Michael Jackson CBS Payoff Questioned

Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com turned up his nose to the New York Times report suggesting that Michael Jackson had been paid an additional $1 million for his CBS TV special to agree to an interview with Ed Bradley on ’60 Minutes’. Friedman sneered, “Maybe someone should tell Times editor Bill Keller that Waxman spent a good deal of her day on Monday chatting up Jackson’s former manager Dieter Wiesner. Now back in Germany, where he owns sex clubs, Wiesner was very happy to tell Waxman anything he could think of to destroy Jackson’s reputation.” Meanwhile, Friedman hears that Jackson’s attorney Mark Geragos “called everyone the other day and told them to lie if anyone asked about the Nation of Islam and Michael” according to two of his sources. Read more.