Turns Out Jackson Case Is Far From Being Closed

Michael Jackson proclaims his innocence any chance he gets. He’s done it in song, on video and during a nationally televised interview with his wife, Lisa Marie Presley, and Diane Sawyer.

But the Los Angeles-area prosecutor who investigated the charges of sexual abuse that were brought against the musical star has a different take on the story.

Santa Barbara district attorney Tom Sneddon calls Jackson’s claims that he has been exonerated “untrue and incorrect and not consistent with the evidence in the case.”

Other sources told the magazine that the boy who accused Jackson was able to identify markings on the singer’s penis. On Monday, a spokeswoman for Sawyer said the news broadcaster “misspoke” when she said during the televised interview that Jackson had “been cleared of all charges.”

Loose talk

“Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson on her desire to procreate: “I can’t wait to be a mother. I think I’ve been put on this earth to be a mother. I have the child-rearing body. I’m just waiting to give birth.”

The sign announcing it is, of course, neon

Deion Sanders turns 28 today.

Then, afterward, they got into a pillow fight

Still bedridden at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., after an operation to remove a cancerous tumor from his groin, CBS newsman Sam Donaldson responded to a visit by Bill Clinton over the weekend by doing a radio interview with the president.

There’s no proof they enjoy an occasional private scrum Reacting to a News of the World report that he has something going on with Princess Diana, the captain of England’s rugby team, Will Carling, issued a statement on Sunday that his “acquaintance” with the princess “has not in any way affected the priority I have always given to Julia (his wife) and my rugby. I will be taking my advice from lawyers.”

Think of how much her market price must be now?

Ready to be sentenced for plotting a robbery, romance novelist Barbara Joslyn (“Strange Sins”) gave an interview to the New York Times before taking off for parts unknown. “I was suicidal,” Joslyn said in excuse of her crime. “I was about to lose my apartment and a horse I loved very much and my phone and everything that I had. Perhaps because of the mentality of writing, I got involved. You know, the melodrama of it all.”

He still has trouble acknowledging the notion of share

The Hill, a newspaper that covers the Washington beat, reports that members of Congress are as starstruck as anyone. When Tom Hanks visited the House to autograph copies of a book about the Apollo 13 mission, Congressman Sonny Bono “startled two colleagues by sneaking to the head of the line.”

Welcome to the world, Buck, and we wish you good luck

The day: Sunday. The event: A birth. The parents: Roseanne and Ben Thomas. The main attraction: An 8-pound boy named Buck.

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