The King Of Pop Really Was Quite The Weasel
While there’s no evidence that they ever consummated their ill-fated marriage - or that they even slept in the same room - Michael Jackson tried his hardest to make he and Lisa Marie Presley look like lovebirds, according to Star magazine.
“Michael slung ladies’ underwear around. And I found her bra underneath his bed once,” former maid Adrian McManus told the supermarket tabloid. “It was all very comical and so obviously staged.”
The pecking order was clear, other staffers said: “Many of Michael’s young friends, including the boy who received a settlement, were priority calls, which meant Michael had to be located.”
But when Lisa Marie called, “it was much more relaxed and casual … we’d just write a note and slip it under his door.”
Loose talk
Mother Teresa on Princess Diana, in the Sunday Express of London (repeated in People magazine): “She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case … “
The producer-director formerly known as …
Harold Prince turns 68 today.
We’re betting that it was Macaulay Culkin
Meanwhile, a heavily made up Michael Jackson was spotted at New York’s Motown Cafe with a mystery blonde in tow. The pair, both in shades, ate sushi - which had to be driven in from another restaurant because it’s not on Motown’s menu - before speeding off in a blue van.
They asked Di, but her bones were too jealous
Camilla Parker Bowles, the “other woman” in the Prince Charles-Princess Diana breakup, has agreed to participate in a celebrity fund-raising campaign for the National Osteoporosis Society of Britain.
Which explains why she decided not to tip
Princess Diana was guest of honor Monday at a luncheon of The Association of American Correspondents in London. Her remarks were off the record, but when a reporter asked if he could write that she was relaxed and cheerful, she said yes - and “very stable,” she added.
Women who spend too much, on the next ‘Fergie’
And the Duchess of York, rumored to be in debt to the tune of $1.5 million, has reportedly been offered $1 million by CBS to do a TV talk show. Scoffed a spokeswoman for the former Sarah Ferguson: “It’s fairly unlikely she will have her own chat show.”
If we should not fight, then we must unite
At least some good came out of the O.J. Simpson trial (besides billable hours, of course), says defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. - it’s given him a platform to preach racial harmony across the country. “Let’s not run and hide,” Cochran told an audience at the University of Toledo. “Let’s acknowledge the divide and let’s try and work together to make things better.”
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