The death of Michael Jackson is an attention magnet. I want to turn away. I can’t.
Sister LaToya Jackson said he was murdered by nefarious characters who doped him up, got him addicted and now hope to acquire his music publishing rights catalog.
“I know who did it and I won’t rest until I nail them!” she told the News of the World.
Sounds wacky.
Sounds like denial.
Except the police are investigating it as a homicide.
And the London Sun published this letter from his doctor:
Hmm.
Miss Jackson’s line is that he was fine just 6 months ago. Then this mysterious group got him on drugs. Now he is dead.
Sounds like a turn of the 20th century pulp novel about white women being drugged into prostitution in Asia.

See the full article from “Daily Mail – Charleston”

No Joe! Debbie Rowe & Michael’s Mum Make A Secret Deal
Posted by SunnyChanel at 12:00 PM on July 14, 2009
Debbie Rowe does not like Joe Jackson. And seeing Michael Jackson’s father pimping his new record label when he should have been in mourning for his son is undoubtedly just the tip of the bad parenting iceberg.  Reports are emerging that a secret meeting took place between Debbie Rowe, the biological mother of Michael’s two oldest children and Michael’s mum Katherine – who currently has temporary custody of the kids. It’s being reported that Debbie has agreed that she will not pursue custody of the children, on one condition – that Joe Jackson has will not participate in the parenting.
An ‘insider’ told RadarOnline that, “Debbie is absolutely steadfast that Joe Jackson not be involved whatsoever in the children’s lives. Michael regaled Debbie with what a horrible father Joe was, and Debbie doesn’t want the children exposed to that. Debbie is navigating a minefield right now of emotions, but she will make sure that Joe Jackson isn’t involved in their daily lives.”

See the full article from “Babble Australia”

Jul
15

Shonie Carter: “The fact that I walked into the UFC with a gold, paisley, silk and satin mixed-suit, with the black fedora and pimp stick and then stripped down to an internationally-flagged, coloured pair of Speedos.” (UFC Photo)
10th July 2009, 2:00am

See the full article from “Canoe.ca”

Jul
15

By Victor Epstein, Associated Press Writer
JERSEY CITY, N.J. Boxing trainer Mike Skowronski honed his skills beside Arturo Gatti at Jersey City’s Ringside Gym and said the former champ’s longtime friends never liked Gatti’s wife — who is suspected of strangling him.
Skowronski, Gatti’s one-time stablemate, sparring mate and cornerman, said Amanda Rodrigues met the boxing legend while working as a stripper in northern New Jersey and quickly became his business adviser and then his wife. Friends in the working-class area of Jersey City where Gatti paid his dues in the ring were suspicious of her motives but didn’t want to offend him by pushing the matter.
“She tried to take over — she pushed him away from everybody,” Skowronski said Tuesday. “I chose not to be around it, if you can imagine that, after being friends for 20 years. A lot of his friends did the same.”

See the full article from “USA Today”

Jul
14

Avelino has made a public statement alleging that the former stripper could not have had the physical strength to murder the popular Montreal resident who had so many brutal bouts on HBO including a trilogy against Irish Micky Ward.
“She is fragile, young and skinny. How could she kill a boxing champion?” Avelino said to Brazilian media.
Rodrigues, who police apparently will allege killed a sleeping Gatti with a kitchen knife and a purse strap, are still processing formal charges agsinst the former stripper. She is in a pretrial detention center on the outskirts of Recife, a large city in the state of Pernambuco.

Police found Gatt in in a strip club. He went to court where he was released on bail and ordered to stay 200 feet away from her.

See the full article from “Examiner.com”

Jul
14
Filed Under (Montreal strip clubs) by amberthestripper on 14-07-2009

Gatti’s wife Amanda, a 23 year old Brazilian stripper, has been put under suspicion of his murder (on Saturday, July 11) and has been moved to a women’s detention center near Recife. It is being alleged that she might have used a knife and a purse strap as tools for committing the crime. The motive has not being revealed yet.

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Police say that boxer Arturo Gatti, who was found dead last weekend, was strangled in his sleep by his 23 year-old ex-stripper wife. As if that wasn’t unpleasant enough, Perez Hilton put up some other dude’s picture on Gatti’s “R.I.P.” post. The straight news: Gatti, who had taken more blows to the head than any human ever should, was holidaying in Brazil with his wife, Amanda Carine Barbosa Rodrigues. Their relationship was known to be violent. It did not end well. Cops say she strangled Gatti to death with her purse strap, which was found covered in his blood. Her alibi was not so great: Rodrigues could not explain how she had spent nearly 10hours in the room without noticing that Gatti was dead, authorities said. Uh huh. The final indignity: not only did Perez Hilton (a boxer himself!) run the wrong guy’s picture as Gatti to memorialise him—he ran a picture of Alfonso Gomez, a guy who beat Gatti. Ouch. Perez’s heartfelt words upon learning of Gatti’s passing: …

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Amanda Rodrigues Gatti proclaims innocence in husband’s murder, photo of murder weapons released
Although Brazilian police say no one but his wife could have killed boxer Arturo Gatti, through her attorney, Amanda Rodrigues Gatti has proclaimed her innocence.
According to the New York Daily News, her lawyer, Celio Avelino said his client is much too “fragile” to have killed the boxer, is innocent and wants to be released from jail. The former stripper, according to Avelino, “…is fragile, young and skinny—how could she kill a boxing champion?”
“When she awoke, she presumed he had committed suicide. But she had nothing to do with it,” said Avelino. 
Lead investigator Moises Teixeira said, “It was technically impossible for a third person to have been in the flat. The investigation isn’t finished, but we continue to think she did this alone.”

See the full article from “Examiner.com”

Apparently Arturo Gatti’s wife, former stripper Amanda Rodrigues, is a real mental case. The Brazil Police believe that Amanda strangled Arturo with the strap from her purse. She was taken in to custody because her story was considered “inconsistent and incoherent.” There are some holes in this story. Lets see what ya’ll can figure out…
Boxing champ Arturo Gatti’s wife was arrested yesterday by Brazilian cops who suspect she strangled him with her purse strap, as people close to the slain fighter said they had long feared that either “he was going to kill her or she was going to kill him.” Gatti’s wife, Amanda Carina Barbosa Rodrigues, 23, was being held yesterday because the Brazilian native can’t explain how she didn’t realize for nearly 10 hours that he was dead in a beach-resort apartment where they were staying with their 1-year-old son. She is expected to be charged with his murder. A police spokeswoman told Reuters: “She [Rodrigues] is the only suspect.” Police …

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Cops: Only wife could have been in at time of Arturo Gatti murder; Gatti manager: ‘She has no soul’
Updated Tuesday, July 14th 2009, 4:51 AM
Campos/JC Imagem/PAGOS Amanda Carine Barbosa Rodrigues is prime suspect in murder of her husband, ex-boxing champ Arturo Gatti.
Brazilian cops put the bloody purse strap and knife that killed Arturo Gatti on display Monday as his wife’s lawyer insisted she’s too “fragile, young and skinny” to kill a boxing champ.
Police said there’s no way anyone but Gatti’s 23-year-old wife, ex-stripper Amanda Rodrigues, was inside the couple’s luxurious rental apartment when the former champ was killed.
“It was technically impossible for a third person to have been in the flat,” lead investigator Moises Teixeira said Monday. “She did this alone.”
There were no signs of forced entry. Electronic locks indicated no one else had entered the room.

See the full article from “New York Daily News”