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本帖最后由 zhujiezhen 于 2009-11-13 10:37 编辑
原文&图表：http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/23/ ... tversion=2009102314
Behind Michael Jackson's mad money
Was the King of Pop smart, lucky, or a little off about how he conducted his finances? Turns out, he managed to be all at the same time.
By Richard Siklos, editor at large
Last Updated: October 23, 2009: 2:23 PM ET
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- We all know that Michael Jackson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived. But when it came to how he conducted his business and financial affairs, was he smart, lucky, or mad? As depicted in the Fight Over Michael's Millions , he managed to be all at the same time.
Repeatedly, people who worked with Jackson told me that although he had a shrewd sense of business, he had no appreciation of -- or concern about -- the value of money. He came into an unfathomable amount of it during the 1980s at the apex of his success, and he hit a double-home run when he parlayed $47.5 million into his half-interest in what is today Sony/ATV Publishing, which is now worth more than 10 times that.
It's interesting that despite leaving his famed Neverland Ranch nearly five years ago and vowing never to return, Jackson never bought another home. My impression is that is because he only believed in doing things on an ever grander scale and he was biding his time till he could come back bigger than ever.
This explains the apparent lunacy of Jackson, despite the crippling loans he carried, this year planning to buy a house in Las Vegas for close to $50 million and even having a $15 million advance for the house built into his contract with AEG, the promoter of his comeback concerts.
According to Jackson's recent manager Tohme Tohme, Jackson's largesse extended to people he cared for -- he says Jackson agreed to buy a $600,000 motor home for his mother Katherine and asked that a $400,000 bracelet that he liked be bought and sent to one of his celebrity pals -- both in the past couple of years when he was on the brink of financial ruin.
Yet, Jackson understood that he needed to make money to get out of hock. One of the many ironies in Jackson's tragedy is that he was poised to sell a warehouse full of his vast possessions at an auction in Los Angeles this past April. He called that off at the last minute and now, given the interest in Jackson since his death, his stuff is undoubtedly worth far more.
Plus, some pieces are now about to start earning his estate money as part of a touring exhibition of his memorabilia slated to begin in London next week. (Go here if you want to see the catalogue from the aborted auction.) Whether the Jackson provenance is a plus or minus for the real estate value of Neverland when it is eventually sold remains to be seen.
When it came to negotiating deals (which he often reneged on), Jackson could be sly. He understood that he had assets people coveted -- including proximity to himself -- and that he could find ways to moonwalk around financial disaster.
Sony/ATV was a calling card that separated him from being a mere musical megastar. By following Paul McCartney's advice and buying up music catalogues, Jackson bet wisely on a segment of the music business that has actually grown over the past few years, as music gets licensed for new uses, like ring tones and advertising and TV shows like "American Idol" and video games like Rock Band.
And whether he intended to or not, Jackson picked a business that did just fine -- if not better -- without him involved day to day. During the years Jackson was in the figurative wilderness, he was also an absentee partner at Sony/ATV. Until Sony secured more control over business decisions when it helped Jackson hold onto his stake in the company in 2006, it was apparently impossible to track down Jackson and get him to agree to things.
With a freer hand, Sony was more easily able to make more than $500 million of acquisitions and bring in Martin Bandier, a music industry veteran, to build and run the Sony/ATV in early 2007. Last year, the company made around $65 million in operating profit on revenue of close to $500 million, insiders claim, and the business won an internal award at Sony (SNE) for its rich margins.
Jackson cherished his association with the business and appreciated how Sony had helped him in his pinch, but he was also mistrustful of the Japanese conglomerate after falling out with his record label there a few years ago. It probably didn't help that the partners didn't hold a single board meeting between 2002 and 2007, and Jackson never bothered to meet Bandier in person.
When he agreed to the comeback shows in London, Jackson wanted it known that he was going back to work for the benefit of his three children -- he and his youngest son, Prince Michael II (also known as "Blanket") even showed up in matching black suits when he went to meet Phillip Anschutz, the tycoon whose company, AEG, was to stage the concerts.
Jackson explained that, more than the money, he wanted to show his kids what he had done in his heyday. But at the same time, his advisors say, he mused about a future when he would somehow buy back the other half of Sony/ATV and live off publishing riches in his big mansion in Las Vegas while making movies and doing other things.
It was an impossible dream.
