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Michael Jackson Death Mansion Goes Up For Sale!

Michael Jackson news has been slightly thin on the ground of late hasn’t it? As far as we know, the Jackson estate has no plans to pump out another batch of supposed special edition albums that are limited to only a thousand million copies.

And because you know hecklerspray will never go out of our way to make inappropriate jokes about Michael’s life for comedy purposes, we promise to restrict this article to only two kiddy touching jokes… and we never lie.

As we all know, the world lost one of the last great remaining singers in June 2009 when his heart did a boogie and went into a fatal cardiac arrest. Since the death of Michael, fans have gone bonkers to get any sort of memorabilia. After all, all his dates at the O2 in London suddenly got pulled seeing as his deceased state stopped him from performing. Now, almost three years on from his passing, the ultimate fan item has become available.

Depending on how you feel, this particular piece of merchandise – which is definitely a one off – will either be seen as something sick and sinister, or something that’ll go down in pop music history. After all, if you happen to have a spare $23.9 million spare, you can buy the very house that Michael Jackson died in. Please note, that this isn’t a home where he fed Jesus Juice to children.

With this sort of news coming to light, it makes you wonder if the nutcase Michael Jackson extreme elite will attempt to come together and purchase the property and start a Waco-style MJ cult! Twitter leads the way for people to communicate and get pointless hashtags such as #totooortwowhichdoyouprefer? Therefore we expect to see a gang of hardcore followers attempt to pitch in enough money together to reach $23.9 million. Will they fail? We’ll let you answer that one. So what are the fine details of this mansion which was previously rentable for the low rental price of $100,000 a month?

A shady estate agent said:

“The house has seven bedrooms, 13 bathrooms and a seven-car garage all sprawled over 17,200 square feet. It was listed for a higher price of $29million when it was put on the market in August 2010.”

Wow! Who said that everything these days is expensive? There’s a massive $5.1 million saving right there. Hell, we’re surprised that the owners of the house don’t throw in a substandard version of ‘Sexy’ Dr. Conrad Murray who’ll ensure that you’re left feeling in tip top health all the time. After all, a qualified doctor couldn’t administer enough drugs to knock out an elephant could he? Oh wait…

Don’t think the drama around the home is anything to do with Michael Jackson though. Owner Hubert Guez originally wanted $38 million back in 2008. A glorious time when Michael was still alive, not making decent music and facing yet more trips to court. But this wasn’t for touching up a child the wrong way! Oh no, this was about settling out of court with the King of Bahrain about unpaid debts.

If everybody fails to buy the discounted house, we guess they could fill it with unsold copies of Janet Jackson albums. We all know there’ll be a lot of those knocking about.



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The Stripper Party Pics the Google Elite Didn’t Want You to See

Google engineer and San Francisco partyboy Orkut Büyükkökten’s wild housewarming may have been packed with internet billionaires like Sergey Brin last Saturday, but online pictures were reportedly forbidden. And yet here are snapshots of strippers and nude sculpture.

Google co-founder Brin and search products VP Marissa Mayer helped christen co-worker Orkut’s tenth-floor penthouse on San Francisco’s Mint Plaza this past weekend, as we reported yesterday. It turns out co-founder Larry Page may have been there too; his model/Ph.D wife Lucy Southworth certainly was. At the time, we couldn’t obtain more than one picture of the event, in part because, according to two tipsters with knowledge of the party, social network founder Orkut told guests not to circulate pictures online. That no doubt had something to do with the “several billionaires” reportedly in attendance.

Inevitably, though, some shots have emerged from the dark corners of Facebook, the Google rival that seems to have something of a lock on the world’s most interesting information, at least to gossips like us. (Thank you, tipster who emailed us most of these pics.)

It would appear Orkut wasted no time breaking in his “custom-built party loft,” complete (we hear) with elevated dance floor, poles, disco balls, dance lights and an indoor waterfall. There were the male and female strippers, who we’re told were professionals. There was a male nude that appears to be an ice sculpture (or maybe glass?). There was a shimmery metal see-through curtain thing, like you might see used as a room divider in a lounge. And there was a logo devoted to Orkut and husband Derek Holbrook.

It was an effort befitting Orkut, whose past fabulousness has included opening Prada, going to BFF Mayer’s Sex And The City party, staging disco parties, and appearing in more forbidden pictures, sometimes with strippers. Why he wants to keep all this fun a secret is beyond us. Didn’t he hear privacy is dead?

Saturday’s party:

We’re told these adult dancers are professional. And they’re in a professional venue: The poles, stage, lights and disco ball are an integral part of Orkut’s new penthouse party pad.

Orkut’s husband Derek, on the pole. Oh my.

So it looks like either there was a second lady stripper, or a guest decided to join in the fun.

The guest on the left is Mayer’s husband Zach Bogue, only recently taken off the market. In other words: He can look, but he can’t touch. On the right, Orkut’s brother.

The nude (ice?) sculpture, shot one, from Facebook.

The nude (ice?) sculpture, shot two, which we found yesterday on Twitter but weren’t sure it was from this party.

Derek & Orkut. Awwwww. Now back to the strippers!

Ya, it’s blurry. But you try taking a surreptitious stripper shot at a party you don’t want to get thrown out of.

“Dancer for money, do what you want me to do…”

Metal curtain for the full “club” effect.

Hubby Derek with Larry Page’s model/Ph.D wife Lucy Southworth, far right.

This guy is Rhett Butler. Like, literally.

The host, center, with two guests: record producer Jimmy Markee (left) and Yelp account executive Eli Zepeda (right) (Names?)

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