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The Case Against Michael Jackson - January 6, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

The Predator

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Boys detail lurid acts of alleged sexual abuse in sealed court,

police, grand jury records

JANUARY 6--While jury selection is

scheduled to begin later this month, specific JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
details of the criminal molestation case against victory for Michael Jackson, a
Michael Jackson have been shrouded through a California jury today acquitted the
judicial gag order, heavily redacted legal singer of charges that he molested a
filings, sealed court proceedings, and other teenage cancer survivor and conspired
secrecy measures. But now, for the first time, to falsely imprison the boy and his
The Smoking Gun has compiled an family at his sprawling Neverland
authoritative, behind-the-scenes account of the Ranch estate.
prosecution's case against the King of Pop,
who was indicted last April on ten felony Full Story »
counts for the alleged sexual abuse of a Los Angeles boy in early 2003. This story
(and the ones linked at right) are based on a review of confidential law enforcement
and government reports, grand jury testimony, and sealed court records provided to
TSG by sources.
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If the harrowing and deeply disturbing allegations in these documents are true,
Jackson is a textbook pedophile, a 46-year-old predator who plied children with
wine, vodka, tequila, Jim Beam whiskey, and Bacardi rum. A man who gave boys MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
nicknames like Doo Doo Head and Blowhole and then quizzed them about whether crucial defense witness in the Michael
they masturbated and if "white stuff" came out. A man who conducted drinking Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
games with minors and surfed porn with them on a laptop in his Neverland Ranch today fired a blank on the witness
bedroom, noting that if anyone asked what they were looking at, the kids should just stand, testifying that he was never
say they were watching "The Simpsons." A man who frequently talked sex with his asked for money when contacted five
little companions and explained that "boys have to masturbate or they go crazy." A years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
man who told one pajama-clad boy that he wanted to show him how to "jack off." at the center of the current child
When the tipsy child declined the demonstration, Jackson announced, "I'll do it for molestation prosecution.
you," and buried his hand in the boy's Hanes briefs, size small. And a man who
emphasized to his little friends that these activities were "their little secret" and Full Story »
should not be disclosed to anyone, even if a gun was at their head.

The heart of the Jackson prosecution rests largely on

accounts provided to investigators by the teenage boy, his
younger brother, older sister, and the children's mother (at MAY 11--Ending months of
the time of the alleged molestation, the victim, who had speculation and anticipation,
been diagnosed with a rare cancer in 2000, was 13, his Macaulay Culkin took the witness
brother was 12, and their sister was 16). In the documents stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
reviewed by TSG, the brothers appear a potent one-two morning and forcefully denied that the
punch of first-hand accounts of alleged Jackson misdeeds. entertainer ever molested him, terming
They corroborated many of each other's lurid stories, those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
providing the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department and
District Attorney Thomas Sneddon with a stereophonic Full Story »
sleaze compendium.

While their sister did not witness any sexual abuse--nor was she ever invited to stay
in Jackson's bedroom--she told investigators that the entertainer provided her and her
brothers with wine at Neverland and also said that her siblings each confided in her APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
about Jackson's explicit sex talk. The older boy, she said, told her that Jackson gave Michael Jackson case couldn't
them tequila and Skyy vodka and asked her not to tell their parents about his possibly get any sleazier, things have
drinking (Jackson, the boys reported, often concealed the pair's wine (a/k/a "Jesus now officially hit the slippery slope.
Juice") in cans of Diet Coke and Sprite). In addition, she told detectives that the Literally. In a legal motion released
older boy said Jackson would touch his behind outside his clothes, something that late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
made her brother feel uncomfortable. that they are seeking to present jurors
with testimony from a former
employee that involves a jar of
According to the documents, the children's
Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
mother is a critical witness to the alleged
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conspiracy to imprison her family at Neverland and a teenage boy in the singer's
in the wake of the February 2003 broadcast of bedroom.
"Living with Michael Jackson," the devastating
Martin Bashir documentary. It was during that Full Story »
program that Jackson admitted--and strongly
defended--sleeping with boys. At one point in
the documentary--which first aired in England
on February 3 and then in the U.S. three days
later--the performer is seen with the 13-year- APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
old accuser, who rests his head on Jackson's shoulder and talks glowingly about the that Michael Jackson sexually
singer. The woman contends that Jackson and several business associates began molested Macaulay Culkin and
illegally scheming to keep her family caged up at Neverland the day after the Bashir screened X-rated movies for other
documentary aired on Great Britain's ITV. boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
prosecutors are expected to soon call
Though Jackson is the only person charged in connection with this purported plot, as a government witness a Los
five of his business associates were identified as unindicted co-conspirators in the Angeles man who has described
performer's heavily redacted April 2004 indictment. Aides Frank Tyson and Vincent himself as the "master authority" on
Amen, business managers Dieter Wiesner and Ronald Konitzer, and video producer Internet porn.
Marc Schaffel are accused of helping Jackson orchestrate the conspiracy, which
included plans to ship the family off for safekeeping in Brazil. Family members Full Story »
were repeatedly told by the Jackson camp that the foreign move was necessary
because numerous death threats had been directed at the family, according to
investigative records.

MARCH 28--In a significant legal

In a bid to buttress the conspiracy claim, prosecutors elicited grand jury testimony
setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
from several Jackson associates, most of whom dealt with the family post-Bashir.
ruled today that Santa Barbara
Those witnesses included Neverland employees like security chief Jesus Salas,
prosecutors can present jurors with
guards Christopher Carter and Brian Barron, public relations aide Ann Gabriel, and
evidence that the performer previously
Schaffel cohort Christian Robinson, who testified with limited "use immunity" about
molested five young boys.
the filming of the family's so-called rebuttal statement, a videotape they later told
detectives they were strong-armed into making.
Full Story »
Also, as they did during last year's grand jury presentment, prosecutors will display
items seized from Jackson's ranch during a November 2003 court-authorized raid.
Agents went in searching for pornography, underwear, and any material--photos,
correspondence, etc.--further linking Jackson to the alleged victim. They left with
more than they could have expected, netting items corroborative of the accounts
provided to them by the two boys.

The children's 36-year-old mother is, of course, a principal

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target of the Jackson defense team, which views her as a

scheming grifter who has fabricated the abuse accounts,
programmed these tawdry tales of masturbation and soiled
MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's
underwear into her children, and, despite assertions that she
former bodyguard, expected to be a
is not chasing money, is expecting some kind of future
key witness in the singer's child
financial windfall. The confidential law enforcement
molestation case, was arrested in Las
records also document how the family's story changed
Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
shortly after the mother hired legal counsel in mid-2003.
and kidnapping charges.
Until that point, the family had vehemently denied any
improprieties by Jackson in interviews with Los Angeles
child welfare officials and Santa Barbara Sheriff's deputies. And they sang Jackson's Full Story »
praises in the rebuttal videotape shot by Schaffel's film crew two weeks after the
Bashir documentary aired on ABC's "20/20." In addition, Jackson's lawyers have
pointed out that, according to Sneddon, the alleged conspiracy to silence the family
began more than two weeks before the first molestation incident is alleged to have
MARCH 15--Michael Jackson
occurred. The cover-up, Team Jackson argues, began before any crimes occurred.
"doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
He's really just this regressed 10-year-
NEXT PAGE → old." That was the surprising
evaluation offered to police by Dr.
Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
psychologist who interviewed the
singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
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testify as a government witness at
Jackson's molestation trial.

Full Story »

MARCH 7--With their sister already

struggling on the witness stand, the
Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
the molestation case against Michael
Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
with their anticipated testimony
appearing more crucial than ever.

Full Story »
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FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be

reporting live from the Santa Maria
courthouse with up-to-the-minute
accounts of opening statements
delivered by Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.

Full Report »

FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles

boy who has accused Michael Jackson
of molestation told investigators that
the singer was a naif when it came to
"the birds and the bees," claiming that
his alleged abuser "didn't know much.
I knew more than he did."

Full Story »

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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children's accounts of their troubling

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Predator

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continued

In mid-November 2003, investigators drafted a lengthy and

remarkably thorough affidavit in support of their court
request to raid Neverland, the Beverly Hills office of
Bradley Miller, a private investigator working for Jackson JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
attorney Mark Geragos, and the L.A. home where victory for Michael Jackson, a
Jackson's accusers filmed their rebuttal videotape. Noting California jury today acquitted the
that Jackson's "three-year long interest" in the adolescent singer of charges that he molested a
victim was "grossly abnormal" and, in itself, corroborative teenage cancer survivor and conspired
of the family's story, Detective Paul Zelis concluded that to falsely imprison the boy and his
criminal probers had established "reasonable probable family at his sprawling Neverland
cause" to "believe Michael Joe Jackson is a pedophile and Ranch estate.
one with the means to inhibit disclosure of his offenses by
bribery and intimidation."
Full Story »

What follows is an inside account of how investigators came to that conclusion.

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After being diagnosed with cancer in 2000, the gravely ill boy, then only ten, told
his family that he would like to meet one of his favorite entertainers, specifically
naming Michael Jackson and comedians Adam Sandler, Chris Tucker, and Jim MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
Carrey. crucial defense witness in the Michael
Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
That kind of Make-a-Wish request was something Jackson today fired a blank on the witness
had often fulfilled and he soon contacted the child by stand, testifying that he was never
phone in a Los Angeles hospital. In short order, the pair--a asked for money when contacted five
world-famous entertainer and a grade schooler from East L. years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
A. --became phone pals while the child remained at the center of the current child
hospitalized. Upon the boy's discharge, Jackson invited molestation prosecution.
him and his family to visit Neverland in August 2000.
Jackson sent a car to pick up the family in L.A. and later Full Story »
presented the boy with an Apple laptop. During that initial
visit, the mother told detectives, she met Tyson, who was
introduced as a longtime friend of Jackson's and who told
her he handled "damage control" for the entertainer. The
24-year-old Tyson, whose actual surname is Cascio, is a scrawny New Jersey native MAY 11--Ending months of
who, the alleged victim and his family claimed, repeatedly threatened their lives speculation and anticipation,
during their 2003 imprisonment at Neverland. The children returned to Neverland Macaulay Culkin took the witness
later that year, accompanied only by their father David, according to police stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
interviews. Around this time, Jackson gave the family a white Ford Bronco, which morning and forcefully denied that the
they used to transport the sick child to medical appointments. entertainer ever molested him, terming
those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
Asked by investigators what transpired during those first two Neverland trips, the
brothers recounted two unsettling incidents, though neither could pinpoint during Full Story »
which visit they occurred.

