It seems that he knows a lot of people in the news these days.
Forget about the
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,
there should be a "Six Degrees of Deepak Chopra" game.
It looks like he knew Michael Jackson,
George Harrison,
Lisa Ling and Laura Ling, and many others.
I was wondering how he got to know Michael Jackson.
While at the local public library, I found a book for sale on Sleep by Deepak Chopra.
He has at least three books on the topic of sleep.
Perhaps that's how he was invited to meet Michael Jackson...I don't know.
The television audience met Deepak Chopra's son
"Gotham Chopra" on the
July 2, 2009 edition of the Larry King Show where
Larry toured Neverland with Jermaine Jackson, Gotham Chopra and Miko Brando.
KING: We continue our prime time exclusive at Neverland Ranch with Gotham Chopra, a close friend of Michael Jackson. He worked with Michael on the multi-platinum albums "Dangerous" and "History." Of course, you know his father, Deepak.
This is, obviously, not your first visit here. How does it feel to be here without him?
GOTHAM CHOPRA, MICHAEL JACKSON'S LONG TIME FRIEND: You know, I was not sure how it was going to feel. It kind of feels nice, actually, certainly not without him. But the last few years, Michael had said this had turned into a house for him. It was no longer a home. I do think there is a tranquillity back to it, now that we're celebrating him again. I think you can feel that here.
You can read the transcript from that program here:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/02/lkl.01.html
In 2005, the
Comics Journal reported that in the late 90s, Michael Jackson met with Stan Lee to discuss the possibility of a venture with Stan Lee Media to purchase Marvel Comics.
I read somewhere (can't find the link) that Gotham Chopra was involved with that.
It makes sense, since Gotham founded
Virgin Comics which later became
Liquid Comics.
Quote from article...
For once, the connection to Jackson came not through Paul's vast network but via SLM artist Aaron Sowd, who knew someone in the Jackson camp. According to Paul, "After we built SLM into a public company with a market cap almost twice Marvel's, we talked with Michael Jackson about teaming up to buy Marvel. I have a videotape of Michael in our offices for over two hours, seeing what we were doing."
