MICHAEL JACKSON - JACKSON 'CAUGHT IN LADIES BATHROOM'

Pop superstar MICHAEL JACKSON reportedly avoided police interrogation in Dubai on Saturday (12NOV05), after accidentally using the ladies bathroom at a shopping mall.

The singer, who spends most of his time in nearby Bahrain, was caught adjusting his make-up in the female washroom of the Ibn Battuta Mall in the Arab Emirate, by a 37-year-old Tunisian teacher known as LATIFA M.

According to Arab newspaper Khaleej Times' report of the event, Jackson was wearing a T-shirt and trousers and a traditional Arab women's headscarf.

When Latifa M spotted Jackson, she began taking pictures of him on her mobile phone. He then reportedly chased after her and a mall security guard attempted to take her phone. She refused to hand it over without compensation and called police.

According to Khaleej Times, COLONEL ABDUL JALIL AL MEHDI, deputy director of the Preventive Security Department of Dubai Police, attempted to resolve the situation with Latifa M and two of Jackson's female companions - while the singer fled in a limousine.

Colonel Mehdi informed Latifa she is not entitled to compensation under local law and convinced her to hand over her phone.