By Roger Friedman

Which is weirder, dear reader? The fact that Michael Jackson is now being
managed by a man whose other client is an animated frog? Or that the
notebooks kept by one of his former jurors was purchased on eBay by one of
his unindicted co-conspirators? I mean, you decide, OK?

First the manager: The King of Pop is now being handled by Guy Holmes. His
record label is called Gut Records. His other acts are Chungking, Uniting
Nations and - believe it or not - Sparks, the cult brother act from the ’70s
that sold no records then, had no following, and I had forgotten existed at
all until I saw their name on the Gut Records Web site.

But what Holmes is really famous for is a ring tone called “Crazy Frog.” Now
look, this is serious: I am not kidding. Holmes, who may be a very nice
fellow, is described in a press release from Jackson and Prince Abdullah of
Bahrain as a “music mogul.” I guess things are different in England.

The other business: Alternate juror Jeffrey Welbaum went ahead and sold his
notebooks from the child molestation trial on eBay as planned, even after
his wife told me he was going to take them down. Welbaum’s mother-in-law, I
told you yesterday, was a maid at Neverland during the time the alleged
incidents occurred, but he was allowed on the jury anyway. His
mother-in-law, now deceased, was on the defense witness list.

[b]Anyway, the winner on eBay of the notebooks was Vincent Amen, the
26-year-old unindicted co-conspirator prosecutors tried to prove held the
Arvizo family against their will at Jackson’s request.[/b]

He paid $2,550 for the set of Welbaum’s writings. Amen received immunity
from the prosecution, if you recall, and then they couldn’t put him on the
stand because he corroborated all of the defense theories.

But that’s what the District Attorney’s office in Santa Barbara was like:
inept. Maybe that’s why I hear that Gary Dunlop, a lawyer whom D.A. Tom
Sneddon once unsuccessfully prosecuted, is now running for the job of
district attorney. His platform may well be to make sure no jurors and
witnesses are related, and maybe to interview witnesses before they take the
stand so he knows what they’re going to say.

As for “Crazy Frog,” he will have to be a write-in candidate.

Source: FOXNews.com

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