There are a lot things about the “This Is It” shows. After Michael was killed all kind of stories came out. Some people claim Michael didn’t want to do them others say he was exited and looked forward to doing the shows.But rumours about the shows all started when the shows where announced on march 5th 2009. Right from the start people started speculating about Michael not being able to do the shows. At the end those people where right he never made it to do the shows and that is so sad.
Now even though i just told you the rumours about it all started as soon as the shows were announced we all have to be honest here. I can still here a lot of people say that the time to prepare for these shows was to short. Anybody who knows anything about organising a concert or a tour knows that the announcements are just for ticketsales. The preperations begin way sooner than the announcements are made. Venues have to be booked almost a year before you can actually start and so does the work with stage designers etc. So before the shows where announced they already had a lot of important forwork done.
A lot of people think that rehearsels started to late and complain about the dancers not being picked any sooner than april. But they forget that the dancers Michael, Kenny and Travis choose to perform with Michael in the this is it shows are very driven people and fast learners. While they auditioned they didn’t only watch how they danced, it was also about how fast do they pick up new steps and if they could handle time presure etc. We also must not forget many of these young dancers were also huge Michael fans who know Michaels Music and Moves pretty well. So they would need way lesser time to get the routine than a dancer who has a total different style and knows nothing about Michael’s Moves and Music. The moment these dancers got picked they worked long hours during rehearsels and sorry to say this to the people who are sceptic but anybody who saw “This Is It” already can tell you that the dancers nailed it.
Than we alos have all these talks about Michael not wanting to do these shows, and that Michael was scared to say NO to AEG. I really feel that the people who say this are wrong about that. Michael was already asked by Randy Philips in 2007 to perform again and Michael told him back than he wasn’t ready yet. That tells me that he did have the guts to say NO when he wanted to say NO and i just don’t understand people who say Michael was to kind to tell people NO. Well yes Michael was kind i agree but he was no fool that couldn’t say No. There are different ways to say no, you can just say it or you can say it….and from what we know about Michael he would say it. With that i mean he would tell them No in a nice and polite way even thanking those for the offer and how kind it was of them to offer etc etc.
Now like i said before i don’t know the real reason for Michael to finally decide to do these shows and at this point it’s really not that important. However i do think there is a big misunderstanding about AEG pushing Michael to these shows. People keep assuming that it was EAG who asked Michael in 2008 again. To be totally honest i thought that too for a long long time, until last night. I was watching the ‘This Is It’ dvd last night and while i was watching the extra footage of the TII dvd i noticed something. Randy Philips was talking about that he asked Michael before and he turned them down in 2007. After that he mentioned that he got a call in early September 2008 from a man that represented Michael and that this person said to him that Michael was ready now to perform again. The only one person representing Michael in 2008 and that was Tohme Tohme.
I’ve already said before that people jumped the AEG bandwagon real fast. From the day Michael was killed that felt the wrong thing to do for me. People called me all kind of things when i told them they were fingerpointing to soon and all that just because they had their own reasons to believe that AEG was wrong for wanting to release the rehearsal footage. But finding out it was actually Tohme Tohme that contacted Randy Philips in 2008 and not the other way around tells me that the people who blame AEG for being involved were wrong. At least that is about the way AEG was involved.
Hearing Tohme Tohme was the contacting Randy Philips from AEG made my thoughts and feelings about it even stronger. It shows EAG was indeed involved in a way but not the way many people seem to think. I bet many people might not agree with what i’m about to say but i think what Tohme Tohme did here is staging an excuse for Michael’s Murder. I hope you will hear me out about this one.
Tohme Tohme took care of everything around Michael, his finances, his business and his personal life right? Remember that in the end of september Michael called his spiritual advisor to talk about his fears regarding Tohme Tohme. By that time contact between AEG was already made. Now we all know Michael had problems when he was preparing for tours and while touring, it was commen knowledge to us the fans, so i bet it was commen knowledge to other people surrounding Michael as well. Now for making sure Michael would perform again Tohme Tohme layed the bases for the rumours starting again. Knowing about Michael’s problems during touring nobody would be surprised if he wouldn’t make it to the shows, people would actually blame Michael first because he agreed to do these shows. After all in the eyes of many Michael was just a frail, sick man with having no say in anything.
