MJ ESTATE & PAUL ANKA Sued Over 'This Is It'
[size=18pt]MJ ESTATE & PAUL ANKA<br />Sued Over 'This Is It'<br />For $24 MILLION[/size]<br />10/30/2012 6:30 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF <br /><br /><br /><br />A music producer claims he's owed at least $24 MILLION for his work on the Paul Anka/Michael Jackson collaboration "This Is it" -- and now, he's suing Anka and the MJ Estate for the money.<br /><br />The producer -- named Michael Jonzun -- filed the lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court, claiming he helped remake Paul and MJ's 1983 song "I Never Heard" ... into what eventually became MJ's 2009 song "This Is It."<br /><br />According to the lawsuit, Jonzun owns one-third of "This Is It" but he never got paid his share of the song's proceeds -- so he's suing.<br /><br />Paul Anka tells TMZ, he has never even heard the name Michael Jonzun before today -- and any claims Jonzun owns a portion of "This Is It" are "BS."<br /><br />
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