Sarpton: Hearing is 'insulting'
2009-07-06 20:33
Los Angeles - The Reverend Al Sharpton says it's "almost insulting" to the Jackson family to hold a hearing on Monday to designate two men as temporary administrators of the pop superstar's estate.
Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, was granted some limited powers over his estate days after his death. But because attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain are named as executors in the will, it's expected they would be granted more authority to oversee Jackson's estate in Monday's hearing in Los Angeles.
Sharpton said on ABC's Good Morning America: "It has been very insensitive, particularly to this family, that you would even schedule a court hearing on the status of the mother, the day before she has to go to the cemetery for her son. It's almost insulting."
- SAPA