Former child actor Macaulay Culkin, 24, could show up at Michael Jackson's child sex trial, possibly as early as Wednesday, to deny claims the "King of Pop" fondled him in 1991.
"I do expect he will come eventually" Jackson spokeswoman Raymone Bain said of the Home Alone star.
But she declined to confirm widespread speculation that Culkin, who figures on the list of potential defense witnesses, would be brought in on Wednesday.
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In the 1990s, Culkin was among the young boys who would regularly visit Jackson's Neverland ranch. Like two others who testified last week, he has admitted to sharing Jackson's bed, but emphatically denies anything untoward happened.
Last month, a former chef at Jackson's Neverland ranch testified that he saw the pop idol fondle Culkin with a hand inside the boy's shorts in 1991.
And on Tuesday, Jackson's ranch manager Joseph Marcus acknowledged Culkin was among those with whom Jackson developed "special bonds" at the time, as the prosecution read off a list of boys it claims the entertainer fondled.
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Marcus insisted girls and adult women also figured among Jackson's special friends, but he struggled to come up with examples, eventually naming Elizabeth Taylor, and, after much hesitation, Liza Minelli, as well as the sisters of two boys prosecutors claim the pop star molested.
Contemporary art sold respectably if not spectacularly at Sotheby's on Tuesday led by Liz, Andy Warhol's portrait of actress Elizabeth Taylor, which fetched US$12,616,000. The vibrant Warhol silkscreen from 1963 was easily the top lot of the auction which took in just over US$68 million, or US$5 million above the low pre-sale estimate.
It's only rock 'n' roll but they still like it. The Rolling Stones, well into their fifth decade of playing rock 'n' roll, on Tuesday announced a global tour that will stretch into next year and laughed off suggestions that it would be a farewell tour.
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Stevie Wonder is releasing the first video containing an audio track for people who have trouble seeing, according to the blind singer's Web site. One version of So What the Fuss, from Wonder's upcoming album, A Time To Love, will air on music channels.
Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger and country music star Kenny Chesney put the wraps on their brisk courtship with a private Caribbean wedding on Monday, just four months after meeting at a concert benefit. The celebrity nuptials were held before close friends and family on the island of St John in the US Virgin Islands, according to a statement from Zellweger's publicist, Nanci Ryder. The bride wore Carolina Herrera.
On April 26, The Lancet published a letter from two doctors at Taichung-based China Medical University Hospital (CMUH) warning that “Taiwan’s Health Care System is on the Brink of Collapse.” The authors said that “Years of policy inaction and mismanagement of resources have led to the National Health Insurance system operating under unsustainable conditions.” The pushback was immediate. Errors in the paper were quickly identified and publicized, to discredit the authors (the hospital apologized). CNA reported that CMUH said the letter described Taiwan in 2021 as having 62 nurses per 10,000 people, when the correct number was 78 nurses per 10,000
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