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Who does Joe Jackson think he is, K-Fed?!

Joe is seeking an allowance from his late son's estate to help him pay for his living expenses, which he claims exceed $20,000 a month.

According to court papers filed Friday, "He does not have a regular or steady source of income, and he was dependent upon the money provided by his son, Michael Jackson, through his wife, Katherine Jackson, for his support."

As you may recall, MJ's estate is already giving Katherine a monthly allowance of $26,000, as she is looking after the King of Pop's three young children. Joe's attorney Brian Oxman says Joe is entitled to the "same manner" of support as Katherine, and that Michael had footed his father's bills for decades. Joe said in a recent interview that the amount the Michael gave to his parents when he was alive was far greater than what Katherine Jackson is currently receiving.

The filing does not specify the exact amount Joe Jackson is seeking, but a monthly budget report included in the court documents lists more than $15,000 in expenses, including $1,500 for rent, $2,500 for dining out and $5,000 for hotels and air travel.

Uhh, maybe it's time to stop spending so much money? We can understand an allowance of $5-10k a month, but $20k? What the heck is he spending it on?

Christian Audigier has decided not to move into the Holmby Hills home that was Michael Jackson's last residence as previously planned.

Audigier was supposed to take possession of the property, owned by Guess and Ed Hardy CEO Hubert Guez in December when Michael's lease is officially up, but felt the move would be too macabre.

A source tells X17online.com exclusively, "Christian visited the house and felt it wasn't right. He didn't want to live with the ghost of Michael Jackson."

Aside from its strong box office intake, there's already Academy Award buzz for the Michael Jackson musical doc This Is It...

While it's not applicable for the best documentary category, could the pic be nominated for one of the ten best films at the Oscars? (Yeah, there's gonna be TEN this year.) The hype surrounding MJ is pretty strong!

Sidebar, the King of Pop has earned $72 million in earnings since his death, according to Forbes. Jackson has earned $90 mil in the last year, but $72 mil came after June 25th, and that's not even counting This Is It yet!

The documentary opened wide in 3,500 domestic theaters (and worldwide) last night. Did you see it???

Everyone in Hollywood turned up to the premiere of the Michael Jackson musical doc extravaganza This Is It in LA last night... but who worked the red carpet better, blondes or brunettes?

J.Lo and Adam Lambert definitely looked fierce, per usual, while Ashley Tisdale pulled off cute. And Paris Hilton wins for best poser, no question there!

Sidebar, I think it's respectful that most celebs wore black to the event. RIP, MJ.

Note: This Is It took in $2.2 mil at the B.O. last night, which is a record for a Tuesday October release.

Check out a live stream of all the celebrity fans of Michael Jackson as they arrive at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for the premiere of This Is It, the documentary film that follows Michael through his final days, rehearsing for what was to be his final concert series in London.

Longtime friend of Michael Jackson, Liz Taylor hosted a viewing party for his doc, This Is It, at the MGM Grand in Vegas last weekend.

A source tells ET that Liz hosted her boyfriend, Jason Winters, her son Christopher Wilding, hairstylist Jose Eber and Michael's pal Miko Brando (Marlon's son.)

The diva was overheard saying, "The film was pure genius and the most magnificent film," and led a standing O as the credits rolled.

A&E's The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty, which is to feature the family coming together after the tragic death of its' most famous son, will also feature Michael's kids, Prince, 12, Paris, 11, and Blanket, 7, as part of the cast.

A source tells Us that Michael's oldest sister Rebbie, who has refused to be part of the series, "feels Michael would spin in his grave if he knew his kids would be on this show."

But Janet is apparently on board with the kids being on-camera. As for Katherine, their grandmother and guardian, she's "just going along with things."

Although exposing the kids Michael took such pains to protect from cameras (going so far as to make them wear masks whenever out in public) may be seen as exploiting them, the network seemed pleased with the show, which is set to air in December.

"We have 23 cast members with the last name Jackson," executive producer Jodi Gomes told the mag. "They've done a great job opening up about losing a brother."

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Michael Jackson will battle Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Eminem and Kings of Leon for Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards.

Swift had the most noms of any other artist, with six for her album Fearless, for Artist of the Year, Favorite Female Artist (Pop/Rock), Favorite Female Artist (Country), Favorite Album (Pop/Rock), Favorite Album (Country).

Take that, Kanye!

While Jackson came in at five noms for his "Number Ones" with Artist of the Year, Favorite Male Artist (Pop/Rock), Favorite Male Artist (Soul/R&B), Favorite Album (Pop/Rock) and Favorite Album (Soul/R&B).

Click through for the rest of the nominees.

After the embarrassing admission that Michael Jackson's This Is It was really a re-recording of a song co-written by MJ and Paul Anka in 1983 called I Never Heard, Jackson's estate has agreed to split the profits with Anka.

"They realize it's a mistake, they realize it's my song, they realize it's my production of his vocal in my studio and I am getting 50 percent of the whole project, actually, which is fair," said Anka yesterday.

