Michael Jackson's Kids Get An 8 Million Dollar Allowance Every Year For Doing Absolutely Nothing
(Newser) – As Michael Jackson’s estate grows in value, the yearly allowance his children Prince, 17, Paris, 16, and Blanket, 12, share has increased from $5 million to $8 million-and it sounds like they take full advantage of it.
Prince has spent more than $50,000 on custom-made jewelry for three of his girlfriends, plus $40,000 on a new Ford pick-up truck. He wants to save enough money to buy back his father’s Neverland Ranch, currently in control of creditors with an asking price of $35 million.
-Paris also likes to buy gifts for friends, including shoes and athletic gear. The annual cost for her to stay at a therapeutic boarding school, following last year’s suicide attempt, is also in the six figures.
-Blanket likes to take his cousins to dinners at expensive restaurants; their nights out, which also include trips to the movies, typically come to about $500 plus tips. He also spends $200 an hour for karate lessons and a personal trainer.
Can we stop for a second and before we get into the actual story think about how funny it is that Michael Jackson named one of his kid’s Blanket? I mean Prince and Paris aren’t exactly normal names but they’re normal enough. But Blanket? That’s fucking cocky. Not many people reach the point where they’re so famous that they can name their kid Blanket and get away with it. Absurd but hilarious.
Anyway, I strolled down to the comments of this article and they were all pretty much the same. “These kids are spoiled!” or “They need to be taught some responsibility!” Oh fuck off. That’s nothing but pure jealously talking. If you told those same people they could be born into making $8 million a year for just being alive they’d all take it in a heart beat. We all would. I love what these kids are doing. It’s the perfect life. Be born into money and never have to work in your life. Live it up as much as you can. You’ve been handed the shiniest of golden tickets. Expensive jewelry, cars, dinners, shoes, therapeutic boarding schools (whatever the fuck that is), trips to the movies that cost $500. Go fucking nuts. Spare no expense. Your Dad was the king of spending money. Does anybody else remember that special 60 Minutes did on Michael where he was just walking around an art gallery picking out pieces worth like $200,000 and saying “I’ll take it”. The guy spent money like it was going out of style. So why shouldn’t his kids? Play on Prince, Paris and Blanket. Play on.
The sneaky best part of the article is right here:
He (Michael Jackson) also spent $90,000 to impress Macaulay Culkin, sources say. Once, he took Culkin “on this expensive gondola-like ride along the ocean and buys Mac’s caretaker an expensive necklace and sends her shopping just so he could spend time with him,” a source says.
Well that’s not creepy at all. Alleged kid toucher Michael Jackson spending $90,000 to impress the kid from Home Alone and even going as far as to send Culkin’s caretaker off on shopping sprees just so Mike could spend more alone time with Macaulay? I think we just got to the bottom of why Macaulay Culkin grew up to be a fucking weirdo.