Michael Jackson is alive and well and living in Long Beach.
Now, before you go looking for the King of Pop huddled in a dark corner at The Library with a latte (or, more likely, near a jungle gym), you should know that the man making the claim also says he killed George W. Bush.
And you should be aware that Tyra Banks got a restraining order against him (the guy making the wild claims, not Dubya).
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Marten Williams Jr., a 6-foot-2, 220-pound hulking hunk of crazy, has been stalking the America's Next Top Model host and her family for four years, claims Banks (prompting Examiner.com's Kim Williams to wonder why it took so long to get the court order).
“I am in fear from Mr. Williams for my personal safety, and that of those around me, including my family and employees,” Banks states in her request for the court order.
She adds that Williams left numerous “ominous frightening letters and items” at her residence, including prescription medication in his name, LA County Jail wristbands and a note setting their wedding date for 1/08/11.
At least he's a romantic!
Williams spent some time recently on a psychiatric hold in downtown LA's Twin Tower jail facility. That was after being arrested for trespassing on Banks' Beverly Hills property and telling arresting officers he was bringing the former supermodel “offerings.”
Maybe MJ picked them out for him. Come to think of it, has anyone seen Dubya lately?
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.