Can this get any weirder?
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Musi...zed/index.html
Michael Jackson briefly hospitalized
Thursday, May 22, 2003 Posted: 9:06 AM EDT (1306 GMT)
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (CNN) -- Pop star Michael Jackson was briefly hospitalized Wednesday after becoming ill while on a trip to Indianapolis, his spokesman said.
Jackson was only in the hospital for a few hours, spokesman Stuart Backerman said, and was already on his way back to California by nightfall.
"He just didn't feel well," Backerman said. "He just felt weak and sort of dehydrated. He was feeling weaker and weaker as the day went on."
Jackson was in Indianapolis for a deposition in a copyright infringement and royalties case involving the Jackson Five, said Brian Oxman, the Jackson family's attorney.
While the physician hasn't yet diagnosed Wednesday's illness, Oxman said the stress of depositions often makes the singer feel sick.
"He's gone through hundreds of them in his life," Oxman said. "When he has to go through them, it upsets him, bothers him, he doesn't sleep, he doesn't eat, he gets dehydrated, and these kinds of things happen as a result."
No deposition was taken at all because Jackson became sick, he said.
The man suing Jackson is from the singer's hometown of Gary, Indiana, who is a "long-time family friend and associate," Oxman said. Jackson and his attorneys do not believe the man's claims have merit.
The royalties "are from old Jackson Five songs which were sung, and claims regarding who owned the copyright to those songs and who was it that should be receiving the royalties," he said.