CNN will be airing Michael Jackson: The Memorial tomorrow (Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ Noon ET) on the life and legacy of the one and only King of Pop! Tune-in and log on to Facebook as CNN hosts a LIVE video partnership with Facebook, so fans around the world can share their memories in real-time.

Ed Hardy clothing founder Christian Audigier tells TMZ his company will be the next tenant of the Holmby Hills mansion where Michael Jackson died … and he’ll relocate headquarters there in December.

Audigier — who was a close friend of Jackson — will be leasing the mansion from Ed Hardy CEO Hubert Guez, who owns the estate.

Jackson leased the 7-bedroom, 13-bath French chateau since January — shelling out a $100,000 a month.
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Michael Jackson’s songs were easily the most consistently danceable of the decade. Like many people, I am not really sure where his fame went off the rails and turned into a bizarre curiosity. This is, after all, the man who added the phrase “baby dangling incident” to our lexicon.

But whether he was troubled, or just a grown-up who wanted the childhood he never got to have, it is safe to say that Michael Jackson was misunderstood and lonely, and his death was a very sad day for anyone who grew up in the 70s and 80s.

RIP Michael Jackson

Say what you will about Michael Jackson during the last few years of his life — and with the baby-dangling-out-the-window behavior, bad plastic surgery and child molestation allegations, a lot has been said — but it takes a certain kind of star to turn a single sequined glove into a cultural symbol.

During the Eighties and into the Nineties, Jackson, who died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles Thursday, became as much a trendsetter for fashion as he was for music. There’s the red leather motorcycle jacket he rocked in the “Beat It” video; the white ankle socks, black fedora and black loafers he wore when he moonwalked (and that walk alone is almost as legendary as Neil Armstrong’s); the military-style jacket and aviator sunglasses he toured in during the “Thriller” era; the white V-neck T-shirt that he always eventually stripped down to onstage, and finally, there was that glove, first worn during a performance of “Billie Jean” during a television special in 1983.

More than two decades later, The King of Pop’s style still inspires the fashion set. For spring 2009, Balmain sent a Jackson-esque military jacket down the runway, and it was picked up by celebrities like Beyoncé Knowles and Rihanna (trend-setting singers resetting a trend). Jackson hits like “Thriller” and “PYT (Pretty Young Thing)” are soundtrack staples for runway shows even still.

The singer was also a shopper — a big one. During the Nineties, he reportedly spent an average of $35 million a year. While making the 2003 documentary “Living With Michael Jackson,” reporter Martin Bashir saw him shell out $6 million for marble chess sets, 10-foot urns and other expensive art objects. In 2005, he blew through $150,000 at Harrods in 30 minutes. And in 2006, he went on an impromptu midnight shopping spree at Topshop’s Oxford Street flagship in London. But by that time, Jackson was hundreds of millions of dollars in debt — and looking to sell Neverland Ranch. Read entire article at Women’s Wear Daily

Source:WWD