Smart man.

Where does this cash go?

Not only he was the king of pop he was also a business man.

Trent you got it partially wrong.

MJ purchased ATV Music for $45M in 1985. In 1990, he merged it with Sony to create Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Because MJ’s portion (ATV included vast majority of The Beatles catalogue) worthies more than Sony’s at that tie, MJ also received a cash portion of $200M & retained half ownership of the newly created Sony/ATV. Now, the merged company is worth over $2B…which means MJ’s 50% represents over $1B. MJ might have had cash low problems, but he was never broke. At any give time he could have sold his 50% of Sony/ATV…

Marie, Thank you Thank you Thank you! You are the first person to get it completely right. He had cash flow issues but he was never broke… I wish people would get the faxs right…