EXCLUSIVE He isn’t dead five years, but Michael Jackson is coming back to perform on TV. I’m told that Jackson will appear on the Billboard Music Awards as a dancing, singing hologram to promote his new “Xscape” album. Sources say Jackson will appear “through an amazing new technology.” The show airs on May 18th. Is it exploitation or just something cool? Or ghoul?

The technology for this “once in a lifetime event” that was referred to in a press release this morning may be coming from a Japanese company in which Sony Music is an investor. There are already hologram music videos on YouTube. There’s also been speculation that soon holograms would be used by living performers. But dead ones? The possibility of seeing Elvis and all other deceased stars is a startling one at best.

Something similar was done with Tupac Shakur as a CGI kind of hologram at the Coachella Music Festival in 2012. But as far as I know, no one’s done that on TV.

Production staff associated with the Billboard Music Awards have been sworn to absolute secrecy– and say they haven’t been told very much at all. But an insider tells me that the description of Michael as a hologram “is not wrong.”

It’s unclear whether Jackson’s hologram or technological self would perform alone or interact with someone from his new album– like Justin Timberlake. Timberlake was grafted onto a 30 year old recording of Jackson singing a Paul Anka song on the new album. I guess anything is possible.

And how will Jackson’s family feel seeing their father, son, brother back on stage?

Here’s the Tupac ‘holgram’:

OJ Simpson’s lawyer is not a fan of his client. Yale Galanter, whom Simpson has fought with since his 2008 Las Vegas imprisonment, shared his thoughts with Kim Goldman, sister of Ronald Goldman. A civil jury found Simpson responsible for the June 1994 murders of Ronald Goldman and Simpson’s ex wife Nicole Brown.

Now Kim Goldman has published a book six weeks before the 20th anniversary of those heinous crimes. She says that a few years ago she attempted to visit Simpson in prison, where he’s serving a long term not for the murders but for a heist gone wrong. She spoke to Galanter to arrange it, saying she needed “closure.”

Galanter did not mince words. “I just don’t think it’s a good idea. I don’t think you are going to get what you are looking for. Most of us think that if your family sat down with someone that has harmed you all these times— I mean, after all this time, that you would expect an empathetic and compassionate person, but you will probably get a defiant, aggressive, not nice human. I don’t think he is who you think he is.”

Galanter continued:  “Let me tell you, human to human, he’s not a warm and fuzzy guy. There is a good chance that you will be more distraught when you leave than you thought. If you are expecting to get an empathetic and emotional person on the other side of the table, you won’t get that. You know, I need to be careful, ’cause he is my client, but, Kim, he is not the affable, jovial person that the media makes him out to be. His view of the world and reality are two totally different things. He’s not a nice guy.”

Ultimately Goldman decided not to go through with it after Galanter demanded total secrecy and confidentiality about any meeting.

“Can’t Forgive: My 20 Year Battle with OJ Simpson” is published today– May 6th– by BenBella Books. Goldman could have used an editor. The book is too much about her, with very little insight about her brother. There’s also very little detail of her courtroom experiences, but lots about her personal life. (I’m sorry, but it’s not interesting.) Also, there’s nothing about the Goldmans’ interactions with Nicole Brown’s family. A missed opportunity, on many levels.

Monica Lewinsky has written an essay in the new issue of Vanity Fair. She says: “It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.” She adds: “I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.”

She does say that the affair– yes, they had sex, even though Clinton said it was otherwise– was “between two consenting adults.”

Lewinsky writes how the episode changed her life. “Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position…. The Clinton administration, the special prosecutor’s minions, the political operatives on both sides of the aisle, and the media were able to brand me. And that brand stuck, in part because it was imbued with power.”

After the scandal, Lewinsky traveled and received a Master’s Degree from the London School of Economics.

But her history was always an issue on her resume. “I was never ‘quite right’ for the position. In some cases, I was right for all the wrong reasons, as in ‘Of course, your job would require you to attend our events.’ And, of course, these would be events at which press would be in attendance.” The result is that she’s “managed to get by (barely, at times) with my own projects, usually with start-ups that I have participated in, or with loans from friends and family.”