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Michael Jackson Put 'Curse' on Spielberg-Magazine
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Posted on 03/03/2003 9:54:03 PM PST by per loin

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Embattled pop star Michael Jackson wears a prosthetic nose and once paid $150,000 for a "voodoo curse" to kill director Steven Spielberg despite being deep in debt, Vanity Fair magazine reported on Monday.

Vanity Fair, in an article for its March 11 edition, also reports that Jackson bleaches his skin white because he does not like being black. The 44-year-old singer sometimes refers to black people as "spabooks," the magazine said

Jackson's manager did not immediately return phone calls and a faxed request for comment on the article. Jackson's London publicist could not be reached for comment.

The onetime King of Pop has been dogged by controversy for months, first over his odd appearance in a California courtroom last November. That same month, Jackson stunned fans in Berlin by briefly dangling his young son from a hotel balcony.

And in February a British television documentary that aired to blockbuster ratings both in England and the United States caused a stir when Jackson told his interviewer that he slept in the same room, and sometimes the same bed, as young boys.

Vanity Fair reported in the article that in 2000 Jackson attended a voodoo ritual in Switzerland where a witch doctor promised that Spielberg, music mogul David Geffen and 23 other people on the entertainer's list of enemies would die.

Jackson, who underwent a "blood bath" as part of the ritual, then ordered his former business adviser Myung-Ho Lee to wire $150,000 to a bank in Mali for a voodoo chief named Baba, who sacrificed 42 cows for the ceremony, the magazine reported.

Vanity Fair reported that Jackson wears a page-boy wig and a prosthesis that serves as the tip of his nose. The magazine interviewed a source close to Jackson who said that, without the device Jackson resembles a mummy with two nostril holes.

According to the magazine, Jackson's extravagant lifestyle and declining record sales have left him $240 million in debt.

The article, which relies in part on court filings in a $12 million lawsuit against Jackson by Lee, said that since the mid-1990s the reclusive entertainer has relied on a series of multimillion-dollar loans to cover his expenses.

In addition to the lawsuit by Lee, Jackson is also enmeshed in a $21 million court battle with German concert promoter Marcel Avram over canceled Millennium concerts and has been sued by Sotheby's auction house for $1.6 million.

The magazine reported that Jackson must pay off the principal on a $200 million loan within a few years, which will be nearly impossible unless he sells his most valuable asset, the Beatles song catalog. He owns only half of the catalog while Sony Corp. owns the other half in an arrangement that might make selling his share difficult, Vanity Fair reported.

Jackson has also run up nearly $4 million per year in expenses from his Neverland Valley ranch in central California, where in April 2001 his amusement park equipment was nearly repossessed for late payments, the magazine said.


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1 posted on 03/03/2003 9:54:04 PM PST by per loin
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To: per loin
without the device Jackson resembles a mummy with two nostril holes.

Well, that about wraps up this case...

2 posted on 03/03/2003 9:57:06 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Matt: "Ye should salt the Earth, lest it lose it's flavour")
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To: per loin; dighton; aculeus; Thinkin' Gal
The 44-year-old singer sometimes refers to black people as "spabooks," the magazine said

I'm sorry, what?

Just when you thought it couldn't get weirder....

3 posted on 03/03/2003 9:57:34 PM PST by general_re (Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.)
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To: per loin
a witch doctor promised that Spielberg, music mogul David Geffen and 23 other people on the entertainer's list of enemies would die.

And they will. They will.

4 posted on 03/03/2003 10:00:49 PM PST by Illbay
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To: general_re
Living in south Ga, I thought I had heard just about every racial slur out there. I was wrong.

What the heck is a spabook?
5 posted on 03/03/2003 10:01:07 PM PST by way-right-of-center (it's easy to hide when no one is looking)
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To: per loin
...sacrificed 42 cows for the ceremony....

Attention, PETA -- You guys should consider this as important as donkeys being saddled with explosives in Iraq.

6 posted on 03/03/2003 10:01:56 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: per loin
This guy is one sick dude.
7 posted on 03/03/2003 10:02:50 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Freeper Caribbean Cruise May 31-June 7, Staterooms As Low As $510 Per Person For Entire Week!)
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To: per loin
ordered his former business adviser Myung-Ho Lee to wire $150,000 to a bank in Mali for a voodoo chief named Baba, who sacrificed 42 cows for the ceremony

Those are very expensive cows. I figure it comes to $3,571 apiece. Cheaper to stick pins in a doll.

