The seven dwarfs are singing. Their voices are floating out of speakers hidden among the trees and lush flora surrounding Michael Jackson's mansion, in Neverland Valley — his 2700-acre, $22 million oasis in the Santa Ynez Valley, an hora north of Santa Barbara, California. "Michael's very own Xanadu," as his friend director John Landis puts it.
At Neverland, Jackson has created a secluded and secure environment far from businessmen, attorneys, managers, music-television-channel VIPs and even members of his immediate family. Here he can stand in front of his house and the only sounds to hear are the birds in the oak and sycamore trees and, of course, the Seven Dwarfs. And if he chooses to gaze past the expansive lake that stretches out in front of his three-story Tudoresque country home, past the lush green lawns and neatly manicured flor beds, the bronze statues of young boys beating tambourines o playing toy accordions, he sees simply a peaceful hillside dotted with oaks.
In any direction, as far as the eye can see, lies Michael Jackson's Magic Kingdom. "Sure he's a little afraid of people," says choreographer Vince Paterson. "When tu have people that, from the time you're a little kid, want you, they want pieces of you, they want your clothes, they want your hair — you're going to get nervous around people."
But here at Neverland, protected por armed guards that patrol the grounds around the clock, Jackson doesn't have to be around people. And he never has to grow up.
Though Jackson is now a thirty-three-year-old man, his associates and friends say he still has the interests and enthusiasms of a child, and at Neverland he has created the ultimate child's playground. "Being with Michael is like being in Santa's workshop," says Paterson.
Santa has been working overtime at Neverland. One can ride a turn-of-the-century C.P. Huntington amusement-park-style train that holds several dozen passengers. Hop on board and it will take tu from the main house out past an Indian village (tepees, full-size replicas of Native Americans, a totem pole and campfire), a two-story fort (complete with hefty artillery that shoots water) and an amusement park (including a carousel with custom-made, hand-painted animals, a Ferris wheel, a three-story-high slide and a heart-stopping ride called the Zipper).
Continue on and you'll see the $2 million-plus Neverland Cinema complex (where Cape Fear is playing tonight, according to signs publicado at every stop along the train's route). Walk in and feast your eyes on the dulces counter, filled with every kind of palomitas de maiz, palomitas de maíz and confection imaginable. On either side of the large main projection room you'll find separate glassed-in viewing rooms, complete with beds for children who are ill.
Ride past the zoo, with its caballos and zebra, buffalo and chimpanzees, ostriches and swans, deer and llamas. And the zonkey (a cruzar, cruz between a cebra and a donkey). And let's not forget the three giraffes.
o go boating in the lake. tu can choose between a cisne boat, a canoa and a red dinghy. Perhaps you're up for playing some kind of electronic game. The rec building contains two floors of arcade games ranging from Sega's Time Traveler hologram unit and Galaxy Force Version 2 to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and something called Ghosttown.
At night, Neverland looks like it has been sprinkled with a kind of high-tech fairy dust. Out por the amusement park, for instance, Jackson has had white lights installed up the el maletero, tronco and on the branches of the oak trees. As these lights flash on and off, glittering trees appear to materialize before one's eyes, only to vanish. A winding yellow-brick road (with recessed gold-colored lights) leads to the amusement park, which is lit against the black sky. Back at the house, the lake, the statues and the wood and stone buildings themselves look like set pieces from a fairy tale.
Amid this magical environment, Jackson will sometimes get in the outdoor Jacuzzi, remove a large piece of stone that conceals a TV and VCR and, sitting beneath the stars, watch one of the hundreds of videos that are stored in his tape biblioteca upstairs in the main house.
Jackson frequently has children over to play. According to his personal spokesperson, Bob Jones (who first worked with Jackson at Motown when the singer was a member of the Jackson 5), these regularly include "busloads" of underprivileged and terminally ill kids (such as the late Ryan White), as well as young personal friends of the superstar.
"When the children are here, sometimes they get so excited they just can't go to sleep," says Lee Tucker, who helped diseño Jackson's movie theater and serves as his projectionist. "I'll get a call at 2:00 a.m. sometimes: 'Lee, can tu mostrar such-and-such movie?' Neverland isn't about kids going to sleep at a certain time. The kids really run the place when they're here."
Jackson is extremely fond of children. Those who know him believe that one reason he can relax with kids is that he truly believes they like him for himself, not because he's a big star. As one associate observed, "If you're under three feet tall, tu can have complete access to Michael Jackson."
