If there is a letter rehiring Branca filed with the court, it should be part of the public record, so where is it? If Tohme was truly fired as the "story" goes, why was he the one doing the press conference at the hospital, and following MJ's body to the helicopter? Didn't look to me like Frank or anyone else stepped into tell him he shouldn't be there?
As far as there being another will, if there was proof, it has been well hidden! Big money and power are capable of covering up anything. They threaten and buy people off and just because none has yet surfaced, doesn't prove there isn't any.
Things just don't add up to a clear picture, so I look with my own eye and conclude what seem logical instead of just buying into the story that is fed out through the media. Being a Michael Jackson fan, I learned that lesson years ago!
The letter is with the 97 will we have never seen & Malnik's will of Michael Jackson.
Apparently, Michael Jackson's signature has been forged before:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,59085,00.html
*****'s Defense: Was His Signature Forged?
Tuesday, July 30, 2002
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Michael Jackson | Liv Tyler
*****'s Defense: Was His Signature Forged?
So what does
Michael Jackson say about the $13 million lawsuit filed by former business manager
Myung-Ho Lee?
He says in a sworn statement included in court papers that he never signed an agreement last September promising that he would pay Lee the money. His assistant says the same thing in another document and another affidavit, by a bodyguard, swears that Jackson was traveling on Sept. 14 and was not in Los Angeles at all.
Lee says that he and Jackson met in Los Angeles on Sept. 14 and that Michael signed a piece of paper admitting that he owed Lee nearly $14 million. No lawyers were present.
First, Jackson: "I specifically looked at the signature that appears at the end of this document above my typed name. This is not my signature. I did not sign this document and have never seen [it] until a few weeks ago. I would never knowingly sign a document that expressly required me to pay over $13 million to Mr. Lee or anyone else, alone in a room and without review and counsel by one or more of my attorneys."
If you remember, Jackson was in New York on the morning of Sept. 11, having just completed the second of his two anniversary concerts.
When he heard that the World Trade Center was under attack, Jackson and his posse are said to have rented a bus and high-tailed it out of New York. If they drove directly back, they could have been in Los Angeles by the 14th.
Zia Modabber, Jackson's litigator in this case, includes an affidavit sworn by former Los Angeles Country Sheriff
Michael Laperruque, who states that he was with Jackson on Sept. 14 and that they were not in California.
There are some interesting facts revealed in the declarations to the court on Jackson's behalf. One of them is the statement by
Frank Tyson, whom this reporter met about 18 months ago in New York with Jackson.
Tyson, who's sort of a
Tom Cruise type, has functioned lately as Jackson's assistant. He is often said to be his godson.
In his statement, Tyson states: "I have known Mr. Jackson almost my entire life, and I am 21 years old. During just the past five years, I have seen Mr. Jackson sign his name, or seen his signature, no less than 100 times, and perhaps as many as 500 times, or more. The signature ... does not appear to be that of Mr. Jackson."
One might wonder why a teenage boy from New Jersey was present so often to witness a 40-year-old man who is not his relative signing so many checks from the time he was a sophomore in high school. Tyson, who swore to living in a suburban New Jersey town, could not be reached.
More interesting, perhaps, is the
story of how Michael borrowed the initial $140 million which he backed with his 50 percent ownership of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, aka the
Beatles catalog.
According to statements included in Jackson's opposition papers, a meeting took place in attorney
John Branca's suite at the swanky Waldorf Towers in New York. (This is the five-star annex to the not nearly as nice Waldorf Astoria.)
Branca met with, among others,
Jane Heller, Jackson's banker from Bank of America/NationsBank since 1993. Heller is the same banker who told this column back on April 19: "I've kept [Michael] alive for 20 years. And it's not that the advice he gets is bad. It's him. He's his own worst enemy."
Heller does confirm in her new statement what this column reported back in April. "I participated in and supervised perhaps as many as five financing transactions with Mr. Jackson."
What she fails to add is that each one dug his financial hole deeper � until it was so deep he couldn't get out of it.
Even if Myung-Ho Lee's so-called signed document doesn't stand up to legal scrutiny, nowhere in Jackson's opposition papers are Lee's other assertions disputed. Jackson does not refute any of the numbers included in the many budgets and lists of accounts payable that were included in Lee's filing.
One entry in those budgets that I left out was something marked "Lennon/McCartney Royalties." Apparently Michael has been borrowing money from the Beatles catalog and still had $360,000 to pay back in October 2000.
I'm sure
Paul McCartney and
Yoko Ono will be thrilled to hear they are now Jackson's personal revolving credit line.
I would like to see all of the documents related to this lawsuit & the alleged "forged documents". It doesn't seem possible for Mj to have been in LA by the 14th. I believe they took a scenic route back to LA. Hmmmm.