Michael Jackson Auctioning Arcades And Game Kiosks

The link still works if you have the direct link, only it's been filed under previous auctions ;-)

http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2009/michael-jackson/

I wonder if they still sell the catalogues? Are they going to be worth more now, or will they just be sitting on a big pile of kindling?

*EDIT*

I see it on the main page, too. They give the dates still and everything! Haha, trying to get as much out of people as they can?! The actual catalogue doesn't seem to be working, but it has been unreliable for weeks now.

Yeah, more news articles are popping up. Seems the exhibition will not be cancelled. Definitely getting their money's worth!

 

Blast, I was gonna go, I almost bought tickets to LA

 

Damn, missed it. Do they post auction results? It would be interesting to see what a lot of that weird stuff sold for.

 

Please read the posts above. The auction never happened. MJ got all his stuff back.

 

here is an interesting article about the cancellation and the magic and mystery behind MJ's collection of art, electronics, furnitures etc:

http://www.laweekly.com/2009-04-16/c...tion-canceled/
Michael Jackson’s Julien’s Auction Canceled
By Randall Roberts
Published on April 16, 2009 at 9:32am
We know every mole on Michael Jackson’s body, what brand of soda he was drinking when his hair caught fire; we can sing along with every word to a dozen of his songs — and so can a billion others around the world. The King of Pop. He Who Moonwalks. We know already. What else is there?

For many, nothing. The arc of Jackson’s life has been infused with so much awe and/or melancholia and/or disgust that it’s impossible to separate the story from the setting, the props or the soundtrack. There are no surprises left, it seems.

Monday, however, Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills opened its doors to preview an astounding array of Michael Jackson memorabilia that was set to be put up for sale on April 25. Past a Rolls-Royce limo parked in front of the old Robinsons-May department store, and on the other side of the red carpet, a vast and awe-inspiring set of Jackson’s possessions was on display. The collection offered a surreal glimpse inside the artist’s world, as close as you’ll get to being in his head during a strange and tumultuous period of his life, when he went on one of the 20th century’s great shopping sprees.

Reading about the objects — the video games, the cars, the rococo statues, the impossible outfits — is one thing. But to pass through mingle among the bounty is, for the pop-culture fan and Americana appreciator, something of a thrill: the glitter gloves and rhinestone caps; the portraits and the wax figurines; custom-embroidered patches; monogrammed brooch sets; custom jackets; Macaulay Culkin original art; Walt Disney and Looney Tunes memorabilia; the Jackson 5’s gold 45s. Multiply that list by 1,000, and you end up a little wobbly-kneed as you peruse the holdings, drunk with the vision of unchecked consumption.

Being the kid in the proverbial candy store sounds fun, but few imagine him a few hours later, lying on the ground, his face smeared with nougat and marshmallow cream, candy corn strewn like marbles, Fanta puddled in the aisle. The auction at Julien’s would have featured the candy corn of Michael Jackson’s indulgence. At Monday’s press preview, camera crews, reporters and photographers from all over the world wandered the huge space with glassy-eyed expressions, many displaying a kind of depth and richness of emotion that rises from all unfulfilled fantasies. That Jackson was suing to stop the auction (even though he’d signed the contracts hiring Julien’s) conferred yet another level of melancholy. Little did onlookers know that by the end of the next day, the auction would be called off after the two sides reached a settlement. The collection, it seems, will remain intact.

Some time in the mid- to late 1990s, I visited the Chicago apartment where the legendary hermitic artist Henry Darger created his visual masterworks. His vast output — mostly watercolors and writings — had been discovered by Darger’s landlord after the artist’s death, and comprised an entire lifetime of creating an imaginary world whose inhabitants were oddly pansexual little girls fighting off monsters and armies. Darger, who lived alone and worked as a janitor, would return to his second-story apartment and spend the nights creating this fantasy world. I toured his space around the time of Darger’s first major show. Stacks of children’s coloring books and 16-shade plastic watercolor trays were spread across the tables. He collected rolled balls of twine, which were piled like cannonballs on a shelf. You could smell the musk of newsprint, dust and worn-out furniture. A solitary chair sat at the main table, which is where Darger would lay his head down to sleep each night after drawing, writing and painting.

