Blog: My News Booth

Joe Jackson Took Money to Appear at Michael Jackson's Funeral

Aug 18, 2009, 4:37pm

According to the Gary Post-Tribune, Joe Jackson charged the city of Gary, Indiana $5000 to grace them with his presence at Michael Jackson's memorial service in their hometown. Mayor Rudy Clay believes that the event honoring the late singer will bring a profit to the town once all donations are counted. He said "It turned out beautiful and great and we're not using taxpayers' money so we should be given a blue ribbon for prudence." No they shouldn't after expecting profit from donations! It's unknown whether the money given to Joe and the music group the Chi-Lites was for travel [...]

Artists: Chi-Lites, Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson, Singer

Tags: Music, Michael-Jackson, Joe Jackson, indiana, singer, profit, Chi-Lites, Memorial

Beyonce Scheduled to Perform at Michael Jackson Memorial Super Secret Special Guest to Appear at Tonight's 8 off 8th [Who Can It Be Now?]Super Secret Special Guest to Appear at Tonight's Mercy Lounge AMA Show [Who Can It Be Now?]Erykah Badu To Appear At Yo Gabba Gabba! Live In Frisco Saturday Former Go-Go Jane Wiedlin to appear at Planet ComiCon

More from My News Booth

Linkin Park Lawsuit Man Arrested for Threatening Elton John on YouTube Billy Corgan Talks John Mayer Nick Cannon wants to make a movie with Mariah Carey Heidi Range misses tea

Hot Artists

MGMT
The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night is an absolutely wonderful new album from Canada's The Besnard Lakes, not so much a concept [...]More about MGMT
Lady GaGa
Tuesday night marked the 30th Anniversary of the BRIT Awards. The awards ceremony was broadcast during office hours so I was only able to catch bits and pieces and [...]More about Lady GaGa
The National
After watching The National perform on Jimmy Fallon the other night, [...]More about The National
Neon Indian
What could be more awesome than a collaboration between Neon Indian and Grizzly Bear I hear you ask. Well, not much [...]More about Neon Indian
She and Him
It seems like everyone that discusses Volume Two , the upcoming She and Him album, begin their statement with a discussion about not buying into [...]More about She and Him
Gorillaz
raekwon: playing the step inn march 19th get tickets here stay off the fucking flowers [...]More about Gorillaz
Beyonce
Yeasayer
Yeasayer has returned with their follow up to the stellar All Hour Cymbals ealier this year with their release of Odd Blood. It seems that [...]More about Yeasayer
Kavinsky
who’s bo$$ing the show? Right dude, Kav does! Nightcall is the first release by the zombie of all zombies since 2007. And it’s another premiere as well [...]More about Kavinsky
Broken Bells
White Hinterland- Kairos To make up for a lack of quality releases last week (and lack of an f/k HH), we [...]More about Broken Bells