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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: blaq on 7/09/2009 3:41PM
Right on to Tre!!! And if he did have vitiligo it wouldn't have changed his whole body's skin color at one time. My mother has it.
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By: Kiko on 7/09/2009 3:57PM
We are a rainbow of colors... Only Michael J knows
why he chose to marry white women maybe for the same reason that other black men do? And as fars as
MJ's bleachy skin if that is what it was. Maybe he thought it might make a difference, and he would be loved by the white main stream, after all whites sometimes do judge you on the color of your skin. Maybe he didn't want his black or mixed kids if he would of had any, to go through what he suffered as a black man. It seems since we have a Black President, white folks think they can just say or write anything about black folks like we was back in 1865. The only reason some sisters be rating and not hating is because some of you black men don't even take a first glance at a black woman. Bill you will never understand until you become black maybe in your next life.
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By: Urbnaprincess on 7/09/2009 4:37PM
This comment is for charles.
Hey Charlie BOY,
I sure hell went there and not a damn thing you can do to stop whatever comments I make on here! Who the hell are you calling ghetto? You don't know me CONFUSED, LONELY, UNHAPPY BROTHA! You need to check your ISH first, maybe you and doing it right! Who want to put up with your ISH anyway? I say what the hell I want to say about Diana. This blog isn't about REGGIE? You can kiss my ASS! My life is just GROOVY and HAPPY with whom I with and with MYSELF! People like you don't have a damn life!
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By: Wondia on 7/09/2009 4:35PM
Michael Jackson was a very good person He had Lupus
IF YOU KNOW WAHT LUPUS YOU WOULD'NT SAID THAT HE WANTED TO BE WHITE LUPUS IS VERY PAINER YOU ARE TO PRAY THAT YOU WAS'NT IN HIS SHOE WE ARE SO QUICK TO
JUGED PEOPLE JESUS SAID JUGDE NOT ARE YOU WILL BE JUGED SO ALL OF YOU BAD MOUTH MICHAEL JACKSON YOU WILL BE JUGED BY THE LORD WHEN YOUR TIME COME.
SO IF THERE NOT SIN IN YOUR LIFE CAST THE FIRST STONE. KNOW MAN CAN A STONE WE ALL HAVE SIN AND CAME SHORT OF GOD GLORY. WE MADE NOT KILL ANYONE WITH A GUN. BUT DID WITH OUR MOUTH. THE BIBLE SAID THERE IS LIFE OR DEATH IN THE POWER OF YOUR TONGUE
WE GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE WE LIE ON THEM WE GET MAD WE EVENY PEOPLE THAT NOT RIGHT.EVRY MAN SHALL HAVE THEY AT JUDGEDMENT SEAT OF CHRIST. SO REPENT FOR YOUR SIN. WE ARE KNOW BETTER THAN MICHEAL Jackson
you sower a bad seed you will reap a bad seed.
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By: Urbanprincess on 7/09/2009 4:44PM
To msbrownsugar2350,
My condolences to go to you and your family. 3 in a row in the same week, that is rough. In the "Bible", it says in order for God to work through us and to bless us, we have to lay down our family members and loved ones. May God give you and your family the strength to move on in these hard and difficult times. You and your family will get through this. God Bless you and your Family.
Peace!
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By: lachoun on 7/09/2009 5:52PM
i csn understand y she didnt come it proubaly was to painful to come
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By: matilda on 7/09/2009 6:12PM
People stay focus.Michael Jackson's problems are common in all families. The only difference is that his issues were more VISIBLE. If each person investigate their own family we will be SURPRISE to discover the secret HORRORs which exist.If the desires of our hearts were EXPOSED we would all be GUILTY of shameful acts. His abnormal life was very common in this ABNORMAL world. Let us all talk more with the person in your mirror!!We keep avoiding the real issue...ourselves. Then we look for comfort by judging others!!!!!!!!!!!
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By: charles000 on 7/09/2009 6:35PM
MJ was a musical genius, and a performance artist without comparison.
It was his music and dance production videos that put MTV on the map, and changed the entire concept of musical productions into the emergent artform that it is today.
I've never perceived him as one of ill intent. Quite the contrary, he holds the world's record for the most charity ever given by a single individual.
Let me repeat that so everyone can understand . .
Not Bill Gates. or Warren Buffet, or any of the other big names in finance and industry
Michael Jackson gave more money to charities around the world than any other human being in history.
Virtual everyone today who has become successful in the music / dance video production industry, owes more than they could ever repay to this unique individual who accelerated this artform into completely uncharted territory, around the world.
As for his personal controversies and challenges, I would be very careful about tossing stones in a glass house.
From my vantage point, what I see is an individual who never had access to a "normal" childhood, and somewhat as a consequence thereof, became a sort of target for scheming con artists and fake friends hoping to cash in on his fortune and fame.
Think what you may, but think carefully before you judge.
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By: pete on 7/09/2009 6:41PM
know Quincy should have had his old ass there as much money MJ put in his pocket ....that was disrespectful.........
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By: black man on 7/10/2009 12:03AM
Hollywood celebs don`t give a damn about the Public, they just want you to spend your cash,watch their movies,buy the c- d`s,dvd`s and glad as hell that their money and fame keep them separated from you(other side of tracks)try walking on the Beach in Malibu you will see what i mean........
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