LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Michael Jackson Pepsi can 2012 was launched today for the “Bad” 25th Anniversary. PepsiCo says its Michael Jackson 2012 limited edition Pepsi soda can will be part of a marketing push globally for the beverage manufacturer. Another campaign is already being deployed also for Nicki Minaj.

In 1984, the Jackson World Tour was memorialized in a Pepsi Can. The can which read “Jacksons World Tour 84″ featured signature from Michael Jackson and his brothers. That can remains a collector’s item to this day.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Matt Fiddes claims he is the biological father of Blanket Jackson aka Prince Michael II Jackson. Matt Fiddes wants a court to decide that he is Blanket Jackson’s real biological father, not Michael Jackson. Fiddes is Michael Jackson’s former bodyguard while in England. He is now a martial artist.

Matt Fiddes has claimed since at least 2008 that he donated sperm to Michael Jackson for a future child. In 2010, he told news that Blanket was his child. Now Fiddes is heading to court to assert his claim. But critics are not clear why Fiddes is telling all these details to news, and not to a court.

In a interview with the Daily Star, Fiddes tell news “I am going to lodge my DNA and formally ask the Jacksons for access. I want visitation rights.” Fiddes says he is certain that Blanket Jackson is his child.

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Fiddes tells news that he has no desire for money, is already a multi-millionaire. He said all he wants is to spend time with his allegedly child during their lifetime and enable his ailing mother to see his purported son before her passing.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Nicole Alvarez, Sade Anding, and Bridgette Morgan (photos below) are among the four Dr. Conrad Murray alleged women / girlfriends who contacting him hours before Michael Jackson’s death, prosecutors claimed today. On Tuesday, stripper babymama Nicole Alvarez took to the stand. She is an aspiring actor. She is one of four Conrad Murray women who could be called during his criminal trial.

Prosecutors claim that Murray was living with Nicole Alvarez. But in the night at issue, he allegedly called Sade Anding. Sade Anding is reportedly a Houston cocktail waitress that Murray was pursuing.

At the same time, two other women were calling Murray. One is an unidentified stripper from Cheetahs that Conrad Murray met in Las Vegas in 2003. The third woman was Bridgette Morgan, allegedly also pursued by Murray.

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“He had a pattern of revealing confidential information when it suited him, but he was unwilling to reveal patient information at the most critical time,” prosecutors previously detailed in an earlier court pleading. “He was receiving personal phone calls during the hours when he was supposed to be completely focused on the care of Mr. Jackson.”

When Nicole Alvarez took the stand today, she claimed she met Michael Jackson several times. She claims that Michael Jackson wanted to arrange meetings to see her baby and that he was allegedly very interested in her newborn. Alvarez says she started dating Murray in 2005 when she was dancing. The couple welcomed a son in 2009. She now lives in Los Angeles and wants to be an actor.

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The prosecution asserts Alvarez is a far different witness than the other women. “This is a witness who was receiving the propofol shipments at her house” claimed prosecutors in the preliminary hearing. “This is an uncooperative witness who has refused to cooperate with the police, has refused to open the door for the police, has reached out to Dr. Murray’s attorney.”

Morgan previously testified for the prosecution this week. She said that when called him the night in question “he didn’t answer his telephone.”

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Michael Jackson death photo shocked jurors today in the Conrad Murray trial. The Michael Jackson death picture was shown today, years after publication of another picture of Michael created international controversy. Michael Jackson was showed dead on a gurney today during the opening statement of the Conrad Murray trial. The photo was used by prosecutors in their opening statement.

In the photo, Jackson’s eyes are closed, his mouth is protracted open. Prosecutors showed the grainy image with a caption added as “homicide”. While the jury is not under sequestration, the image was powerful, not just for jurors, but for the public outside the courtroom and spectators inside.

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Murray’s lawyer, Ed Chernoff, on defense said that Jackson gave himself propofol. But jurors undoubtedly left the courtroom today remembering the above image.

