All of the art in this book (according to Brett's dates) predate 2002, except for one watercolour, which has a bracketed date range ending in 2002 (which was the year that Prince was born). According to Brett, Michael did not create this art as an inheritance for his children (or mother, or other family).
According to Brett in his interviews at the time the art collection was revealed, this was the purpose of the Alliance and the art:
'The idea behind their Jackson-Strong Alliance was that Strong would help Jackson manage and exhibit his art.'
'As for the spectacular appraisal of $900 million for Jackson’s art collection, Strong says that it derives from the idea of reproducing prints as well. The figure was originally quoted by Eric Finzi, of Belgo Fine Art Appraisers. “The reason somebody came out with that was because there was an appraisal on if all of his originals were reproduced — he wanted to do limited editions of 777 — and he would sell them to his fan base in order to build his monument, support kids and do other things. You multiply that by 150 originals, and if they sold for a few thousand dollars each, then you would end up with 900 million dollars.” Fair enough, though now Strong says he has gone to an appraiser in Chicago to get that value double-checked, and they arrived at an even higher estimate.'
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There seem to be assumptions among fans that Brett will not carry out Michael's wishes. Michael's family does not seem to share these assumptions, for whatever reasons. We can speculate endlesslessly, but I hope that some truths will emerge during the Tohme trial.
For me, the much bigger question is 'Why did Michael not use the value of this art to save himself?' If he had not needed to go to Colony Capital, he may not have agreed to the AEG concerts, and he may still be with us.
My personal wish is that he had used the value of his art to underwrite his own financial needs. I would rather that his children had been able to grow old experiencing his continuing love, than that they inherit multi millions of dollars.