Michael Jackson is dead.

[Hammerskjold]

Can you say hundreds of millions of dollars? Because that's what he made on the deal. Btw, http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/10457

While money is definitely a big reason, it seems it's only one of the reasons.

At least from this source anyway.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/...,0,452154.story

Or shorter version,
http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/jackson.asp

It'd be one hell of a gesture if the info in the link you put up is or will come true, since McCartney and Jackson seem to be sincerely getting along well at least from the Say Say Say video. ;) I have this hunch though that right now it sounds more like something swiped from the London tabloids rumours. Maybe it's because they use 'Macca' for Paul.

But speaking of the will. At this point at least from what I see on the news coverage. Most of the important points ie: custody of children, Jackson's estate and property etc, are laid out pretty clearly. And there's no mention of giving any of the Beatles songs catalog to Mccartney.

I'm not saying it's impossible, since supposedly there are other parts of the will that are not yet made public. But going just by the main parts of the will, the gist of it seems to be the majority of Jackson's fortunes are for his 3 children. I'm guessing the ATV\Sony Beatles catalog is probably a large part of that.