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Melbourne, Aug 05 (ANI): The house where legendary pop singer Michael Jackson died is now up for sale for 30 million dollars.

The French chateau-style mansion has seven bedrooms, a seven-car garage and 13 bathrooms, according to TMZ.

The 1600 sq metre mansion is situated in the affluent Los Angeles suburb of Holmby Hills.

The house has 12 working fireplaces, a theatre, wine cellar and gymnasium as well as an inbuilt elevator to travel up and down its three levels.

Interested buyers will have to undergo an ‘extensive pre-qualifying check’ to tour the home, in an effort to avoid diehard fans wanting to see where the King of Pop died, reports The Herald Sun.

The home’s owner, Ed Hardy chief executive Hubert Guez, rented the mansion to Jackson in 2009 as the singer rehearsed his This Is It tour.

It was reported that Guez apparently tried to sell the property in 2008 before agreeing to rent it to Jackson. (ANI)

London, Aug 4(IANS) Footballer David Beckham and telly chef Gordon Ramsay are planning to open their own pub in Los Angeles.

And they might even call it The Queen Vic, after David’s wife Victoria, reports dailystar.co.uk.

David and Gordon have been close pals for many years and being regulars on the LA scene, the pair felt it was the best location because a string of expats live in the area.

A pal of David, 35, said: “He wants pie and mash, fish and chips and even chicken in a basket on the menu, just like the meals he eats when he’s in the Britain.”

If this happens, David will follow in the footsteps of Madonna’s ex-husband Guy Ritchie, 41, who owns the Punchbowl Pub in London’s Mayfair.

Other A-list celebs, who have their own restaurants, include Britney Spears, 28, Robert De Niro, 66, and Eva Longoria Parker, 35.

Melbourne, Aug 04 (ANI): American singer Britney Spears’ new album will release in a few weeks, record producer Rodney ‘Darkchild’ Jerkins revealed.

Rodney has reportedly been working with Britney on a new album since March 2010. Rodney gave a strong indication in an interview on UStream that Britney’s new record is almost completed.

“Britney fans are gonna be so happy in a few weeks,” Rodney said.

Britney’s record label Jive announced she was working on a follow-up to her 2008 album Circus earlier in 2010, but refused to give a potential release date, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.

The untitled record will be Britney’s seventh studio album, and is rumoured to include a number of collaborations. Producers Danja and Predator Dub Assassins are also thought to have worked on some of the tracks. (ANI)

London, August 04 (ANI): British actor Dev Patel has revealed that he and his ladylove Freida Pinto are not getting married any time soon.

Patel also said that their wedding talk got so intense that he even had his mum on the phone asking whether it was true.

‘It is weird now because every day when I am filming I get a call from Mum. And she says, ‘so I hear you are getting engaged now,” the Sun quoted him as saying.

‘And we always laugh about things. The last rumour I heard was that me and Freida were looking for a wedding cake in LA.

‘And we were going to fly it down to India to have our wedding there,’ he added.

Dev who fell for Freida, 25, while the making of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ says that they kept their feelings under wraps as he did not want their relationship to look like some kind of publicity stunt.

‘It was about the film at that time and we weren’t going to come out as some kind of product,” he said.

‘We weren’t doing it for marketing. If we could we would probably have kept it under wraps.

‘But there comes a point when you get more attention from ‘are they aren’t they?’ So we figured that ‘all right everyone knows now’.

‘Once we did come out the attention died down and that is great,’ he added. (ANI)

London, Aug 3 (IANS) Singer Janet Jackson admits she is moving on from her brother Michael Jackson’s death last year and is trying to enjoy life and look towards the future.

The singer whose older sibling, the late King of Pop who died June 25 last year, still thinks about him every day, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“There isn’t a day that goes without thinking about Michael. But right now, I am in a better space and moving on with my life,” said Janet.

“At times it can be hard. But I am growing and learning and loving. I am enjoying my life very much and I have learnt that life is precious,” she added.

Los Angeles, Aug 2 (IANS) Colombian singer Shakira is following in the footsteps of Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Lopez and Britney Spears by launching her signature perfume.