The younger boy, 9 at the time, said that while he and his brother were riding in a
golf cart with Jackson, the star asked them, "What's your favorite curse word?" The APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
child also recalled being in Jackson's bedroom along with his brother, Tyson, Michael Jackson case couldn't
Jackson, and the performer's son, Prince Michael, who was 3 at the time. Tyson, the possibly get any sleazier, things have
younger boy told investigators, connected his brother's laptop to the Internet, "and now officially hit the slippery slope.
Michael started searching for pornographic web sites," according to the Zelis search Literally. In a legal motion released
warrant affidavit. The child said Jackson typed in either www.pussy.com or www. late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
teenpussy.com and he and his brother saw photos of "naked ladies." The boy that they are seeking to present jurors
"described seeing a female holding her shirt up and exposing her breasts and with testimony from a former
Michael commented, 'Got Milk?'" The boy said that Jackson's son was sleeping employee that involves a jar of
nearby and the entertainer "told Prince he was 'missing out.'" The older brother gave Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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investigators a similar account of the web surfing, adding that Jackson told him not and a teenage boy in the singer's
to tell his parents what they were doing. When the younger brother told his sister bedroom.
about the naked photos, the older boy "told her not to say anything because Michael
would get mad. [He] told her everything is secret and that they can't say anything," Full Story »
according to Zelis.

The girl told detectives that she was mostly excluded from joining her brothers when
they were with Jackson at Neverland, and that days would go by without her seeing
them. She was a decidedly third wheel and did not rate a Jackson nickname nor a APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
sleepover invitation. She bunked with her parents in a separate guest house while her that Michael Jackson sexually
brothers stayed in Jackson's bedroom during those initial visits (the boys slept on the molested Macaulay Culkin and
bed while Jackson and Tyson crashed on the floor in sleeping bags). In fact, during screened X-rated movies for other
the early Neverland trips, the younger brother also apparently did not figure in boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
Jackson's plans. In one interview, the older child said Jackson wanted only him to prosecutors are expected to soon call
stay in the bedroom, but the boy insisted that his sibling be allowed to stay as well. as a government witness a Los
Angeles man who has described
Girls as second-class citizens is a well-established fact at Neverland. In fact, when himself as the "master authority" on
agents raided the Los Olivos, California ranch in November 2003, they found a Internet porn.
handwritten letter from a girl named Renia in a black leather case in Jackson's
bedroom. A search warrant return reviewed by TSG notes that the missive Full Story »
"discusses boys sleeping with subject. She was not allowed into 'Apple Head Club'
because she was a girl." That description of evidence item #361 was one of more
than 40 entries wholly or partially redacted from a Neverland search warrant
inventory released last year.
MARCH 28--In a significant legal
setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
Click here to learn what else--porn, videos, erotic books--was found in Jackson's
ruled today that Santa Barbara
bedroom and bathroom prosecutors can present jurors with
evidence that the performer previously
The older brother saw Jackson once more in 2000, around Christmas, when he spent molested five young boys.
time with the performer and his two children at the Hilton hotel near Universal
Studios in Hollywood. Jackson and the kids watched a movie while lying in bed and Full Story »
"talked, hung out, and wrestled around," the boy told detectives. The child's mother
said Jackson gave the boy a Nintendo or PlayStation unit and video games, but did
not give his siblings any presents.

While Jackson and the boy spoke for hours at a time on the phone, there were no
Neverland visits in 2001 because the child was undergoing progressive
chemotherapy for cancer and was too sick to travel. The disease, now reportedly in
remission, cost the boy a kidney and his spleen.

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The boy's mother said that, during 2001, she complained to Jackson about the length
of his telephone chats with her son--and that Jackson was upset with her criticism.
Asked by investigators about her recollections of those calls, she said that her son MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's
mentioned things that struck her as "peculiar." For instance, Jackson's favorite color former bodyguard, expected to be a
was the same as her son's favorite color. And "whatever [her son] liked, Michael key witness in the singer's child
liked as well." Her after-the-fact inference was clear: the adult Jackson was carefully molestation case, was arrested in Las
cultivating her son. The woman added that soon after Jackson learned that the boy Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
was sharing details of their phone calls with her, the boy began clamming up about and kidnapping charges.
the chats.
Full Story »
Investigators contend that these "endless phone
conversations" and other "extravagant attention" paid to the
boy by Jackson mirrors the story told to authorities ten
years ago by Jordan Chandler, another 13-year-old boy
who once "caught the eye of Michael Jackson." The MARCH 15--Michael Jackson
criminal investigation of Chandler's abuse allegations was "doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
stymied when the boy's family entered into a $20 million He's really just this regressed 10-year-
civil settlement with the pop star and declined to further old." That was the surprising
pursue criminal charges against Jackson. Sneddon recently evaluation offered to police by Dr.
announced that he will seek to introduce evidence gathered Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
from the Chandler investigation and a second early-90s psychologist who interviewed the
probe to establish that Jackson engaged in prior acts of singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
molestation. The original probe still casts such a shadow brother--and who is expected to soon
over Jackson that when Schaffel's Calabasas home was raided last January, deputies testify as a government witness at
actually discovered a file folder titled "Chandler Statement." Inside was a printout Jackson's molestation trial.
from TSG of a sworn declaration by the boy, which we first posted in February
2003. Full Story »

Click here for new revelations about the Chandler case, including Jackson's telltale
body "splotches" and how Sneddon & Co.'s candid camera reportedly corroborated
the teenager's tale.
MARCH 7--With their sister already
struggling on the witness stand, the
***
Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
the molestation case against Michael
While they often provided investigators with very specific accounts of Jackson's Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
wrongdoing, the boy and his family are uniformly hazy when it comes to exact dates with their anticipated testimony
and times of these alleged transgressions, which could tend to undermine aspects of appearing more crucial than ever.
their expected future testimony. The accusers, who were interviewed separately by
Santa Barbara Sheriff's detectives, said that they did not compare notes about their
Full Story »
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individual accounts. However, both boys and the children's mother explained away
their temporal deficiencies almost identically: the trio claimed that since there were
no clocks or calendars at Neverland, they simply lost track of dates. The younger
boy claimed that Jackson kept him and his brother away from "clocks and dates."
FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be
The older brother told investigators that he was "not allowed" to keep track of dates
reporting live from the Santa Maria
and times while at the entertainer's ranch.
courthouse with up-to-the-minute
accounts of opening statements
NEXT PAGE → delivered by Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.

Full Report »
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FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles

Full Story »

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Predator

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continued

Forgetting for a moment that no family

member apparently owned a wristwatch, their
description of Neverland sounds more like a
hermetically sealed Vegas casino floor. It is JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
even stranger considering that a centerpiece of victory for Michael Jackson, a
Jackson's estate is a gigantic outdoor clock California jury today acquitted the
built into a berm facing Neverland's main singer of charges that he molested a
house, where the boys stayed. On the working teenage cancer survivor and conspired
clock's face, numbers are formed by flowers to falsely imprison the boy and his
and shrubs and the word "Neverland" is family at his sprawling Neverland
spelled out in neat yellow shrubbery. In fact, Ranch estate.
the clock is so large that the time is easily
discernible in aerial photographs of Jackson's
Full Story »
residence. In addition, Jackson actually gave the older boy a watch in early-February
2003, right before the family's supposed imprisonment began. Jackson provided the
Rado timepiece, the boy claimed, to keep him from telling anyone that he had been
given white wine (concealed in a Diet Coke can) by the entertainer. While actually

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valued at a fraction of the $75,000 Jackson claimed it was worth, the watch likely
did tell time (and probably even had one of those revolutionary new date features).
MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
Chipping away at contradictions, memory lapses, and inconsistencies in the accounts crucial defense witness in the Michael
of family members--especially the brothers--will be a crucial part of the Jackson Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
defense. For instance, the boys both said that they saw Jackson nude on one today fired a blank on the witness
occasion while watching television in the star's Neverland bedroom. But while the stand, testifying that he was never
older child told a psychologist that Jackson "just stood there naked for a moment," asked for money when contacted five
his sibling provided detectives with a far more damaging account. The younger years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
brother said that when they saw Jackson naked (except for a pair of socks), they at the center of the current child
quickly looked away. The boy then said Jackson sat down with them and said, "It's molestation prosecution.
okay, it's okay. You guys should do the same." He then claimed that Jackson's penis
was erect during the incident, but told investigators that he could not provide a
Full Story »
description because he "only glanced at it." But, motioning with his hands, the child
was able to offer an approximation of its length.

The younger boy also claimed that, during an early visit to Neverland, he was
groped by Jackson while the two were in a golf cart. The child, who said he was MAY 11--Ending months of
driving at the time, told investigators that Jackson reached over with his left hand speculation and anticipation,
and touched his "testicles and penis" over his clothes. According to the boy, he Macaulay Culkin took the witness
continued driving and said nothing to Jackson. In a July 2003 interview with stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
detectives, the child also claimed that, on one occasion, Jackson wanted to give him morning and forcefully denied that the
and his brother sleeping pills, directing the younger boy to get the drugs from a entertainer ever molested him, terming
Neverland chef. However, according to an investigative report, "somehow the those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
subject changed and the pills were forgotten." The child, though, kept the "sleeping
pill" and later turned it over to his family's civil attorney. A subsequent government Full Story »
analysis of the pill showed it to be an over-the-counter cold capsule.

The younger boy's accounts of his family's experiences with Jackson and the star's
aides, are notable for their detail and the child's uncanny ability to directly quote
Jackson, as he did when describing how, during a flight from Miami, the singer APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
made crank calls from the plane, asking those who answered the phone, "Does your Michael Jackson case couldn't
pussy stink?" His exact recollection of which porno urls were surfed from Jackson's possibly get any sleazier, things have
bedroom--not to mention the star's "Got Milk?" quip--is striking (and probably seen now officially hit the slippery slope.
as incredible by defense lawyers). Literally. In a legal motion released
late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
While some of the youngster's tales can't be corroborated, the child provided that they are seeking to present jurors
investigators with a spot-on description of Jackson's two-level bedroom, recalled the with testimony from a former
four-digit code for the suite's combination lock, and pinpointed for detectives the employee that involves a jar of
location of a black suitcase that, he said, held porno magazines like Playboy and Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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Hustler. When Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department deputies raided Neverland in and a teenage boy in the singer's
November 2003, they found a black Samsonite briefcase containing several porno bedroom.
magazines in a closet directly below Jackson's bedroom.
Full Story »
Of course, the child's accounts (and those of his older brother) have been deemed
credible enough by Superior Court judges who have signed off on search warrants
and Jackson's arrest warrant, which relied largely on the pair's statements to law
enforcement officers. Additionally, a Santa Barbara county grand jury indicted the
singer on serious felony charges, most of which hinge entirely on the pair's sworn APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
testimony. that Michael Jackson sexually
molested Macaulay Culkin and
The nature of those charges--and the timeframe in which they are alleged to have screened X-rated movies for other
occurred--has shifted since prosecutors first filed charges against Jackson. A boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
December 2003 criminal complaint accused the performer of committing seven prosecutors are expected to soon call
separate lewd acts upon the body of the older boy. Jackson was also hit with as a government witness a Los
separate felonies for allegedly providing the child with booze on two occasions. Angeles man who has described
Those counts tracked with charges the brothers made in police interviews in July and himself as the "master authority" on
August 2003 (the boys met with detectives at an L.A. hotel and at the headquarters Internet porn.
of CALM, a Santa Barbara child abuse prevention group).
Full Story »
During those sessions, the older boy answered general
questions about school and his favorite sports. He provided
a chronological account of his relationship with Jackson,
which mirrored his brother's claims of viewing
MARCH 28--In a significant legal
pornography and drinking wine at Neverland. When Sgt.
setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
Steve Robel asked him if Jackson had ever touched him
ruled today that Santa Barbara
inappropriately, the child' s demeanor changed, he "sighed,
prosecutors can present jurors with
became quiet, lowered his head, and took some time to
evidence that the performer previously
answer," according to one sealed affidavit. The boy then
molested five young boys.
described what he said was his first sexual encounter with
Jackson in the celebrity's bedroom.
Full Story »

