Isn’t the most pressing question about Michael Jackson who is in control of his business affairs? CNN was full of reports over the weekend of vans moving things out of Jackson’s rented LA house. Assuming that Jackson had business ownerships in the form of a trust, someone should autmatically be in charge, right?

Why haven’t we learned who it is yet?

His main business seems to be MJJ productions, which presumably would have someone running day-to-day operations, such as they were in Jackson’s wacko world.  The other major companies are Sony/ATV, the publishing outfit he owns some part of but, barring some previously unexhibited masochistic streak on the part of his partner Sony, he should have little daily operations involvement. Jackson’s own publishing company is called Mijac, which administers his own songs and those of select others he’d purchased, like Sly Stone.

If, as has been reported, the trusts are actually now in the hands of his mom, the Jehovah’s Witnesses may end up with it yet.

The Hollywood Reporter article discussing a 2002 will in the custody of attorney John Branca was vague about whether Branca was still Jackson’s legal representative; this story, however, from the National Law review, says Branca “has been Jackson’s general counsel and transactional attorney for years.”

The only trouble with that theory is … that Branca hasn’t been working for Jackson lately. The WSJ, today, however, says Branca … is back!

There were other signs that Mr. Jackson was starting to get his finances back in order. Just last week, he rehired John Branca, the high-profile Los Angeles entertainment attorney who struck many of the singer’s most lucrative business deals, including the ATV acquisition and the joint venture with Sony.

That is, if he can take time away from his baseball card collection ….