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Michael Jackson to Appear in a Movie
(AP, 01/09/2004 10:04:00AM)
In other news, Jackson is making good on his promise to put the "Never" in Neverland. In his "60 Minutes" interview, Jackson said he wouldn't go back to live at his estate after police combed through it in a criminal raid.
Now, the television show "Extra" reports the singer has rented a multi-million dollar home in Beverly Hills, Calif. The report says the mansion doesn't have anywhere near the square footage of his Neverland Ranch, but it does have a tennis court and swimming pool.
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Jackson Leasing $20 Million Beverly Hills Mansion
Says Neverland No Longer Home
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Jan. 9) - Michael Jackson, who says he'll never live at his Neverland Ranch again, has found a $20 million substitute.
The pop star is leasing a cliffside estate described as the ''crown jewel of Beverly Hills'' with panoramic city views, according to veteran broker Elaine Young.
Jackson, who is facing child molestation charges, signed a one-year lease with a one-year option to buy the mammoth three-story mansion, Young said. The listed lease price was $100,000 a month, but it wasn't known what Jackson was paying.
Calls to his attorney Mark Geragos weren't immediately returned Friday.
The self-described King of Pop said during a CBS-TV ''60 Minutes'' interview last month that Santa Barbara County sheriff's investigators searching Neverland Ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley so violated his privacy that it will never be the same for him.
''I won't live there ever again,'' he said. ''It's a house now. It's not a home anymore. I'll only visit.''
The 37,000-square-foot Beverly Hills estate, about 90 miles southeast of Neverland, was built in 1991 on 2.25 acres. It is owned by a Japanese artist and has been on the market for $20 million.
It has nine bedroom suites, 16 bathrooms, a north/south tennis court, a 3,600 square-foot ballroom/theater, an indoor swimming pool, an exercise room with sauna and steam room, a spa and a gourmet kitchen.
Jackson, 45, is charged with seven counts of performing lewd or lascivious acts upon a child under 14 and two counts of administering an intoxicating agent. He's free on $3 million bail pending arraignment Jan. 16 in Santa Maria.
01/09/04 22:56 EST
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