8 posted on 03/03/2003 10:03:44 PM PST by Cicero
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To: DoughtyOne
He's having "an out of mind experience".
9 posted on 03/03/2003 10:05:04 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: per loin
I thought this was from the Enquirer, I don't know what to believe with this guy,thing,ET ummm whatever.
10 posted on 03/03/2003 10:05:12 PM PST by Brett66
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To: general_re
http://www.aa-aha.org/spabooks.htm
11 posted on 03/03/2003 10:07:37 PM PST by gg188
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To: gg188
Other than books on maintaining a pool or sauna, this is about as close to "spabooks" as I could find using Google.
12 posted on 03/03/2003 10:08:45 PM PST by gg188
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To: DoughtyOne
Yup. It is prison time for Jacko.
13 posted on 03/03/2003 10:09:23 PM PST by per loin
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To: way-right-of-center
What the heck is a spabook?

Uhhhhhh, don't know. It's not a north Georgia term either. (Welcome to FR!)

14 posted on 03/03/2003 10:09:55 PM PST by Jen
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To: Chad Fairbanks
I'll just follow you around with this, okay?
15 posted on 03/03/2003 10:10:34 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet ( Some of my best friends are white, middle-class males.)
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To: per loin
This is well beyond funny, and into the realm of the sick and tragic. Somebody desperately needs to help this man.
16 posted on 03/03/2003 10:10:35 PM PST by ArcLight
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To: way-right-of-center; dighton; aculeus; Poohbah; BlueLancer; Thinkin' Gal
What the heck is a spabook?

I surely wish I knew. All I can tell you is that www.spabook.com is rather bizarre, apparently devoted to the virtues of cybersquatting, and comparing the Coors Brewing Company to Nazis...

17 posted on 03/03/2003 10:11:46 PM PST by general_re (Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.)
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To: ArcLight
Help him? The guy just contracted for the murder of 25 people. A long term in prison is the proper "treatment".
18 posted on 03/03/2003 10:13:53 PM PST by per loin
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To: per loin
Whoever continued to carve on Jackson, they should probably have their license yanked. If that wasn't malpractice, I've never seen malpractice. I don't care what a guy asks for, at some point you have to say NO.
19 posted on 03/03/2003 10:14:16 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Freeper Caribbean Cruise May 31-June 7, Staterooms As Low As $510 Per Person For Entire Week!)
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To: per loin
Hence the name WACKO JACKO.
20 posted on 03/03/2003 10:15:39 PM PST by noutopia
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To: general_re; All
Spabook is from a kids' language that I grew up knowing as Double-Dutch, taught to me by my older sisters, in the New Orleans area. It's similar in nature to Pig Latin.

Spabook = Spook
21 posted on 03/03/2003 10:16:58 PM PST by PatriotGames (AOOHGA! AOOHGA! CLEAR THE BRIDGE! DIVE! DIVE! WHOOSH!)
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To: ArcLight
As someone else so rightly pointed out, he's having an out of "mind" experience by now. First off, those kids need rescuing right away. I can't believe anyone would think they are safe. Then Jackson needs to recieve round-the-clock treatment.
22 posted on 03/03/2003 10:17:20 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Freeper Caribbean Cruise May 31-June 7, Staterooms As Low As $510 Per Person For Entire Week!)
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To: PatriotGames
Spabook = Spook

Michael Jackson said it. Not I.

Do NOT label me a racist since I was quoting him. :-)
23 posted on 03/03/2003 10:18:43 PM PST by PatriotGames (AOOHGA! AOOHGA! CLEAR THE BRIDGE! DIVE! DIVE! WHOOSH!)
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To: AntiJen
Thanks for the welcome.

www.spabook.com is odd- beer and hitler youth discussed on the same site. lol, maybe thats why I didn't know what a "spabook" was
24 posted on 03/03/2003 10:19:16 PM PST by way-right-of-center (it's easy to hide when no one is looking)
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To: PatriotGames
New one on me. So how does a mentally deranged person who is originally from Gary, Indiana pick up N.O. slang like that?

Nevermind. I'm happier not knowing...

25 posted on 03/03/2003 10:22:55 PM PST by general_re (Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Then Jackson needs to recieve round-the-clock treatment.

