Here we thought he was broke:
This comes at a surprise, doesn't it? For the last ten years we've been told he was on his uppers, dead skint, reduced to selling off the Elephant Man skeleton, whittling down the number of Neverland free-range monkees to 56, and so on. Apparently not
The children's legal guardian gets 40 percent, and the rest goes to charity. Former wife Lisa Marie Presley got nothing, but she's the sole heir to the estate of some guy named Elvis. She has omelettes every morning made from Faberge eggs.
PS: Jackson did not own the Elephant Man skeleton. That was a rumor. As he said to Oprah:
He saw himself in the story? Aside from John Merrick amazing the London Physician's Academy with his trademark dance move, "The Lunar Perambulation," I can't see the resemblance.
