Artículo de FRIEDMAN sobre los managers
Jacko's Scorned Manager Starts Blabbing
The New York Times is now using unnamed sources and US Weekly as the basis of its stories. You almost wonder what the hubbub was over Jayson Blair .
Today's bylined story by Sharon Waxman about Michael Jackson goes on ad nauseum quoting a Jackson associate who claims he didn't get paid his commission for setting up Michael's "60 Minutes" interview.
That same source insists Jackson got $1 million for doing the interview with Ed Bradley.
Maybe someone should tell Times editor Bill Keller that Waxman spent a good deal of her day on Monday chatting up Jackson's former manager Dieter Wiesner. Now back in Germany, where he owns sex clubs, Wiesner was very happy to tell Waxman anything he could think of to destroy Jackson's reputation.
Wiesner is very angry and bitter, according to my sources, about being usurped in the Jackson inner circle by Leonard Muhammad, chief of staff for the Nation of Islam.
But his delight in making trouble for the Jackson camp could prove to be a problem for those gullible enough to believe him.
The Bradley interview, as I reported here first some two weeks ago, was not set up by Wiesner at all. In fact, the whole idea emanated from what I call Jackson's "permanent" government of advisers — John Branca, Charles Koppelman and Al Malnik.
It was this trio, according to sources, that worked to save the original CBS special by offering "60 Minutes" an interview.
In fact, CBS wouldn't go ahead and air that special — which was postponed after Jackson's arrest — until they had some kind of formal denial by Jackson on the air concerning the child-molestation charges.
Wiesner, who'd like to convince the Times and others that he put the deal together, has been prevented from making any deals, decisions or connections for Jackson for weeks.
"What's interesting now," said a source, "is that Michael has cut off the people who might be of help to him later in court. Wiesner, Ronald Konitzer and the publicist, Stuart Backerman, all backed him through the year before anyone else knew about the accusations. Wiesner was the one who hired Mark Geragos. Now Geragos has endorsed Muhammad getting rid of these people. And they're going to start turning on Michael."
Meanwhile, Jackson insiders on all sides are starting to wonder what is going on with Jackson's attorney, Mark Geragos.
"He called everyone the other day and told them to lie if anyone asked about the Nation of Islam and Michael," two sources of mine said.
Geragos actually told the Times that the Nation of Islam stories must be originating with the Santa Barbara County district attorney's office — something that is not only patently untrue, but absurd.
The Nation of Islam stories indeed have never come from the D.A.'s office, although that same office must be amused to see Geragos lose control of a situation he had in hand only two weeks ago.
Jacko's Scorned Manager Starts Blabbing
The New York Times is now using unnamed sources and US Weekly as the basis of its stories. You almost wonder what the hubbub was over Jayson Blair .
Today's bylined story by Sharon Waxman about Michael Jackson goes on ad nauseum quoting a Jackson associate who claims he didn't get paid his commission for setting up Michael's "60 Minutes" interview.
That same source insists Jackson got $1 million for doing the interview with Ed Bradley.
Maybe someone should tell Times editor Bill Keller that Waxman spent a good deal of her day on Monday chatting up Jackson's former manager Dieter Wiesner. Now back in Germany, where he owns sex clubs, Wiesner was very happy to tell Waxman anything he could think of to destroy Jackson's reputation.
Wiesner is very angry and bitter, according to my sources, about being usurped in the Jackson inner circle by Leonard Muhammad, chief of staff for the Nation of Islam.
But his delight in making trouble for the Jackson camp could prove to be a problem for those gullible enough to believe him.
The Bradley interview, as I reported here first some two weeks ago, was not set up by Wiesner at all. In fact, the whole idea emanated from what I call Jackson's "permanent" government of advisers — John Branca, Charles Koppelman and Al Malnik.
It was this trio, according to sources, that worked to save the original CBS special by offering "60 Minutes" an interview.
In fact, CBS wouldn't go ahead and air that special — which was postponed after Jackson's arrest — until they had some kind of formal denial by Jackson on the air concerning the child-molestation charges.
Wiesner, who'd like to convince the Times and others that he put the deal together, has been prevented from making any deals, decisions or connections for Jackson for weeks.
"What's interesting now," said a source, "is that Michael has cut off the people who might be of help to him later in court. Wiesner, Ronald Konitzer and the publicist, Stuart Backerman, all backed him through the year before anyone else knew about the accusations. Wiesner was the one who hired Mark Geragos. Now Geragos has endorsed Muhammad getting rid of these people. And they're going to start turning on Michael."
Meanwhile, Jackson insiders on all sides are starting to wonder what is going on with Jackson's attorney, Mark Geragos.
"He called everyone the other day and told them to lie if anyone asked about the Nation of Islam and Michael," two sources of mine said.
Geragos actually told the Times that the Nation of Islam stories must be originating with the Santa Barbara County district attorney's office — something that is not only patently untrue, but absurd.
The Nation of Islam stories indeed have never come from the D.A.'s office, although that same office must be amused to see Geragos lose control of a situation he had in hand only two weeks ago.
...ponte listo...mira q has dado muestras de ingenuidad muy grandes..