‘S by Shakira’ features notes of jasmine and sandalwood and will go on sale in September.

“The type of women who feel a connection with this fragrance would be independent and strong, but also a woman with a great capacity to love and a strong sense of who they are. It’s for a woman who believes in herself,” aceshowbiz.com quoted Shakira as saying.

“Like one of my songs, I wanted ‘S by Shakira’ to tell a story, and to be something personal and unique. A perfume has to really reflect something inside you, make you connect with it in an emotional way,” she added.

Toronto, Aug 1 (IANS) A posthumous album featuring 10 never-before-heard songs from the King of Pop Michael Jackson is set for a November release.

At the time of his death, Jackson had reportedly left hard drives filled with previously unreleased music.

His former manager Frank DiLeo estimates Jackson’s vaults contain more than 100 completed and unreleased songs, including collaborations with Akon, will.i.am and Ne-Yo.

The tracks are expected to be included in the forthcoming release, alongside songs Jackson recorded at the peak of his career in the 1980s, reports torontosun.com.

“There are a couple of songs we recorded for the ‘Bad’ album that we had to cut that are just sensational,” said DiLeo.

London, Aug 1 (ANI): British Indian actor Dev Patel’s new film ‘The Last Airbender’ has sparked a race row – after film bosses changed all the heroes into white people and cast Asians as villains.

The new flick is based on a hit kids’ cartoon series set in a fantasy world from Chinese and Inuit legends.

The cartoon has three Asian heroes – Aang, Katara and Sokka. However, in the film they are played by white Americans – including two unkown child actors and Twilight’s Jackson Rathbone, 25.

On the other hand, all the villains remain Asian, played by dark-skinned actors, reports News of the World.

The ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ star plays evil Prince Zuko in the movie, which opens here on August 13.

The cartoon’s co-creator has already slammed the ‘whitewashing’ on his MySpace page after being deluged with messages from angry fans.

He wrote: ‘I have nothing to do with the casting whatsoever for the feature film.’

Over 100 protesters picketed the premiere in Hollywood last month, dubbing it The Last Racebender.

The movie has already recouped its 96-million-pound budget in the US, but it has been universally slammed by critics. (ANI)

London, July 29 (IANS) The seven doctors, who were under investigation over King of Pop Michael Jackson’s death last year, will not be charged.

However, Jackson’s personal doctor Conrad Murray, who denies involuntary manslaughter, was not among the seven doctors questioned by investigators. He is accused of giving Jackson a lethal overdose of anaesthetic.

Los Angeles police had asked Californian state investigators to look into the way the doctors had prescribed drugs.

Lawyer Brian Oxman, who is representing Jackson’s father Joe in a wrongful death civil case, said he was “very disappointed”.

“The misuse of medications by Michael Jackson in the last years of his life was excessive and to fail to bring that to the public eye is ignoring reality,” bbc.co.uk quoted him as saying.

London, July 28 (ANI): Singer/songwriter Katy Perry has revealed that she is so scared of being accused of having bad breath that she brushes her teeth at least three times a day.

Perry, 25, who admits she was too poor to take her dental hygiene seriously when she was a child, also revealed that watching Britney Spears videos inspired her to brush her teeth religiously.

“I brush my teeth all the time. I wanted them to be, like, Britney Spears-white,” the Daily Express quoted her as saying in a new YouTube.com interview.

“I used to grow up seeing her music videos and be like, ‘What does she do? Does she get a new set of teeth all the time? They’re so white’.

“I’m really anal about that because I like good breath. A turn off for me with guys is, like, halitosis… I’m the kind of friend that’s like, ‘Stick a piece of gum in your mouth, ‘cos I’m gonna save some friendships for you’.

“I’ll brush my teeth (after) breakfast, lunch and dinner… I did have 13 cavities at one time, so you can imagine why I’m so freaked out.

“When I was a kid I didn’t really go to the dentist a lot… and when I finally went, they were like, ‘You might as well get a new set of teeth’,” she added. (ANI)