Picture 1632.pngIf you had to decide between living in a home formerly inhabited by a guy who ripped off a whole buncha Jews (and Kevin Bacon) or a pop-star who possibly molested children, which would you pick? The latter comes with trains, animals and I can’t quite put my finger on it but something that just makes you want to dance but also the whole (maybe) touching of kids factor (plus the possibility of unannounced pop-ins by Joe Jackson). The former’s previous resident was, by all accounts, a dick who ruined a lot of people but I just feel like for most people that’d be preferable to the risk of finding Macaulay Culkin and Webster under the floor boards. The Journal is apparently on (and very much in the can for) Team MJ today, writing that “it was one thing for Colony Capital to buy Michael Jackson’s Neverland, which was purchased before the singer’s recent death and at the time carried only the faint stigma of Mr. Jackson’s legal and financial troubles” but it would be quite another to lay down clams for one of Madoff’s pads. Personally, we very much like the idea of sleeping where a criminal slept but would prefer the home of a cooler one, like Charles Manson (blood stains on the wall are a must), so for us it’d be 1) Manson 2-7) The Juice 8) Bernie 9) Stanford 10) MJ. Now you go.
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Comments (45)

  1. Posted by trojan | July 1, 2009 at 9:51 AM

    Colony Capital will

  2. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 9:52 AM

    $1 Bob

  3. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 9:56 AM

    I will trade you Greg and a box of Ring Dings.

  4. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 9:57 AM

    by mackuly culkin i assume you mean macaulay culkin…

  5. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 9:58 AM

    i think they are over estimating the negative stigma these homes carry… but in at any rate, everything moves at a price

  6. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:00 AM

    @5 here, i was referring only to the madoff properties…

  7. Posted by Bess Levin | July 1, 2009 at 10:00 AM

    …@4 I appreciate that you were able to crack that one.

  8. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:04 AM

    1) Henry Nicholas
    2) BM
    3) MJ

  9. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:05 AM

    Can you imagine how many liens have been/will be placed on Madoff’s stuff? Not worth the trouble to get clean title.

  10. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:06 AM

    Personally Id go with Madoff. Youd get to see the ever so dreamy Matt Lauher on the weekends.

  11. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:07 AM

    @10 your lover boy’s name does not include an ‘h.’

  12. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:10 AM

    How do I know if I am too prestigious?
    Houston trader

  13. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:12 AM

    1) Martha Stewart
    2) Bernie
    3) MJ

  14. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:15 AM

    1. BM
    2. OJ
    3. MJ

  15. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:18 AM

    Where the fuck is KevinB and his exceptional “under the radar” daughters?
    I know he’d want to buy MJ’s home.

  16. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:19 AM

    1. Busey
    2. The Nuge a.k.a. Tedward Nugent
    3. I wanna lay my head where Ruthie and Berndog bumped uglies

  17. Posted by Bess Levin | July 1, 2009 at 10:21 AM

    @17 The Buse is not a criminal.

  18. Posted by Becky Boot Fan | July 1, 2009 at 10:30 AM

    @Bess-18
    …yet.

  19. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:32 AM

    who is that in the picture? MJ was white

  20. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:34 AM

    Amazing -Webster was 32 years old in that photo.

  21. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:37 AM

    @Bess
    While The Buse is not a criminal…yet, he certainly merits a shoutout for being absolutely batshit, chicklit toothed, f-ing crazy.
    -seventeen

  22. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM

    @Bess & BBF,
    He is really, really close to one… I say he qualifies:
    In 1988, Busey was the victim of a near-fatal motorcycle accident, which resulted in the enactment of stricter helmet laws in the state of California. A notorious drug user, he was hospitalized after a cocaine overdose in 1995, at which time he underwent rehabilitation in lieu of facing criminal charges. Three years later, he dedicated his life to the Christian faith by joining the Promise Keepers.

  23. Posted by Bess Levin | July 1, 2009 at 10:44 AM

    @22/17 1. I say this in the nicest possible way, shut your filthy whore mouth 2. I shout The Buse out all the time.

  24. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:46 AM

    -@20
    Gary Coleman?

  25. Posted by Anal_yst | July 1, 2009 at 10:47 AM

    Agree with @8
    Henry Nicholas ftw
    http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/43587/

  26. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:48 AM

    25 – it is Webster -not Gary Coleman — please keep your african-american, hanger-on, Peter-Pan disease celebrities straight… geez..