This jerk just contracted with a hit man to have 25 people murdered at $6000 per murder. Is that not a crime when the perp is rich and famous?

26 posted on 03/03/2003 10:24:20 PM PST by per loin
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To: per loin
So you really think paying $150,000 for a voodoo curse should subject Jackson to prosecution for conspiracy to commit murder? That only makes sense if you think voodoo curses work, in which case you might belong in a padded cell right next to Jacko...:-)
27 posted on 03/03/2003 10:25:00 PM PST by ArcLight
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To: per loin
"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Embattled pop star Michael Jackson wears a prosthetic nose and once paid $150,000 for a "voodoo curse" to kill director Steven Spielberg despite being deep in debt, Vanity Fair magazine reported on Monday."

Besides being a pedaphile he dabbles in voodoo ... odd but since this guy is nuts, it's not too surprising.

"Vanity Fair, in an article for its March 11 edition, also reports that Jackson bleaches his skin white because he does not like being black. The 44-year-old singer sometimes refers to black people as "spabooks," the magazine said."

It's obvious he hates his skin color. Notice how his kids are NOT black? Notice how the sperm incubator is NOT black? Notice how he has WHITE kids over for his sleepovers? Notice how he aligns himself with WHTIE females in general - even marrying one ... ? Oh, when it's convenient, and sales are sinking, THEN he shrieks that it's racisim.

Hopefully his money will run out and those scared of his wealth will now have the balls to pursue a child molestation charge.

28 posted on 03/03/2003 10:25:40 PM PST by nmh
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To: per loin
Vanity Fair, in an article for its March 11 edition, also reports that Jackson bleaches his skin white because he does not like being black.

Now that there's what I call investigative journalism. After all these years, they've figured it out! Jackson doesn't wanna be black. Stop the presses!

29 posted on 03/03/2003 10:27:10 PM PST by ArcLight
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To: ArcLight
The point is that "he" thought it would work. If I hire a gunman to shoot 25 people, and he turns out to be such a bad shot that he can't hit any of them, do I walk away innocent?

If I hire a chemist to poison 25 people, and what he gives them doesn't even make them sick, does the law say "no problem"?

30 posted on 03/03/2003 10:29:15 PM PST by per loin
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To: per loin
According to the magazine, Jackson's extravagant lifestyle and declining record sales have left him $240 million in debt.

So who exactly do you have to kill to get a credit rating like this ?

31 posted on 03/03/2003 10:32:13 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Take charge of your destiny, or someone else will)
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To: per loin
The 44-year-old singer sometimes refers to black people as "spabooks," the magazine said

Pardon my ignorance but, just what the &%#$ is a spabook?

32 posted on 03/03/2003 10:33:29 PM PST by uglybiker
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To: general_re
Daboo yaboo rebeallabe wabant mebee toboo tebell yaboo hobow hebee cabame toboo knobow hobow toboo spebeak dobouble dubutch?

I have no idea and for all these years I thought that all kids knew double-dutch. I had no idea that it was a regional or maybe cultural thing. Maybe he knows someone from N.O. I'm caucasian and we all spoke it as kids just to drive the parents insane. Worked pretty well, too. :-)
33 posted on 03/03/2003 10:33:54 PM PST by PatriotGames (AOOHGA! AOOHGA! CLEAR THE BRIDGE! DIVE! DIVE! WHOOSH!)
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To: per loin
Sorry per, but that's a deeply lame-oid argument. If I thought I could kill you by praying for your death, and proceeded to do so, could you have me thrown into prison for praying? Of course not--because you'd almost certainly not die just because I prayed that you would. By the same token, Spielberg et al were looking hale and hearty at last report, voodoo blood baths notwithstanding.

One's actions must have some reasonable likelihood to result in the victim's death in order to be actionable. If you purchase something you believe to be poison and give it to somebody, that's one thing. If you cast a magic spell on him, that's something else. Unless you live in Middle Earth, I suppose.
34 posted on 03/03/2003 10:34:35 PM PST by ArcLight
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To: per loin
a prosthesis that serves as the tip of his nose.

Should have bought a better one! lol

35 posted on 03/03/2003 10:34:53 PM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: per loin
Hold up, y'all. Nobody's mentioned the really interesting part of this--the Swiss witch doctor! There are Swiss witch doctors? Is that where witch doctors go when they retire? Do they fly in special for celebrity voodoo? What is up with this?
36 posted on 03/03/2003 10:38:36 PM PST by ArcLight
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To: ArcLight
If, in a sting, you give a FBI plant money to kill someone, there is no reasonable liklihood that he is going to do it. Instead he is going to arrest you for paying him to kill someone.
37 posted on 03/03/2003 10:38:40 PM PST by per loin
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To: DoughtyOne
This guy is one sick dude.

