Producer Quincy Jones is also missing service
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Michael Jackson’s chimp Bubbles will not be present when the singer is laid to rest.
He will spend the day listening to flute music at a Florida animal sanctuary 3,000 miles away.
‘It is sad for Bubbles but it is better that he stays here,’ a spokesman for the Centre For Great Apes tells The Sun. ‘Maybe we’ll mark the occasion another way.’
Bubbles is yet to be told the news that Michael, who adopted him in 1985, is dead.
Quincy Jones, who worked on the singer's Thriller, Off The Wall and Bad albums, will also miss the service.
The producer, 76, has instead flown to Amsterdam to grieve in private.
‘I won’t go to any more funerals as long as I live,’ he says.
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Born in a small town in Texas in 1983, Bubbles the chimp rose from obscurity to become a part of Michael Jackson's entourage at the young age of eight months. As the news media scratches their collective heads looking for more information to report, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper got the inside scoop on Bubbles, tracking him down at the Center for Great Apes, a nonprofit sanctuary in Florida. Bubbles is now 26 years old and retired. He hangs out with 41 other chimpanzees and orangutans, many former circus performers or show business veterans. In an exclusive television report, CNN's Cooper said that Bubbles and the King of Pop "lived together, dressed alike, and went on tour together." He then cut to a YouTube clip from 1987 showing the two drinking "tea" together. Anonymous reports that they were actually drinking wine have not been substantiated, although most of Jackson's former entourage are unable to talk to the media because of "non-disclosure" agreements. As to the reports that the two went to parties together, Cooper said: "This is the 1980's, so hey, different rules apply."
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