Jackson had voodoo chief put curse on Spielberg

JUST when you thought Michael Jackson could not get any more bizarre, a new report says the singer hired an African voodoo chief to put a death curse on Steven Spielberg and David Geffen.

And the King of Pop sealed the deal by bathing in sheep's blood and having dozens of cows slaughtered, according to a story in the April issue of Vanity Fair.

Jackson began his quest for revenge by forking over $150,000 to a witch doctor named Baba, who put a hex on the Hollywood bigs three years ago in Switzerland, the mag says.

"David Geffen be gone! Steven Spielberg be gone!" chanted Baba, who assured Jackson that Geffen who heads DreamWorks Pictures with Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg would be dead within one week.

To strengthen the curse, the report says, Jackson went to another witch doctor and "paid six figures for a ritual cleansing using sheep's blood" and the slaughter of 42 cows. For his money, he also reportedly got the "blood of a number of small animals for yet another slaughter".

Some of the cash was paid to a go-between, a mysterious woman named Samia, who came to Jackson with a letter of greeting from a Saudi prince who is now the kingdom's chief of intelligence, Vanity Fair says.

Spielberg and Geffen were two of 25 people on Jackson's "enemies list," the magazine reported. Jackson reportedly hates Geffen for being a part of what he calls Hollywood's "Gay Mafia," which he believes sank his career. And he's mad at Spielberg for nixing a deal to star him in a new version of "Peter Pan".

Neither Geffen or Spielberg could be reached for comment. Jackson's company, MJJ Productions, did not return a call.

The magazine also says that Jackson wears a prosthesis that serves as the tip of his nose because of a lack of cartilage from years of plastic surgery.

"One person who has seen him without the device says he resembles a mummy with two nostril holes," author Maureen Orth wrote.

The one-time King of Pop has been dogged by controversy for months, first over his odd appearance in a California courtroom last November. That same month, Jackson stunned fans in Berlin by briefly dangling his young son from a hotel balcony.

And last month a British television documentary that aired to blockbuster ratings both in Europe and the United States caused a stir when Jackson told his interviewer that he slept in the same room, and sometimes the same bed, as young boys.