MICHAEL JACKSON - JACKSON TO LAUNCH WORLD TOUR WITH LUXOR SPECTACULAR

JACKSON TO LAUNCH WORLD TOUR WITH LUXOR SPECTACULAR

MICHAEL JACKSON is to launch his next world tour with a spectacular show at Las Vegas' Luxor resort. The exclusive news, broken by Vegas insider MICHAEL POLITZ's TheVegasEye.com, comes after months of speculation suggesting the King Of Pop was planning a major Sin City comeback show. WENN has obtained one of the secret invites for Jackson's 10 June (07) Luxor show, where he'll perform a string of new songs and announce details of his Live Forever world tour. Jackson will then meet and greet specially-selected fans and celebrities, who will have received a lucky ticket to attend the private dinner reception and concert. The invitation, which features photographs and images of Jackson performing, calls the event a "memorable evening" and stresses, "This is a semi-formal event so please dress accordingly." The pop superstar has made Las Vegas his home, in between trips to the Middle East and Europe, ever since he vacated his Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara, California following his child molestation trial in 2005. To mark his world tour announcement, Jackson is reportedly in talks to erect a 50 foot (15 metre) robotic replica of himself in the Las Vegas desert. MIKE LUCKMAN, a consultant working on the project, says, "Laser beams will shoot out of it so it would be the first thing people flying in would see." Luckman's partner, designer ANDRE VAN PIER, adds, "Michael's looked at the sketches and likes them."