolific collector since Charles Foster Kane or prying away items that may still have sentimental value.
To be clear, Mr. Jackson initially supported this sale but lately has balked. Indeed, Mr. Jackson’s representatives have tried to stop the sale in court, saying that he was never given an opportunity to sift out personal effects. One motion was denied by a judge two weeks ago, but another hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
Mr. Jackson, who hired Julien’s last year to conduct the sale, recently sold out a 50-concert run at the O2 arena in London, beginning in July. The auction, with 1,390 lots taken from Neverland, opens for public viewing on Tuesday; the sale is to run April 22 to 25. A five-volume, 900-page catalog is available for browsing online (juliensauctions.com). In addition to bids submitted at the scene, online bids will be accepted.
Put together, the items form a picture of their owner that isn’t exactly surprising, given Mr. Jackson’s very public eccentricity. But in its sheer quantity the collection is a revealing tour through some of Mr. Jackson’s obsessions.
For one, he likes his military-style outerwear, and he likes it to sparkle. There’s the red lamé jacket, for example, with gold tassels and red bugle beads (Lot No. 1,141, estimated at $4,000 to $6,000). And, more modestly priced, the navy-and-gold number with crown-shaped brooches, worn at a 1999 news conference with Nelson Mandela (No. 1,273, $400 to $600).
When Mr. Jackson likes something, he really likes it. Bronze garden statues of young children frolic by the dozen. Disney cartoon characters, along with Peter Pan — whose Neverland island gave the Jackson estate its name — pop up in paintings and figurines, sometimes dressed like their collector.
And then of course there are the gloves: 13 of them (Nos. 1,366 through 1,374), each one covered in “iridescent Swarovski loch rosen crystals.” The most recognizable design, in silvery white and dated to the early 1980s, is estimated at up to $15,000, and it sits in an honored position in the center of the auction’s front room, along with a scepter and crown.
But the majority of the items have far lower estimated values — hundreds have been priced at less than $1,000 each — and whether you interpret those prices as reflective of Mr. Jackson’s taste, pop-cultural status or largess toward his fans probably determines whether you have any interest in bidding.
If Mr. Jackson has his way, however, all of it will remain off the market.
As part of the deal last year that saved Neverland from foreclosure, Mr. Jackson had to remove all his possessions from the estate, according to court documents. Rather than find storage for it all, Tohme R. Tohme, the president of MJJ Productions, Mr. Jackson’s company, and a spokesman for the singer, signed a contract consigning to Julien’s “all movable and removable personal property located at Neverland Ranch.”
“They approved the press release,” said Mr. Julien, whose company has handled memorabilia auctions for Barbra Streisand, Cher and other celebrities. “Michael himself even drove by the auction site.”
But Alan S. Gutman, MJJ’s lawyer, said that Julien’s never made good on a promise to let Mr. Jackson review the catalog and remove any personal items. “That would include his awards, wardrobes, the gloves, photographs, gifts he received, letters that he received, things of that nature,” he said. Mr. Tohme declined to be interviewed for this article.
This is not the first time that a Jackson auction has been contested in court. Two years ago another large collection — the contents of a warehouse that had been lost by Mr. Jackson’s parents and siblings, as part of a bankruptcy settlement — made its way to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and lawsuits flew like arrows. The sale went on as planned, but it brought in a modest $1 million.
Mr. Julien said he was confident that the auction would take place, and noted that Mr. Jackson and MJJ Productions were the owners of the property, and would collect the profits of the sale. (The auction house takes commissions of 35 percent.) Representatives of Julien’s say that the company has invested $2 million into the auction, and that it expects to raise $15 million to $20 million in sales.
“It’s going to be massive,” Mr. Julien said. “It’s unlike anything anybody has ever seen.”
 
This list is NOT from Billboard. Thoses numbers are from MJDangerous from chartsinfrance.net but some numbers, like Mariah's one are inflated.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top