I know a lot of you wonder about the connection between Tohme Tohme and Randy Philips that keeps popping up. To be honest i think for Tohme Tohme it would just be convinient that this connection is revieled. This connection is one of the basics why people point there fingers towards randy Philips and AEG. For Tohme Tohme it’s just a casuallity of war, to shift the attention and the blamegame to others instead of himself.
I’m not saying all this to hurt anybody, cause it breaks my heart saying these kind of things. But i asked this many times to the fans who followed Michael if it could be possible that they misundertood what they were seeing and hearing and if those things could have been looked at in a different way. All it got me was a lot of arguments and blame for being on AEG payroll. I’m not blaming these people for not looking at things a different way than i do, in fact i agree with them that justice needs to be done for Michael and that all people involved need to get caught. But AEG was imo not responsible for killing Michael, the link in all this is this strange figur Tohme Tohme. All AEG did was giving Michael the platform to perform again because as far as they knew that is what Michael wanted to do.
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ReplyDeleteGood written as ever. Another Job well done i would say. Time to get the spotlight from AEG to the people who could really be involved.
Setting the stage for murder, makes me anxious for the follow-up which will follow suite i hope.
Well done.
Well there are peopel that won't believe you ,I suggest that they watch the ''This is it '' dvd and look at the extra's and just look at all of them and you will hear it youself .....good writting again ...:)
ReplyDeleteI have always felt that Tohme Tohme is responsible in some way for this crime. Where is he lately, anyway? I have always wondered why he was at the press conference with Jermaine, when, in fact, he was no longer Michael's representative. Great job again ... I can't wait for your follow-up .... I want to see justice in this matter ... Michael should still be with us .... it goes farther than Murray ... we can all feel that!
ReplyDeleteThis is what Business Mirror reported soon after Michel's death.
ReplyDelete“In an interview last week Dr. Tohme Tohme, an orthopedic surgeon-turned-businessman who had previously worked with Colony Capital, identified himself as the singer’s “manager, spokesman, everything” and spoke about the benefits of dealing with business titans Barrack and Anschutz rather than their “sleazy” predecessors. “Michael Jackson is an institution. He needs to be run like an institution,” Tohme said.
The next day, however, Frank DiLeo, Jackson’s current manager and a friend of three decades, claimed he was Jackson’s manager and said Tohme had been fired a month and a half earlier. Tohme denied being fired but declined further comment.”
It was Tohme, who previously “worked with” Colony Capital, who now acted as Jackson’s ‘adviser’ and who also escorted Jackson to the meeting where Jackson agreed to an initial 10 concerts with AEG and Colony Capital as promoters.
It was Thome’s business partner who threatened the auction house who was set to auction off the very same memorabilia which will be undoubtedly be used in a Michael Jackson museum, which chances are, could be Neverland. It is Colony Capital who owns Neverland and who would benefit from a Jackson museum or shrine.
It was AEG Live who hired Dr. Conrad Murray, the cardiologist who was with Jackson when he collapsed in his rented Los Angeles Bel-Air mansion and later died.
Even though Tohme claimed he wasn’t “being paid” by Jackson as Jackson’s “adviser”, Tohme did state he was “working with” Barrack and Anschutz. Yet official court documents filed by Tohme state he is president of Michael Jackson Productions. It remains to be seen just how Tohme has, or will profit from his association with Jackson. What we do know is that he has been publicly promoting in the press “his desire” to see a Michael Jackson museum at Neverland both before and after Jackson’s death. And that, prior to Jackson’s death, as well as after, Tohme promoted the allusion that Jackson was “healthy”.
Despite what Tohme claims Jackson has said about his “plans” for Neverland, in 2004 People Magazinereported what Jackson felt about his once beloved Neverland:
“Brian Oxman, an attorney for the Jackson family, said the entertainer was depressed that his Neverland compound in the Santa Ynez Valley was violated when 70 Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies raided his home in November. Jackson has said he no longer considers Neverland his home.”
Just who is the mysterious Dr. Tohme Tohme, and what are his ties to Michael Jackson and Neverland? In the latest interviews Tohme claims he’s just an unpaid adviser and spokesperson for Michael Jackson, but in court records we found a different story, where Tohme claims he’s President of Michael Jackson Productions.