After drinking alcohol that left him feeling "kinda drunk," the child said Jackson told
him that boys have to masturbate or they go crazy, and related a story about a boy
who had sex with a dog. Jackson, he said, then told him he wanted to show him how
to masturbate. "He told Michael, 'No,' but Michael said, 'I'll do it for you' and 'I'll
show you,'" according to the affidavit, which continued, "Michael then grabbed him
in his private area. [The boy] said that both he and Michael were wearing pajamas
and lying on Michael's bed. Michael placed his hand down the front of [the boy's]
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pajamas and started masturbating him. [The boy] said he told Michael he didn't want
to do it, but Michael kept masturbating him. Michael told him, 'It's okay' and 'It's
natural.' Michael did not stop masturbating him for a long time. [The boy] added that
MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's
Michael asked him, 'If you masturbate, does white stuff come out?' [The boy] could
former bodyguard, expected to be a
not recall if he ejaculated." The child said the molestation occurred during his final
key witness in the singer's child
stay at Neverland, between mid-February and early-March 2003, when, following
molestation case, was arrested in Las
the broadcast of the Bashir documentary, his family members were supposedly
Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
being held against their will at the California ranch.
and kidnapping charges.
The boy told investigators that Jackson similarly
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masturbated him on succeeding nights when his younger
brother was not also sleeping in Jackson's bedroom. The
boy claimed that after he ejaculated in his pants, Jackson
directed him to place his soiled underwear into Jackson's
hamper before showering. The Hanes garments were not MARCH 15--Michael Jackson
returned, he reported, and Jackson provided him with new "doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
underwear. When sheriff's deputies raided Neverland in He's really just this regressed 10-year-
November 2003, a search warrant authorized them to seize old." That was the surprising
underwear belonging to the alleged victim, "described as white cotton 'Hanes' brand evaluation offered to police by Dr.
briefs, size 'small.'" A nine-page inventory of items seized from Jackson's home-- Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
which TSG has reviewed--reveals that agents confiscated white boys Hanes psychologist who interviewed the
underwear from the bathroom of Paris Jackson, the entertainer's six-year-old singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
daughter. brother--and who is expected to soon
testify as a government witness at
According to the teenager, he did not masturbate Jackson, nor did he see the Jackson's molestation trial.
entertainer's penis during these alleged Neverland encounters.
Full Story »
During the course of an August 2003 police interview, the boy alternately said that
Jackson molested him "less than five times," "a total of five times," and "about
seven times," according to a law enforcement account of the Q&A. Based on the
December 2003 criminal complaint, it appears prosecutors settled on five as the
number of times Jackson masturbated the child. However, when Jackson's MARCH 7--With their sister already
indictment was unsealed four months later, the number of molestations claimed by struggling on the witness stand, the
the child had been reduced to two. The prosecution's tailoring of its case with regard Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
to these alleged masturbations has not been addressed in court filings made public, the molestation case against Michael
though it will surely be raised at trial by Jackson's defense team. Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
with their anticipated testimony
What has not changed between the criminal complaint and the indictment is the appearing more crucial than ever.
number of separate incidents of molestations that the younger boy said he witnessed
in Jackson's bedroom. In police interviews and grand jury testimony, the younger Full Story »
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boy told of two instances in which his brother was fondled by Jackson while the
older child was either asleep or drunkenly passed out on the entertainer's bed.
According to the boy, he was walking up a staircase leading to Jackson's bedroom
when he saw the singer and his pajama-clad brother lying on the bed on top of the
FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be
sheets. Jackson, he said, was wearing a t-shirt, underwear, and socks, and had his
reporting live from the Santa Maria
left hand under the front of his bother's pajama pants. Jackson, the boy said, was
courthouse with up-to-the-minute
"jacking off" under his underwear with his right hand. The child said he then left the
accounts of opening statements
room to sleep in Neverland's guest quarters. On a second occasion, the child
delivered by Santa Barbara District
testified, he was again walking up the staircase when he spotted Jackson with his
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
hand in the older boy's pajama pants. This time, however, Jackson had his "hard"
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.
penis out of his underwear and was "stroking it," according to the younger sibling's
account. The child said that he again left the bedroom and went to a guest suite. He
told investigators that his stairway presence went undetected by Jackson during the Full Report »
two incidents.

On another occasion, the younger brother said he was half-asleep in a chair next to
Jackson's bed--where his brother was asleep on his side--when the entertainer came FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles
into the room and got into bed with the older boy. According to the younger child's boy who has accused Michael Jackson
account, he watched Jackson "scoot up" to his brother and begin "moving his hips of molestation told investigators that
back to front" against the backside of the sleeping youngster, who was in pajamas. the singer was a naif when it came to
Jackson, the boy said, was wearing underwear. The younger boy, who told "the birds and the bees," claiming that
investigators he believed Jackson thought he was asleep, said he then pretended to his alleged abuser "didn't know much.
wake and "Michael quickly moved away from [his brother] and pretended to be I knew more than he did."
asleep," according to an investigative report.
Full Story »
Last month, when Neverland was searched for a second time, investigators took
measurements of Jackson's bedroom and are expected to use those recorded specs
(and perhaps even a model of the chamber) to help establish for jurors that a clear
sightline existed between the bed and the younger boy's stairway observation post.
FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual
The Jackson indictment includes a single felony count alleging that the star molestation case against Michael
attempted to have the teenage victim perform a lewd act upon the performer's body. Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
That charge apparently stems from the child's statement that Jackson once made him highly detailed accounts provided by
touch the star's "private part" over his clothes. However, as with many of the the alleged teenage victim and his
family's allegations, there could be room for defense counsel to question this claim. younger brother, a Santa Barbara
During the same August 2003 police interview in which he mentioned touching grand jury last year heard testimony
Jackson, the boy contradicted himself. According to an investigative report, "[The from other key witnesses--several of
boy] believes Michael asked him something about touching Michael, but he told whom worked closely with the
Michael he didn't want to." When asked about his prior statement that Jackson made embattled singer--that appears to
him touch him, the young accuser said he "couldn't remember that." Those corroborate many key aspects of the
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conflicting accounts, though, were apparently reconciled enough for grand jurors, children's accounts of their troubling
who voted to indict Jackson on the attempted charge. relationship with Jackson.

*** Full Story »

The path to prosecution began in September 2002, when Bashir filmed Jackson
holding hands and snuggling at Neverland with the alleged victim. According to the
boy's mother, she got a message that month from Jackson's longtime personal
assistant, Evelyn Tavasci, who said that the entertainer wanted to talk with her son. FEBRUARY 17--In addition to
Shortly thereafter, Jackson spoke by telephone with the boy and invited him and his valuable items of evidence seized
siblings to the ranch, the mother told investigators. In a July 2003 interview, the boy from Michael Jackson's Neverland
told detectives that Jackson told him to say on camera how he had been helped by Ranch, investigators also hit major
the star. The child added, according to a police report, "Michael told him he would paydirt while executing search
put him in the movies and that this was [the boy]'s audition." warrants at the home of a business
associate of the singer and the Beverly
Hills office of a private investigator
As his two siblings looked on, the boy lavishly praised Jackson for Bashir's camera.
working for Jackson, according to
With his head sometimes resting on Jackson's shoulder, the youngster called his
sealed court records reviewed by TSG.
adult friend a "child at heart," one who helped him beat cancer. The child told Bashir
how Jackson once rejected the boy's suggestion that he sleep on the floor of
Jackson's bedroom, saying, "Look, if you love me, you'll sleep in the bed." At one Full Story »
point, Jackson referred to his telephone chats with the child: "Sometimes I call your
house so late. But you tell me to call, you tell me to call late." The child told Bashir
that his mother was "very, very, very happy" that he spent time Neverland, though
he added,"I wasn't really with my parents. I was mainly with Michael." Jackson
FEBRUARY 17--During a November
would also famously tell Bashir, "Why can't you share you bed? That's the most
2003 press conference called to
loving thing to do is share your bed with someone."
announce criminal charges against
Michael Jackson, Santa Barbara
The repercussions of those Jackson admissions to Bashir would not be felt for five investigators were asked about the
months, but they would prove cataclysmic. prospect of additional victims besides
the Los Angeles boy who had accused
Almost instantly, upon the February 3, 2003 ITV broadcast of "Living with Michael the entertainer of molestation. Sheriff
Jackson," there was a public outcry over the performer's acknowledgment that he Jim Anderson replied, "Yes, there is
was still sharing his bed with boys to whom he was not related. By the time the that possibility and we would
documentary aired in the U.S. on February 6, hundreds of television and print stories encourage the public to come forward
about Jackson's cavorting with minor boys were published, with many of the reports if they have any information" about
referring to the singer's previous $20 million settlement with a Los Angeles boy who similar sexual assaults.
accused him of sexual abuse (the 13 year-old's allegations were widely reported after
TSG, on February 6, posted his graphic sworn legal declaration). Full Story »

According to prosecutors, at the time of the Bashir broadcast--nearly three years

