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To have them tell it, Diana Ross doesn't want to have anything to do with the last will and testament of Michael Jackson – nor his glitzy Hollywood send off at the Staples Center.
But that doesn't appear to be true.
While Fox News reported that "the songstress was served quite the surprise last week when it was revealed Jacko named her as a secondary caregiver in his will," Ross said the complete opposite.
"Michael wanted me to be there for his children, and I will be there if ever they need me," the 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' songstress said in a statement obtained by The BV Newswire.
Since the late 1960s, when she introduced the Jackson 5 to the public via a Motown Records publicity campaign, Ross and Jackson have had a very close relationship. They appeared together on several major TV shows, starred in the 1978 movie 'The Wiz' and even collaborated on Ross' 1982 hit single 'Muscles.' She often referred to him as her baby. See video below.
Thus, she was noticeably absent from yesterday's star-studded celebration of his life, which included the likes of Mariah Carey, Brooke Shields, Stevie Wonder and Jennifer Hudson.
"I am trying to find closure, " Ross explained saying that while she wasn't there in person, she was there in her heart. "I have decided to pause and be silent. This feels right for me. Michael was a personal love of mine, a treasured part of my world, part of the fabric of my life in a way that I can't seem to find words to express."Fellow Motown Records icon Smokey Robinson read a special note Ross wrote for the occasion. "I hope, today brings closure for all those who loved him," she wrote, adding, "Thank you Katherine and Joe for sharing your son with the world and with me, I send my love an condolences to the Jackson family."
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By: msladydeborah on 7/08/2009 4:50PM
What I am shocked about is that picture of Diana Ross as a blonde! It might be true that blondes do have more fun-but on Diana that is just not a good look at all.
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By: ham2spence on 8/06/2009 6:42AM
Dag, it's only a blond wig she is wearing for a reason. Not every photo shoot is taken well of a person just because one is a celebrity star. Comments about her wig is trival. The closeness of Michael Jackson and Diana Ross is the focus. They were very very good friends. Not all of us have that kind of bond!
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By: vic1101 on 7/08/2009 8:15PM
A number of notables weren't there including Quincy Jones. Diana should have stayed away from the spectacle and mourned him privately. That's what you do when you have truy losted a loved one.
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By: Pam on 7/10/2009 1:40PM
"stayed away from the spectacle and mourned him privately. That's what you do when you have truy losted a loved one."
No one on this planet could have felt the loss more deeply and more strongly than his mother, Mrs. Katherine Jackson.
Ms. Ross and other notables did what was right for them, but please, don't minimize his Mother and other members of his family.
No matter how close to Michael others may have felt, he had family who knew him better than anyone and loved him through all of the madness life dumped on him.
I take exception to the use of the word "spectacle" the service was a beautiful and moving tribute that honored the life of Michael Joseph Jackson. His family did him proud.
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By: BETTYEJ on 7/08/2009 8:51PM
First let me say that it is so disrespectful to call Michael Jackson names period. I am sick of all these people talking out of both sided of their mouth. I have loved Michael Jackson all my life and have always believed in him. It was heartbreaking for me to hear that he had died and I am one of the ones that wouldn't have been to the service if I had the chance.
There will never be a loving , gentle kind of person like Michael Jackson. I am a Jackson, not by birth, but by LOVE. I can't sing or dance and me and Michael are Virgo's. I know for a fact that in public, he was a very shy person, that is, until he was on stage during what he truly loved , singing. And if the time call for it, he would speak out.
He loved his children and family and children. This man gave his time and money to help so many causes that some will never know about.
And while the White Control Media and some of their black flunkies are smiling and saying good things in one breath and study trying to tear him down in the next, all for the mighty dollar.
E. T./ CBS/ FOX /TMZ and the other no-news outlets need to STFU. They have no respect for Michael's children or his family.
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By: Urbanprincess on 7/08/2009 9:20PM
BETTYJ
That's RIGHT! So disrespectful for anyone, the media, ect.. to be so disrespectful after Michael's death. HLN is another network that are on the same level of disrespect!
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By: Shellfish789 on 7/10/2009 7:29PM
Your comment makes a lot of sense......
Michael was a good hearted person...he was a good man in a "Mean" world...
Michael was in the Guinness book of record for contributing more than any other celebrity .....the media doesn't even mention his good deeds...
They want to focus on "Trashy" stuff....
This is nothing but jealousy and prejudice ...
What a shame....
The TV reporters always trying to make a name for themselves, by trying to turn a positive situation in to their personal opinion and into negativity.....
Basically, they like to BASH Blacks in the media....
This make them feel good and powerful...to take an accomplish Black person and Bring him Down...someway ..
They have to remember GOD IN THE BIG MAN...he is in control;.....
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By: kerri on 7/09/2009 11:06AM
I love Micheal too..I have respect for his talents and his heart...The thing ONCE AGAIN is that everyone is turning this into ("the first black man too....) I feel that Micheal was ashamed of being black...how can he be a black icon when he went through several several surgeries to look like a white man and then have three WHITE chiildren. Confusing...so so confusing
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By: Louisa on 7/09/2009 8:40PM
"I am a Jackson, not by birth, but by LOVE." What a beautiful sentiment. You might see this on a T-shirt.
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By: MarkS on 7/11/2009 7:55AM
Why must you make racially divided statements, such as "white controlled media with black flunkies"? You are tearing down the equality we have in America today. I am white by God's choice. Not mine. But I bleed red, just like you. We are ALL God's children. Let the bigotness and racism die with the 60's. We don't even have a "White" house anymore!!
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