Michael Jackson: Paul McCartney Will Get The Rights To His Songs Over My Dead Body
And if celeb blogger Ian Halperin is right, that shouldn’t be much longer. According to him, Michael is seriously in need of a lung transplant and will soon be pushing up daisies if he doesn’t get it:
The superstar, 50 — seen in a wheelchair earlier this year — is said to be so frail he can barely speak.
Jacko’s secret was revealed by his biographer Ian Halperin, who declared: “He needs a lung transplant, but may be too weak to go through with it. He also has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping.
“It’s the bleeding that’s the most problematic part. It could kill him.”
Halperin, an award-winning investigative journalist, said Jacko was stricken with an inherited condition called A1AD — alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency. Sufferers lack a protein which protects the lungs.
Halperin, a Canadian who has written for respected Rolling Stone magazine, said: “He can barely speak. The vision in his left eye is 95 per cent gone.
“For years Michael has been working with his doctors to make sure it doesn’t progress.
“He has been on many medications that have stabilised him.”
Jacko’s brother JERMAINE confirmed: “He’s not doing so well right now. This isn’t a good time.”
The rumors have been widely disputed by the Jackson camp, however, who insist that MJ is doing just fine, thankyouverymuch:
“[The] wild allegations concerning Mr Jackson’s health are a total fabrication,” said Dr Tohme, Jackson’s mysterious “official and sole spokesperson”. “Mr Jackson is in fine health and finalising negotiations with a major entertainment company and television network for both a world tour and a series of specials and appearances.”
The statement came in response to claims by Ian Halperin, an unauthorised biographer, that Jackson is suffering from a rare genetic condition called Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. The author told In Touch magazine that Jackson requires a lung transplant and that his “chronic gastrointestinal bleeding” might prove fatal. Oh yes, and in case that wasn’t provocative enough he also alleged that Jackson could “barely speak” and had lost most of the vision in his left eye.
There were several reasons to doubt Halperin’s statements – his tasteless publishing history, his allegedly fudged CV – but Jackson’s own lawyers suggested in November that the moonwalker was not well enough to travel. Though Tohme did not comment on that incident, he emphasised Halperin’s unfounded, “obvious” self-promotion and the singer’s present good health.
It’s also rumored that he has just rented yet another house, a $38M home in Holmbly Hills, a very chi-chi area of Los Angeles, for $100,000 a month…this, despite supposedly being so broke he can’t even afford to pay attention. I’d love to be that kind of broke…I can’t even get enough money to buy furniture and I have a job. Yes, that’s right, I’m sitting here typing this with my laptop perched on a milk crate. But this creepy guy, who hasn’t done anything substantial in years other than rereleasing past hits from twenty-some years ago, manages to get banks to give him money hand over fist.
Oh, and that whole Paul McCartney thing? It seems that Michael wants to end their feud over the whole Beatles catalogue, so he’s going to leave his share to Sir Paul in his will:
Macca was furious when Jacko outbid him in 1985 to win ownership of the £350million publishing rights to the whole Lennon-McCartney songbook.
The stars, once good pals who collaborated on early 80s hits The Girl is Mine and Say, Say, Say have not spoken since.
But the debt-ridden King of Pop, now said to be battling a serious genetic lung disease, is determined to make peace with McCartney.
Jackson, 50, who according to some reports is convinced he is dying and has been using a wheelchair, has drawn up a new will where Sir Paul, 66, will inherit control of his share of the Beatles songbook if the troubled star dies before him.
Sources close to Jacko say he has always regretted falling out with Macca. One insider said: “Michael is worried about his health so decided it was time to look at his finances.
“Most of his estate has been divided up between his three children. But Michael told his lawyers he was sad he no longer talks to Sir Paul and said he wanted to make things right.” [...]
Jacko sold half of his Beatles back catalogue rights to Sony in 1995, but still makes about £40million a year from them.
Macca said recently: “The annoying thing is I have to pay to play some of my own songs. Each time I want to sing Hey Jude I have to pay.”
Well, I guess if MJ were to totally perish and no longer be living, that would end the feud, all right. Of course, by the time Sir Paul gets his hands back on his songs, they’ll probably only be worth about $1.83.
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I call BS!
Comment by Len — January 5, 2009 @ 1:42 pm
that’s make paul want to kill michael right now
Comment by 0nl0ff — January 6, 2009 @ 3:40 am
holy smokes – did you read the current issue of In Touch. They have a followup to Halperin’s story. Details are there about everything, including Michael’s disease, how he’s not really broke etc… An amazing story.
Comment by Daisy Fuentes — January 6, 2009 @ 7:14 am
michael will always be a SUPERSTAR to me !quit picking on the guy.don’t be so judgemental,SUPERHATERS !
Comment by michael felix — October 13, 2009 @ 9:56 pm