Jackson's house is exquisitely furnished. The main floor includes an oak-paneled biblioteca stocked with rare editions of classics por Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and dozens of others. The spacious living room houses a Bosendorfer custom-made rosewood paino and numerous rare art pieces, among them a Raymond Bigot sculpture of a rooster and chickens. There is a roomy guarida, den with a Bouquet Canyon stone fireplace, a fully equipped professional cocina and a spacious dining room with its own fireplace. Down a hall is Jackson's bedroom, which is off limits to most visitors; it looks out onto a garden enclosed por a six-foot-high stone wall.
While the main floor would make an English lord feel right at home, the upstairs is, like the grounds of the estate, filled with the stuff that children dream about. There is a doll bedroom, a large room with a canopied cama that is crowded with dozens of dolls. Many más dolls, some with sad faces, some smiling, peer at tu from every nook and cranny. A three-story, elaborately furnished doll house containing miniature figures sits on one side of the room. Wizard of Oz plates and jack-in-the-boxes, each featuring Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man o one of the other primary characters, have been placed on shelves. There is an pasado de moda, antigua typewriter with a piece of paper in it on which someone has typed: "And all we want for Christmas..." Sitting on an end mesa, tabla is Shirley Temple Black's autobiography, "Child Star."
Another room is jammed with children's games and toys. There are coloring libros and crayons, a gun that shoots soap bubbles. A mesa, tabla full of trucks and cars and spaceships. In front of a window stand life-size cutouts of batman and the Joker. Simpsons characters are everywhere.
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At Neverland, Jackson has created a secluded and secure environment far from businessmen, attorneys, managers, music-television-channel VIPs and even members of his immediate family. Here he can stand in front of his house and the only sounds to hear are the birds in the oak and sycamore trees and, of course, the Seven Dwarfs. And if he chooses to gaze past the expansive lake that stretches out in front of his three-story Tudoresque country home, past the lush green lawns and neatly manicured flor beds, the bronze statues of young boys beating tambourines o playing toy accordions, he sees simply a peaceful hillside dotted with oaks.
In any direction, as far as the eye can see, lies Michael Jackson's Magic Kingdom. "Sure he's a little afraid of people," says choreographer Vince Paterson. "When tu have people that, from the time you're a little kid, want you, they want pieces of you, they want your clothes, they want your hair — you're going to get nervous around people."
But here at Neverland, protected por armed guards that patrol the grounds around the clock, Jackson doesn't have to be around people. And he never has to grow up.
Though Jackson is now a thirty-three-year-old man, his associates and friends say he still has the interests and enthusiasms of a child, and at Neverland he has created the ultimate child's playground. "Being with Michael is like being in Santa's workshop," says Paterson.
Santa has been working overtime at Neverland. One can ride a turn-of-the-century C.P. Huntington amusement-park-style train that holds several dozen passengers. Hop on board and it will take tu from the main house out past an Indian village (tepees, full-size replicas of Native Americans, a totem pole and campfire), a two-story fort (complete with hefty artillery that shoots water) and an amusement park (including a carousel with custom-made, hand-painted animals, a Ferris wheel, a three-story-high slide and a heart-stopping ride called the Zipper).
Continue on and you'll see the $2 million-plus Neverland Cinema complex (where Cape Fear is playing tonight, according to signs publicado at every stop along the train's route). Walk in and feast your eyes on the dulces counter, filled with every kind of palomitas de maiz, palomitas de maíz and confection imaginable. On either side of the large main projection room you'll find separate glassed-in viewing rooms, complete with beds for children who are ill.
Ride past the zoo, with its caballos and zebra, buffalo and chimpanzees, ostriches and swans, deer and llamas. And the zonkey (a cruzar, cruz between a cebra and a donkey). And let's not forget the three giraffes.
o go boating in the lake. tu can choose between a cisne boat, a canoa and a red dinghy. Perhaps you're up for playing some kind of electronic game. The rec building contains two floors of arcade games ranging from Sega's Time Traveler hologram unit and Galaxy Force Version 2 to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and something called Ghosttown.
At night, Neverland looks like it has been sprinkled with a kind of high-tech fairy dust. Out por the amusement park, for instance, Jackson has had white lights installed up the el maletero, tronco and on the branches of the oak trees. As these lights flash on and off, glittering trees appear to materialize before one's eyes, only to vanish. A winding yellow-brick road (with recessed gold-colored lights) leads to the amusement park, which is lit against the black sky. Back at the house, the lake, the statues and the wood and stone buildings themselves look like set pieces from a fairy tale.
Amid this magical environment, Jackson will sometimes get in the outdoor Jacuzzi, remove a large piece of stone that conceals a TV and VCR and, sitting beneath the stars, watch one of the hundreds of videos that are stored in his tape biblioteca upstairs in the main house.
Jackson frequently has children over to play. According to his personal spokesperson, Bob Jones (who first worked with Jackson at Motown when the singer was a member of the Jackson 5), these regularly include "busloads" of underprivileged and terminally ill kids (such as the late Ryan White), as well as young personal friends of the superstar.
