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Jackson may be 'worth more dead than alive'
AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/26/09 | Ryan Nakashima and Michael Liedtke - ap

Posted on 06/26/2009 4:01:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson spent the last years of his life buried in debt. But the King of Pop's death is likely to yield a financial bonanza more lucrative than any comeback tour ever could, as fans snap up his music and memorabilia ...

"Quite frankly, he may be worth more dead than alive," said Jerry Reisman, general counsel for the Hit Factory, a recording studio where Jackson produced his best-selling album "Thriller."

Jackson's death at age 50 leaves a multitude of questions about a financial empire that included his own music, as well a 50 percent stake in a library that held the rights to songs by the Beatles. But Jackson reportedly had $400 million in debts, ...

This much is clear: Jackson's heirs, music labels and opportunists will probably be mining his legacy for decades to come.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: alive; dead; jackson; kingofpop; michaeljackson; pedophile; worth
I don't know about his legacy per se, but his haul will be a lot bigger than Elvis'.
1 posted on 06/26/2009 4:01:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Well, now he sleeps with the fishes... (don’t know if he likes them better, though... LOL...)


2 posted on 06/26/2009 4:02:53 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: NormsRevenge

and his death might be the best thing ever for his kids who surely have been traumatized ever since they got caught in his web if deviancy. Let’s not forget that Michael Jackson was a pedophile. His life centered around the sexuality of little kids, especially boys.


3 posted on 06/26/2009 4:03:49 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: NormsRevenge

4 posted on 06/26/2009 4:04:10 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: NormsRevenge

I just flipped over to the news for about ten seconds and heard “How Jackson’s death is bringing the world together”.

Never mind the people being killed in the streets of Iran or the threats coming from North Korea.


5 posted on 06/26/2009 4:05:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I’ve been saying this all day. Jackson needed to die to save all of his “friends” during “the worst economic...doo dah, doo dah.” I also see the big world tour concert continuing with the boys doing the same thing they did with Elvis a few years ago. Everyone is up there on stage playing along with Mikey up on the big screen TVs. Oh yeah. Lots and lots of money. This is another one of those liberal “crisis opportunities” that is too good to not exploit.


6 posted on 06/26/2009 4:07:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out? Are you scared yet?)
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To: cripplecreek

It’s a strange new world.. 24by7 . lenses everywhere..

Talk about a harmonic convergence of divergent bodies of thought .. and what gets lost in the passing..

the waves of time ripple strange of late.. an omen, perhaps.

if we’re lucky. :-)


7 posted on 06/26/2009 4:08:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I hearing from music site there might be Major box set come out on Jacko career

Yeah I buy it LOL!


8 posted on 06/26/2009 4:10:41 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: cripplecreek
I just flipped over to the news for about ten seconds and heard “How Jackson’s death is bringing the world together”.

My eyes are rolling in disbelief.

9 posted on 06/26/2009 4:11:05 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://www.aroodawakening.tv)
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To: SevenofNine

What’s this about 100 songs being found that had not been released before? major kaa-ching if true


10 posted on 06/26/2009 4:13:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: pray4liberty

And that was FOX news.

Glenn Beck’s show was a nice break from the deification of the freak.


11 posted on 06/26/2009 4:14:37 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Michael wrote 100 secret songs to his children. No longer a secret.


12 posted on 06/26/2009 4:19:19 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Worthy is the Lamb)
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To: Star Traveler

Is that the best you can come up with...over and over....and over? You’ve posted that same line on every MJ thread you’ve been on! :~/ Where’s your creativity?


13 posted on 06/26/2009 4:22:27 PM PDT by My hearts in London - Everett (There is a demand today for men who can make wrong appear right. Terrence, c. 160 B.C.)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett

I see you’ve been following all the Michael Jackson threads... LOL...

Got a lot of his songs?


14 posted on 06/26/2009 4:23:50 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Elvis is slapping the crap out of Michael for marring Lisa Marie right about now


15 posted on 06/26/2009 4:25:42 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Star Traveler
Well, seeing as I'm a child of the 70's, MJ interests me. I have the normal number of MJ songs that someone who collects music in general would have. I'm guessing that you probably have nary a one, right? If that's the case, why are you also following every thread to post your repetitive comment? lol
16 posted on 06/26/2009 4:29:16 PM PDT by My hearts in London - Everett (There is a demand today for men who can make wrong appear right. Terrence, c. 160 B.C.)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett

You asked — If that’s the case, why are you also following every thread to post your repetitive comment?

Oh, that’s easy.... I love the idea that a pedophile, who liked to sleep with kids — now gets to sleep with the fishes... Now, that’s hilarious... LOL...


17 posted on 06/26/2009 4:32:01 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Funny coincidence! My wife keeps reminding me that I'm worth more dead than alive too!
18 posted on 06/26/2009 4:36:37 PM PDT by starlifter (Sapor Amo Pullus)
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To: NormsRevenge
Jackson may be 'worth more dead than alive'

All of us are worth more dead than alive. Just take a look at our life insurance premiums.

19 posted on 06/26/2009 4:38:30 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://www.aroodawakening.tv)
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To: Star Traveler

In light of your profile page, I find your outright joy in his death to be quite reprehensible. How surprised you may be one day to find him there in Heaven alongside your judgmental @ss! As far as I know, MJ was never convicted of anything. Rumors are not evidence of guilt. Interviews that seem to indicate guilt are not evidence of guilt. God will be his judge, not you or I.


20 posted on 06/26/2009 4:50:00 PM PDT by My hearts in London - Everett (There is a demand today for men who can make wrong appear right. Terrence, c. 160 B.C.)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett

The people who I have compassion for is MJ’s family. They must be absolutely devastated. Hopefully MJ is at peace.


