Fixed!
n Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:06:08 -0500, Podkayne Fries
wrote:
>http://tinyurl.com/nm5ozz
>- From www.mirror.co.uk
>
>
>Michael Jackson tried to adopt Octomum Nadya Suleman¡¦s eight babies just
>weeks before he died.
>
>It emerged last night that the King of Pop approached penniless Suleman
>offering to take care of the tots in return for cash.
>
>Jacko, 50, desperate for a larger family, was concerned at reports
>Suleman was considering giving the children up for adoption.
>
>He ordered aides to launch a charm offensive on Suleman¡¦s publicist
>Victor Munoz.
>
>Victor was called three times by Jacko¡¦s people who quizzed him about
>his client and told him that Jackson was prepared to help.
>
>Then Jackson ¡V who already had children Prince, 12, Paris, 11, and
>seven-year-old Prince Michael II, known as Blanket ¡V called Victor
>personally.
>
>He said: ¡§Blanket would love to have more siblings. I could take care of
>all the babies, they could live with me and wouldn¡¦t need for anything.
>They would have a bright future.
>
>¡§I want to take care of Nadya. She will be happy and won¡¦t have to worry
>about caring for her children any more.¡¨
>
>Jacko was amazed by news footage of octuplets Malia, Jonah, Isaiah,
>Nariah, Jeremiah, McCai, Josiah and ¡§the blond one¡¨ Noah.
>
>And he clearly believed his star power could convince the Octomum, who
>already had six children, to hand over her latest offspring.
>
>Victor said: ¡§When Michael called I thought it was a joke at first. I
>was getting hundreds of calls every day and many from celebrities¡¦
>agents saying their client wanted to help.
>
>¡§But when the person on the end of the line said ¡¥Hi it¡¦s Michael
>Jackson¡¦ I was a bit taken aback. Michael wanted to know how the babies
>were, how Nadya was coping.
>
>¡§He then said he could take care of the children if Nadya couldn¡¦t. It
>was creepy. He was basically offering to buy the children. I was a bit
>shocked.¡¨ Unemployed single mum Suleman, 33, gave birth to the octuplets
>in January after IVF.
>
>She had appeared on networks across America saying she was ¡§struggling¡¨.
>
>Her own mum Angela blasted her decision to have eight more babies as
>¡§unconscionable.¡¨ And she hinted Suleman was considering options
>including adoption. ¡§How she¡¦s going to cope I don¡¦t know,¡¨ she said.
>
>¡§I¡¦m really tired of taking care of the six children and need her to
>think about how she¡¦ll provide for all these children.¡¨
>
>To compound the family¡¦s problems, pictures from inside Suleman¡¦s
>three-bedroom home showed the squalor they were living in. Sheets were
>used as curtains, food was splattered on walls and dirty laundry was
>strewn everywhere. Last night the Mirror tried to contact Jackson¡¦s
>representatives over the story but none were available.
>
>Ex-estate agent Victor, 33, said: ¡§Michael clearly thought Nadya was
>unfit and decided he wanted to help those children.¡¨
>
>He said a Jackson aide first made contact at the end of February. ¡§The
>man asked how Nadya was holding up, how the children were and said that
>his client wanted to help. The conversation meant nothing to me, my head
>was overloaded with all the calls coming in.¡¨
>
>A few days later a second call came from a man claiming to be Jackson¡¦s
>attorney.
>
>Victor said: ¡§It was more of the same. This guy was asking about the
>family and how everything was going. I thought it was weird they kept
>calling, I realised they were trying to become friendly. To me that
>meant they wanted something.¡¨
>
>The third call came from Jackson himself. ¡§Afterwards I went on to
>Youtube to listen to Michael Jackson¡¦s voice. I couldn¡¦t believe he had
>called me directly,¡¨ explained Victor.
>
>¡§A number of people, some celebrities, had asked about adopting but none
>had called me in person. The implication was that if Nadya decided to
>give the kids up Michael Jackson wanted to be first in line.
>
>¡§It wasn¡¦t as if he was trying to broker a deal there and then. But he
>made it clear he wanted to adopt them. He sounded genuine. He was
>genuinely concerned about the children. He asked if they were all going
>to be healthy.
>
>¡§But I just blew it off. I knew Nadya would never want to get rid of her
>kids so it wasn¡¦t important.¡¨
>
>Two days later another Jacko aide contacted Victor, thanking him for
>talking to the star. ¡§This guy was really giving me the sales pitch,¡¨
>said Victor. ¡§It was almost like I was supposed to take the hint.
>
>¡§He told me Michael could make Nadya happy, he said she would be
>compensated.¡¨
>
>Victor never did tell Suleman about Jackson¡¦s bizarre request.
>
>On March 6 he stopped working for the Octomum after a string of rows.
>
>¡§I was going to tell her about the calls. It was all kind of a joke. She
>would have loved it as she gets starstruck,¡¨ said Victor.
>
>¡§But we had started arguing a lot by this time. It was like working with
>a child, she was completely draining.¡¨
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