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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
The news hasn't said anything about this. It's total BS.
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You are kidding, right?
TV news doesn't say a lot of things. Take the initiative to look it up at google news. I assure you the Times Picayune which that article came from is
not a BS gossip rag, but if you want to think they're a bunch of Louisiana liars, here's another article about it:
http://eurweb.com/story.cfm?id=20658
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*Should Jackson still be a free man next month, he?ll have to face a New Orleans judge who has ordered him to appear in court on July 20 to discuss what lawyer will represent him in a federal sexual assault case. Last fall, a Louisiana man sued the singer claiming he held him prisoner and sexually assaulted and battered him for nine days in 1984.
Jackson's accuser, Joseph Thomas Bartucci Jr., claims he was 18 when lured into Jackson?s white limo while hanging with two friends at the 1984 world?s fair in New Orleans. He says his harrowing treatment during a nine-day drive to California and back was so traumatic that he repressed memory of it until he saw a 2003 Court TV report about a California investigation of Jackson for alleged child molestation.
Four New Orleans lawyers and one Baton Rouge attorney were hired to defend Jackson, but withdrew April 29 for reasons they described as "sensitive in nature." Tuesday?s order from U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon, sent to the singer at his Neverland Ranch by certified mail, said Jackson must show up in New Orleans in July on pain of "imposition of appropriate sanctions" unless he engages a new attorney.
Jackson's former New Orleans attorneys, all with the firm of Schonekas, Winsberg, Evans & McGoey, sued him earlier this week in Civil District Court to collect nearly $47,000 they say he owes for their services between Nov. 16 and April 29.
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