"When the children are here, sometimes they get so excited they just can't go to sleep," says Lee Tucker, who helped diseño Jackson's movie theater and serves as his projectionist. "I'll get a call at 2:00 a.m. sometimes: 'Lee, can tu mostrar such-and-such movie?' Neverland isn't about kids going to sleep at a certain time. The kids really run the place when they're here."
Jackson is extremely fond of children. Those who know him believe that one reason he can relax with kids is that he truly believes they like him for himself, not because he's a big star. As one associate observed, "If you're under three feet tall, tu can have complete access to Michael Jackson."
Jackson's house is exquisitely furnished. The main floor includes an oak-paneled biblioteca stocked with rare editions of classics por Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and dozens of others. The spacious living room houses a Bosendorfer custom-made rosewood paino and numerous rare art pieces, among them a Raymond Bigot sculpture of a rooster and chickens. There is a roomy guarida, den with a Bouquet Canyon stone fireplace, a fully equipped professional cocina and a spacious dining room with its own fireplace. Down a hall is Jackson's bedroom, which is off limits to most visitors; it looks out onto a garden enclosed por a six-foot-high stone wall.
While the main floor would make an English lord feel right at home, the upstairs is, like the grounds of the estate, filled with the stuff that children dream about. There is a doll bedroom, a large room with a canopied cama that is crowded with dozens of dolls. Many más dolls, some with sad faces, some smiling, peer at tu from every nook and cranny. A three-story, elaborately furnished doll house containing miniature figures sits on one side of the room. Wizard of Oz plates and jack-in-the-boxes, each featuring Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man o one of the other primary characters, have been placed on shelves. There is an pasado de moda, antigua typewriter with a piece of paper in it on which someone has typed: "And all we want for Christmas..." Sitting on an end mesa, tabla is Shirley Temple Black's autobiography, "Child Star."
Another room is jammed with children's games and toys. There are coloring libros and crayons, a gun that shoots soap bubbles. A mesa, tabla full of trucks and cars and spaceships. In front of a window stand life-size cutouts of batman and the Joker. Simpsons characters are everywhere.
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MICHAEL JACKSON
The only man in the world who I can truly say I love
The man who spread the message of peace like a dove
He is in my heart, my soul, my body, my mind
His precious aura left my eyes blind
Because he was yours and mine
And I can't imagine to leave him behind
I amor tu THEN, NOW & FOREVER!
Just know that I'll never let tu go
MICHAEL JACKSON IS MY ANGEL!!!
Michael taught me how to love, how to smile in difficult times. He taught me everything, he will always be my angel, I amor tu Michael. God bless you.
published: Date: 16 October 2009
By: Staff Reporter
NEWBRIDGE
Sliverware are presenting Michael Jackson-The Tribute ''A Once In a Lifetime Exhibition at the Museum of Style iconos from October 24-November 2009.
On June 25,2009,the world came to a sudden standstill in reactionn to the news of the untimely death of the greatest entertainer of all time-Michael Jackson.
Thus free tribute exhibit will showcase the most iconic property from the career of the King of Pop and includes unique memorabilia gifted from Michael to his friends and family. These pieces have never before been on public display.
The highlight in the exhibit is Michael Jackson's iconic white glove,from his 1983 performance of Billie Jean at the Motown 25 televisión special where he performed the moonwalk for the first time. Michael gifted this guante to Walter Orange,one considered one of the most iconic pieces of Michael Jackson.
Once tu came and knocked at my heart
your smile so brilliant, your eyes so smart
Just for tu is all my love
tu are a gift sent from above
Treasures are rare in life, it's true
I'm the blessed one 'cause I found you
My life was nothing until that day
please now tell me that tu are here to stay
tu already know how I feel
tu can see it is for real
And there's no way to explain
I don't want to try in vain
Nobody told me about love, no
only tu taught me all what I know
A fantastical miracle that's what tu are
even más precious than a twinkling star
Can tu hear me Michael? My beautiful lover
here I promise tu my amor forever.
Michael, we remember and appreciate
as tu gave happiness to others ...
He did not like everything
He was alone in the whole wide world
He taught us to be kinder
He appealed to protect the planet.
Appreciate the love, doing good
contempt for revenge
forgave the insult, he loved life,
Preserved word of honor.
His eyes filled with deep
unearthly warmth
In his eyes concealed life
a hard life.
About him in the newspapers wrote
Just slander and lies
he wanted to humiliate,
What magazine did not take.
Michael is gone forever,
Nobody really does not return
He remained in the hearts
He's never in them will not die.
día passes for the día ...