  27. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:49 AM

    MJ
    H.H. Holmes
    Frank Abagnale
    Sarah Palin

  28. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 10:51 AM

    @Bess
    1. No offense but, s my d.
    2. I’m sure The Buse hears your shout, and subsequently bashes his head against the wall.
    -seventeen and twenty two

  29. Posted by trojan | July 1, 2009 at 10:58 AM

    @29
    Bess’s voice is only one of many shouting inside his head

  30. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 11:00 AM

    smooth criminal?

  31. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 11:06 AM

    The Buse has learned to play the “batshit crazy” game all the way to the bank.
    If you ever see the Comedy Central roast of “Larry the Cable Guy” you will see some of the best Busey ever seen.

  32. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 11:06 AM

    Wouldn’t it make sense to invest and turn the Neverland Ranch into a Graceland-like tourist spot?

  33. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 11:22 AM

    @32, I saw that..shockingly good roast from Busey. There’s a fine line between brilliant and crazy.

  34. Posted by Anal_yst | July 1, 2009 at 11:28 AM

    @34
    Its not so much a line…

  35. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 11:39 AM

    Hitler’s lair in the Alps, obviously.

  36. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 11:44 AM
  37. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 11:47 AM

    Busey is damned brilliant. When idiots don’t follow what he’s saying they call him crazy because… well, they’re idiots.
    Prime example is the end of that roast. That was a pretty good sarcastic/sardonic rip on Larry but, of course, 90% would never figure it out.

  38. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 11:50 AM
  39. Posted by Perkins Maxwell | July 1, 2009 at 11:59 AM

    Bess: why not go for the big one? Adolf’s villa in Berchtesgaden, all the way.

  40. Posted by NegativeConvexity | July 1, 2009 at 12:02 PM

    @33
    I’m with you, brotha. MJ’s Neverland Ranch is begging with both hands to be monetized. Huge cash cow..
    Some come for the nostalgia, some come to pay their respects, some come for the faint smell of young sphincter in the morning….

  41. Posted by Bess Levin | July 1, 2009 at 12:12 PM

    @29 I don’t S the D’s of those who malign The Buse.

  42. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 12:28 PM

    1. Stefan Eriksson
    2. Tony Montana
    3. Ted Kennedy

  43. Posted by guest | July 1, 2009 at 1:04 PM

    @Bess
    Just to set the record straight, I am not a maligner of Gary Busey. I’m a big Point Break fan. One time I even watched Entourage solely to see the man you call so affectionately refer to as ‘The Buse’. Oh, and that scene in Blacksheep? Love it.
    I admit that I’m drawn to him like a bee to honey, like whitney to crack, or like GB to any upper/downer ‘script combo he can get his sticky fingers on.
    Sounds gay right? It’s not, so shove it.
    So again, with all due respect, S my D.
    -29

  44. Posted by EvilBuzzard | July 1, 2009 at 1:05 PM

    “If you had to decide between living in a home formerly inhabited by a guy who ripped off a whole buncha Jews (and Kevin Bacon) or a pop-star who possibly molested children, which would you pick?”
    When faced with this dilemma I finally relized, at long last, that I had badly erred in my major life decisions. Not some somewhat, not kinda-sorta, but really, really bad. Like Robinson Devore having sex with a draft horse bad. This was when I reached peace with the fact that I was an umitigated fuck-up.

  45. Posted by GinoT | August 1, 2009 at 3:48 AM

    No doubt that the King of Pop has influenced the music industry a lot and everybody was shocked with his sudden death. Kai Chase, personal chef to the stars, has decided to break her silence in the case of Michael Jackson’s death. Not with a recipe for Hollandaise, either, as Kai Chase was Michael Jackson’s personal chef. She was in the kitchen the day he died, cooking lunch when the paramedics were called. She attended to the children with a nanny while EMT’s and an ambulance were en route, and was given the boot as soon as he was in transit to the hospital with other staff. She also said that there was a routine presence of oxygen tanks. Doubtless that Kai Chase and many others would give fast cash to get the toxicology reports back faster. Full article here: http://personalmoneystore.com/Personal-Loans/quick-Loans/fast-Cash/

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