Secondly, the Santa Barbara media reckons local prosecutors won't officially
charge Michael Jackson with child molestation until 15 Dec, mainly so the local District Attorney's office have time to set up a web site to deal with the hundreds of media enquiries expected.

Thirdly, there was a financial profile of Jacko in yesterday's New York Times that suggests looming court cases aren't the singer's only problems. The paper says he is "tethered to a boulder of debt totalling near $200 million that comes due in several years".

And finally Jacko's best of album 'Number Ones', which topped the UK album
chart despite the latest scandals, hasn't even made the Top 10 in the US. The album, released in the States a mere 24 hours before Jackson's Neverland home was raided by police, sold just over 121,000 copies and appears at
number 13 in the Billboard chart. That said, some reckoned the album would
struggle to sell 100,000 copies in light of the scandal, and Sony remain confident the album will sell significant amounts between now and Christmas.