MICHAEL JACKSON . . . TABLOIDS BEWARE

Pop Star Michael Jackson has taken the unusually tough step of instructing his attorneys to sue any media organization reporting that someone has a videotape showing him in a sexually-compromising scene with a young boy. Several London newspapers, as well as the television tabloid "Hard Copy" reported earlier this week that one of Jackson's own security cameras captured Jackson and a 13-year-old boy in a sexual encounter on a 27-minute black-and-white video tape. Jackson has branded the stories "vicious lies and rumors." Los Angeles prosecutors say they know of no such tape, and are not looking for it.