Mrs. Tigersoap said:
Ah, Pashalis! Don't get me started on Michael Jackson! :)
Personally (and that's just my opinion), I'm convinced he was a pedophile. 'Living with Michael Jackson' by Martin Bashir as well as another report (the references of which elude me at the moment, but I'll keep looking) show much damning evidence. I've read a little bit about this subject, over the years.
Here is some additional data (from the top of my head, I'll see if I can recall/find more):
- LaToya (Michael Jackson's sister) - who self-exiled from the family many years ago - said in 1993 that 'This has been going since 1981, and it's not just one child.' She claims that everyone in the family knows and that Katherine (the mother) has shown her checks made out to Michael's alleged victims' parents. She later came back on this and was subsequently re-invited to a Jackson family gathering.
- Some of the kids who claim to have been molested by Jackson gave a particular detail about Jackson's penis that turned out to be true.
- Maids have testified that to access Jackson's bedroom (where he was 'entertaining' the kids), you had to go through a system rang an alarm in Jackson's bedroom so that he knew well in advance when staff were approaching the vicinity of the bedroom.
- Staff was supposed to sort out the mail Jackson was getting. Letters from little girls were to be discarded. Jackson wanted to read the mail coming from little boys under 13 only.
- When Jackson was a young man (and already a star), he met a young boy with whom he 'became friends'. He asked the young boy if he could call him sometime. The young boy, starstruck, agreed. One night, Jackson called him and the starstruck boy recorded the conversation with his idol. In the report, you can hear that tape and it is clearly a younger Michael Jackson speaking. Jackson asks questions of a sexual nature to the kid and appears to be masturbating during the conversation.
- Jackson's grooming technique was to invite young boys over, watch a scary movie (typically 'The Exorcist') and 'because the movie was so frightening', to propose the boys to sleep in his bed. After a few times, Michael would engage in oral sex and masturbation.
- A bag with underwear (adult and young boy) was found in a part of Neverland. The underwear showed Jackson's DNA and traces of cocaine.
- Of all the people Jackson could have hired to work for him as movie directors, Jackson hired Fred Schaffel (aka Marc Schaffel/Marc Fredric(k)s). Schaffel is a gay porn producer who specializes in very young looking/teenage male actors he recruits in Eastern European countries. Schaffel worked as executive producer for Jackson's video What More Can I Give. The link between Schaffel and Jackson was denied by Jackson't lawyer. But Jackson's lawyer apparently failed to warn his own client because Jackson actually thanks Fred Schaffel in the credits of his album Invicible 'Marc Schaffel.... Thank you for all your help.... I love you.' Footages were found of kids having fun in Neverland, all of them filmed by Schaffel.
- It is not rare to hear pedophiles claim to be in love and to talk about the purity of their love, of their feelings for children, something that 'no adult can understand and that society blames because it has a dirty mind'. That's exactly what Jackson was saying.
I feel for Jackson and his traumatic life story. He was a talented artist, too.
But still, he was doing some really shady business with kids. Any man his age doing what he did (have a theme park at home, invite kids over with whom you sleep and get naked, asking a pornographer to film private videos of these kids, etc.) would be considered a pedophile. But people tend to find all sorts of excuses when it comes to celebrities (Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, R Kelly, Michel Pollack, the list goes on and on...).