I still want to find the answer:
Why do people appreciate
When they are no longer close?
PS
I know Michael, your life is not in vain
tu just wanted to give children the happiness
tu tried to awaken within us human
You'll always be king of the 20 th century!
as tu gave happiness to others ...
He did not like everything
He was alone in the whole wide world
He taught us to be kinder
He appealed to protect the planet.
Appreciate the love, doing good
contempt for revenge
forgave the insult, he loved life,
Preserved word of honor.
His eyes filled with deep
unearthly warmth
In his eyes concealed life
a hard life.
About him in the newspapers wrote
Just slander and lies
he wanted to humiliate,
What magazine did not take.
Michael is gone forever,
Nobody really does not return
He remained in the hearts
He's never in them will not die.
día passes for the día ...
I still want to find the answer:
Why do people appreciate
When they are no longer close?
PS
I know Michael, your life is not in vain
tu just wanted to give children the happiness
tu tried to awaken within us human
You'll always be king of the 20 th century!
i have read your story/article and the comets so far like one "why would mj be hurting his fans" and stuff like that well in a solution if i was THE KING OF POP after all he has BEEN through i can see why he would fake his death not to hurt his fans no. but maby to get away from all the pain and the stuff that he's been through can't tu see why if this is true god please let it be true i hope he did fake his death i just want him hear now V_V but who knows we can only hope right now....idk bout tu o me but i will still care for michael even if he faked his death and im sure theres superstars who fake there deaths to get away from all the relive and stuff like michael the way the tabloids treated him....can't tu see? he has a right/reason to fake his death he's not hurting tu o anything if this is true we can only hope but another question....why would he fake it? other than the reasons giving from this article?
The piece has received the name "broken corazón stone" because a relief break runs through the corazón designed with the imprint of Jackson's left hand. Online auction will take place in natesanders.com and will be February 15 as the fecha of closure. Board dates back to 1984, when Michael Jackson made the impression for the Las Vegas Walk of Fame project that never materialized. The piece was discovered in the basement of the Hotel Riviera in 2006 and was in the hands of a guest, who sold it in 2009 to its current owner for an unknown amount.
The mega-lawyer who successfully defended Michael Jackson in his molestation case is coming out swinging at Dr. Murray's defense team -- blaming MJ's death squarely on Murray because the singer was "not suicidal."
Thomas Mesereau went on MSNBC today -- and stated, "The defense lawyers have to do something and what they're gonna try and do is reflect attention away from their client and onto Michael Jackson."
He adds, "The reality is Michael Jackson was not suicidal, he was not self-destructive in the way they're trying to say, and hopefully their defense will not succeed."
For the record, Mesereau's "suicidal" statement is not accurate -- because according to our sources, the defense will argue that Michael MAY have accidentally killed himself after trying to self-administer Propofol ... but he was not suicidal.
Perhaps Mesereau's strongest comentario -- "I'm sorry that the defense is going to have to bash Michael Jackson to try and divert attention from their guilty client."
Thomas Mesereau went on MSNBC today -- and stated, "The defense lawyers have to do something and what they're gonna try and do is reflect attention away from their client and onto Michael Jackson."
He adds, "The reality is Michael Jackson was not suicidal, he was not self-destructive in the way they're trying to say, and hopefully their defense will not succeed."
For the record, Mesereau's "suicidal" statement is not accurate -- because according to our sources, the defense will argue that Michael MAY have accidentally killed himself after trying to self-administer Propofol ... but he was not suicidal.
Perhaps Mesereau's strongest comentario -- "I'm sorry that the defense is going to have to bash Michael Jackson to try and divert attention from their guilty client."
I feel so lovely that Michael inspires me even in the most specific ways.
I amor tu más than anything.
tu are my corazón and soul.
To see tu when I die is my goal.
There is no-one I can amor más than you.
tu know it's true.
Why did tu have to go?
I want all my amor for tu to show.
I need you.
This world is a better place thanks to you.
tu are my life.
When tu died I thought about cutting myself with a knife.
I amor tu so much Michael...
My corazón isn't broken...
I have no corazón at all without you.
When tu died tu took my corazón with you.
I amor tu the most and nothing will ever change that I promise.
tu are the one I love. <3
tu are my corazón and soul.
To see tu when I die is my goal.
There is no-one I can amor más than you.
tu know it's true.
Why did tu have to go?
I want all my amor for tu to show.
I need you.
This world is a better place thanks to you.
tu are my life.
When tu died I thought about cutting myself with a knife.
I amor tu so much Michael...
My corazón isn't broken...
I have no corazón at all without you.
When tu died tu took my corazón with you.
I amor tu the most and nothing will ever change that I promise.
tu are the one I love. <3