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10
November 2005
US 'No Longer
Home' For Michael Jackson
Pop
singer Michael
Jackson
is unlikely to ever want to live in the US
again, his father has told an
interviewer.
Joseph
Jackson said his son, who has been based
in Bahrain since being cleared of child
abuse charges in June, will return only
for work and visits.
Meanwhile,
Jackson's lawyers have been asked to
investigate a trademark application for a
"Jesus Juice" logo.
The
singer had denied claims at the trial that
cleared him of child abuse allegations
that he used the term.
It had
been claimed he used it to describe wine
he gave to a teenager.
The jury
at Santa Maria, California, found Jackson
not guilty of all 10 charges in
June.
The
trademark application was made by US
journalist Bruce Rheins, who covered the
trial for CBS, and his actress wife Dawn
Westlake.
The logo
relates to the name of a red wine and
features images of a man resembling
Jackson in a crucifixion pose.
Jackson's
spokeswoman Raymone Bain described the
logo as "outrageous and
offensive".
Mr
Rheins has reportedly said he made wine
for a hobby and never intended the bottle
would go on sale.
"We only
trademarked it because we didn't want
other people to try to make money off it,"
he is quoted in the New York Daily News.
"I apologise to anybody who is offended by
this."
Michael
Jackson is currently working on a charity
single for the victims of Hurricane
Katrina.
His
father said the singer has received
threats in the US after his
trial.
"He'll
come back to visit, but not to stay, not
to live" Mr Jackson told the Associated
Press.
"They
didn't treat him right here. I know if I
was him, I wouldn't come back."
Mr
Jackson, who managed his sons' singing
careers in the 1960s, suggested Michael
Jackson could be part of a reunion of
their group, the Jackson 5.
His
other sons were planning to make a new
record, he said.
"I'm
trying to motivate them to go ahead and do
this record," he added. "They want to do
it, but they're too slow. They'd rather do
it with Michael."
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