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Long line of Jacko ex-pals
MICHAEL Jackson's alarming behavior is costing him all his old friends. The latest to part company: Cher. "I don't have a nice thing to say about him. He and I were friends when he was little. I watched him grow up and all that, but, you know, you dangle a baby over a balcony, that's it for me," she told Entertainment Tonight. "If it was up to me, he wouldn't have those babies now." Cher told TV Guide: "I don't really care what he does to his face. He could just erase it as far as I'm concerned .¤.¤. This guy is nuts. He shouldn't have these children." Elizabeth Taylor reportedly severed her relationship with Jacko when he treated her rudely. His ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley told Rolling Stone he is "manipulative and controlling." Now Star reports that Jacko - wearing a plastic mask with eyes and lips painted on it - visited the Grove shopping center in L.A. where he fell in love with a $210 handbag with a see-through plastic pocket for child photos. What he really liked was a picture in the display purse of one of the designer's two boys. He persuaded the store owner to sell him the bag with her son's photo in it. A rep for Jackson didn't return calls.
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