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Police Probing Web Leak of Leona Lewis/Timberlake Track

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 19, 2009 - 9:38am.

London - International record label trade group IFPI, and "American Idol" and "X Factor" producer Simon Cowell's record label SyCo have enlisted the police to help catch a hacker who leaked an unreleased track from artists Leona Lewis and Justin Timberlake, according to published reports. "IFPI is working with SyCo and law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Europe to trace the individuals who stole the Leona Lewis/Justin Timberlake track," Jeremy Banks, head of IFPI's Internet anti-piracy unit, told Reuters.

Simon Cowell Signs Michael Jackson to British X-Factor

Authored by Scott Goldberg on October 7, 2007 - 7:00am.

Michael Jackson will make his first TV Appearance in Years on British X-Factor

ITV and Simon Cowell made a “sensational signing” by grabbing Michael Jackson for the British version of X-Factor. His first appearance will be in early December, and he will play a mentor to the show’s contestants, some of whom are as young as 14. A “huge coup both for the talent search show and ITV,” The Sun said, it will be Jackson’s first television appearance since his interview with Martin Bashir on ITV (see it here) that led to being charged with child molestation and conspiracy. He was acquitted in 2005.