Walking through the Neverland holdings felt eerily similar to invading Henry Darger’s room and seeing this very private, magical world. Had Jackson never struck it rich, his fantasies may have manifested themselves much like Darger’s. Touched as he was with imagination, thrilled with the visual feast that is life, Jackson’s creative outlet — consumption — may have been more vulgar than Darger’s but was not nearly as vulgar as that of Elvis Presley, who died with 14 different drugs in his system. If Jackson’s singular collection had been dismantled as planned, an important aggregation of both pomp and circumstance would have vanished. But according to a statement released by the auction house and Jackson’s spokesman, the two sides “have made arrangements that will allow the collection to be shared with and enjoyed by Jackson’s fans for many years to come.â€￾

Until then, perhaps it’s best to follow Willy Wonka’s advice: “If you want to view paradise/simply look around and view it/Anything you want to, do it.â€￾

 

Sure hope you don't have to go there to pick it up if you buy something :|

 

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Thank god it's cancelled. That Sega R-360 was awfully tempting.

It would be bad karma to go after any of that videogame stuff especially if you think why he had all that stuff there in the first place...

 

I know of someone who was invited to Never Land Ranch as a kid. He said that they had an 'arcade' room for those interested children and that he had spend his day [at the Ranch] playing games and eating sweets and snow cones. Thus, I wouldn't be surprised if at least some, if not many, were from there.

 

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<insert highly inappropriate Michael Jackson kiddie fiddler joke here>

Shiggsy

 

Michael was set up to llok like a pedophile in the first trial by a greedy and extortionist family. The second trial.....nobody knows.

 

I used to know this guy:

http://www.audiocybernetics.com/

Who was the keyboardist in Micheal Jackson's band. He's the second guy from the right in this picture, with the black wig and silver spaceman suit on. This was the 80's after all:




He used to come into my Starbucks all the time back in the day. The guy's a freakin' multimillionaire, one of those people who if he wants to put out a record all he has to do is make a phone call. Anyway the topic came up of course (how could I not ask him about it,) and to hear him tell the story, he's got me convinced that Micheal is innocent.

Basically, he said that Micheal is insulated (mostly for his own protection,) however he got pretty much anything he ever wanted, which included women. He also said that living that kind of life for too long one becomes separated from reality. Really, can you imagine getting anything you could ever want, since you were a little kid? You'd grow up pretty bizarre becasue of that.

But anyway, he said he didn't believe the whole pedophilia thing. Doesn't mean it didn't happen of course, but he convinced me.

 

same thing with the second family. the mother of the accusing boy even admitted that she's a fraud and was convicted of welfare sometime after the trial. the boy's dad even filed divorce coz the mom's such a greedy bitch (they immigrated from mexico and at times didnt have jobs, had loads of debts). she also tried to get money from jay leno, chris tucker and larry king (who all testified at the trial that they believed that the mom sounded weird to them and that the boy's conversation with them sounded scripted) with her son who had cancer, until chris tucker made the family friends with MJ who at that time was into lots of charity (including his heal the world foundation), which was of course a bad idea in the end.

if you had followed the trial you would know that the jury was basically annoyed by all the dubious statements from the arvizo-family during the trial, which at times didnt even make sense, i was as a reporter (at that point i was a regular reporter, nothing to do with video games) at the trial myself, and there were many moments when people looked at themselves in disbelief, since the mom seemed to even make up things when in the witness stand. at times she was even over the top and was snipping with her fingers into the direction of the jury, i especially remember that, and gave the impression that she was so assured to have MJ locked away.

