The Michael Jackson Effect
Bruce Wagner is novelist and screenwriter who lives in Los Angeles. He is a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee.
Yes, the King of Pop has ruled iTunes since his death three weeks ago, but what about the rise in blanket sales, lupus diagnoses, and children named Diprivan?
Can Mrs. Jackson Handle Michael's Kids?
Trisha Posner is a journalist and author. This is Not Your Mother’s Menopause was her journey through menopause, hormone-free. Her follow-up was No Hormones, No Fear.
Katherine Jackson was Michael Jackson's confidante, and she may be the only chance his kids have for a normal life.
The King of Pop Needs a King Solomon
Wendy is a former child abuse and sex crimes prosecutor who teaches at New England Law/Boston. Wendy specializes in the representation of crime victims, women and children. She also writes and lectures widely on victims' rights and criminal justice policy. Her expose of the American legal system, And Justice For Some, came out in 2007. A former NFL cheerleader and visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, Wendy lives outside Boston with her husband and five children.
UPDATE: Katherine Jackson was granted temporary guardianship over her three grandchildren Monday. Thursday, Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe said she would file for custody of Jackson's two oldest children. Legal expert Wendy Murphy parses parental claims from Jackson's inner circle.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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