Picture-Cecil Holmes (Casablanca Records+Credits MJ's Thriller), Actress Stacy Dash, Cecil Holmes (my fiancée), brother (Assistant DA/lawyer) This is a story I shared back July 2007 about Stacy's brother, Darien suing Michael for $48 million. The lawsuit was due to MJ's brother, Randy Jackson, having power of attorney over MJ's affairs during the 2005 trial and Randy was seeking a loan in which Darien secured for over $500 million, but when MJ was acquitted, Michael refused to take the money, therefore killing the deal/loan. But Darien apparently had a clause in his contract that stated if Darien was successful in securing the loan he is entitled to a 9 percent finder's fee, even if MJ didn't take the money. Here's my story: TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION By Pearl Jr. I haven't released one of these little MJ stories in a while, so I decided to share a little story with you. So many of you had written me in the past to tell me that you enjoyed the "Me and MJ" story and the "Another Me and MJ" story. Well, I hope you enjoy this story as well. Here goes: For nearly two years, I've chose to hold my tongue about our connection with Prescient Capital. Now, since the case is over and settled, I can reveal to the MJ fan base that we were just as shocked as you may be to discover that my partner, Cecil Holmes III's step-brother Darien Dash, is the owner of Prescient Capital. It was a late night in August 2005 and we were doing some after trial research on the other cases against the King of Pop for our documentary, "Behind the Scenes at the Michael Jackson Trial" and I decided to research who the heck is this Prescient Company. As I read the name of the owner of Prescient to Cecil, he straightened up and said, "Darien Dash is my step-brother!". I nearly fell to the floor in shock and awe over how we keep getting in Michael Jackson's business without even trying. It was also fate that brought our company, Elbow Grease Productions, to the trial; as I was asked by someone to go to the trial to pass out flyers for a book about MJ that was never released. And since we had a TV talk show on the air 5 nights per week in Los Angeles, to our excitement and amazement, we qualified as fully credentialed media at the biggest trial in the world. Wow! You see, Cecil Holmes, who is the father to my partner Cecil Holmes III, is not only the stepfather to Darien Dash, but also was the VP of CBS records during Thriller, to which MJ thanks Cecil Holmes in his acknowledgements on the album's credits. The father, Cecil, whom I will now called "Papa" Holmes was also part owner of the famed independent label, Casablanca Records, who discovered and launched the careers of Donna Summer, Cameo, George Clinton (Parliament Funkadelics), Village People, KISS and many others. "Papa" Holmes is considered the "other Berry Gordy" in the music industry and is a legend in the genre of disco and funk music. My partner, Cecil, and I pondered on whether we should inform Raymone K. Bain just in case they had already connected the dots to our family association with a man that was suing MJ for nearly $50 million. We thought, could they have suspicion that we could be involved with Darien in some way. I'm here to tell everyone, we had absolutely no inside information that Darien had any connection to Michael whatsoever. Furthermore, my partner hadn't talked with Darien since the trial began. For the record, I, Pearl Jr. have never met Darien Dash, nor spoken a word to him. He lives on the East Coast and we live in California. We did decide to inform MJ's publicist, Raymone, about our connection with Darien, and inform her that if she or MJ ever needed anything, I'd see what I could do. She never inquired me to do anything. As a matter of fact, her response was very careful not to interfere with anything that lawyers were being hired to handle. Of course, I did not interfere either. Then there was the MJ case with Marc Schaffel that I covered for www.MichaelJacksonInsider.com. That is where I met L. Londell McMillan (the attorney that handled the Dash case) and also informed him that if he needed anything in the Dash case, I do have a connection to him and I can see what I can do. Mr. McMillan, said he had it covered. So I stayed out of it completely and Mr. McMillan never inquired about needing any assistance. Now, I do know "Papa" Holmes and he is a wonderful person who always says the most wonderful and protective words about Michael Jackson--he still refers to MJ as a kid, I think that's cute since MJ is now 48 years old. "Papa" Holmes talked about how polite and kind MJ was to everyone and no one ever had a bad thing to say about him during the recording of Thriller. "Papa" Holmes knows that I'm an avid MJ defender that was on the radio, on TV, writing articles in Black newspapers, and on the internet defending MJ during and after the trial. Well, knowing the Darien case was coming up this week, I took advantage of a situation that presented itself to me, once again. On Saturday, we were celebrating Father's Day early at another sibling's home and as they asked me about the latest news in the life and times of Michael Jackson, I replied, "did you know that Darien's suit against MJ is coming up on Monday?" "Papa" Holmes responded, "no I didn't" and I asked him to talk with Darien if he could. He said, he does hear from Darien on Father's Day and he'll inquire about it. Well they did, in fact, speak on Father's Day and I'm not telling that there were any conversation about the case, but today's development that Darien was willing to settle without a trial, seemed to be a very last minute decision. Now today, my partner Cecil, spoke with Darien about the case he had with MJ and he responded that he was glad that it was over and happy they were able to come to terms without a trial. Darien also said that he could NOT give the details of the terms of the agreement because it could affect the settlement conditions. They talked more about family and Cecil promised to send him a copy of the DVD, "Behind the Scenes at the Michael Jackson Trial", because he said he always wanted to know what really happened in the case against the most famous person in the world. We will be mailing the DVD to him tomorrow. For whatever reason, I just keep falling in the laps of people who are connected to MJ, so I take that as a sign that I could have been designated Michael's fairy Godmother of some sort, even though I'm younger than MJ. I never set out to be as connected to MJ as I've become. Even the interviews with Mesereau, Deutsch, and Aprodite Jones have all just laid in my lap as if I was meant to do all that I do for MJ as if a guiding spirit from up above is leading me in his life. I know I loved MJ when I was a child with all my little heart, but the whole MJ scenario, involving me, is really bizarre. Thanks for reading and I'll be sure to KEEP MICHAELING!