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As we all know by now, Michael Jackson threw himself into the welcoming arms of the Kingdom of Bahrain shortly after his molestation trial acquittal, where he's been secretly rebuilding his creepy empire (and occasionally enjoying some downtime in the country's world-class water parks). It seems that recreating his former life half a world away from the land of his birth has considerably taxed his resources, as The Smoking Gun reports that Jackson has failed to insure the employees at Neverland Ranch, resulting in fines and an order from California's Division of Labor Standards Enforcement barring employees from working there, effectively shuttering the Ranch:

...in a March 7 letter, the state apprised Jackson that more than 30 workers have filed unpaid wage claims against him and that he owes those employees more than $300,000, as well as penalties in excess of $100,000. The state's demand letter contends that Jackson has been welshing on his employees since last December. Today's state "stop order" bars Jackson from "using any employee labor" until he secures required workers' compensation insurance and warns that if Jackson fails to abide by the enforced work stoppage he could be charged with a criminal misdemeanor. In addition to being fined $1000 apiece for 69 workers, Jackson is also liable for up to 10 days pay for those employees who now are no longer allowed to report to Neverland for work.

If Jackson is too cash-strapped to meet his financial obligations, hopefully he will swallow his pride and hit up his royal Bahraini hosts for a loan to cover the fines and insurance costs and get Neverland back on its feet; the chaos of an unstaffed ranch is almost too tragic to imagine. Starving hordes of llamas and chimpanzees would almost certainly escape their pens and try to devour the preteen leukemia patients Jackson told to stay put while he "ran out for some cigarettes," who are almost certainly too weak to scale the stalled Ferris wheel (no insurance, no carnies) and escape the desperate feeding frenzy of the ravenous menagerie.