An article published in June, 2014 by Ian Halperin says that Frank Dileo, Michael’s cigar-chomping, larger-than-life manager, was apparently taken in by bizarre claims - conspiracy theories.
The legendary music mogul – an affable character who was Michael’s life-long companion – was blunt:
"Michael, he believed, was the ‘victim of foul play’. Dileo died in 2011, following complications after heart surgery, but gave me his final interview. Teary and emotional, he made a series of wild allegations that have never before been published.
‘It’s clear Michael was worth more dead than alive,’ he told me, choking back tears. But he added:
‘I can assure you Conrad Murray is not the only person who should stand trial.’
Frank Dileo insisted that Michael never released certain songs because they were not up to his incredibly high standards.
‘Michael was a stickler,’ he said. ‘Unless it was incredible, he would never consider putting it out. I fear that the people who exploited Michael while he was alive are now conspiring to make as much money [as they can] off him in death. It’s not the way Michael would have wanted it.’
It was only weeks after Michael’s death that the co-executors of his estate, John Branca and John McClain, made headlines for beginning lucrative major merchandising deals.
Dileo said: ‘Just a few weeks before Michael died he told me he thought someone would kill him. I thought he was being overly paranoid.
‘He told me there were people out there who wanted him dead. He said he didn’t think he would live too long and that if anything happened to him he wanted me to know he loved me."
source: Daily
Forbes now has an entire website devoted to “top-earning dead celebrities.” More than a few notable celebrities are monetarily worth more dead than alive.
source: Wealth
Another such celebrity is the recently departed Prince. With so many correlations between Prince and Michael Jackson's death, there are still more coming to the surface.
For instance, about 12 days after Michael's passing Randy Phillips of AEG wrote an email claiming:
"Michael's death is a terrible tragedy but life must go on. "AEG will make a fortune from merch sales, ticket retention, the touring exhibition and the film"
It was just three days after Michael's death that Randy Phillips, Tohme Tohme, his fired manager, and the Estate of Michael Jackson met to cement the plans for the This is It film. Estate executors, John Branca and John McClain, were not even named as executors yet.
It is now approximately ten days after the death of Prince. MPR News has published an article that eerily outlines specific plans for Prince stating:
Imagine occasional future pay-per-view concerts featuring a virtual Prince performing previously unreleased music. Suppose there's a $20 fee to watch and, say, five million fans pay up. That'd bring in $100 million.
Those are the kind of money-making opportunities that may be available to the people overseeing Prince's estate once its fate is settled."
The "people" overseeing Prince's estate? What people? And how does the reporter, Martin Moylan, know that more digital performances are on the way? Where did the figures and idea come from regarding "pay-per-view" performances?
It was in May, 2009, a month before Jackson's death, that the LA Times reported that Jackson was considering a pay-per-view and feature film. According to the article, Randy Phillips of AEG not only named the ideas Jackson was considering, but stated:
"The concerts, Phillips acknowledged, are a do-or-die moment for Jackson"
source: LATimes
Taking into consideration the apparent "inside information" that the current article MPR has published includes, it might not take too long to figure out the source. Apparently . . .
"The latest Jackson album is due out soon"
source: MPR
Randy Phillips, formally with AEG Live, was instrumental in developing Prince's residency at The O2 in London in 2007.
Perhaps in the near future we'll see a Prince impersonator performing a selection of songs by the late artist. If it's anything like the hologram used for Michael Jackson, I'd beg you to save your money. The song choice for Jackson, "Slave to the Rhythm", reminds me a little too much of Prince's note he wrote on his own face: "Slave".
"Dearly beloved,
We are gathered here today to get through this thing we call life.
Electric word, life, that means forever, and that's a mighty long time.
But I'm here to tell you, there's something else . .
the after world . .
If the elevator tries to break you down,
go crazy . . ."
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