Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson the nearly broke one-time King of Pop has been relying on the kindness of friends to put a roof over his head and the heads of his three kids, now that he's been booted from several other residences he "rented" in Las Vegas and Washington, DC.
On the verge of losing his sprawling Neverland Ranch as his bank account spirals toward zero, the sad-sack artist and his three kids, Prince, Paris and Blanket, spent last week at the Beverly Hills home of his longtime friend, babe-chasing supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle, a source told Page Six.
"The whole family has been hiding out. They were holed up in Burkle's place behind the Beverly Hills Hotel," said our spy. "They even refused to come out of their rooms and hid when Burkle had guests over."
It's hard to blame them. Jackson, once one of the richest pop stars in the world, remains in default on a $23 million loan against his ranch after years of mishandling his once-enormous fortune. Before he hit up Burkle for a free place to stay, he spent three months living in a private home in Franklin Lakes, NJ.
Sources told Fox News' Roger Friedman the Gloved One showed up on the doorstep of Dominick and Connie Cascio in mid-August and stayed through the first week in November, when he split for Los Angeles to attend Rev. Jesse Jackson's birthday party. Jacko has had a long association with the Cascios, having met Dominick in the mid-'80s when the latter worked for the Helmsley Palace Hotel.
The Cascios' oldest child, Frank, now known as Frank Tyson, worked for Jackson and was one of five unnamed co-conspirators in the Santa Barbara district attorney's failed prosecution of Jackson on child-molestation charges two years ago.
In December 2005, Jackson had Prince Abdullah of Bahrain fly members of the family over to help him celebrate Christmas. The prince is now suing Jackson in London's High Court for $7 million plus damages after the washed-up performer agreed to start a record company with the prince and record a CD, which never happened.
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