ok, so wacko-jacko continues to be in hot water over his finances...MICHAEL Jackson is being sued for $229,000 over an unpaid antiques bill.


Just days after being hit with a $3.8 million bill by a gay porn producer, the pop star is now being chased by a Hollywood gallery over an outstanding debt.
The Mayfair gallery says Jackson bought $480,000 worth of fine objets d'art in May but failed to pay almost half the bill.
Among the 20 items bought by Jackson are a malachite urn, a Louis XVI-style bust clock and an Austrian gold-painted dancing girl.
Legal papers were lodged in Los Angeles this week and follow a separate action by gay porn producer Marc Schaffel who is suing Jackson for more than $3.8 million in unpaid fees and loans.




Schaffel, a former business associate of Jackson, claims the embattled pop star spent the money on an extravagant lifestyle.
Schaffel has also claimed Jackson used drugs and would demand money in the middle of the night.
"When Michael would be on drugs, he would call two, three, four in the morning, very distorted," Schaffel said.
"And he would say, `Oh, can you give me $70,000 tomorrow? There's this table I saw. I gotta have it for my living room'."
In court documents Schaffel has detailed the reasons he lent Jackson money, including:
$1.2 MILLION to pay Marlon Brando to appear in a music video and concert.
$767,000 FOR a piece of jewellery for Elizabeth Taylor.
$639,000 FOR Jackson to live underground in the event of a post-September 11 attack.
Schaffel claims he lent Jackson $11.3 million from 2001 to June, 2004, and was repaid some $8 million but repayments stopped when Jackson's brother Randy recently took over the singer's financial affairs.
Schaffel also says he is still owed $1.02m for two television shows he produced for Jackson to rebut the damaging BBC documentary that showed the pop star holding hands with a 12-year-old male cancer victim whom Jackson has now been charged with molesting.