Jacko Custody Case? Not Happening
Don’t believe a word of the stories coming out of the United Kingdom about Debbie Rowe suing Michael Jackson for custody of their kids.
I am told that this simply is not true. Rowe is said to have laughed heartily when she heard the British tabloid The Sun made up their latest fiction. Rowe will not be making a "row." She signed away her rights to Prince and Paris for millions years ago and is quite happy with her life as it is.
I have to say I was amused, too, considering The Sun simply stole the scoop from this column about Rowe being Jewish and consequently upset about the Nation of Islam guarding the kids.
But they’re not the first to simply pick information from this site and re-purpose it for their own purposes. The New York Times’s Sharon Waxman did the same thing earlier this week when she took our column from nearly a year ago — February 18, 2003 — and breathlessly reported it as if it were new! I still haven’t gotten over that. And the subject of her article, NBC, must have gotten a laugh about it, too.
The fact is that I have the memos NBC executives sent to Michael Jackson a year ago offering him millions for an interview. In exchange they suggested they would kill their "Dateline" show about his plastic surgery. The offer was declined by Jackson, and "Dateline" aired the special. Jackson, as it turned out, already had a deal with Fox Entertainment. This was at the same time that CBS’s Ed Bradley went out to Neverland for a promised interview but didn’t get it. Jackson’s goods went to the highest bidder — Fox — instead.
And don’t believe all the crazy stories you might have read this past week about who the Santa Barbara District Attorney is questioning in the Jackson case, or who did what to whom. I will tell you in the coming week some real details about the hidden cast of characters in the Jackson case. Everything I’ve seen so far during my non-Jacko week has been off the mark — and I mean, waaaay off it!
Roger Friedman
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,109412,00.html#2
Don’t believe a word of the stories coming out of the United Kingdom about Debbie Rowe suing Michael Jackson for custody of their kids.
I am told that this simply is not true. Rowe is said to have laughed heartily when she heard the British tabloid The Sun made up their latest fiction. Rowe will not be making a "row." She signed away her rights to Prince and Paris for millions years ago and is quite happy with her life as it is.
I have to say I was amused, too, considering The Sun simply stole the scoop from this column about Rowe being Jewish and consequently upset about the Nation of Islam guarding the kids.
But they’re not the first to simply pick information from this site and re-purpose it for their own purposes. The New York Times’s Sharon Waxman did the same thing earlier this week when she took our column from nearly a year ago — February 18, 2003 — and breathlessly reported it as if it were new! I still haven’t gotten over that. And the subject of her article, NBC, must have gotten a laugh about it, too.
The fact is that I have the memos NBC executives sent to Michael Jackson a year ago offering him millions for an interview. In exchange they suggested they would kill their "Dateline" show about his plastic surgery. The offer was declined by Jackson, and "Dateline" aired the special. Jackson, as it turned out, already had a deal with Fox Entertainment. This was at the same time that CBS’s Ed Bradley went out to Neverland for a promised interview but didn’t get it. Jackson’s goods went to the highest bidder — Fox — instead.
And don’t believe all the crazy stories you might have read this past week about who the Santa Barbara District Attorney is questioning in the Jackson case, or who did what to whom. I will tell you in the coming week some real details about the hidden cast of characters in the Jackson case. Everything I’ve seen so far during my non-Jacko week has been off the mark — and I mean, waaaay off it!
Roger Friedman
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,109412,00.html#2