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Budapest Hospital Visits / Meeting Bela Farkas
...Yesterday Jackson, accompanied by Marie and Hungarian midget performer Misu, who claims to be the smallest man in the world, showered gifts on [article cut off] at Heim Pal Hospital for Children at the Bethesda Hospital. And he repeatedly ordered his bodyguards to bring in more toys from a huge truck parked outside.
Jackson is in Hungary to shoot a video in which he features as a freedom fighter helping to chase Soviet troops out of Eastern Europe.
Earlier, he had been spotted at an exclusive children's wear boutique on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side.
Holding up a shorts and T-shirt combination labelled for 0-six months, he asked a sales girl: "Isn't this cute?"
...[Lisa Marie] has assured mum Priscilla, 48, that her two children from her failed marriage to Danny Keough--Danielle, five, and 22-month-old Benjamin--were "over the moon" about their new dad.
...On their return from Hungary, he and Lisa will visit the grave of her dad Elvis--to ask for his blessing on their marriage.
They will slip into Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee, to pay their respects on the day he died 17 years ago on August 16.
Michael Jackson offered yesterday to pay for a desperately-ill child to have a liver transplant.
The star, in Budapest with his bride Lisa Marie Presley to make a music video, twice visited the Bethesda Hospital to hand out toys and, while he was there, he saw four-year-old Bela Farkas.
Hungary does not have the facilities to carry out liver transplants on children and cannot afford the £60,000 it would cost to have Bela treated at a hospital in Brussels, which has offered to take him.
Hospital director Tamas Diszeri said Jackson immediately became interested in Bela, who has been abandoned by his mother, and whose illness has turned him a yellow-green color.
As well as paying for the operation, Jackson, 35, offered to buy a respiratory machine for the hospital.
Lisa Marie, 26, who has two children of her own, took a shine to the abandoned child when she visited a hospital in Budapest.
She told staff: "This child is so lovely. I will give her a home and make sure she is loved."
The six-month-old baby was admitted to hospital with a stomach ailment and her single mother said she could not look after her.
Lisa Marie held the child for more than half an hour and showed her to Michael.
Yesterday, she returned to the hospital to see her again.
She changed the baby's nappy and cuddled it during a one-hour visit.
Last night, a hospital source said: "Lisa would not put the child down. She was very concerned about her welfare.
Pregnant
"The baby looked back at Lisa and was comfortable in her arms."
But doctors told the couple the baby must stay in Hungary.
Michael Jackson and his new wife Lisa Marie Presley offered to adopt an abandoned gypsy baby in Hungary, it was revealed last night.
But officials at a Budapest hospital turned them down, arguing that the child's single mum might claim her back.
Jackson, 35, and the 26-year-old Elvis heiress were so touched by the plight of the six-month-old girl that they asked to take her home to California.
A member of the hospital staff said later: "The child will stay in Hungary, it's as simple as that."
She added that when mum-of-two Lisa Marie first saw the child, "the baby clung to her for dear life. She was really reluctant to put the baby back in the cot and was clearly very moved." The baby was dumped at the hospital three weeks ago with a stomach infection. But she is expected to make a full recovery.
Jackson made the amazing offer while he was in Hungary making a promotional video to launch his new album.
