Amid the bevy of ongoing legal woes for pop star Michael Jackson, including a $113,000 lawsuit filed this past week by his former attorneys, one that seems to especially stand out is a suit filed (also this past week) by a Bahraini sheikh who is claiming that Jacko breached a contract that the two had, which was made upon his arrival at the man’s home following his child molestation trial back in 2005.
According to the suit filed by Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Khafilat, an agreement was made between the two, that would allow Jacko to take refuge at his palace in Manama, the capital of the small Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain. In return, Jacko promised to help al-Khalifat launch his own record label, Two Seas Records, which would feature the sheikh himself as the premier pop star. The way Jacko was able to keep a straight face upon hearing this offer, I’m sure—aside from needing someplace to stay where he wouldn’t need to constantly be on the lookout for people wanting to kick his ass—is that his facial muscles no longer work.
But in any event, long story short, Jacko has seemingly renegged on the deal after leaving Bahrain to shack up in Vegas, and the sheikh is none too happy about that. While his lawsuit doesn’t appear to demand any monetary amount, he’s demanding that Jacko return to Bahrain to work on his album and label as promised. Hey, I don’t blame him… I’m sure he had to put up with a decent amount of Jacko’s idiosyncrasies while he was living there. Then again, as previously stated (and covered in The Saturday Swindle Sheet #113) by Jacko’s abusive asshole father, Joe Jackson, “[I]n Bahrain, behavior including stripping naked and curling up in a fetal position inside of a cardboard castle while having a 12-year-old boy urinate on your face as a naked Verne Troyer throws peeled grapes at your buttocks is not only tolerated, but encouraged.” You heard it here first.
