AEG Live Dismissed from Jackson Lawsuit

Joe Jackson attends a party during the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France.

A judge has dismissed concert promoter AEG Live from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael Jackson's father. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos agreed with AEG lawyers who said Joe Jackson should have joined a separate suit filed by his wife, Katherine.

The judge clarified that the law does not favor multiple suits by individual heirs, and that if Joe Jackson's lawsuit against AEG Live were to go forward, it would "contravene the purpose of the one-action rule." Complicating matters, AEG Live also successfully argued that the singer's father is not a legitimate heir to his fortune, since he was not mentioned in the King of Pop's will.

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AEG Live Dismissed from Jackson Lawsuit

Joe Jackson attends a party during the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France.

A judge has dismissed concert promoter AEG Live from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael Jackson's father. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos agreed with AEG lawyers who said Joe Jackson should have joined a separate suit filed by his wife, Katherine.

The judge clarified that the law does not favor multiple suits by individual heirs, and that if Joe Jackson's lawsuit against AEG Live were to go forward, it would "contravene the purpose of the one-action rule." Complicating matters, AEG Live also successfully argued that the singer's father is not a legitimate heir to his fortune, since he was not mentioned in the King of Pop's will.

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Beyonce Hospital Complaints Dismissed by Health Officials

Beyonce hosts the screening of "Live at Roseland: The Elements of 4" at the Paris Theatre in New York.

Complaints that Beyoncé and Jay-Z's luxury birthing suite at the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan led to mistreatment of other patients have been reviewed and dismissed by New York State health officials. Patients had claimed that the superstar couple's security had kept them away from their children in the neonatal facility. Health department spokesman Jeffrey Gordon said they received two complaints, but both were dismissed by last night.

According to media reports, the superstar couple paid over $1 million to claim and furnish an entire floor of the hospital, but Lenox Hill has officially denied this, saying that Jay-Z and Beyoncé paid the standard rate for an executive suite, without disclosing that price.

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