You are a master of understatement at times... He is a bloody freak. If he wasn't rich, he'd be on Skid Row trying to catch imaginary flies. Or in a straightjacket in a home for criminally insane.

38 posted on 03/03/2003 10:40:45 PM PST by ambrose
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To: per loin
If an FBI agent posed as a witch doctor, and I paid him to cast a death hex on somebody, do you seriously suppose I'd be brought to trial? Give it up, mate. This isn't Burundi.
39 posted on 03/03/2003 10:41:00 PM PST by ArcLight
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To: Brett66
I thought this was from the Enquirer, I don't know what to believe with this guy,thing,ET ummm whatever.

LOL! It does sound like a tabloid headline, but instead to our surprise it is Vanity Fair reporting this BIZARRE story about this very sick, strange young man! Who knew? What a weirdo!

40 posted on 03/03/2003 10:41:23 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: PatriotGames
Wasn't there a character on the old "Fat Albert" cartoon that sounded just like that?

Now that I've successfully established my Gen-X bona fides, we can move on... ;)

41 posted on 03/03/2003 10:41:23 PM PST by general_re (Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.)
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To: per loin
I have never killed anyone but there were times when I gleefully read the obituaries.

Forgot the author.

Would that be a crime?
42 posted on 03/03/2003 10:42:20 PM PST by PatriotGames (AOOHGA! AOOHGA! CLEAR THE BRIDGE! DIVE! DIVE! WHOOSH!)
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To: ArcLight
With clients paying that kind of money, the witch doctor can pretty much live where he wants. Probably works a few runs down the slope into his rituals.
43 posted on 03/03/2003 10:42:35 PM PST by per loin
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To: per loin
"If I hire a chemist to poison 25 people, and what he gives them doesn't even make them sick, does the law say "no problem"?"

How about if, in your deranged mind, you think Magic Fairy Pixel Dust is poisonous. You feed it to people, but they don't die, because MFPD doesn't exist. Is that attempted murder? Is the intent more important than what a sane person would consider the possibility of your plan working?

I don't think he'll be prosecuted for this. However, I think Wacko has finally met his match: all those cows will get PETA on his case.
44 posted on 03/03/2003 10:43:15 PM PST by lonewacko_dot_com (http://lonewacko.com/blog)
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To: general_re
Now that I've successfully established my Gen-X bona fides, we can move on... ;)

ROFL
45 posted on 03/03/2003 10:43:51 PM PST by PatriotGames (AOOHGA! AOOHGA! CLEAR THE BRIDGE! DIVE! DIVE! WHOOSH!)
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To: ArcLight
If an FBI agent posed as a witch doctor, and I paid him to cast a death hex on somebody, do you seriously suppose I'd be brought to trial? Give it up, mate. This isn't Burundi.

Find an undercover cop, and pay him a few grand to off someone with a voodoo rite. See if you go to jail.

46 posted on 03/03/2003 10:44:44 PM PST by per loin
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To: per loin
I love it! A witch doctor with a numbered Swiss bank account and a mountain chalet. Imagine running into this guy on the slopes!
47 posted on 03/03/2003 10:45:07 PM PST by ArcLight
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To: ArcLight
voodoo blood baths notwithstanding.

He's always wearing a mask. Afraid of germs, is what the story was. More likely to cover his nose. But, the gloves??? So, maybe he is afraid of germs, BUT then I cannot imagine him taking a 'blood bath'!!!

48 posted on 03/03/2003 10:46:04 PM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: per loin
Oh, you might be locked up--for your own protection. And then put under psychiatric observation. But there's no way such a person would ever be prosecuted for attempted murder. Not as long as he only asks you to cast a spell. If he throws in a request for, say, a curare=tipped blowdart, all bets are off...:)
49 posted on 03/03/2003 10:46:40 PM PST by ArcLight
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To: PatriotGames
Speaking double dutch certainly fits with his always acting as if he's about 10 years old. He gives me the creeps.
50 posted on 03/03/2003 10:47:07 PM PST by JMJ333
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