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迈克尔•杰克逊的应急资金背后的故事
翻译转自：http://www.fortunechina.com/firs ... 8/content_26177.htm
www.fortunechina.com 2009年10月28日
流行音乐之王在理财方面是聪明、幸运还是有点疯狂呢？原来他三者兼具。
作者：Richard Siklos 查看英文原文
http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/23/ ... tversion=2009102314
众所周知，迈克尔•杰克逊（Michael Jackson）是有史以来最杰出的艺人之一。但就经营自身业务和理财而言，他是聪明、幸运还是疯狂呢？正如《争夺迈克尔的数百万美元》（Fight Over Michael's Millions查看英文原文http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/23/ ... s.fortune/index.htm）一文所描述的那样，他三者兼具。
与杰克逊共过事的人多次告诉我，尽管他有着敏锐的商业头脑，但他不欣赏——或者说不关心——金钱的价值。二十世纪80年代，事业处于鼎盛时期的杰克逊获得巨额资产。他以4750万美元购买了今天的索尼/ ATV音乐出版公司（Sony/ATV Publishing）一半的股份，其价值已增长至原来的十倍多，这笔投资可谓大获成功。
有趣的是，尽管他在大约5年前离开了自己著名的 “梦幻庄园”（Neverland Ranch）并且发誓再也不回去，但他从未另置房产。在我看来，这是因为他认为应该不断超越，他在等待时机，直到获得比从前更大的成功。
这就解释了杰克逊为何——虽然债务缠身——于今年计划在拉斯维加斯购买一处价值近5000万美元的房产，甚至将该房产1500万美元的预付款写进了他与AEG——他复出演唱会的承办方——的合同中，这显然是愚蠢的。
据杰克逊最近的经纪人托姆•托姆（Tohme Tohme）透露，杰克逊对自己关心的人向来出手大方。托姆表示，在过去一些年里，尽管杰克逊身处破产边缘，但仍同意为自己的母亲凯瑟琳（Katherine）购买一辆价值60万美元的房车，并要求买下自己中意的一只价值40万美元的手镯送给一位圈内好友。
然而，杰克逊甚至他需要赚钱来还清债务。杰克逊的悲剧中有很多具有讽刺意味的事情，其中之一就是今年4月他原本准备在拉斯维加斯举办的一场拍卖会中拍卖一个装满他大量个人财产的仓库，然而就在最后时刻，他改变了主意。现在，他去世后人们对他的浓厚兴趣无疑使得这些物品的价钱水涨船高。
此外，作为预定于下周在伦敦开始的杰克逊纪念品巡展的一部分，一些物品将开始赚得他的遗产钱。与杰克逊的渊源对“梦幻庄园”最终售出时的房地产价值是有利还是不利因素，现在还不得而知。
在协议谈判（他经常违约）方面，杰克逊很狡猾。他深知自己拥有人们觊觎的资产——包括接近他自己——因此他可以找到办法迈着其招牌式的太空步巧妙的绕过财务危机。
拥有索尼/ATV使得杰克逊不仅仅是一位音乐巨星。他听从保罗•麦卡特尼（Paul McCartney）的建议，买下了全部曲目，这是一笔明智的投资，随着音乐被许可用于新的用途，例如电话铃声、广告和“美国偶像”（"American Idol"）等电视节目，以及“摇滚乐队”（Rock Band）等视频游戏。
不管是有意还是无意，杰克逊选择了一项他不天天过问也业绩不错——甚至可能更好——的业务。在他放荡形骸的那些年，他也是索尼/ATV的缺席合伙人。但也很少出入公司。2006年，索尼帮助杰克逊保住了在该公司的股份，从而获得了对业务更大的决策权；在此之前，显然很难找到杰克逊并且让他点头同意某事。
此后索尼有了更大的回旋空间，从而得以更容易的进行了5亿美元的收购，并在2007年初引入乐坛资深人士马丁•博迪埃（Martin Bandier），由他负责打造并经营索尼/ATV。据内部人士称， 该公司去年的营业利润约为6500万美元，总收入近5亿，并因为盈利颇丰获得索尼(Sony)的内部嘉奖。
杰克逊珍视他与索尼/ATV的联系，并感激索尼曾救他于危难，不过在几年前与该公司就他的唱片标签起争执之后，杰克逊也对这家日本集团公司不大信任。而在2002年至2007年间，各合伙人从未召开董事会议，杰克逊也从未亲自与博迪埃会面。
当杰克逊同意在伦敦举行复出演出，他希望世人知道他复出是为了给自己三个孩子谋福利——在会见大亨菲利普•安舒茨（Phillip Anschutz）——其拥有的AEG公司将操办上述演唱会——时，他和小儿子普林斯•迈克尔二世（又被称为“毯毯”（"Blanket"））甚至穿上了登对的黑色西装。
杰克逊解释称，除了赚钱之外，他更希望在三个孩子面前再现他当年的辉煌。但他的顾问透露，与此同时，杰克逊希望将来有一天能购回索尼/ATV另一半的股权，住在拉斯维加斯的豪宅中，以版权收入为生，同时拍拍电影或做点其它事情。
这是一个不可能实现的梦。
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The Fight Over Michael's Millions
《财富》：争夺迈克尔的数百万美元
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