This Is It is the new Michael Jackson single released this morning.

Michael Jackson’s three children seem to be adjusting well to being raised by their grandmother, a judge said. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff is “very pleased” with the contents of an investigator’s report detailing how the children are doing three months after their father’s death. “It looks like the children are really doing wonderfully with their grandmother guardian,” Beckloff said in brief comments on the report during a hearing Friday. (more…)

How much money does Katherine Jackson get monthly from Michael Jackson’s estate, how much child support does she receive, you want to know right? Court documents released Thursday in Los Angeles show that Katherine Jackson is receiving $86,804 per month from her son’s estate to support herself and her three grandchildren. Katherine Jackson is paid $26,804 per month and the 3 kids $60,000 per month.

The Video Music Awards will pay homage to Michael Jackson when his sister Janet opens the show at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Sept. 13, MTV announced Tuesday.

It’s not known whether Janet will perform – it’s being billed as a “special appearance” – but her mere presence on stage is expected to give the show an emotional punch.

R.I.P.

The rain didn’t stop Michael Jackson fans from celebrating his birthday in Prospect Park Saturday, where thousands of one-gloved moonwalkers remembered the King of Pop. Famed director Spike Lee organized the massive dance party for what would have been the star’s 51st birthday.
“Fifty-one years ago, he was born into the world,” said Lee, who directed the “They Don’t Care About Us” music video for Jackson in 1996. “I’m like everybody else – somebody who loved his talent,” he said. “We’re here to celebrate Michael Jackson.”

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Marijuana and numerous empty drug bottles were found by police officers at Michael Jackson’s home shortly after he died, according to search warrants unsealed on Thursday. WOW!

Two bags of marijuana, a bottle of temazepam (used to treat sleeplessness), empty bottles of the sedatives lorzaepam and diazepam were discovered during the search. They also found four other empty pill bottles with no indication as to what may have been in them. source