Attorney David Walgren put up the picture in his opening statement. “What happened between that time and approximately 12 hours later when Michael Jackson is dead on June 25, 2009?” Walgren told the jury. “What you will learn through the evidence is that what happened during that time frame is that the acts and omissions of Michael Jackson’s personal doctor, Conrad Murray, directly led to his premature death at the age of 50.”

“Conrad Murray, with his eyes on an anticipated $150,000 (per month) lucrative contract, instead agreed to provide Michael massive amounts of propofol on a regular basis in complete disregard of all acceptable standards of medical care,” Walgren added.

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In summer of 2009, OK Magazine was under fire for putting a Michael Jackson death photo on its cover. The person who made the decision was Richard Desmond, owner of the magazine, who paid a reported $500,000 for the photo.

Months later, news reports claimed another Jackson death photo had been stolen as was being shopped to news sites. The report claimed that Jackson autopsy death photo was leaked by a “high ranking police friend” to a Los Angeles leading restaurant owner who kept it stored in his BlackBerry.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE EXCLUSIVE) – Michael Jackson’s rented home at 100 North Carlwood (photos below) dominated Conrad Murray opening statements today. Michael Jackson fans flooded 100 North Carlwood Drive in Bel Air after his death, prompting street closures near the Beverly Hills border. Today, the attention in a Los Angeles courtroom was back on the place where Conrad Murray was treating Jackson.

Six months before Jackson’s passing, LALATE first broke news that Jackson was renting the home located in a section of Holmby Hills. The home was minutes east of UCLA Medical Center where Jackson was rushed to in his final moments.

Jackson began renting the home around December 2008, LALATE first reported. It was believed at the time that the rental was between Jackson’s camp and Roxanne Guez. Guez was the wife of an Ed Hardy head.

Throughout 2008, Jackson was very close with Ed Hardy’s Christian Audigier; the two announced several anticipated business deals that year. But Jackson made news during a very rare public appearance for Christian Audigier’s birthday with Britney Spears that year.

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After months of isolation in 2008, Jackson finally made his first major appearance at Christian Audiger’s birthday. Then, in the weeks that followed, reports confirmed that Jackson was staying at 100 North Carolwood. Ironically, only in October 2008, Guez had reportedly joined Ed Hardy as its new Chief Executive.

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In June 2008, Audigier told news that he was launching a fashion label with Jackson. “It’s the merging of the King of Pop with the king of fashion. Something explosive is going to happen,” Christian told PEOPLE at the time. The Jackson label was set to debut at Kitson reportedly.

“Michael Jackson is an international pop icon who has had a huge following throughout his career. I think people will think it’s hip to wear his line. Through all his ups and downs people still love him. He still has a huge fan base,” said Kitson owner Fraser Ross to PEOPLE.

After Jackson’s passing, reports claimed that Christian Audigier wanted to buy Neverland Ranch. It remains unclear what eventually happened with the deal. “I can have the house in one month now,” Audigier told news at the time. “I get the keys two weeks from today.”

Then during a September 3, 2009 news interview, Audigier  told news that the Holmby Hills home was owned by the boss of his company, Hubert Guez, when Jackson died.

With HLN and other tv news channels now devoting around the clock coverage of Jackson’s final moments before his death, attention is expected to be back on the mansion and what transpired between Jackson and Murray. Moreover, news reports have confirmed that both the prosecution and defense will focus on Murray’s interaction with LAFD when Jackson was taken from Holmby Hills to Westwood’s UCLA Medical Center.

Just months ago, Hopespring Drive in Chickasaw Oaks, and Suburban Drive in east Orange County was the focus of a nation. HLN news reporters continued to visit the location of Caylee Anthony’s remains. They analyzed the path from the Anthony family house to the location of Caylee’s remains. While LAPD has yet to confirm to news if street closures will be in place during the Murray trial,  the Orange County Sheriff’s Office had to restrict traffic around the Anthony family home in the Chickasaw Oaks subdivision during the Casey Anthony trial.

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