ReplyDeleteTohme’s ties to the Nation of Islam came to light when the auctioneer of Jackson’s items, Darren Julian, filed an affidavit in the Los Angeles Superior Court. Julian alleged that during a meeting with Tohme’s business partner James R. Weller, Weller had threatened Julian:
“According to Julien’s account, ‘Weller said if we refused to postpone [the auction], we would be in danger from ‘Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam; those people are very protective of Michael’.
He told us that Dr Tohme and Michael Jackson wanted to give the message to us that ‘our lives are at stake and there will be bloodshed’.’
The latest mysterious figure in Jackson’s life and death is Dr. Tohme Tohme, who has been called Jackson’s “adviser”, “sole spokesperson”, and “business manager” for the last year and a half of Jackson’s life. So far the press hasn’t really delved into Tohme’s background as a recent AP report on Tohme listed his background as “murky”. The AP news article stated the Tohme used the title “Dr.” and that Tohme “apparently” has a medical degree even though there’s no record he’s practiced in the United States.
According to the AP, Tohme is an American citizen of Lebanese descent, in his “late 50’s”, and a “financier” who, out of the goodness of his heart and a relationship with Jackson’s brother Jermaine, contacted a “close personal friend”, Tom Barrack, Chairman of Colony Capital, to meet with Jackson. Purportedly, both Barrack and Tohme were “so impressed” with Jackson that Barrack bought the note to Neverland while Tohme decided to help Jackson get his finances into order without Tohme being paid for his services. And yet we found court documents filed by Tohme on behalf of Michael Jackson that list Tohme as President of Michael Jackson Productions. Documents that were filed in the March 23, 2009 lawsuit against the auction house set to auction Jackson’s Neverland personnel items. Also listed in the lawsuit, Tohme’s “business partner” James Weller, the very same Weller who allegedly threatened the auction house owner if he didn’t “postpone” the auction.
According to Tohme, Jackson ‘allowed’ him to negotiate “lucrative business deals” that would “secure the future” of Jackson’s three children. One of the deals included the upcoming Jackson AEG concerts that were scheduled in the 02 arena in London. Originally slated for only 10 concerts, demand for the tickets purportedly led “organizers” to tack on forty more which, according to CNN, would be a “grueling schedule for even the fittest pop star”. The “organizers”: Tom Barrack’s Colony Capital and Philip Anschutz’s AEG Live. The London concerts were the first in a multi-phase package with Jackson, including plans for a 3-D live concert film, a 3-D movie based on Jackson’s “Thriller” music video, and 3-yr worldwide concert tour. Barrack and Anschutz had bigger plans for Neverland: a Michael Jackson museum in the “style of Elvis Presley’s Graceland, even Thriller casinos”.
ReplyDeleteThat Sony, whom Jackson was in hock to to the tune of hundreds of millions, was in the process of repossessing Jackson’s share of the Beatles’ collection of songs. That the concerts in London would allow Jackson to pay back a bulk of the debt owed Sony but wouldn’t solve Jackson’s other financial woes. It is Halperin who gives more info about Dr. Tohme, that Tohme isn’t a doctor but a Lebanese businessman, that Tohme claimed he had been an ambassador-at-large for Senegal while the Senegal embassy says they’ve never heard of him.
ReplyDeleteI heard it was Tohme who accompanied Jackson to a Las Vegas meeting with Randy Phillips, chief executive of the AEG Group. Prior to the meeting Jackson’s handlers had turned down the proposed concerts. It was during the meeting with Phillips, with Tohme acting as Jackson’s “confidant”, that Jackson agreed to ten concerts. When the number escalated to 50, Jackson was told that this would be the “greatest comeback the world had ever known”. Jackson was purportedly to be paid ten million pounds with the lion’s share going to “middlemen”. Halperin noted that the concerts were scheduled at London’s O2 Arena which “has the most sophisticated lip synching technology in the world–a particular attraction for a singer who can no longer sing”, and that Jackson’s participation would have been limited to “13 minutes” for each performance with the remainder being filled in with choreography and lights.