21 posted on 06/26/2009 5:00:56 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://www.aroodawakening.tv)
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To: cripplecreek
It sure was!

The turtles were a nice touch :)

22 posted on 06/26/2009 5:02:57 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: pray4liberty
Hopefully MJ is at peace

Do you really believe this????

23 posted on 06/26/2009 5:04:10 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: My hearts in London - Everett

He admitted himself that he slept with kids. That’s beyond dispute. The real question is what did he did when he slept with them... And furthermore, paying off a couple of kids so they wouldn’t go into court, well..., that tells you that money does have it’s advantages... doesn’t it...

So, we can go beyond the “sleeping with kids” as Michael Jackson was trying to say it’s just fine sleeping with kids... Yeah, sure...

As far as him “sleeping with the fishes” — that’s still just as funny as the dickens... quite appropriate, too..

And as far as someone dying, we all die — sooner or later — it’s no big deal... The *big deal* is not the dying part, the really big deal is one’s salvation. Now, that’s another story... and that’s totally up to the person, himself and I don’t have anything to do with it.

But, dying — no big deal, at all...

It’s like the Bible says, it’s not the first death that’s the real problem, it’s the *second death* that you have to be concerned about (and that’s the lake of fire)....


24 posted on 06/26/2009 5:04:30 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: pray4liberty

Please tell me that his abusive father is not on your list of family members that you have compassion for?? Yes, I also hope MJ is at peace at last because he led one he!! of a messed up life partly due to his father.


25 posted on 06/26/2009 5:06:05 PM PDT by My hearts in London - Everett (There is a demand today for men who can make wrong appear right. Terrence, c. 160 B.C.)
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To: Guenevere
Do you really believe this????

He came from a believing family. Don't know what his spiritual status was in the end, though. Only God knows who is saved and who isn't. Besides I wasn't brought up to speak ill of the dead.

26 posted on 06/26/2009 5:08:17 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://www.aroodawakening.tv)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett

Did you check out this news article...

Sorry Neda, We Have a Pedophile to Worship
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280340/posts

And I’ll guarantee you, that’s not the only one..., either....


27 posted on 06/26/2009 5:10:33 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: pray4liberty
Or Shep Smith's ( drama queen tinkerbell ) “ in the coming days this is going to turn into a American event “ ......
28 posted on 06/26/2009 5:13:00 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: Star Traveler
Like I said rumors are not evidence of guilt and neither are interviews. He never said he abused children. He was never convicted of molestation. He very well may have done it. We don't know. It's now between him and God. So I leave it at that and enjoy his music sometimes.
29 posted on 06/26/2009 5:13:30 PM PDT by My hearts in London - Everett (There is a demand today for men who can make wrong appear right. Terrence, c. 160 B.C.)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett
Please tell me that his abusive father is not on your list of family members that you have compassion for??

I have compassion for those family members who are mourning his death. No one asks for something like this to happen to them.

30 posted on 06/26/2009 5:13:32 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://www.aroodawakening.tv)
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To: pray4liberty
A believing family?...never heared them called that!

It's nice sentiment to wish someone is at peace....

...but from every indication this man was under the influence of some potent, powerful drugs 24/7!....and quite frankly, I've never heard a religious sentiment or expression out of him....

What were his spiritual fruits?.....certainly not his predilection for little boys.

But you're right....we'll all stand before God.

31 posted on 06/26/2009 5:14:17 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: My hearts in London - Everett

Well, that sure isn’t stopping the news articles from being written is it? And it sure doesn’t stop the FReepers from voicing their opinions that he was a Pedophile, either....


32 posted on 06/26/2009 5:15:14 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: NormsRevenge

On ESPN’s Mike and Mike in the Morning, this morning, the talker Mike Greenberg just could not shut up about Jackson. I just sat there wondering if Mr. Love Michael Jackson Greenberg would allowed his two children to spend the night with the pedophile / child molester???


33 posted on 06/26/2009 5:18:49 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (If it looks like Marx, sounds like Stalin, IT IS PROBABLY OBAMA & the Dimocrats.)
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To: Guenevere

Now I’m trying to watch a baseball game and they’re talking about Jackson.


34 posted on 06/26/2009 5:18:59 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: RetiredArmy

Watching the Tigers/Astros game and they’re talking about Jackson too.


35 posted on 06/26/2009 5:19:50 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: cripplecreek
He's everywhere!

I was doing errands today and almost got giddy when I heard a Beatles song coming from one of the shops!

Everywhere else it was Michael, Michael, Michael...............!

36 posted on 06/26/2009 5:32:09 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Guenevere
But you're right....we'll all stand before God.

All the more reason to pray for people--even strangers--who may be living a hell on earth. What changed me from being an agnostic to a Christian was the prayers, compassion and example of other Christians. If the Almighty inspired enough people to care enough to pray for me, then why shouldn't I do the same for others. Prayer can indeed work miracles, that's all I can say. So I pray for his family, if they had faith once, that they will have it again.

37 posted on 06/26/2009 5:33:52 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://www.aroodawakening.tv)
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To: NormsRevenge

Amazing the fuss over this pervert’s passing. It really shows how sick our culture is.


38 posted on 06/26/2009 5:38:46 PM PDT by DemonDeac
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To: cripplecreek

I was doing the same thing last night and heard someone say he “was a great role model”.

We’re screwed.

I think over half the world has been stricken by some as yet undiscovered virus that literally eats the brain.


39 posted on 06/26/2009 5:45:20 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: NormsRevenge

It was on UK Times Murphy let me look for it

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6584011.ece


40 posted on 06/26/2009 5:53:26 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: My hearts in London - Everett
MJ was never convicted of anything

Bump!
41 posted on 06/26/2009 10:10:07 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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