Jermaine Jackson's Vienna Tribute Trouble

UPDATE: It has reportedly been canceled

Jermaine Jackson breaks down at The Tribute press conference

Jermaine Jackson, the brother of late pop star, Michael Jackson, who died of an overdose in June, has run into significant trouble orchestrating a tribute concert to the fallen pop star.

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Two of the artists he stated are scheduled to appear, Mary J. Blige and Chris Brown, denied any involvement in the concert. Apparently, his mother, Katherine Jackson, is also unsure of the date as well, leading to speculation, Jermaine has not finalized plans for the show, as many people are out of the loop where it is concerned.

Jermaine Jackson's Explosive Book Proposal

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According to disgraced, former Fox News gossip columnist, Roger Friedman, who now works for the Hollywood Reporter, Jermaine Jackson, was set to publish an explosive book on his brother, Michael Jackson, before the pop star passed away.

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In the manuscript, he allegedly accused his dad Joe of molesting two of his sisters, Rebbie and Latoya. The manuscript also contained items regarding Michael drinking, taking drugs and attracting gay men.

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New York literary agent Laurie Liss, is alleged to have sent the book around to publishers, on Jermaine Jackson's behalf. Jermaine also had a diss track about Michael titled, "Word To The Bad."

Jermaine Jackson Told All in Shocking 2003 Book Proposal

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - Books, Music / By Roger Friedman

Whatever happened to Jermaine Jackson’s book proposal? Three years ago I wrote in my old column about a stunning document that Jermaine had put together with Stacy Brown, a family friend and co-author of an amazing memoir with Michael Jackson’s late, longtime PR man, Bob Jones.

Jermaine often protested that such a proposal existed, but he talked about it with Larry King on TV. New York literary agent Laurie Liss sent the proposal around to three publishers, but no one bit. Maybe they’ll be more interested now that Michael is gone.

I was so interested in Jermaine’s 2003 proposal that I called around to find the actual document. Sure enough, there still were copies to be found.

Here are excerpts from it, in Jermaine’s own voice, circa early 2003:

“My brother is a superstar, yes. My brother is wealthy. He owns shares in Sony music. He drinks, he does drugs, he lies, he cheats, he changed his skin color and mostly, he’s human. He attracts gay men and wards off women like the plague.”

“He married a woman because she was pregnant and he was doing business with Muslims (which I am a Muslim) and Muslims won’t do business with someone who is engaged in having children without being married.

“He paid this woman, who nobody would ever look twice at, several million dollars. My brother purchased children. It is like a sanctioned black market. He is very powerful; he picked the sperm donor by using information provided by a sperm bank. Now, who can do that? Michael Jackson, that’s who, my brother.

“I have maintained my residence by my mother’s side at the family’s Hayvenhurst estate in Encino, California because I know how much I am needed there. Michael counts on me to be there as does the rest of my family.”

[Columnist note: this would verify the long-held belief that Katherine and Joseph Jackson, who have filed for divorce in the past, do not live together. Joseph’s fathering of an illegitimate child, reported and documented in several places, could have contributed to this.]...

“Joseph did some disgusting things to LaToya and Rebbie, especially. If it weren’t for Mother’s loyalty to him, he’d probably be in prison for what he did to our sisters.” ...

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