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2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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It was during the family's 2-1/2 days in Miami that Jackson first
provided the older boy with wine, according to investigative
reports. The child told detectives that Jackson emptied a Diet
Coke can, filled it with red wine, and told the boy to "just drink JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
it," claiming the alcohol would relax him. The child reported victory for Michael Jackson, a
consuming the wine, which he said gave him a headache. The California jury today acquitted the
boy's brother told probers that his sibling was acting strange in singer of charges that he molested a
Miami, and confided that Jackson provided him with wine. In teenage cancer survivor and conspired
addition, the youngster told detectives that his brother would to falsely imprison the boy and his
often meet with the recording star in the suite's bathroom. When family at his sprawling Neverland
he asked what they were doing in there, the older brother replied Ranch estate.
that the pair was "just talking."
Full Story »
The day after the February 6 U.S. broadcast, the family flew back to Neverland on
Jackson's plane along with the singer, his two young children, a pair of nannies, and
his personal physician, Dr. Alimorad Farshchian. During the flight, Jackson gave the
younger brother a can of Diet Coke containing red wine, which the boy told
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investigators "tasted like rubbing alcohol." The child remarked that Jackson was
"acting funny" on the flight, "poking others in the butt with his foot" and passing the
time by placing obscene crank calls.
MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
crucial defense witness in the Michael
The younger boy also said that when his brother fell asleep with his head on Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
Jackson's chest, he saw the performer licking the top of his sibling's head. In an today fired a blank on the witness
interview with investigators, the boy "physically showed us Michael's action by stand, testifying that he was never
sticking his tongue out and moving his head, much like a cat would do when asked for money when contacted five
grooming," according to one investigative affidavit. The children's mother said that years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
she, too, saw the alleged licking. At one point she got up to use the restroom and at the center of the current child
noticed that everyone else onboard was asleep. That's when she spotted Jackson molestation prosecution.
tonguing her child. As she recounted this episode during her first interview with
detectives--on July 6, 2003 at Santa Barbara sheriff's headquarters--the woman
Full Story »
became "emotionally upset," explaining that she "thought at the moment that she
was seeing things," according to a police account of her questioning. However, she
confirmed the licking episode was no mirage when later comparing notes with her
younger son.
MAY 11--Ending months of
Asked if she saw anything else on the plane from Miami, the woman "mentioned speculation and anticipation,
seeing soda pop drinks," according to investigators. This seems like a particularly Macaulay Culkin took the witness
strange observation, considering that, even on a private jet, a Diet Coke can is as stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
remarkable as a bag of peanuts or bottled water. For prosecutors, however, her morning and forcefully denied that the
account is just another fortuitous example of one family member neatly entertainer ever molested him, terming
corroborating another's story. those claims "absolutely ridiculous."

The woman, who did nothing while her son was supposedly being licked, was Full Story »
equally hesitant to act when--after the family "escaped" from Neverland in mid-
March--her boys told her about some of Jackson's more objectionable behavior
(though not the alleged molestation). She told investigators that her initial response
was to interrupt them and advise the children to "forgive and forget." She thought
she was doing the right thing, the woman told detectives, adding that she APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
subsequently learned that "this was wrong of her to do." A law enforcement affidavit Michael Jackson case couldn't
reviewed by TSG does not disclose who or what triggered her tardy parental possibly get any sleazier, things have
epiphany. Upon first learning of Jackson's questionable--and quite likely criminal-- now officially hit the slippery slope.
behavior, the woman wanted her boys to "make the disclosures to a priest or Literally. In a legal motion released
someone else," reported investigators. late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
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*** with testimony from a former
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In his November 2003 Neverland search Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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warrant application, Detective Paul Zelis stated and a teenage boy in the singer's
that the family was held "virtual prisoners" bedroom.
upon their return with Jackson from Miami.
Apart from the lush grounds, maid service, Full Story »
chef-prepared meals, furloughs, lax captors,
and the amusement park outside their front
door, the family's month-long Neverland stay
was just like any stretch at San Quentin or
Pelican Bay. Oh, and when the estate's security APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
manager agreed--in the middle of their that Michael Jackson sexually
imprisonment--to drive the entire family back to its Los Angeles home, their two- molested Macaulay Culkin and
hour repatriation south on the 101 Freeway was a comfortable one. Security boss screened X-rated movies for other
Jesus Salas chauffeured them home in a black Rolls Royce, which is far cozier than boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
a Spartan bus (though Greyhound apparently doesn't operate a Los Olivos-Los prosecutors are expected to soon call
Angeles route). as a government witness a Los
Angeles man who has described
The family told investigators and grand jurors that their repeated requests to leave himself as the "master authority" on
the ranch were rejected by Jackson's unindicted co-conspirators--Tyson, Amen, Internet porn.
Konitzer, and Wiesner--all of whom warned that the children would not be allowed
to leave Neverland unless they agreed to their participation in the filming of a Full Story »
videotaped rebuttal to the Bashir documentary. The mother told investigators that
her phone calls were monitored and she was kept apart from her boys. When
Wiesner insisted that the family could not leave due to the supposed death threats,
the woman did not argue with him because, she told investigators, she feared
Jackson's manager would harm her. She quoted Konitzer as saying that if she went MARCH 28--In a significant legal
to the police or spoke with anyone, he would "make the kids disappear." Her older setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
son claimed that Tyson warned him at one point, "I could have your mother killed." ruled today that Santa Barbara
The child told detectives that he believed threats like that to be credible "because prosecutors can present jurors with
Michael Jackson is a billionaire." Though he did acknowledge never being evidence that the performer previously
threatened by Jackson himself. molested five young boys.

Santa Barbara Police Department records reveal that several days after the family Full Story »
returned to Neverland, the woman's boyfriend, Jay Jackson, called police to report
that she was being held against her will at the 2600-acre ranch. In his handwritten
report, the officer who fielded the phoned-in complaint noted that while he was
speaking with Jackson, the complainant's girlfriend called him (apparently from her
cell phone). The cop told Jackson, a 42-year-old Army Reserve major, that if his
girlfriend had access to a phone, perhaps she should call 911 directly. In a follow-up
call to Jackson a couple of days later, the policeman sought an update from the
military man, and was told that everything was okay and his girlfriend (whom he has
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since reportedly married) was safe and back in Los Angeles.

During the month her family was in residence at Neverland, the woman came and MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's
went numerous times, often without her children. When she agreed to have her kids former bodyguard, expected to be a
videotape testimonials about Jackson on February 20, she met them at the West Hills key witness in the singer's child
home of videographer Hamid Moslehi (whose property was raided on the same molestation case, was arrested in Las
November 2003 day that Jackson's ranch was searched). While her three children Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
were driven to the taping from Neverland, she was picked up by Amen from her and kidnapping charges.
boyfriend's apartment. In police interviews, family members said that they were
intimidated by Jackson aides into filming the "rebuttal" vignettes, which were
Full Story »
orchestrated by Marc Schaffel, whose sidekick Christian Robinson conducted the
interviews with the children. For his part, Moslehi told detectives that the siblings
were relaxed and used his video game console while waiting for video equipment to
be set up.
MARCH 15--Michael Jackson
A week after ABC's February 6 broadcast of "Living with Michael Jackson," L.A.'s "doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) received a call to its child He's really just this regressed 10-year-
abuse hotline from an official with the Los Angeles Unified School District. The old." That was the surprising
school worker, who apparently watched the Bashir program, lodged charges of evaluation offered to police by Dr.
general neglect against the children's mother and sexual abuse against Jackson. Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
Almost immediately, in mid-February, DCFS workers assigned to the agency's psychologist who interviewed the
Sensitive Case Unit contacted the woman and set up interviews with her and the singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
children at Major Jackson's home (by this time, the family was two weeks into its brother--and who is expected to soon
purported captivity). testify as a government witness at
Jackson's molestation trial.
According to a DCFS report, when three agency representatives arrived at her
boyfriend's L.A. home for the February 20 interviews, the mother "immediately Full Story »
went over to the VCR and started to play a video" showing her older son with
Jackson. The social workers watched as Jackson and the boy were seen walking
through Neverland, riding on the ranch's train, sitting on a blanket, and watching
swan's in the estate's lake. The woman described Jackson as "like a father" to her
children and said he "was an important part of [her son]'s recovery from cancer." In MARCH 7--With their sister already
separate interviews, the three siblings also repeated the "like a father" line, with the struggling on the witness stand, the
older brother becoming upset when social worker Karen Walker asked if he had ever Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
been touched inappropriately. "People think that something's happened sexually the molestation case against Michael
between Michael and me," he answered. "That's not true." His sister got "teary eye," Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
according to the DCFS report, when she defended Jackson as "so kind and loving." with their anticipated testimony
The youngest boy said that trips to Neverland "make me real happy. We have fun appearing more crucial than ever.
with Michael, we all give each other nicknames. My name is Blowhole, like the
fish." Full Story »
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With strong, separate denials of impropriety from the children and their mother,
DCFS brass closed the agency probe, categorizing the abuse allegations as
"unfounded" (as TSG first reported in December 2003). Asked later by detectives
why they did not tell the social workers about their Neverland imprisonment or their FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be
mistreatment at the hands of Jackson and his henchmen, the family members said reporting live from the Santa Maria
they were too scared. They also pointed to the intimidating presence of a Jackson courthouse with up-to-the-minute
security guard named Asef, who was present when the DCFS workers arrived, but accounts of opening statements
was ordered to leave by the social workers as the confidential interviews delivered by Santa Barbara District
commenced. Before the DCFS session began, an investigative report notes, "Asef Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
warned her not to say anything wrong about Michael Jackson because they knew lawyer Thomas Mesereau.
where her parents lived." She said Asef planted one recording device in the house
and handed another to her to tape her interview. While she turned off the recorder Full Report »
she was given, the woman believed Asef later retrieved the other device from the
home's living room, where the DCFS interviews occurred.

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FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles
boy who has accused Michael Jackson
of molestation told investigators that
the singer was a naif when it came to
"the birds and the bees," claiming that
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I knew more than he did."

Full Story »

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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Acting on a referral from DCFS (since Neverland was in its jurisdiction), the Santa
Barbara Sheriff's Department also conducted its own child abuse probe. While
relying on the DCFS interviews of the woman and her children, Detective Terry Flaa
supplemented the L.A. review with an interview of the children's father David (from JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
whom their mother filed for divorce in October 2001). After a one-month review, victory for Michael Jackson, a
the sheriff's office declared in mid-April 2003, according to an internal report, that California jury today acquitted the
"the elements of criminal activity were not met. No further action required." singer of charges that he molested a
teenage cancer survivor and conspired
Within three months, however, the Santa Barbara Sheriff would revisit those same to falsely imprison the boy and his
abuse allegations and come to a markedly different conclusion. family at his sprawling Neverland
Ranch estate.
***
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The family's eventual cooperation with law enforcement was, essentially, an
outgrowth of their remarkably heavy-handed treatment by the Jackson camp.

