We hadn’t heard from Michael Jackson in a while, and that was a good thing, because everytime news from this goon hits the media, it’s always a creepy story.

Michael’s latest venture involves creating a Leprechaun inspired -theme park in Ireland.

“Michael is deadly serious about this idea,” a source told Ireland’s Daily Mirror. “He loves the whole idea of leprechauns and the magic and myths of Ireland. It would cost around 500 million Euros [about $635 million] to do. He’s always wanted to open his own theme park and he thinks Ireland is the perfect place and it will all be built around the leprechaun theme.”

The cash-strapped singer reportedly is meeting with businessmen to raise money for the park.

Apparently, Michael is interested in molesting Irish children as well. I don’t know who would ever take their children to a park run by this whack job, but I could think of better ways to spend $635 million dollars. And it doesn’t involve Lecherous Leprechauns.

The PopBitch e-mail newsletter claims that Tom Cruise is scoping out Neverland ranch and may possibly purchase the freaky estate from heavily in debt Michael Jackson:

Cruise has to know that this would be an incredibly stupid move. It doesn’t matter how nice the property, zoo, and amusement park are. It would tie him to weirdo Michael Jackson and the press would have a field day.

The newsletter goes on to say that Suri might just have a big birthmark and that could be the reason why she’s been shielded from view:

That’s possible, and a very clever excuse if Tom’s camp made it up. Why has nary a bundle, car seat or covered up little baby been seen though? I don’t buy it!

Meanwhile there are preparations underway at the Celebrity Scientology Center for what Pink is the New Blog speculates could be Suri’s unvieling or Tom and Katie’s wedding.

Rebels-Rebels had these pictures of the chandelier and tents covering the compound, and Mollygood has an eyewitness report that they seem to be gearing up for something.

DListed says that there’s a “37th Gala Event” on August 5th though, which just means they’re having some sort of Scientology party.

Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton should start their own phony foundation, because they’ve both been caught pledging money to charity and not paying up.

Jackson recorded a song called “What more can I give?” which was supposed to benefit the families of 9/11 victims. The answer to the song title is “not much,” because he never released that song or another “charity” tune he claimed would aid Katrina victims. He planned to give CD sales profits to charity, but wanted to retain full copyright and legal rights to the songs, which would have made him a fortune in residuals.

These details came out in a lawsuit against Jackson by a business associate who claims Jackson owes him more than $3 million for loans and fees related to producing television shows on his behalf. Jackson says the guy who is suing him has a quarter million dollars worth of his sculptures and art, but if his claims are true would you blame him for snagging some of Jackson’s paintings in exchange for not getting paid?

Two years ago Paris Hilton pledged to organize a concert to benefit an Australian charity for sick children. She never followed through or gave a donation. She ignored the charity’s attempts to contact her, and managed to screw them out of even more money by falsely stating that she was helping them, causing people to think they had a donation windfall, and significantly decreasing their contributions:

Sounds like Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton only want to get rich and hoard it by buying loads of worthless shit for themselves. Who would have guessed that about them?

There are always a shitload of pictures of Paris, which is why I snuck her worthless ass into this story about Michael Jackson. I threw most of the new pictures of her into a post yesterday about her fight with Lindsay Lohan, but here’s her near nipple-slip outside the Regis and Kelly show again in case you missed it.

Michael Jackson’s ex and the father of two of his children, Debbie Rowe, claims that Paris, 8, and Prince Michael, 9, are not Jackson’s biological spawn and were conceived with the help of an anonymous sperm donor. She is battling Jackson for custody of the children, after relinquishing her legal rights as their mother in a multi-million dollar payoff.

Court papers in the odd couples’ custody battle are said to offer proof that Jackson is not the real father of his two oldest children:

If this true Jackson could definitely lose custody of two of his children, and it’s probably for the best. It’s bound to be quite difficult for them to lose their father and the only life they’ve known. Jackson is completely crazy and doesn’t seem fit to raise pets, not to mention three children, but it will still be awful for them. It’s also sad that they will be separated from their little four year-old brother, Prince Michael II. Prince Michael II was conceived and borne by a different surrogate than his siblings, and his mother has never come forward. He was the baby involved in the famous “baby dangling” incident where Jackson hung the child draped in a blanket over a balcony in Berlin, which he claims was an attempt to let nearby fans get a glimpse of the covered tot.

Here is Jackson at MTV Japan’s music awards. He is shown with his children in the other low resolution photos.

That’s not really true. Starpulse ran a story today that Michael Jackson is planning to change his whole image to become a bald ripped rapper. The story is overhyped and based on an MTV interview with DJ Cool Kid, who hung out with Jackson in Bahrain and simply recommended an image makeover.

Kid DJs parties for the Bahrain royal family, where he met up with Jackson at the palace:

Kid also said that he wanted to arrange a collaboration between Jackson and 50 Cent, but he’s just being kind and it’s never going to happen.

Jackson has been living in Bahrain since he was acquitted of molestation charges last year. Neverland Ranch has been closed and most of the workers there have been laid off.

Meanwhile Jackson is still battling for custody of the two children he supposedly fathered with Debbie Rowe. A Judge ordered that the motion which Rowe made to terminate her rights to the children in 2001 be resubmitted, and said that the paperwork for the case is incomplete and not up to date.