Word: schaffel
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...Debbie had a deal with Michael to raise their children," Rowe friend Marc Schaffel told TIME. "She was 100% comfortable with Michael being the primary caregiver, Unfortunately. Michael did not live up to his end of the deal. And the deal has changed...
...image after the singer's death. On July 5, as she left a Chinese restaurant, she snapped menacingly at one of the photographers in the mob that followed her and threw out an obscenity-laced threat. The filmed outburst was played repeatedly, even on evening-news talk shows. But Schaffel attributes it to the stress of the sudden spotlight. "Debbie is very well spoken when cameras aren't shoved in her face and people aren't bombarding her with insulting questions," he says...
...really want us to be friends and conquer the business world together," MICHAEL JACKSON once told former porn producer F. Marc Schaffel's answering machine. But Schaffel is suing the pop star for $1.6 million in debts allegedly accrued while he managed Jackson's finances. The singer's lawyer says Schaffel is just another associate who took advantage of Jackson's "almost childlike" nature. As the trial unfolds, details of the star's unusual fiscal choices are emerging...
...proceeds from his new song...What More Can I Give? But Jacko never recorded the song, nor did he perform it at two What More Can I Give? benefit concerts performed in Seoul and Munich in 1999, which raised a few million for big international charities. Executive producer Marc Schaffel says the Gloved One has just rewritten the song and recorded tracks with everyone from Beyonce to Reba McEntire. It had better be released soon; Jackson might meet someone else he wants to give the proceeds...
None of this can dull a fine performance by James Barbour, a magnetic and strong-voiced Rochester. With his flowing hair and smoldering passion, he can at least be thankful this show grabbed him before Jekyll & Hyde. But Marla Schaffel, as Jane, fares less well. Despite a lovely voice, she seems altogether too poised and polished (not to mention too pretty) from the outset. Her desire for Rochester remains something we must take on faith, and her character, for all the gothic doings around her, seems to change little from beginning to end. And that, gentle reader, is something Jane...
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