the county DA was some arrogant kind of guy too who, with his team, came up with some weird statements, trying to explain why the accusations are true, which however didnt work out at all. he was so convinced to get MJ this time that he hired 10 forensic specialists for the case (even in a murder case you dont have more than like 2), stormed MJ's house with dozens of policemen and whatnot, just to get him down. it was really a freak-show and as many legal analysts said after the trial, it was a case that should've never gone to court. and this freaky lady on courtTV, who staged something like a witch-hunt and was so convinced that MJ is a bad guy (even though not even looking at the facts, but rather at the ratings of her show) was fired. you may know her, nancy grace.

of course, if MJ would've been convicted, the case would've gone to civil court, where the mom and her son could've squeezed millions and millions out of michael jackson... wow, lots of money for a family full in debts... (talk about motivation behind all this...) especially for a kind of mom who doesn't want to miss any opportunity to get money (see her recent conviction of welfare fraud, its all over google)... before the trial she even was successful in squeezing a few tenthousand dollars out of JC Penny, by stating that some store security beat her down badly. hm...

 

I agree. My two cents...

If MJ was a pedophile and went after my kids, there would be no amount of money that would convince me to settle out of court. Let him rot in jail if he did the crime... You can't put a price on someone hurting your child. But in Civil Court you can...

 

You're right, its for nobody ok to rape your children, doesnt matter if its Jesus, MJ, mao zedung or obama.

basically the first family was after his money, which you could see during the 2005 trial. When the mom of the accuser back in the 90s took the witness stand, she was all dressed up in versace and louis vuitton. guess with which money she paid that. funny thing that she mentioned: she didnt speak to her son since back then. also the dad of this son is some weird money-crazy guy, who said on a phone-talk with his lawyer back in the nineties (which was taped and somehow leaked to the public):

"If I go through with this I win big time, I will get everything I want, they will be destroyed forever"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lVUvOLdg50 (starts at 1:08)

Funnily enough, the accuser's family members have drifted apart, which isnt surprising since their family structure or whatever you want to call it was a plain wreck, already during the accusations and after them.

I think from a legal standpoint it would've been possible for the recent accuser's family to go to civil court in 2005 after MJs acquittal but at that point they were just a weird family for both legal professionals and the media, as it turned out that all they had in their hands against MJ were pure lies that at times seemed to be made up on the fly (there were loads of contradictions too). So of course, they didn't even bother to go to civil court after the trial, coz their chances for money (which was the original and only motivation behind all this) were minimal.

(They had their names changed and the State of California sat on a bill of over $5 million, which the county DA's and accuser's mom odd witch hunt had generated. But as I can remember people were happy that this thing was finally over, it just seemed so unreal to everyone and often didn't make sense at all.)

After that the mom tried to get some more money from big companies like Walmart and others if I recall correctly and was, as already mentioned before, found guilty of welfare fraud 2 years ago. Talk about a nice, honest family, just wanting justice to be done. :shrug: So much about this ugly trial.

 

The only reason MJ was attacked for the molestation charges as much as he was, was because of his appearance and the ease of making him look even more like a weirdo. You really have to feel bad for Michael. He had everything except a childhood which would explain his ranch. Anyway didn't the parents invited to Neverland Ranch, stay with the kids?

On another note, what do you think happened to his face? I heard that his nose was only worked on twice when he fell and broke it during a dance routine in "The Wiz". Plus his addiction to pain medication made him lose a hell of a lot of weight would explain the bony appearance of his jaw.

 

All I'm sayin is that it seems odd to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to lure children into deviant sexual acts when a used windowless van and a puppy would do just as well..

 

hahahahaha.

 

It wouldn't explain him being white.... and wearing pajamas to court didn't help.

Funniest thing about that was the guy from Kimmel that went and wore the "I Love Famous People" cap and heckled. Fucking hillarious. Gotta find that video.

EDIT: It was the Paris Hilton one that was so funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yjkkJXvUcY&feature=related