Bill Cosby has hired Michael Jackson's former lawyer to represent him at his November retrial on sexual assault charges in Pennsylvania. Cosby's spokesman announced Monday that the 80-year-old comedian is bringing in Tom Mesereau to lead a retooled defense team. Lawyers from the first trial ...
American art educator on body painting, Asian elephants and 'edutainment'
Michael Jackson topped an annual list of the top-earning dead celebrities on Wednesday for the fourth straight year, far outstripping fellow musical icons Prince and David Bowie, who died earlier this year. Jackson, who died in 2009, raked in a bumper $825 million in earnings ...
Prince's sister believes the superstar musician didn't have a will and asked a Minnesota court on Tuesday to appoint a trust company to temporarily oversee his multimillion-dollar estate. Tyka Nelson, Prince's only full sibling, said in the court filing that immediate action was necessary to ...
British actor Joseph Fiennes has been cast as pop star Michael Jackson in an upcoming TV comedy, provoking scorn on social media on Wednesday and fueling a controversy in the entertainment industry over opportunities for black artists. Fiennes, who is white, will play the late ...
Michael Jackson's album "Thriller" is still breaking barriers more than 30 years after its release and six years after the pop superstar's death, becoming the first album in history to cross the 30 million mark in U.S. sales, record industry officials said on Wednesday. "Thriller," ...
Sony Corp. triggered a contract clause that would allow the Japanese electronics maker to to sell its half of the Sony/ATV Music Publishing venture it co-owns with Michael Jackson's estate, according to people familiar with the situation. The move means Sony can either sell its ...
Neverland Ranch is up for sale. The California property that once served as Michael Jackson's home and personal fantasyland is being listed at $100 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. The 2,700-acre (1,100-hectare) ranch in Santa Ynez Valley features such amenities as a train station, ...
A choreographer who accused Michael Jackson of years of molestation cannot pursue his allegations against the singer's estate because he waited too long to file the legal action, a judge ruled. Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff wrote in his ruling Tuesday that Wade Robson's claim ...
Sony Corp. was considering the sale of its music-publishing business, including a partnership with Michael Jackson's estate that owns the Beatles catalog, as recently as last month, emails released by hackers show. The "top secret" plan was being handled in the U.S. by Sony Entertainment ...
Famed cocktail concoctionist discusses Michael Jackson, Spectreman and the Monkey Gland.
In England in 1999, after the huge success of the ABBA-songs show "Mamma Mia," the theater scene became awash with "jukebox musicals." From 2002's reasonably successful Queen-based "We Will Rock You" and "Taboo," which drew on the music of Boy George/Culture Club, to the ...
