Lisa Marie Presley - Lisa Marie Presley Has Michael Jackson Letter Removed From Auction

30 May 2012
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Lisa Marie Presley Has Michael Jackson Letter Removed From Auction

Lisa Marie Presley has intervened to stop a letter written to her by ex-husband Michael Jackson going under the hammer at auction.

The note, handwritten by the late superstar, was reportedly penned between 1993 and 1996 and details Jackson's battle with insomnia which ultimately led to his death from a drug overdose in 2009.

The message reads, "Lisa I truly need this rest I haven't slept litterally (sic) in 4 days now. I need to be away from phones and business people. I must take care of my health first. I'm crazy for you."

The letter was due to be sold off by Julien's Auction in Beverly Hills, California, but the auctioneers have now removed the item after being contacted by Presley.

Auction house owner Darren Julien tells Tmz,com, "I'm assuming it's (of) a personal nature, and we wanted to honour the request and continue our good relationship with Ms. Presley."

Next month (Jun12), the auction house will sell off the original tomb of Presley's superstar father Elvis.

The singer's crypt, where he was buried before his remains were moved to his Graceland home in Memphis, Tennessee, will go under the hammer as part of the Music Icons auction, which begins on 23 June (12).


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4th June 2012 19:00

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4th June 2012 15:00

karenmmoriarty     (2)

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1st June 2012 16:00

Pendragon 57     (6)

@I aintKidding: I don't know how we got on this subject on an article about a love-letter, but I think you are jumping to a lot of conclusions based on what you have read/heard in the media. But I won't blame you for that. I'm not disputing that Jackson had a history of drug-related problems and I am not some crazy fanatic who believes he could do not wrong. I'm just wondering how you can be so overtly judgmental and feel no compassion for him, just because he was who he was, when clearly he was suffering both psychologically and physically. Just like a proverbial hater, you differentiate between him and what you term "ordinary" and "normal" people - why? He was human like the rest of us, with human emotions, human needs AND human faults. Addiction to prescription medicines can happen to any of us. Because he was Michael Jackson - because you consider him a freak - because he had wealth and celebrity - he is not worthy of any understanding? His life was worthless because he was a celebrity and an addict? He deserved to die because he made some misguided decisions?We are all the same - whether it be Michael Jackson or the guy at the end of the street who's dependent on anti-depressants and drinks too much. "In compassion lies the world's true strength" (Buddha)

1st June 2012 02:00

Random Axe of K...     (21)

lol blue. Don't ask them who and what they believe. If Latoya says something they don't likes he's a lying attention seeking media whore doing nothing but trying to make money out of being his sister. If she says something they do like, well she knows best because she was his sister lol. Same goes for anyone making comments, althogh Jermain and Latoya seem to be the ones in the firing line the most. If someone says a good thing they agree and praise. If that same person says something they don't like, they're a son of a bych liar. It's called being selective and same goes for all spects of jacko. They are very selective on what they hear and what they read and everyone/thing else are abused and threatened. I call it being stupid for making these comments in public for the world to see. And that's why they are referred to as floons. But they'll never realize why the world saw Jacko and them the way we do. I just can't get over that because someone could dance excuses him from all the scandal he created during his sordid life.

1st June 2012 02:00

blue eyed     (6)

Addictions are not just to drugs and drug addiction does not have to mean heroin, cocaine etc. People are addicted to chocolate. Addiction to glue, meds, sleeping aids etc. It's addiction no matter what it is. He was addicted to pain meds, propofol and (as Walgren in the trial said) other substances. Jacko asked Murary if he would also give him propofol (as he did every doctor and nurse he seemed to encounter). Murray said yes. What does that tell you? That tells me it's time to find another doctor. Was Jackson too stupid to get that if a doctor is willing to be paid to do unethical things, he's not an honest one. Of course he knew. That's why he employed him because NO LEGIT DOCTOR WOULD TOUCH HIM WITH A BARGEPOLE. Fans, get it that Jackson employed Murray BECAUSE MURRAY AGREED TO DO WHAT JACKSON WANTED. He played Russian roulette with his own life by taking this stuff and seeking out a quack to administer it IN HIS BEDROOM! He was just as responsible for his death as Murray because he allowed murray to do it knowing that it was dangerous. But all drug addiction is and because of his addictions he was never going to live to an old age. He was lucky he got to 50 after spending half his life addicted to one thing or another and knowingly employing dodgy doctors. Geez you call others stupid! HA! Think about what you are saying because if you want normal intelligent people to pay attention you have to be realistic. I mean you all must be thanking god for murray, because you have your scapegoat to blame for all of jacko's mistakes and terrible choices. You should be thanking him for meeting jacko otherwise you'd have no-one to blame when he would have eventually been found dead after a last fatal fix. You'd have to have held him responsible for his 25 year habit or would it have been the fault of his brothers, or hair stylist? By the way, look up Anna Nicole Smith's autopsy. It was clean just like you know who. So can we say she wasn't addicted to anything either? You'll have to say she wasn't to be able to continue to deny Jacko's addictions. Geez the trial prosecution in his closing said so. No-one denied it, even his family. But fans? Noooooo, they argue he wasn't. But you know better than his own mother eh?

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