During the period of the family's in-and-out

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stay at Neverland, their scant belongings--

which barely filled what the mother called her
"bachelor's apartment"--were placed into
MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
storage by private eye Bradley Miller.
crucial defense witness in the Michael
According to an affidavit, the woman told
Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
investigators that "the interest in moving her
today fired a blank on the witness
things manifested itself" when Jackson
stand, testifying that he was never
representatives found out "she had kept the
asked for money when contacted five
notes Michael Jackson had sent or written [her
years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
son]." Those notes were hidden, she said, in a
at the center of the current child
"planted clay pot" that was among items eventually stored by Miller at Dino's
molestation prosecution.
Moving & Storage in North Hollywood.
Full Story »
After splitting from Jackson & Co. in mid-March 2003
("escaped" is how investigators prefer to describe it), the
woman repeatedly asked for the return of her household
goods. When she was rebuffed, she hired lawyer William
Dickerman, who engaged in a lengthy and contentious MAY 11--Ending months of
fight with Jackson attorney Mark Geragos for the return of speculation and anticipation,
her belongings. It wasn't until she began assisting sheriff's Macaulay Culkin took the witness
investigators that the woman was able to retrieve her stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
belongings from Dino's. However, there were no letters morning and forcefully denied that the
growing in that potted plant, and investigators have entertainer ever molested him, terming
accused Miller of unlawfully taking the material. those claims "absolutely ridiculous."

In police interviews, the woman told of her disenchantment Full Story »

with Jackson and his aides, claiming that they broke promises to place her children
in private school and to purchase a house and an apartment (so her family would
have two places to shuttle between so nobody would find them). She also spoke of
her anger upon learning that Jackson had provided booze to her children, especially
since alcohol was a significant threat to her older son's medical condition. APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
Michael Jackson case couldn't
She also pointed to the frenzied and aggressive attempt to pack the family off to possibly get any sleazier, things have
South America, to a remote Brazilian city "that would have no Americans, so now officially hit the slippery slope.
nobody would recognize them and be able to send the killers there." She told Literally. In a legal motion released
detectives of thinking that if Jackson's aides really cared about her children, they late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
would want her oldest son to be in L.A. to receive treatment from his doctor. "She that they are seeking to present jurors
could not understand the urgency of them wanting the family to leave the country," with testimony from a former
noted one affidavit. At the conclusion of one interview, the woman was asked why employee that involves a jar of
she thought Jackson and his cohorts lied about the existence of death threats Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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targeting her family (and the related need for the Brazil trip). "Because they did and a teenage boy in the singer's
wrong," she said. "Because of the things they knew they did to [her children]." She bedroom.
concluded, the affidavit reported, that the wealthy performer and his employees
"thought because she lived in East Los Angeles that nobody would care or miss Full Story »
them."

When police asked family members how the older boy has changed since his alleged
abuse by Jackson, they described him as a far more volatile child. His sister said he
is becoming progressively more argumentative. His brother said he "gets angry more APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
often and at times is quieter than before." The boy's mother said he "gets angry for that Michael Jackson sexually
no reason or cause" and noted that the teenager recently shot her in the leg with a molested Macaulay Culkin and
BB gun. screened X-rated movies for other
boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
While aspects of the family's false imprisonment story appear shaky, there can be prosecutors are expected to soon call
little argument that the scheme to disappear the alleged victim's family reflects a as a government witness a Los
consciousness of guilt on the part of someone, for something. Whether Jackson's Angeles man who has described
associates knew something--or just assumed the worst--much of their well- himself as the "master authority" on
documented behavior is highly suspect. For example, detectives have a forged letter Internet porn.
that was submitted to the school attended by the alleged victim and his brother.
During the period that Team Jackson was arranging the pair's international exodus, Full Story »
someone submitted a phony document purporting to authorize the pair's release from
the L.A. school for their placement in an Arizona school.

***
MARCH 28--In a significant legal
setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
In May 2003, civil lawyers representing the accuser and his ruled today that Santa Barbara
family were alarmed at details of the children's relationship prosecutors can present jurors with
with Jackson. One of the attorneys, Larry Feldman, evidence that the performer previously
represented the teenage boy who first accused the molested five young boys.
entertainer of molestation a decade earlier (and who settled
that case for eight figures). Feldman, as he had done with
Full Story »
Jordan Chandler in 1993, referred his young clients to a
psychologist.

Dr. Stanley Katz interviewed the three children on June 3, and listened to their
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tawdry stories about "white stuff" and "Jesus Juice." In an interview later that month
with police, Katz described the older boy as "very emotional and scared," noting that
he purposefully did not press the child too hard during their session. He said the boy
MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's
was "really honest and forthcoming" and scared that people would tease him "if this
former bodyguard, expected to be a
comes out." He was also concerned that a "crazed fan of Michael's" would try and
key witness in the singer's child
kill him. Katz reported that when he asked if Jackson ever demonstrated how to
molestation case, was arrested in Las
masturbate, the boy "started crying and didn't want to talk about it."
Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
and kidnapping charges.
The forensic and clinical psychologist concluded that while the information the
minors provided was "very complex," he judged them to be credible witnesses
Full Story »
regarding abuse by Jackson, assorted threats, and a "sort of" false imprisonment at
Neverland.

It was during his recap of the children's interviews that

Katz provided Detective Zelis with an unsolicited, and MARCH 15--Michael Jackson
surely surprising, analysis of Jackson. The entertainer, he "doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
offered, was really just a regressed adolescent who He's really just this regressed 10-year-
behaved like any 10-year-old boy prone to "whacking off" old." That was the surprising
with his buddies. That is a professional opinion not shared evaluation offered to police by Dr.
by Santa Barbara county detectives and prosecutors, who Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
have spent 18 months building the case that Michael Joe psychologist who interviewed the
Jackson preys on young boys. singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
brother--and who is expected to soon
testify as a government witness at
Jackson's molestation trial.

BACK TO PAGE 1 Full Story »

MARCH 7--With their sister already

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struggling on the witness stand, the
Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
the molestation case against Michael
Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
with their anticipated testimony
appearing more crucial than ever.

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FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be

reporting live from the Santa Maria
courthouse with up-to-the-minute
accounts of opening statements
delivered by Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.

Full Report »

FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles

Full Story »

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

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1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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Michael Jackson Charged

Singer hit with nine-count child molestation complaint

DECEMBER 18--Michael Jackson was formally charged today with

seven counts of child molestation for the alleged abuse of a
cancer-stricken boy. The singer was also hit with two
additional felonies for allegedly providing the child with an
"intoxicating agent." The below criminal complaint, filed
this afternoon by Santa Barbara prosecutors, alleges that the
pop star "had substantial sexual conduct" with the child--
apparently during play dates at the 45-year-old performer's
Neverland Ranch--between February 7 and March 10 this year.
All of the alleged abuse came, remarkably, after ABC's
February 6 broadcast of the damning Martin Bashir
documentary. As TSG reported earlier this month, the child
told Los Angeles police and child welfare workers that he was
never sexually abused by Jackson and "never slept in the same
bed as the entertainer." The boy was interviewed as part of a child welfare
investigation--which took place between February 14-27--that was triggered by the
Bashir documentary and concluded that abuse allegations against Jackson were
"unfounded." (3 pages)

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Michael Jackson Indictment - April 30, 2004

HEADS UP: Schwarzenegger threatens lawsuit over bobblehead doll

APRIL 30--A California judge today unsealed an indictment

charging Michael Jackson with the molestation last year
of a cancer-stricken boy. Notably, the ten-count felony
indictment--which supercedes a criminal complaint filed
in December against the 45-year-old singer--adds a new
conspiracy charge that prosecutors allege involved 28
separate overt criminal acts by the so-called King Pop,
including child abduction, false imprisonment, and
extortion. The indictment, a copy of which you'll find
below, also charges Jackson with four counts of
committing lewd acts upon a child, one count of an
attempted lewd act upon a child, and four counts of
administering an intoxicating agent. Jackson entered a
not guilty plea during his arraignment today before Judge
Rodney Melville, who released the indictment in a redacted form to cloak the names
of alleged coconspirators and details of the overt acts. In addition to several
small redactions, Melville withheld six entire pages of the indictment. (7 pages)

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*** 1/6/05 EXCLUSIVE: The Case Against Michael Jackson

DECEMBER 9--A confidential investigation by Los Angeles police and child welfare
officials concluded earlier this year that allegations Michael Jackson sexually
abused a cancer-stricken boy were "unfounded," according to an internal
government memo obtained by The Smoking Gun.

The probe's findings were based, in large part, on interviews

with the alleged victim, his two siblings, and the boy's
mother. According to the memo, when the child was questioned
in February by a social worker assigned to the Sensitive Case
Unit of L.A.'s Department of Children & Family Services
(DCFS), he "denied any form of sexual abuse" by Jackson and
said that he never "slept in the same bed as the entertainer."
While not specifically named in the DCFS memo, the 45-year-old
Jackson is referred to repeatedly as "the entertainer."

The memo notes that the boy, now 14, and his 12-year-old brother--who also denied
sexual abuse--expressed "a fondness for the entertainer and stated they enjoyed
visiting his home, where they would often ride in the park, play video games, and
watch movies." The pair's sister, now 17, told a social worker that she
accompanied the boys on "sleepovers at the entertainers home," but had "never
seen anything sexually inappropriate between her brothers and the entertainer."

The children's mother told investigators that Jackson was "like a father to the
children and a part of her family." While acknowledging that her son "has slept
in the same room as the entertainer," the woman claimed "they did not share a
bed. The entertainer would sleep on the floor," according to the November 26 memo.

The joint probe by DCFS and the Los Angeles

Police Department ran from February 14-27 and,
the memo states, the "investigation by the
Sensitive Case Unit concluded the allegations of
neglect and sexual abuse to be unfounded both by
the LAPD-Wilshire Division and the Department."

When an investigation is closed, child welfare

officials can summarize their findings in one of
three ways. If evidence is found to support abuse

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charges, the case is marked "substantiated." A

case is termed "not substantiated" when evidence
discovered is not sufficient to support
allegations (though the charges may, in fact, be
true). Finally, a matter is branded "unfounded"
when officials determine there is no merit to the
allegations.

As with many DCFS investigations, the Jackson

abuse case began with a call to the agency's
child abuse hotline. According to the memo, a "Child Abuse Referral" was phoned
in on February 14 by a "school official" from the Los Angeles Unified School
District, which oversees the city's sprawling public school system. Citing the
prior week's ABC broadcast of "Living with Michael Jackson," the controversial
Martin Bashir documentary, the school official lodged allegations of "general
neglect by mother and sexual abuse by 'an entertainer,'" according to the summary
memo. The school official identified both the cancer patient, then 13, and his
younger brother as the "referred children."

While the school official is not further identified in the DCFS memo, published
reports have indicated that the older boy was taunted by classmates after the
documentary aired on ABC's "20/20" newsmagazine. During the February 6 program,
the child was seen holding hands with Jackson and resting his head against the
singer's shoulder. Jackson told Bashir that he had slept with many children
unrelated to him, but insisted, "It's not sexual, we're going to sleep. I tuck
them in...It's very charming, it's very sweet."

