Michael Jackson Jacket Makes a Great Gift

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Dr. Angela Adelman recently got her brother an unusual gift:

Michael Jackson’s wedding jacket.

Why the lavish gift, for which she spent $65,000 at an auction in June?

“He loves Michael Jackson,” the internist said of her brother, Jason Adelman, who owns HCF Insurance in Woodland Hills. “He helped me through medical school and residency, so this is a thank-you gift.”

She didn’t stop there. She also got some items for herself, spending about $2,000 for a tongue depressor, swab and hospital gown said to be have been used by Elvis Presley during a hospital stay in the 1960s, as well as $1,000 for china from TV producer Gene Rodenberry’s estate.

It all happened at a Las Vegas celebrity auction put on by Culver City-based auctioneer Darren Julien.

The medical paraphernalia, Adelman said, is already on display at her Burbank clinic, and the china is at home.

But what of the black military-style jacket with gold buttons that was ostensibly worn by the pop star when he said his vows in 1996 to Debbie Rowe?

“It’s very cool,” Jason Adelman said. “I will either store it in my office or rent it out to the Hard Rock Café.”

Home Movie

In the hit thriller “Inception,” several flashbacks and pivotal scenes take place in a Craftsman house belonging to Leonardo DiCaprio’s character. But local attorney Brian Kabateck couldn’t quite suspend his disbelief in the movie theater.

“My wife and I were kind of snickering to each other,” he said. “You’re kind of taken away by it. We just kept saying, ‘That’s our house.’ ”

Kabateck is the managing partner of downtown L.A. law firm Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP. He has been in the headlines this year for representing the NAACP in a lawsuit against Wells Fargo and other financial institutions for alleged discriminatory lending practices, and also for filing a class-action lawsuit against the Turkish government, seeking to make it recognize the Armenian genocide and compensate its victims.

After the producers of “Inception” got wind that Kabateck’s Pasadena home, built in 1908, might be a nice fit for the movie, they came by six times to check it out. Filming began in October, and on some days up to 250 people could be found milling around his home.

Kabateck said he doesn’t really get star-struck anymore, but admitted it was “kind of cool” to meet DiCaprio and co-star Marion Cotillard.

“I remember my wife commenting on how good (Cotillard) looked in a funny way I won’t repeat,” he said. “Let’s just say she was jealous.”

Staff writers David Haldane and Alfred Lee contributed to this column. Page 3 is compiled by Editor Charles Crumpley. He can be reached at [email protected].

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