Archive

Jackson's Dream Home, Deferred

Cash-Strapped

Singer couldn't afford Las Vegas "Wonderland."

cheats/2009/07/27/jacksons-dream-home-deferred/posner-michael-jackson-1_35113_jzphtf
MJ Kim / Getty Images

In his last days, Michael Jackson apparently dreamed the impossible dream of owning a 10-acre Las Vegas estate he dubbed Wonderland. The New York Post reports that Jackson hoped to earn enough money from his ill-fated "This Is It" tour to afford the $25 million mansion. Wonderland boasted 10 bedrooms, 19 bathrooms, two panic rooms, a movie theater, indoor pool, and barber chair in the master bedroom as well as a horse stable and air conditioned doggie hotel. The kids loved a 1,000-square-foot secret play area tucked under the waterfall, while Jackson dug the mystique of the estate's two underground tunnels leading to the garage and a shooting range Jackson wanted to convert to a music studio. The realtor who showed the place to Jackson said, "He loved it. He said he could do anything he wanted there like in Neverland."

Read it at New York Post