Maid Marian
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LA 'ripped off' over Jackson gigHmm, personally I think the family should pay 
| Quote: | Los Angeles city council officials have called for a review on who should foot the $1.4m (£864,000) bill for Michael Jackson's memorial gig.
Councilman Dennis Zine claims taxpayers, who have been asked to make donations, "are getting ripped off".
He has asked for a report on policing and traffic control costs for last week's service at the Staples Center, which was attended by 17,000 fans.
Councilman Zine says promoter AEG Live or the Jackson family should pay.
But AEG president Tim Leiweke said that AEG did pay for the memorial itself.
However, security around the event resulted in high costs to Los Angeles at a time when the city is in debt for half of a billion dollars.
Roads were closed to allow the hearse carrying Jackson's body to travel the 10 miles from the Forest Lawn cemetery to the venue.
And the memorial, watched on TV by more than 31 million people in the US and millions more around the world, required the deployment of thousands of police officers and emergency services. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8146395.stm
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