In a clear reference to fallout from the Bashir documentary, the

boy's mother told investigators that "she believed the media had
taken everything out of context," according to the memo, which
summarizes the DCFS child abuse investigation. The "sensitive case"
memo was prepared at the direction of Dr. Charles Sophy, a high-
ranking DCFS official who joined the department in late-March, a
month after the Jackson probe was completed. The memo was authored
by Jennifer Hottenroth, a DCFS assistant regional administrator. In
a brief telephone interview yesterday morning, Hottenroth declined
to speak about her memo, saying, "I can't talk about it...I can refer you to our
public affairs person. I can't comment on any of this." Sophy (pictured at right)
did not return a message left with his assistant. Louise Grasmehr, a DCFS
spokesperson, said that while she had been given a copy of the document by
Hottenroth Monday morning, "We cannot comment on anything that is stated in the
memo. Because it's all protected under confidentiality laws in California."

The boy's February 2003 interview with child abuse investigators--not to mention
those with his family--appears to run counter to allegations he later made to law
enforcement officials in Santa Barbara, where Jackson was arrested November 20
and released on $3 million bail. District Attorney Thomas Sneddon has said that
he expects to file felony child molestation charges against Jackson next week. In
addition to the boy's original denial of sexual abuse by Jackson, his younger
brother's February 2003 statements also appear to contradict recent published
reports claiming that the child has told Santa Barbara investigators that he
witnessed his brother being molested by the star.

While it is unclear what, if any, effect the LAPD-DCFS investigation will have on
a future Jackson prosecution, the performer's defense team will surely seize on
the February 2003 probe's findings to question the current veracity and motives
of the child and his family--and, of course, further muddy a case that already
promises to be a difficult prosecution.

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The child abuse investigation was immediately placed with the Sensitive Case Unit
since department guidelines dictate that if "one of the clients in the referral
is a public figure" or if the case's allegations "would be certain to generate
media interest if they became known outside of DCFS," the matter requires utmost
secrecy.

As with most DCFS abuse cases, a children's social worker (CSW) was dispatched to
interview the boys, as was a LAPD investigator (the memo does not indicate
whether the cop and the social worker conducted their interviews in tandem). In
either case, it is likely that the children were questioned apart from their
mother, since the abuse referral included allegations of neglect on the woman's
part, according to a DCFS source familiar with agency operations.

The allegations examined this year in the LAPD-DCFS probe mirror sex abuse claims
that surfaced in 1993, when a 13-year-old California boy claimed that the pop
star molested him. Jackson, who was not charged in that case, reportedly made a
multimillion dollar payment to settle a civil suit brought by the child and his
family. Click here to read the boy's sworn declaration describing Jackson's
alleged abuse.

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*** EXCLUSIVE: Inside The Jackson Grand Jury

NOVEMBER 18, 2003--With sheriff's investigators today

executing a search warrant at Michael Jackson's Neverland
Ranch--reportedly in connection with charges made by a 12-
year-old boy--attention will again turn to the original
allegations of child abuse leveled against the pop star.
Below you'll find the bombshell court document that first
raised allegations that the singer, now 45, was involved
in inappropriate behavior with a young boy. The December
1993 declaration was sworn by a 13-year-old California
boy who sued Jackson for, among other things, sexual
battery, willful misconduct, and emotional distress. The
child's declaration includes a graphic account of alleged
sexual encounters with Jackson at Neverland and various
hotels. Four months after the Los Angeles Superior Court
lawsuit was filed, the two sides announced that the matter had been settled,
though terms were not disclosed. News reports have estimated that Jackson paid
between $15 and $40 million to settle the tawdry action. No criminal charges were
ever filed in connection with the teenager's charges. In a BBC documentary that
aired earlier this year, Jackson admitted, "I have slept in a bed with many
children," but added, "When you say 'bed,' you're thinking sexual. It's not
sexual, we're going to sleep. I tuck them in...It's very charming, it's very
sweet." After TSG first published the below document on February 6, 2003, Jackson
issued a statement noting that he "has respected the obligation of confidentiality
imposed on all the parties to the prior proceedings, yet someone has chosen to
violate that confidentiality" and use the boy's statements to "further sully" the
star's character. He added that, "it should be remembered that, at the time, the
confidentiality obligation was a mutual one, designed as much to protect" the
teenage boy as the singer himself. Jackson concluded, "Whoever is now leaking this
material is showing as much disregard for [the boy] as they are determination to
attack Michael." (4 pages)

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Michael Jackson's Big Payoff - June 16, 2004

Michael Jackson's Big Payoff

Agreed to pay $15 million to settle boy's 1993 sex abuse claim

JUNE 16--Michael Jackson agreed to pay $15.3 million to

settle child molestation charges leveled against him in 1993
by a California boy, according to a confidential legal
agreement. A heavily redacted version of the 31-page
document, a copy of which you'll find below, was obtained by
Court TV's Diane Dimond.

The January 1994 agreement contains a one-line reference to

Jackson delivering "confessions of judgment" totaling
$15,331,250 to the boy's attorneys. However, since the
entire eight-page section of the agreement titled
"Settlement Payment" is not included in the document, it is
unclear how the eight-figure payout was distributed to the
boy or what his parents were paid. However, a reference to
the establishment of a "qualified funding asset" would indicate that an annuity
(likely tax free) was a central part of the settlement.

As with most confidential deals, Jackson admitted no wrongdoing, noting that the
cash was to settle claims for "damages for alleged personal injuries arising out
of claims of negligence" and not for "claims of intentional or wrongful acts of
sexual molestation." The agreement also states that Jackson elected to settle "in
view of the impact the action has had and could have in the future on his earnings
and potential income."

The settlement was signed four months after the boy and his parents filed a civil
suit against the King of Pop and just weeks after the teenager signed a sworn
declaration luridly detailing Jackson's alleged abuse.

The unredacted portions of the agreement do not address payment of the accuser's
legal fees, though a September 1993 retainer agreement between the family and
attorney Larry Feldman called for the family to pay their counsel's fee. According
to the retainer, Feldman stood to earn $3 million on a $15 million settlement. Any
recovery above that figure earned Feldman's firm an additional ten percent.

A redacted version of the settlement agreement was prepared in connection with a

May 1996 lawsuit brought against Jackson by the child's father, who claimed that
the singer breached terms of the 1994 legal agreement during a June 1995 interview
on ABC's "Primetime Live." During that chat with Diane Sawyer, Jackson and then-
wife Lisa Marie Presley accused the boy of fabricating his tales of sexual abuse.
Those televised statements, the father argued, violated a provision of the 1994
agreement guaranteeing that Jackson would not publicly accuse the boy or his

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parents of "any wrongful conduct whatsoever." As part of the 1996 lawsuit, a

California judge ordered that counsel for Presley--who married Jackson in May 1994
and divorced him in January 1996--be provided with the heavily redacted version of
the 31-page settlement document. (22 pages)

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: Not Guilty - June 13, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson: Not Guilty

Michael Jackson found not guilty of molestation, conspiracy, booze raps

Michael Jackson acquitted of molestation, conspiracy, booze

MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's

former bodyguard, expected to be a
key witness in the singer's child
molestation case, was arrested in Las
Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
and kidnapping charges.

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MARCH 15--Michael Jackson

"doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
He's really just this regressed 10-year-
old." That was the surprising
evaluation offered to police by Dr.
Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
psychologist who interviewed the
singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
brother--and who is expected to soon
testify as a government witness at
Jackson's molestation trial.

Full Story »

MARCH 7--With their sister already

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FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be

reporting live from the Santa Maria
courthouse with up-to-the-minute
accounts of opening statements
delivered by Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.

Full Report »

FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles

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FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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The Case Against Michael Jackson: Not Guilty - June 13, 2005

children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: Not Guilty - June 13, 2005

1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: Jay Leno Bombs On Stage - May 24, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson: Jay Leno Bombs On Stage

Tonight Show funnyman tells story about telephone shakedown by Michael Jackson's accuser

Tonight Show funnyman no stand-up guy for Jacko, story

about supposed shakedown by boy accuser, family
evaporates in testimony

MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a crucial

defense witness in the Michael Jackson case,
comedian Jay Leno today fired a blank on the JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
witness stand, testifying that he was never victory for Michael Jackson, a
asked for money when contacted five years ago California jury today acquitted the
by the Los Angeles teenager at the center of singer of charges that he molested a
the current child molestation prosecution. teenage cancer survivor and conspired
to falsely imprison the boy and his
family at his sprawling Neverland
Ranch estate.
Leno's testimony appeared to contradict statements he made earlier this year during
an interview with Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department investigators. During that
Full Story »
session, the 55-year-old comedian claimed that the accuser and his family were "sort
of looking for money" and that he felt he was targeted as a prospective "mark."

Testifying as a defense witness, the "Tonight Show" host recounted for jurors how

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he received several voicemail messages in 2000 from the boy. Leno told jurors that
the child "sounded very adult" in the messages and was "overly effusive for a 12-
year-old." Leno said that seemed strange, considering he was a comedian in his
MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
fifties. "I'm not Batman," he said to laughs from the packed courtroom. At one point,
crucial defense witness in the Michael
Leno testified, he told an acquaintance who knew the boy, that the child "seemed a
Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
little scripted in his speech."
today fired a blank on the witness
stand, testifying that he was never
Leno testified that he contacted the child while he was hospitalized and spoke to him asked for money when contacted five
and, perhaps, his younger brother. He was not certain if he had spoken with the boy's years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
mother. When Jackson lawyer Thomas Mesereau asked if he heard someone talking at the center of the current child
in the background, Leno said it could have been the boy's mother or a nurse. molestation prosecution.

Leno seemed more certain about the family seeking money during his interview with Full Story »
Santa Barbara investigators, which led Mesereau to promise in his opening
statement that the star would come in to court and paint the family as grasping
opportunists who sought out celebrities in shakedown gambits. The boy and his
mother, Mesereau said on February 28, "called comedian Jay Leno and tried to get
money from Mr. Leno. Mr. Leno has told the Santa Barbara police, 'Something was MAY 11--Ending months of
wrong. They were looking for a mark. It sounded scripted. The mother was in the speculation and anticipation,
background, and I terminated the conversation.'" Macaulay Culkin took the witness
stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
In his sheriff's interview, Leno said his contact with the family left him "suspicious." morning and forcefully denied that the
He added that he did not recall the telephone encounters until after the February entertainer ever molested him, terming
2003 broadcast of "Living with Michael Jackson," Martin Bashir's controversial those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
documentary. In the program, the name of Jackson's teen accuser is mentioned and
the boy, now 15, is seen resting his head on the singer's shoulder. Full Story »

Leno's sworn account of the telephone contact only slightly contradicted testimony
from the teenage accuser, who told the Santa Maria, California jury that he never
spoke directly to the comedian. The boy testified that, while once hospitalized, he
left a message on the star's answering machine. Leno testified that he thought the APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
boy may have been "groggy" during his telephone chat, which, prosecutors could Michael Jackson case couldn't
argue, explain why the boy denied ever having spoken with the late night host. possibly get any sleazier, things have
now officially hit the slippery slope.
Leno's testimony in the trial's waning days was meant to underscore the defense Literally. In a legal motion released
team's central contention that the accuser and his family are scheming grifters who late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
targeted Jackson in a multimillion-dollar shakedown bid. that they are seeking to present jurors
with testimony from a former
However, it didn't work out that way. employee that involves a jar of
Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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When Mesereau quizzed Leno about his previous statements to sheriff's and a teenage boy in the singer's
investigators, Leno said he was suspicious of the boy's contact because it did not bedroom.
seem like the normal behavior for a child his age. During that sheriff's session,
which was tape recorded, Leno said that while he believed Jackson was guilty of Full Story »
child molestation, he thought to himself, "Boy, they (the accuser and his mother)
finally found a mark."

