Frank Dileo Slaps NY Post Quotes

Michael Jackson's former manager apparently doesn't know what the heck two New York Post reporters are talking about when they erroneously claimed he made provocative statements about Jackson recently.

The two blockhead reporters, Stacy Brown and James Fanelli, wrote up a questionable and as yet unsubstantiated article about the finances of the Jackson family.

These two baby-Roger-Friedman-wannabes made allegations about the solvency and employment of members of the Jackson family like it was their business; allegations which won't be repeated here.

However, they apparently messed up when they attributed quotes about Michael Jackson directly to Jackson's former manager from back in the day, Frank Dileo.

They quoted Dileo as saying - and under the context of being a recent statement - that Michael wasn't going to work with the family again and was only concerned about his own legacy.

Dileo, who spoke to EURWeb.com's Lee Baily, says he never made the statement and certainly never made it to Brown or anyone at the New York Post. More from EURWeb's website:

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Furthermore, he [Dileo] contacted the article's co-writer, Stacy Brown, to complain. According to Dileo, Brown said the quote was meant to be attributed to Bob Jones.

(see FORMER MIJAC MANAGER IN NY POST STORY BY MISTAKE)

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Wow. If that is truly the case and Brown isn't simply trying to cover his a$s, that's one whopper of a mistake seeing as how Dileo was most recently seen supporting Jackson during the 2005 trial. In comparison, Jones was kicked off the Jackson gravy train, got mad and wrote a book of what some say are unsubstantiated and hateful innuendo.

EURWeb's report continues:

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Dileo told EUR: "Stacy Brown called because he wanted me to speak at the University of - somewhere up there [in NY] - and I told him I lived in Nashville and I wasn't able to do it, and that was the end of it. He said, 'How are things going,' I said, 'Fine.' We talked about our business in Nashville.

Next thing DiLeo knows, he's being quoted in the New York Post regarding Michael Jackson.