The mayor of Gary, Indiana said Friday his cash-strapped city paid $5,000 to fly Michael Jackson's father and seven other people out from Los Angeles to attend a July memorial for his son in the pop star's hometown.
Mayor Rudy Clay insisted that Joe Jackson wasn't paid any money to attend the July 10 memorial in downtown Gary, near the Jackson family's former two-bedroom boyhood home. "Joe Jackson came in here for one reason: for his son, and he wanted to be with his 31 other family members who live in Gary," he said. "There was no fee for Joe Jackson to appear. Absolutely not."
A call seeking comment was left Friday with a spokesman for the Jackson family.
While city money helped pay to fly Jackson, the musical group the Chi-Lites and security from Los Angeles to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Clay said donations already made or promised to the city will cover all of the memorial's expenses.
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