I would take that voodoo stories with a grain of salt - it was tabloids that were saying that Grace was using voodoo to get Michael to marry her.
Same tabloids also reported that Michael paid to put voodoo spells on Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and other enemies.
It was reported by Maureen Orth, if tabs reported it, that came after, as far as I can tell:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rinkratz/4197700309/
VANITY FAIR
by Maureen Orth April 2003
‘David Geffen, be gone! Steven Spielberg, be gone!"
The witch doctor cursing Michael Jackson's enemies and blessing the tarnished King of Pop himself in a voodoo ritual in Switzerland in the summer of 2000 had promised that the 25 people on Jackson's enemies list, some of whom had worked with him for years, would soon expire.
The voodoo man later assured one close observer of the scene that David Geffen, who headed the list, would die within the week.
But Geffen's demise did not come cheap.
Jackson had ordered his then business adviser, Myung-Ho Lee, a U.S.-educated Korean lawyer based in Seoul, to wire $150,000 to a bank in Mali for a voodoo chief named Baba, who then had 42 cows ritually sacrificed for the ceremony.
Jackson had already undergone a blood bath.
This was written after Michael passed & has links to her old articles too:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/06/michael-jackson-is-gone-but-the-sad-facts-remain.html
I even found the business manager who told me on-the-record how he had had to wire $150,000 to a voodoo chief in Mali who had 42 cows ritually sacrificed in order to put a curse on David Geffen, Steven Spielberg, and 23 others on Jackson’s enemies list.
RF also talks about Orths revelations here, as he felt she stole from him as he had reported it first:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,80136,00.html
I am fairly amused by
Maureen Orth's big-deal story about
Michael Jackson that
Vanity Fair has been trumpeting the last 24 hours. You'd think from the headlines that Orth had been working night and day on this.
But maybe she's just been reading the Fox411.
We are grateful for the bone she tosses us early in the piece, when Orth kindly mentions this column revealed that Jackson's Heal the World Foundation was out of business. Thanks, Maureen!
But the 10,000-word piece relies heavily on information found right
here, including almost all of the financial information about Jackson we reported last July. Everything about Michael being leveraged, about the $2-million watch he couldn't afford, about the
Beatles catalog and his Sony loans -- all of it is in our archives.
So what about Orth's voodoo story? Anything's possible, right? But
Steven Spielberg and
David Geffen have always been friendly with Jackson.
John McClain, Jackson's permanent manager and longtime family friend, works at DreamWorks Records for Geffen and Spielberg. This highly unusual arrangement is because of their largesse. And let's not forget that since the voodoo "curse," DreamWorks has won three Best Picture Academy Awards. Spielberg has had three hit
films. So I guess it didn't work.
Diane Dimond compared notes with her before the trial too. They showed clips on Courttv. I may even still have it on tape.
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