Michael Jackson was looking for a replacement property for his California Neverland Ranch when he reportedly found his dream home estate. Nicknamed "Wonderland", Jackson's dream home is [was] a 10-acre Las Vegas estate. Love the classic yet modern looks? Inside, the house only gets better.
The palatial sprawling home boasted luxury recreation-promoting amenity features such as:
20 car garage (photo 2nd left)
massive high tech home theater (photo middle)
heated swimming pool Flintstone Bedrock style (photo lower)
To view the complete slideshow of the Michael Jackson Wonderland Dream home luxury estate, click the NY Post link to Wonderland pictures.
Realtor Zar Zanganeh, who in 2007 gave Jackson and his three children the grand tour of the 10-bedroom, 19-bath mansion, told the Post, ""He loved it. He said he could do anything he wanted there like in "Neverland," but that the star, struggling financially at the time, could not manage to muster up the cash for the $25 million dollar price tag.
With controversy about the Jackson surviving family members entrenched in debate over where to bury Michael Jackson's body, we have a suggestion for an easy solution.
The MJ memorial problem is this: MJ sold Neverland Ranch and the current owners and neighbors do not want the Jackson family or devoted fans of the pop star in the neighborhood. MJ expressed while he was alive that he never wanted to return to the estate again due to the celebridy sex scandal and accusations involving homosexual activity and child molestation. Father Joe Jackson and several of the Jackson family kids want to purchase Neverland back and create an Elvis "Graceland" style estate where they can bury the pop star and his fans can come to pay graveside tribute. Other more caring relatives not in the stars life just for the celebrity fame and luxury lifestyle cash want MJ to be buried at Forrest Lawn Estates, a celebrity burial ground that offers serene afterlife protection from emotional distress for the deceased star -- especially if the ghost of Michael Jackson as a Peter Pan shadow is already reported to be stuck hanging around and haunting Neverland Ranch.
The solution that could work for all involved: If the Jackson Estate pulled together a group of investors and could rally the $25m to purchase the luxury Nevada estate and actually formally named the place "Wonderland", they could create a place where Michael Jackson's ghost could haunt where he could also easily entertain. Located just outside the popular tourist attraction Las Vegas, the home would have been a natural place for an aging Jackson to raise his family in private while scooting into the city to do a little weekly entertainment or night shows (like so many stars in the past have done while staying active in the mild warm climate though years they would have otherwise been in retirement). Now, however, the lot offers location, location, location -- and the space the Jackson family would need to create a shrine to the superstar that would be easy for visitors to access even on a quick gambling jaunt weekend to the Vegas strip -- and they would not be bothering the disgruntled Cali neighbors. Even better, with no lingering bad memories and wonder story leftovers about, "I wonder if he molested kids HERE in this room", "Did he sleep with kids in the bed here?", or HIStory rumors, the new estate would offer a bedrock version of a clean slate estate.
What's your thoughts about giving MJ a proper burial at a place he loved that would also be a good tourist traffic destination? Leave your remarks below in the comments section.
Michael Jackson Tribute Articles w/ Car Collection Theme
- MJ dies on same day as beautiful Pinup Girl Farrah Fawcett
- Michael Jackson and the Gold Casket: Funeral procession fit for King of Pop
- Michael Jackson Funeral Cars: Transportation to Cemetery Forrest Lawn [Slideshow]
- Michael Jackson's Personal Connection to Rolls Royce that helped his family
- Did Michael Jackson feel more safe traveling by Car? [Slideshow]
- Michael Jackson Feature Film Acting Wish: 'Hot Rod' Transformer Car
- Michael Jackson and the Cars of Neverland Ranch [Slideshow]
- Michael Jackson Limited Edition Smart Car Tribute Idea Suggested by Teen
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