Considering that sales of Jackson's music soared immediately following his death, we can safely assume that Anka will receive a nice payday from This Is It.

No sooner did Michael Jackson's posthumously released song, This Is It, hit the web this morning, than his former pal Paul Anka recognize it as the exact same song he wrote with Jackson in 1983, I Never Heard.

Anka told the NY Times that he was never contacted about the usage of his work, and when he realized he wasn't even credited as a writer on the song he told the paper, “They have a major, major problem on their hands. They will be sued if they don’t correct it.”

Anka and Jackson collaborated on the song in 1983, originally intended as a duet for Paul's Walk A Fine Line album. But Anka claims MJ stole the tapes after they were recorded, and he had to threaten to sue to get them back (which he eventually did.)

But Michael retained one tape, which contained MJ's vocals and backing piano, which Anka says is the basis for the recording released this morning.

And if there were any doubt as to Anka's claims, you just have to listen to the 1990 version of I Never Heard (which credits both Anka and Jackson), recorded by R&B artist Safire below.

Technically it hit the web at midnight, but we just now heard it, and it's no Billie Jean, but it's still pretty good. Let us know what you guys think about MJ's first posthumous song...

It's been talked about for months now, but we'll finally get to hear Michael Jackson's new single "This Is It" on Monday at midnight on michaeljackson.com.

"This Is It" is also the first single from the upcoming documentary, Michael Jackson's This Is It, and the tune features backing vocals by the late King of Pop's brothers.

But it's not what you think!

Dr. Conrad Murray recently missed a hearing in his child support case, and yesterday a Clark County Family Court hearing master recommended a bench warrant for his arrest, according to District Attorney David Roger.

County prosecutors have been after Michael Jackson's former doc since February of 2002, when they filed a lien against him because of unpaid child support. Murray owed more than $13,000 to babymama Nenita Malibiran, and because of his history of unpaid child support, the DA added that his office will ask the Nevada medical board to suspend his license to practice medicine.

Chinese fans will get to see the last footage of Michael Jackson at the same time as the rest of us now that Chinese censors have approved This Is It in time for it's global release date of October 28th.

Sony Pictures execs told The AP that the film won one of the last slots that China awards to foreign releases, which is only 20 films annually.

Li Chow, Sony Pictures Releasing International’s general manager for China said that they intend on giving it as large a release as possible in the country, to account for Jackson's overwhelming fan base there.

“We’ll do as many prints as possible. It depends on the labs,” Li said.

As of last year, China had about 4,100 screens. It's likely that an enormous amount of those will be showing This Is It when the film's released later this month.

According to the Jacko autopsy report, Michael had tattooed eyeliner and lipliner on his face, as well as inked in his eyebrows and portions of his hairline.

The Daily Mail reports that although his body was found with scarring around the face and neck (most likely due to plastic surgery), and puncture marks on his arms, Michael was actually in fairly good health when he died of an accidental overdose.

His weight was within normal limits for his frame, and his heart was relatively strong.

In fact, the only health issues detected by the coroner was a chronic inflammation of the lungs (which wasn't life-threatening), as well as arthritis in the lower spine and fingers.

Bottom line is, Jackson wasn't the sickly man he sometimes appeared to be. If not for the fatal injection of propofol, he probably would have lived for quite a bit longer.

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Fans eager to get a glimpse of Jackson's last few months on film helped propel the doc to record-breaking numbers of pre-sales.

Variety reports that movie-goers camped out Sunday at LA Live, where the film will premiere on the new Regal Cinema screens on October 27th. Tix for all 3,000 seats sold out within the first two hours.

The movie also accounted for 80% of ALL online pre-sales, besting other highly anticipated films like New Moon and Avatar.

This Is It also smashed previous sales in the UK, Japan, France, Australia, Germany and New Zealand.

He continues to speak from the grave!

Michael Jackson sat down with close friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach over 8 years ago for an interview, and though the late King of Pop made some rather incendiary remarks, the Daily Mail reports that he knew the tapes would be released one day.

At one point during the interview, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's name came up. Though Jackson's intent probably wasn't to praise Hitler, he certainly had plenty to say about the murderous dictator. "Hitler was a genius orator. To make that many people turn and change and hate, he had to be a showman and he was." When asked if he had the ability to make Hitler change, Jackson said, "Absolutely. You have to help them, give them therapy, teach them that somewhere, something in their life went wrong."

He also told the rabbi he wanted to date Princess Diana, but he was too shy to ask her out. He said, "I thought she was very special - very feminine and classy. She was my type for sure and I don't like most girls. It takes a very special mould to make me happy and she was one of them."

So what about someone like Madonna? Michael told the rabbi he was convinced that Madonna was in love with him, but thought she was jealous of his success, saying, "I think she was in love with me and I was not in love with her. We had nothing in common. She is not sexy at all." Ouch! Good thing this didn't come out before Madonna's speech at the VMAs earlier this month!