by bintangkecil on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | Attraction, Entertainment, News, Places to Visit, Travel | 1 Comment

What is “Neverland Ranch”?

Neverland Valley Ranch is a developed property in Santa Barbara County, California, most famous for being the former home of American pop musician Michael Jackson. It is named after Neverland, the fantasy island in the story of Peter Pan, who never grows up.

The ranch is located about five miles (8 km) north of unincorporated Los Olivos, and about eight miles (13 km) north of the town of Santa Ynez. The property covers an area of over 2,800 acres (11 km2). The area surrounding Neverland previously consisted of working ranches; today, the area is made up of vineyards.

The Neverland Ranch address is 5225 Figueroa Mountain Road, Los Olivos, CA 93441.

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Michael Jackson purchased the property from golf course entrepreneur William Bone in March 1988 for $30 million and built Neverland Ranch at a cost of $17 million. It operated as Jackson’s home and private amusement park, and contained, among other things, a zoo and a theme park, with two railroads (one 36″ gauge with a steam locomotive (Crown 4-4-0, built 1973, with 4 coaches) and a 24″ gauge amusement ride-type, a Ferris wheel, carousel, zipper, spider, sea dragon, wave swinger, super slide, dragon wagon kiddie roller coaster, and bumper cars.

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by wildcherry on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | Entertainment, News, World | No Comments

According to The Wall Street Journal, several sources close with the pop star said a lawyer for Jackson could submit the will - which is thought to be his last - to Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday.

Michael Jackson’s will, reportedly drafted in 2002, is said to divide his assets between his mother, three children and one or more charities.

The star’s mother, Katherine Jackson, who was granted temporary guardianship of Jackson’s three children on Monday, and husband Joe Jackson have said they believed their son died without a valid will.

“No will has been presented to family or us,” L. Londell McMillan, a lawyer for Jackson’s parents who also once represented the singer, said in an e-mail to the paper. “We will review any will when we see it.”

The King of Pop is said to have amassed approximately $500 million in debt, but that his assets could reportedly outweigh that by more than $200 million.

The most valuable part of the Jackson estate could be the singer’s 50 percent stake in the Sony/ATV Music Publishing catalog, which the singer owned half of. The massive 750,000-song music catalog includes the work of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Lady Gaga and the Jonas Brothers. The catalog is reportedly estimated to be worth upwards of $2 billion.

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by wildcherry on Monday, June 29th, 2009 | Entertainment, News, World | No Comments

Michael Jackson s funeral could be bigger than Elvis’s and Princess Diana s, as up to a million mourners pour into LA. The Jackson family was said to be considering a private burial followed by a public remembrance ceremony to be televised live to a global audience later this week.

One senior Los Angeles Police chief said: ‘We are preparing for an event of historic proportions. We will be cooperating closely with the family once they have decided where to hold the funeral.’

Police continued to investigate the sudden death of Michael Jackson yesterday as his family gathered to decide plans for the star’s funeral.

Conrad Murray, Jackson’s personal physician and the last man to see him alive, was interviewed by homicide detectives for three hours on Saturday evening. Dr Murray, a cardiologist, was living at Jackson’s rented mansion in Los Angeles when the singer suffered a cardiac arrest.

The doctor tried to resuscitate him and went with him to the hospital where Jackson was pronounced dead. Police had spoken to him briefly after the death but were looking for him all day on Friday.

Miranda Sevcik, a spokeswoman for the doctor, said that Dr Murray “helped identify the circumstances around the death of the pop icon and clarified some inconsistencies”. Police towed Dr Murray’s car from Jackson’s home hours after the singer died and said later that it could contain medications or other evidence.

Friends, family and members of Jackson’s large entourage all face further interviews to establish the precise events leading up to the death.

The Jackson family also asked for a second, private post-mortem examination because of unanswered questions about how he died, and the celebrity website TMZ — which broke news of the star’s death — said that this had been carried out. The body is thought to be at a private mortuary after the coroner’s office released it to the family late on Friday.

Jackson was reportedly addicted to a cocktail of prescription drugs, including painkillers, and the family wants to investigate claims that he was given an injection of the powerful painkiller Demerol immediately before his death.

Dr Murray denied that he administered Demerol to the singer. Edward Chernoff, a lawyer acting for Dr Murray, said: “Dr Murray has never prescribed nor administered Demerol to Michael Jackson. Not ever. Not that day. Not OxyContin (either) for that matter.”

Mr Chernoff also discussed how his client found the dying Jackson. “He just happened to find him in his bed and he wasn’t breathing. Mr Jackson was still warm and had a pulse.”

Coroner’s officials have said that Jackson was taking prescription medicines, but declined to elaborate. Preliminary results from an official post-mortem by Los Angeles County medical examiners showed no sign of foul play. No official cause of death was given, but one is expected after the results of toxicology tests within six weeks.

The Rev Jesse Jackson, a family friend, said: “It’s abnormal. We don’t know what happened. Was he injected, and with what? All reasonable doubt should be addressed.”

More speculation about the cause of death — and Jackson’s lifestyle — was aroused when Grace Rwaramba, 42, nanny to Jackson’s three children, told The Sunday Times how she regularly had to pump Jackson’s stomach to remove dangerous cocktails of drugs.

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