ReplyDeleteIn May Jackson purportedly spoke to fans after leaving rehearsals at the Burbank Studios, telling them that he was “angry” for “them booking me up to 50 shows”, that Jackson “only wanted to do ten”. Jackson was also purportedly driven by the desire to keep hold of his part-ownership of the Beatles collection, part-ownership that ensured his children would be taken care of. Jackson was also acutely stressed over the realization that, as the concerts drew near, he was physically unable to perform what would be the “greatest comeback” in history
I think its very interesting if we can find Tohme's involvement in Michael's death. According to wht I heard and read its Jermainewho introduced Tohme to Michael. So, maybe Jermaine knows where he might have been during final hours of MJ. but one thing we do know, Tohme was caught on camera by Jermaine's side during the press conference at the hospital announcing MJ's death. mind you, Tohme had been fired in May, but was continuing on as if he was not fired, as if he was still in control of Michael's effects.
ReplyDeleteIt was also claimed that just after the incident, Tohme fired MJ's entire staff and sent everyone home.
i'm curious as to why, with Jermaine's connections to Tohme, is Jermaine not more interested in the investigation, rather than making money off of Michael? Jermaine always seemed to want what Michael had...he even used to spend time hanging out at Neverland when Michael wasn't around. that may not be odd, but to try to put together a tribute concert benefiting charities "like" the ones Michael would have contributed to, but incidently, was Jermaine's own charity? Jermaine was all about putting focus on Michael's Neverland property, even fixing the place up before the LA memorial (giving people cause to believe that a memorial was to be held there). he's forcing a number of issues - all business related - while using Michael's name.
Jermaine's name not only connected with Tohme, it was also connected with the Saudi Prince who sued MJ. While Michael was in Bahrain, we heard thatthe Prince has given numerous gifts to Jermaine including a Rolls Royce.
Jermaine also wanted to burry Michael in Neverland. He even said he wants to exhume and re-burried Michael in N/land. So, I thnk its not something he wants to do for Michael's sake. Its just for his own pocket.
This is what Tohme said before Michael's burial:
"Speaking exclusively to The Mail , Dr Tohme said: ‘His brothers wanted the final resting place to be Neverland but the rest of the family didn’t want him there for some reason that’s not known to me.
‘I tried with some members of the family to provide Neverland as his resting place and to turn it into something. I believe Michael Jackson deserved to be in Neverland – a grand place like Neverland.
He is the King of Pop and I think we will not see anyone like him in our lifetime.”
I think we cant disregard this issue:
ReplyDeletean apprarent link between Randy Phillips (AEG)/Tohme Tohme (must research validity further):
According to records from ancestry.com - the world’s largest family history website - Dr Tohme and AEG Live bos Randy Phillips were related by marriage back in the 1970’s. Dr Tohme Ramez Tohme (d.o.b. 1949) married Janet Phillips (d.o.b. 1953) on 29th January 1972 in Sacremento, California. The pair subsequently divorced in May 1976 in Sacremento, California.
Marriage - State file: 7307; Reg no: 289
Divorce – State file: 664652; Dissolution case no: 716055
It has been confirmed by an insider that Dr Janet Phillips, now a Clinical Psychologist working at a practice in Torrance, is indeed Randy Phillips’s sister.
Does this provide a link between the “mysterious” Dr Tohme and AEG Live boss Randy Phillips? Did AEG live play any part in manipulating and isolating MJ? Was Dr Tohme on AEG lives payroll?
I remember LaToya stating that there was money missing from MJ's rental property after his death? Tohme emerged with $5.5mil of MJ's cash after MJ's death, stating that Michael asked him to hold the money for a real estate deal. Michael fired Thome in May 2009. But I wonder these are stolen money from MJ. What do you think?
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ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your comments, they are very interesting to read. I guess we all agree that Tohme Tohme is involved in someway. It looks like he is the person we can connect with almost everybody. The only person i haven't found a connection yet with Tohme Tohme is Conrad Murray. You are also right about his connections with Colony Capital.
É diabólico e tão nefasto esse Tohme Tohme, que não tenho nenhuma dúvida quanto ao seu Envolvimento ou por que não dizer culpa.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why Michael didn't get the 5.5 million back from Tohme after he fired him. That's a lot of money even to Michael. To me the tape with Michael's frighten voice says it all. He was afraid of Tohme and it is odd he was at he hospital after being fired. What is Tohme's motive for killing Michael. He would have wanted to do it before he was fired if the concerts were set as the stage.
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