Michael's Goddaughter arrested

Michael Jacksons goddaughter, Nicole Ritchie, who is also the adopted daughter of Lionel Richie was arrested on December 11th for drink driving.

I didn't actually know until now that she was Michael's godchild.

Michael and Lionel Richie have a long history together. Both were huge stars at Mowtown records. Lionel was lead singer on the Commodores and went onto to be a huge solo artist. Most notably they wrote "We Are The World" which has raised millions of pounds for famine in Africa.

This past Saturday Lionel starred in ITV's (UK television) "Audience with Lionel Richie Live". In one question he was complemented for his work on "We Are The World" and at the same time questioned about what it was like to work with Michael Jackson. Lionel said he didn't see Michael these days since he is not in the U.S. He remembered how him and Michael planned to write the song lyrics in just a few hours and that they were sprawled on a floor in a room crammed with boxes. Lionel then saw a Python, a huge snake, and gave the impression he was out of there and thats why it ended up taking days instead of hours to write the lyrics.

LOL, now that could only be a Michael Jackson story! In those Thriller days Michael pets were well known. He had a pet snake name Muscles that was even made into a toy as part of a toy range of Michael's Pets. Not only that Muscles the snake it inspired the song he wrote for Diana Ross - "Muscles" which was a hit single for her in the 1980s.