{"id":453330,"date":"2011-07-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/04\/mj-estate-revenge-over-famous-crank-call\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T08:00:00","slug":"mj-estate-revenge-over-famous-crank-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/04\/mj-estate-revenge-over-famous-crank-call\/","title":{"rendered":"MJ Estate &#8212; REVENGE Over Famous Crank Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"MJ Estate -- REVENGE Over Famous Crank Call\" description=\"The Michael Jackson estate has dropped the hammer on the man who famously crank called MJ in 2007 ... claiming he has NO RIGHT to sell the recording\u2026\" tweet=\"Check out MJ Estate -- REVENGE Over Famous Crank Call from: @HarveyLevinTMZ\" url=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2011\/07\/04\/michael-jackson-ralphige-prank-call-estate-cease-and-desist-takedown-letter\/\" thumbnail=\"http:\/\/ll-media.tmz.com\/2011\/07\/01\/0701-mj-prank-call-audio-launch-ex-100x100.jpg\" readability=\"59.9395313681\">\n<p>7\/4\/2011 1:00 AM PDT\u00a0by TMZ Staff\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"first\" \/>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/michael-jackson\/\">Michael Jackson<\/a><\/strong> estate has dropped the hammer on the man who famously crank called MJ in 2007 &#8230; claiming he has NO RIGHT to sell the recording because it contains MJ&#8217;s REAL voice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tmz.vo.llnwd.net\/o28\/newsdesk\/tmz_audio\/0701_ralphige_mj_1.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0701_mj_prank_call_audio_launch_ex\" src=\"http:\/\/ll-media.tmz.com\/2011\/07\/01\/0701-mj-prank-call-audio-launch-ex.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The call was made by legendary prankster <strong>Ralphige<\/strong> &#8212; who has fooled the likes of <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, <strong>Paris Hilton<\/strong>, and <strong>Chris Brown<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the MJ call, Ralphige pretended to be <strong>Akon<\/strong> &#8230; and he teased Michael about molesting children. MJ claimed Ralphige was NOT talking to the real Michael Jackson &#8230; but merely an impersonator.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, the MJ Estate is acknowledging that the King of Pop REALLY WAS was pranked &#8212; because they&#8217;ve threatened to sue Ralphige for selling the recording on his website for 99 cents a pop &#8230; without permission from MJ&#8217;s camp.<\/p>\n<p>The threat worked &#8212; because Ralphige&#8217;s site is down &#8230; but the prankster sees a silver lining &#8230; telling us, &#8220;The letter, if anything, it at least proves to the doubters that the prank call is real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He adds, &#8220;I am afraid the estate is not aware Michael personally gave me permission to release the phone call. This is something that I am sure will be discussed in the near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"continued\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/michael-jackson\/\">Michael Jackson<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/ralphige\/\">Ralphige<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/category\/celebrity-justice\/\">Celebrity Justice<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2011\/07\/04\/michael-jackson-ralphige-prank-call-estate-cease-and-desist-takedown-letter\/\" title=\"MJ Estate -- REVENGE Over Famous Crank Call\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MJ Estate &#8212; REVENGE Over Famous Crank Call<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 7\/4\/2011 1:00 AM PDT\u00a0by TMZ Staff\u00a0\u00a0 The Michael Jackson estate has dropped the hammer on the man who famously crank called MJ in 2007 &#8230; claiming he has NO RIGHT to sell the recording because it contains MJ&#8217;s REAL voice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MJ Estate - REVENGE Over Famous Crank Call - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/04\/mj-estate-revenge-over-famous-crank-call\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"MJ Estate - REVENGE Over Famous Crank Call - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"7\/4\/2011 1:00 AM PDT\u00a0by TMZ Staff\u00a0\u00a0 The Michael Jackson estate has dropped the hammer on the man who famously crank called MJ in 2007 ... claiming he has NO RIGHT to sell the recording because it contains MJ&#039;s REAL voice.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/ll-media.tmz.com\/2011\/07\/01\/0701-mj-prank-call-audio-launch-ex.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/04\/mj-estate-revenge-over-famous-crank-call\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/04\/mj-estate-revenge-over-famous-crank-call\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"MJ Estate &#8212; 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