Jackson Sharing New Management With Animated Frog

First the manager: The King of Pop is now being handled by Guy Holmes. His record label is called Gut Records. His other acts are Chungking, Uniting Nations and — believe it or not — Sparks, the cult brother act from the ’70s that sold no records then, had no following, and I had forgotten existed at all until I saw their name on the Gut Records Web site.

But what Holmes is really famous for is a ring tone called “Crazy Frog.” Now look, this is serious: I am not kidding. Holmes, who may be a very nice fellow, is described in a press release from Jackson and Prince Abdullah of Bahrain as a “music mogul.” I guess things are different in England.

The other business: Alternate juror Jeffrey Welbaum went ahead and sold his notebooks from the child molestation trial on eBay as planned, even after his wife told me he was going to take them down. Welbaum’s mother-in-law, I told you yesterday, was a maid at Neverland during the time the alleged incidents occurred, but he was allowed on the jury anyway. His mother-in-law, now deceased, was on the defense witness list.

Anyway, the winner on eBay of the notebooks was Vincent Amen, the 26-year-old unindicted co-conspirator prosecutors tried to prove held the Arvizo family against their will at Jackson’s request.

He paid $2,550 for the set of Welbaum’s writings. Amen received immunity from the prosecution, if you recall, and then they couldn’t put him on the stand because he corroborated all of the defense theories.

But that’s what the District Attorney’s office in Santa Barbara was like: inept. Maybe that’s why I hear that Gary Dunlop, a lawyer whom D.A. Tom Sneddon once unsuccessfully prosecuted, is now running for the job of district attorney. His platform may well be to make sure no jurors and witnesses are related, and maybe to interview witnesses before they take the stand so he knows what they’re going to say.

As for “Crazy Frog,” he will have to be a write-in candidate.