In the business world there’s secretive and then there’s Philip Anschutz.

The Denver-based billionaire, whom Forbes listed as the 36th richest American in 2008, is involved in everything from oil to telecommunications to Hollywood and Conservative opinion journals like the Weekly Standard, which he just bought from Rupert Murdoch for a reported $1 million.

Lately Anschutz, whose properties include Los Angeles entertainment conglomerate AEG Inc., has been heavily invested in rehabbing the distressed career of Michael Jackson,even after the singer’s death.

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