Michael Jackson's Children's Foundation Now Virtually Defunct

[rodbarnett]

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Jackson's Heal the World Foundation once spread millions of dollars around the globe to help children threatened by war and disease.
Fueling its success was the kind of money and excitement that only someone of Jackson's star power could generate.

With backing from the likes of PepsiCo and New Age guru Deepak Chopra, Jackson launched the charity at New York's Radio City Music Hall in 1992, complete with a boys choir singing his hit single and the group's namesake, "Heal the World."

But now, like its founder, the charity is in trouble.

Starved of funding and leadership, the organization has stopped donating to charitable causes and has been suspended in California since 2002 for failing to file yearly accounting statements, records show.

Other Jackson charities have withered as well, in a decline that began well before the latest child-molestation scandal broke.

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[Red State Rebel]

1. Not unlike his morals, apparently....