Troubled "King of Pop" Michael Jackson has settled a dispute with a Los Angeles pharmacy, which claimed he owed $100,000 in unpaid bills, a spokesman for the star said in a statement.

Mickey Fine Pharmacy had filed a lawsuit in Santa Monica Superior Court, alleging breach of oral contract, saying Jackson had failed to pay for prescription drugs supplied to him since December 2005.

(China Daily 01/16/2007 page18)