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February 27, 2008
Michael Jackson could lose his California home


(NECN/ABC) - It's gonna to be a "Thriller" of a March for Pop icon Michael Jackson. He has until March 19th come up with more than $24 million to pay an investment bank or his "Neverland Ranch" northeast of Santa Barbara will be sold at a bank auction. The sale would include everything inside and outside the sprawling ranch mansion - including the amusement rides.

Speaking of legal problems, comedian Jerry Seinfield and his wife are in hot water over Jessica's Seinfield's cookbook. Another author claims the Seinfield cookbook plagiarized the title of her cookbook - which came out six-months before the Seinfield book. Both deal with getting kids to eat healthy food.

Super model Naomi Campbell is resting in a Brazilian hospital after abdominal surgery. Doctors say a small cyst was removed - and that a full recovery is expected.

And on the heels of the New York Philharmonic performance in North Korea, comes word that rock guitarist Eric Clapton now has an invite. North Korean dictator Kim Jon Il has banned western rock and roll - but his son, Kim Jong Chol, listened to Clapton while going to school in Switzerland and wants him to play Pyongyong. No word yet on whether Clapton will accept.

That's what's happening in showbiz, Alex Stone of ABC News has the details.

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