Bubbles (chimpanzee)
Bubbles (* 1983 in Austin , Texas ) is a male chimpanzee , best known as the pet of pop singer Michael Jackson .
Life
Bubbles was born in 1983 in a biomedical testing laboratory in Austin. After the animal was separated from its mother, a Hollywood animal trainer bought the chimpanzee. A year later, Michael Jackson bought the chimpanzee and toured with him around the world, including Japan, for the next four years. Over time, Bubbles learned Jackson's most popular dance step, the moonwalk . He often presented this to the press.
Bubbles lived on Jackson's Neverland Ranch until the late 1990s . He was allowed to sleep in a bed, sit at a table with Jackson during meals or watch films in the in-house cinema. Jackson split from Bubbles in 2003 after the monkey became increasingly aggressive and dangerous to humans. Until 2005 he lived with his trainer in California. In March 2005 he gave it to the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula , Florida.
The chimpanzee weighs 170 pounds and can be "adopted" for a year for a price of $ 10,000. You will receive a certificate, but you will not be able to remove it from your usual area. The adoptive person is allowed to spend one night on the premises.
Bubbles in art
The American artist Jeff Koons created the life-size sculpture Michael Jackson and Bubbles from porcelain in 1988 . The unique piece was auctioned by Sotheby’s in New York in 2001 for $ 5.1 million and is owned by Eli Broad's Broad Art Foundation . The Michael Jackson and Bubbles (gold) sculpture by Paul McCarthy , which was created between 1997 and 1999, is owned by the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection .
Web links
- Bubbles in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bubbles on the Center for Great Apes website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jens Maier: What does “Bubbles” actually do? . Report on stern.de . Retrieved June 2, 2012.
- ↑ Kito Nedo: Eaten into the cultural unconscious ( memento of the original from February 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: art - the art magazine online from June 29, 2009
- ^ Rose Maria Gropp: Jeff Koons sees Michael Jackson In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung online from July 4, 2009
- ↑ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
