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Michael Jackson's Monkey
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By:
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envious
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Mood:
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full of life
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Date:
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02/04/2008 00:32:48
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None
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Michael Jackson is the King of Pop. Born in 1958, debuting at just aged 5 years old in The Jackson Five Michael Jackson has got to be the number one music artist of all time. He is known world wide and has so many hits that his greatest hits album holds no less than 13 number one singles.
His finances are a little confusing as he owns various music and real estate assets worth as much as $600 million but is still in financial trouble. He has several loans that are in total over $200. However, it’s not hard to understand why when he owns his own theme park and large estates and buys his way into the rights and ownerships of several music catalogs. One of my favorite purchases of his was when he bought Bubbles, a chimpanzee. The chimp was originally from a cancer research clinic in Texas but went to live with Michael in California in 1985.
In 1988 Michael hired Jeff Koons (a well known artist) to sculpt a gold statue of Michael and Bubbles. It is the most valuable sculpture created by any artist and is life size and gold plated. It sold at auction in 1991 for a staggering $5,600,000. Michael Jackson is well known for his charity work and started his work in 1981 by going on tour to raise a massive $100,000 for Atlanta’s Children Foundation. Since then Michael has been actively involved in raising money and support for 39 charities.
So not only does he go for expensive and outlandish purchases, he is very generous with his money helping organizations and charities worldwide.
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