Did you think the dispute over who paid what for Michael Jackson's 2009 memorial was settled a long time ago? It wasn't, but it was settled yesterday, when a judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Lincoln Heights-based Jose Freddie Vallejos that demanded that Jackson's estate and AEG pay city taxpayers $3.2 million for the cost of the police presence at the event. It sounds like Vallejos was more concerned with Jackson than with the taxpayer expense--here's some fun copy from the court papers: "This was a nauseating, quasi-worshipful sanitization of the noseless Jackson, a grand, cynical chance to forget his repeated sins and creepy lifestyle." [SCPR]
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