While he has spent 18 months making pedophile jokes at Jackson's expense, Leno
testified soberly, though he did draw laughs at certain points. When asked about the APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
scope of his charity work, Leno said that he responded to most pleas from legitimate that Michael Jackson sexually
organizations like the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Sometimes, however, he'll get a molested Macaulay Culkin and
request for a new tractor from a supposedly down-on-his luck farmer, though the screened X-rated movies for other
letter's "return address is Brooklyn, New York." boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
prosecutors are expected to soon call
As he left the stand, Leno made sure to mention that Renee Zellweger was appearing as a government witness a Los
on the "Tonight Show" this evening. While most in the courtroom laughed at the Angeles man who has described
quip, it was unclear if the defense found Leno's testimony amusing. himself as the "master authority" on
Internet porn.

Full Story »

MARCH 28--In a significant legal

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: Jay Leno Bombs On Stage - May 24, 2005

1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: Culkin Denies Jacko Abuse - May 11, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson: Culkin Denies Jacko Abuse

Ex-child star refutes claims he was molested by Michael Jackson during Neverland stays

Ex-child star refutes claims he was molested by Michael

Jackson during Neverland stays

MAY 11--Ending months of speculation and

anticipation, Macaulay Culkin took the witness
stand in the Michael Jackson trial this morning and
forcefully denied that the entertainer ever molested JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
him, terming those claims "absolutely ridiculous." victory for Michael Jackson, a
California jury today acquitted the
singer of charges that he molested a
teenage cancer survivor and conspired
to falsely imprison the boy and his
family at his sprawling Neverland
Ranch estate.

Full Story »

Refuting prior testimony from two former Neverland Ranch employees, the 24-year-
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old actor told jurors that Jackson never touched him inappropriately during stays at
the entertainer's estate more than a dozen years ago.
MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
Wearing a black suit and a white shirt sans tie, Culkin took the stand at 8:39 AM crucial defense witness in the Michael
(pst) and, under questioning by defense attorney Thomas Mesereau, was asked about Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
allegations that Jackson fondled him. Culkin said those claims were false during his today fired a blank on the witness
16 minutes on the stand during direct testimony. Culkin testified that he could not stand, testifying that he was never
believe trial witnesses had made the abuse allegations, adding that prosecutors have asked for money when contacted five
never contacted him to ask about the truth of these claims. years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
at the center of the current child
As he concluded his direct testimony, a composed Culkin said of Jackson, "I've molestation prosecution.
never seen him do anything improper."
Full Story »
At the outset of his cross-examination of Culkin, prosecutor Ronald Zonen asked the
actor about a trip he once took to Bermuda with Jackson and other friends. During
that vacation, Culkin confirmed that the singer gave him an expensive Rolex watch,
but discounted the gift's significance. "It wasn't anything all that crazy to me...I was
not a person without means, so it wasn't anything that was all that awe-inspiring," MAY 11--Ending months of
said Culkin. speculation and anticipation,
Macaulay Culkin took the witness
Prosecutors have alleged that Jackson, as part of a pedophilic "grooming" process, stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
has frequently given expensive gifts to his underage male targets, as well as their morning and forcefully denied that the
family members. entertainer ever molested him, terming
those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
As prosecutors have done previously with alleged abuse victims Wade Robson and
Brett Barnes--both of whom testified that Jackson never molested them--Culkin was Full Story »
asked whether the entertainer could have fondled him while he was sleeping. "As far
as I know, he's never molested me," Culkin testified. "I find that unlikely."

Full Story »
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FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be

reporting live from the Santa Maria
courthouse with up-to-the-minute
accounts of opening statements
delivered by Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.

Full Report »

FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles

Full Story »

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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The Case Against Michael Jackson: Culkin Denies Jacko Abuse - May 11, 2005

children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: Culkin Denies Jacko Abuse - May 11, 2005

1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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Jackson Case Hits The Skids - April 21, 2005

Jackson Case Hits The Skids

D.A. wants jurors to hear about singer's late-night Vaseline demand

4/21 UPDATE: In a ruling this afternoon, Judge Rodney Melville rejected a

prosecution bid to elicit testimony from a former Neverland Ranch employee about
an alleged late-night Vaseline delivery. Melville, however, will allow Kassim
Abdool, the ex-worker, to testify about two other alleged incidents on Jackson's
estate.

APRIL 21--Just when you thought the Michael Jackson case

couldn't possibly get any sleazier, things have now officially
hit the slippery slope. Literally. In a legal motion released
late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed that they are seeking to
present jurors with testimony from a former employee that
involves a jar of Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop, and a
teenage boy in the singer's bedroom (you'll have to read the
document, TSG is not going any further). Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon's bid to get Kassim Abdool, a former
Neverland Ranch guard, on the stand is detailed in the below
court filing. The D.A.'s motion is scheduled to be argued today before Superior
Court Judge Rodney Melville, who will rule on whether Abdool's 12-year-old tales
will be admissible as evidence of Jackson's prior alleged abuse of young boys (in
this instance, specifically Jordan Chandler, the California boy who eventually
settled a lawsuit against Jackson for about $20 million). In opposition to
Sneddon's motion, Jackson lawyer Robert Sanger wrote that Abdool's claims amount
to "salacious innuendo" that likely would "confuse and inflame the jury."
Testimony from the 49-year-old Abdool, who worked at Neverland for three years
ending in 1994, would be used by prosecutors to corroborate aspects of recent
testimony by Ralph Chacon, an ex-guard who Abdool supervised. Chacon, Abdool, and
three other former Neverland workers sued Jackson in December 1994 for wrongful
dismissal, but were routed in court by the performer, who was awarded legal fees
totaling $1.4 million. That whopping judgment drove Abdool into bankruptcy in mid-
1997. (5 pages)

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: D.A.'s Sleazy Witness - April 4, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson: D.A.'s Sleazy Witness

Former Neverland employee turned porno "authority" to testify that he saw Michael Jackson
molest Macaulay Culkin at ranch

Former Neverland employee turned porno "authority" to

testify that he saw Michael Jackson molest Macaulay Culkin
at ranch

APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors that Michael Jackson

sexually molested Macaulay Culkin and screened X-rated
movies for other boys visiting Neverland Ranch, JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
prosecutors are expected to soon call as a government victory for Michael Jackson, a
witness a Los Angeles man who has described himself as California jury today acquitted the
the "master authority" on Internet porn and who, until last singer of charges that he molested a
year, ran a hardcore web site stocked with video and teenage cancer survivor and conspired
photos depicting "nudity and heterosexual, bi-sexual, to falsely imprison the boy and his
homosexual, and transsexual situations," The Smoking family at his sprawling Neverland
Gun has learned. Ranch estate.

Full Story »
For a trial already saturated with images from the pages of "Barely Legal,"
"Hustler," and other titles in the singer's periodicals collection, the testimony of
Phillip Lemarque promises to further cement the case's pervy pedigree.
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Along with his wife Stella Marcroft, Lemarque worked at

Neverland for a brief period in the early 90s (the couple
says their Jackson employment, which ended around late- MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
1991, lasted two years, while other accounts put their crucial defense witness in the Michael
tenure at 10 months). It was during that time, Lemarque Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
has told investigators, that he witnessed Jackson act today fired a blank on the witness
inappropriately with Culkin and other boys. stand, testifying that he was never
asked for money when contacted five
years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
at the center of the current child
molestation prosecution.

In a ruling last Monday, Judge Rodney Melville gave Santa Barbara District Full Story »
Attorney Tom Sneddon permission to call nine witnesses to testify about alleged
prior incidents during which Jackson either molested boys or engaged in pedophilic
"grooming" activities. Included in that group of court-approved prosecution
witnesses is Lemarque, a 69-year-old French expat who once wrote of his and his
wife's Neverland responsibilities, "Stella was Michael Jackson's private chef, I was MAY 11--Ending months of
the major d'homo in charge of organizing Michael's entertainment activities." speculation and anticipation,
Macaulay Culkin took the witness
In arguing for admission of uncharged "prior bad act" testimony against Jackson, stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
Sneddon did not specify the exact nature of each proposed witness's testimony. morning and forcefully denied that the
However, Lemarque has previously told investigators that he saw the entertainer's entertainer ever molested him, terming
hand inside Culkin's pants early one morning in the Neverland video arcade. those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
Lemarque claims that he was delivering food to Jackson when he entered the arcade
through a side door and saw the alleged groping. He claims to have backed out of Full Story »
the door and re-entered the arcade through the main entrance, without Jackson
realizing what he had seen. Lemarque has also told of Jackson watching
pornographic movies with several young male guests.

APRIL 21--Just when you thought the

Culkin has repeatedly denied that he was sexually abused by Jackson. Lemarque did
Michael Jackson case couldn't
not return TSG phone messages left at his L.A. office.
possibly get any sleazier, things have
now officially hit the slippery slope.
As with several other former employees slated to testify about alleged improprieties
Literally. In a legal motion released
dating back at least a decade, Lemarque will be grilled on cross examination about
late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
prior attempts to sell his story to supermarket and television tabloids across the
that they are seeking to present jurors
globe. To that end, Lemarque and his wife (and an L.A. lawyer representing the
with testimony from a former
couple) talked money in 1993 with the National Enquirer, Globe, "Inside Edition,"
employee that involves a jar of
and the Splash news service.
Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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Some of the Lemarque media entreaties, which came after news broke of teenager and a teenage boy in the singer's
Jordan Chandler's molestation claims, were brokered by Paul Barresi, a self-styled bedroom.
investigator who often turns up on the periphery of the tawdriest tabloid stories (part
snoop, snitch, and fixer, Barresi is the Zelig of Hollywood's seamy underbelly). Full Story »

In a 1993 "Frontline" documentary about the media frenzy surrounding the original
Jackson probe, Barresi said that as the Lemarque asking price spiraled into the mid-
six figures, Phillip tweaked his account of the Culkin incident. While Lemarque
APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
initially reported that Jackson's hand was outside Culkin's clothing, Barresi told
that Michael Jackson sexually
"Frontline," his tabloid asking price rose when his story shifted to claim that the
molested Macaulay Culkin and
entertainer actually had his hand inside the young actor's pants.
screened X-rated movies for other
boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
While it is unclear if the Lemarques ever
prosecutors are expected to soon call
consummated a tabloid deal, Barresi himself pulled an
as a government witness a Los
end-around on the couple, selling their story to the
Angeles man who has described
Globe after surreptitiously taping a meeting during
himself as the "master authority" on
which the pair laid out their charges against Jackson
Internet porn.
(the resulting piece was headlined "We Saw Michael
Molesting Child Star"). Barresi made sure to have a
Full Story »
photographer secretly memorialize an August 1993
chat with the Lemarques at an outdoor café (he is
pictured at left with the couple).

