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(non ho ancora trovato la gtraduzione in tedesco...ed io al momento non ho tempo......se qualcuno ne ha.....la parte più brutta di questo messaggio è che Prince ormai incomincia a capire che c'è qualcosa che non va...e che riguarda suo padre!)
Jacko's Ex Gains Ground in Custody Case
The nasty nature of the Debbie Rowe-Michael Jackson custody case has been ratcheted up a notch or two since last week.
Recent court documents reveal that last April, Rowe gained significant ground against Jackson when a family court judge voided the previous "parental termination" order, which denied her any rights at all.
This gave Rowe a big leap forward in her efforts to be a part of the lives of son Prince Michael and daughter Paris Katherine.
Rowe is said to be more and more anxious about the children's situation, with Jackson at the Neverland Ranch as their father's child-molestation trial looms. Yesterday, Judge Rodney Melville stuck to his guns that the trial must begin on January 31, 2005.
But Rowe would be even more upset if she heard what I was told: that since the most recent police raid on Neverland, Prince Michael, who is 7, now understands that his father is in serious trouble.
He is now asking questions, according to my sources, although he and Paris do not know why the police came to their home in droves. They only know it has something to do with their father.
Michael's response, I am told, is that he is crying often and is very upset about the police raid.
Rowe's April win in family court came to light last week when Jackson's attorney in that case, Thomas Hall, filed papers asking the private judge, Stephen Lachs, to seal all court records.
In particular, Hall wanted financial papers sealed so that others — like Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon — couldn't have them subpoenaed for his case.
Hall's papers, though, contained enough extraneous information (including attacks on Rowe) that what was supposed to be private is now available to the public.
Jacko Team Disses Fan Club
All of this comes as Jackson seems more and more unaware of what's going on around him.
For instance, yesterday his "team" launched the redesign of his Web site,
www.mjjsource.com, including a $49.99 membership fee for fans.
In doing so, sources say, Jackson may have imperiled his network of fan clubs, including the mothership of them all,
www.mjfanclub.net.
That club, profiled last year in the Los Angeles Times, was started by a legal secretary in Corpus Christi, Texas, named Deborah Dannelly, about eight years ago. Dannelly has registered 17,000 members and receives millions of "hits" a day on the site. (Her annual fee is only $35.)
Dannelly and her legions of Jackson followers are not exactly fans of this column. In her capacity as Jackson Fan No. 1, she is said to be the driving force behind many of the public protests that have been organized to support Jackson.
She is also said by sources to be running the clubs on a shoestring, with about a dozen worldwide volunteers contributing their services.
It doesn't help matters that fans wanting to get to Dannelly's site —
www.mjfanclub.net — are now automatically directed to the Jackson site if they mistakenly type in
www.mjfc.net.
The new Jackson Web site does have a lot of interesting features, though, including a highlighted promise of an interview with Michael's brother and Svengali, Randy Jackson.
It also reveals the members of various "teams," starting with the sole member of "Michael's team" — his stylist for two decades, Karen Faye. There is no reference to his long-suffering assistant, Evvy Tavasci.
Under "legal team," the names of Zia Modabber and Steve Cochran — the two longtime counsels who left because they weren't being paid — are gone. Instead, Brian Oxman, friend of lead attorney Tom Mesereau and of Randy Jackson, is briefly profiled. No mention is made of his suspension from the California bar.
That's not all: A timeline of Jackson's charitable activities begins in 1984 but sputters at in 1999, with nothing listed in the last five years, including the singer's ill-conceived foundation for children with Shmuley Boteach.
And a list of albums and the numbers of copies they've sold completely omits the current box set, "Ultimate Collection." Maybe that's because fewer than 20,000 fans have snapped up the $50 souvenir, even though it contains four new songs.
Ciao
Barbara
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