According to published reports, the couple actually first reached out to a MARCH 28--In a significant legal
supermarket tabloid in 1991 with their Jackson molestation tales, though no story setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
was ever published. While this contact came before the 1993 tabloid feeding frenzy, ruled today that Santa Barbara
Lemarque was peddling a Jackson story at the same time he was enmeshed in a prosecutors can present jurors with
personal bankruptcy proceeding. According to court records, Lemarque reported evidence that the performer previously
debts of $455,000, which he amassed through his operation of Bourbon Street, an molested five young boys.
Encino restaurant. His Chapter 7 action, filed in June 1987, would not be closed
until November 1992, just months before Lemarque again put his story out to bid Full Story »
(the Lemarques were reportedly fired from their Neverland posts by Jackson aide
Norma Staikos).

While the former Neverland employee's financial motivations--and honesty--will be

questioned by Jackson's defense team, Lemarque's work in the online pornography
business will surely be used to tarnish his image (just as prosecutors have done to
Jackson with their interminable display to jurors of his porno stash).

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: D.A.'s Sleazy Witness - April 4, 2005

In 1997, Lemarque launched Virtual Sin, a web site he operated until last year.
Billed as "the most sinful site on the internet," Lemarque's flagship porn offered
explicit photos and videos and greeted web surfers with the words, "Welcome MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's
Beaver Hunters." With photo galleries devoted to "Blowjobs" and "ANAL," former bodyguard, expected to be a
Lemarque's hardcore site was loaded with the kind of photos and pronouncements key witness in the singer's child
("Ass fuckin¹ is lickin¹ gooood!!" and "We will give you a big lick on your big or molestation case, was arrested in Las
small one") that would certainly make Sneddon, a respectable father of nine, blanche. Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
and kidnapping charges.
In addition to beckoning visitors to "continue your search for the Perfect PUSSY,"
Lemarque also gave Virtual Sin visitors a glimpse of his, um, wit, with musings on Full Story »
"Why I love Whores." Included in Lemarque's misspelling-laden laundry list were:

* Whores are musicains they can play the skin flute.

* Whores know how to share with others, even their most private parts! MARCH 15--Michael Jackson
"doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
* Whores are excellent calcium therapysts, they can make an 8 inch bonner out of He's really just this regressed 10-year-
nothing. old." That was the surprising
evaluation offered to police by Dr.
Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
Though Lemarque's flagship porn site went offline in early-2004, a visit to virtualsin.
psychologist who interviewed the
com still turns up a directory with some of the now defunct site's data folders.
singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
Coupled with a search of archive.org, which captures versions of web sites over
brother--and who is expected to soon
many years, TSG was able to recover what Lemarque once offered.
testify as a government witness at
Jackson's molestation trial.
Virtual Sin also steered visitors to a firm offering the $895 Motorized Orgasmic
Release (MOR), a "patented electrically powered genital stimulation device for men
Full Story »
and women." According to the device's inventor, Lemarque designed the firm's web
site, which featured a creepy drawing showing a satisfied customer--who is attached
to the machine--lying in repose with three naked women.

In addition to Virtual Sin, Lemarque also operated Galaxy 2001, a how-to site for MARCH 7--With their sister already
wannabe online porn operators. "Selling SEX is not difficult if you know how to struggling on the witness stand, the
manage your boat through the intricacies of the Internet," noted Lemarque. He Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
claimed that Galaxy 2001 doubled as a web host and housed "hundred of adult web the molestation case against Michael
site" on its servers. Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
with their anticipated testimony
Among the porn tutorials sold by Lemarque was one offering instruction on how to appearing more crucial than ever.
shoot your own sex videos. The site also contained a flashing link with the words
"TEENS TEENS TEENS" that went to another Lemarque site where the X-rated Full Story »
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photos featured women clearly beyond 19. Another Lemarque web site offered
sophomoric sex cartoons drawn by the former Neverland employee (click here to see
two examples).
FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be
After shuttering his online porn business, Lemarque launched a web site covering reporting live from the Santa Maria
the southern California restaurant scene. And while Lemarque and wife Stella courthouse with up-to-the-minute
primarily report on wine tastings and L.A.'s top chefs, Jackson also figures into their accounts of opening statements
new venture. delivered by Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
On a section of the site dedicated to their Jackson tenure, Lemarque tells of lawyer Thomas Mesereau.
authoring a book about the couple's experience at Neverland Ranch, "especially
Michael's behavior which at time puzzle the public." Offering a "glimpse of this Full Report »
prestigious and sinful hideaway," Lemarque's book also addresses "the most hush,
hush topic at the ranch that barely anyone has ever unveiled--the 'Ghosts of Never
Land Valley.'"

Previous versions of the Lemarque site, besteatz.com, offered visitors the chance, for FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles
$4.95, to download "the Complete Chapter of our stay at: Michael Jackson's Never boy who has accused Michael Jackson
Land Valley." But with Lemarque poised to testify against his famous former of molestation told investigators that
employer, his Jackson e-book is no longer available--it's simply said to be "coming the singer was a naif when it came to
soon." "the birds and the bees," claiming that
his alleged abuser "didn't know much.
I knew more than he did."

Full Story »

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: D.A.'s Sleazy Witness - April 4, 2005

1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: The Jackson 5 - March 28, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

Prosecutor details prior molestation charges against Michael Jackson, wants jury to hear
evidence of star's alleged pedophilic past

Judge will allow testimony that Michael Jackson previously

molested five boys; victims said to include Macaulay Culkin,
noted choreographer

MARCH 28--In a significant legal setback for Michael Jackson, a judge ruled today
that Santa Barbara prosecutors can present jurors with evidence that the performer
previously molested five young boys. JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
victory for Michael Jackson, a
Judge Rodney Melville's bombshell decision came after a two-hour hearing during California jury today acquitted the
which Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon outlined several separate "prior singer of charges that he molested a
bad acts" that investigators sought to present to the 12-member Superior Court jury. teenage cancer survivor and conspired
to falsely imprison the boy and his
Ruling from the bench after the family at his sprawling Neverland
hearing, Melville told a packed Ranch estate.
courtroom that he will allow
prosecutors to present testimony that Full Story »
Jackson previously molested five
boys, including actor Macaulay
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Culkin (pictured right) and

choreographer Wade Robson
(pictured left). That evidence,
MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
Melville ruled, is admissible to show a pattern of "grooming" on the entertainer's
crucial defense witness in the Michael
part.
Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
today fired a blank on the witness
While Melville denied a government request to present testimony about two other stand, testifying that he was never
boys, he ruled that prosecutors will be allowed to introduce evidence about a pair of asked for money when contacted five
financial settlements entered into by Jackson with two of the prior accusers (though years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
Melville said that the D.A. is precluded from mentioning the settlement amounts). at the center of the current child
molestation prosecution.
Testimony about the prior incidents will come from one of the alleged victims (the
son of a former Neverland Ranch maid) and eight third-party witnesses, according to Full Story »
Melville's ruling. That witness list includes the ex-maid, another former Neverland
household employee, ex-Jackson assistant Bob Jones, former security guard Ralph
Chacon, and the mother of Jordan Chandler, the California boy who first leveled
abuse charges against the King of Pop in 1993 (and who settled a related civil
lawsuit for more than $15 million). MAY 11--Ending months of
speculation and anticipation,
Melville's decision appears to reflect his belief that admission of the prior incidents, Macaulay Culkin took the witness
none of which resulted in criminal charges against Jackson, would not serve to stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
unfairly buttress the current case, which centers on allegations that the performer morning and forcefully denied that the
molested a Los Angeles boy, now 15, in early 2003. entertainer ever molested him, terming
those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
The ruling is Melville's tacit acknowledgment that Sneddon's current case is not
nearly as wobbly as Jackson lawyer Thomas Mesereau claims it to be, and that Full Story »
prosecutors would not improperly benefit from the introduction of "propensity"
material allowed under California law. Section 1108 of the state's Evidence Code (an
amendment signed into law in 1996) allows testimony about alleged prior bad acts
so long as its usefulness is not outweighed by any potential prejudicial effect on a
APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
jury.
Michael Jackson case couldn't
possibly get any sleazier, things have
As a result of Melville's decision to admit so-called 1108 evidence, jurors will now now officially hit the slippery slope.
weigh the 2003 molestation allegations in the light of other troubling charges from Literally. In a legal motion released
Jackson's past. This is, of course, especially crucial in light of the multimillion dollar late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
settlement deals. While not admissions of guilt, details of these decade-old that they are seeking to present jurors
agreements--Chandler's deal and a $2 million settlement with the maid's son--could with testimony from a former
prove devastating. employee that involves a jar of
Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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Melville's decision came after a and a teenage boy in the singer's

remarkable hearing during which bedroom.
Sneddon offered a detailed
recitation of what he said was Full Story »
Jackson's history of sexually
abusing boys. Having
investigated the singer for 12
years, Sneddon offered up the
fruits of that lengthy pursuit, APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
charging that Jackson's pedophilia that Michael Jackson sexually
was borne out by a variety of molested Macaulay Culkin and
illicit acts, including: screened X-rated movies for other
boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
* One "prior child," Sneddon said, will testify to three separate instances during prosecutors are expected to soon call
which his genitals were touched by Jackson. On two occasions, the child was as a government witness a Los
fondled outside his clothes, and once the singer "thrust" his hands inside the boy's Angeles man who has described
pants. The witness in question is the son of Blanca Francia, the former Neverland himself as the "master authority" on
Ranch maid. The woman and her son, now 24, received a $2 million legal settlement Internet porn.
from Jackson in 1994 (and both were included on the prosecution's list of potential
trial witnesses). Full Story »

* Sneddon said that he had a witness who would testify that, on three occasions,
they saw Jackson in bed with different children and "that the child and the
defandant's underpants were lying next to the bed."
MARCH 28--In a significant legal
setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
* Witnesses, Sneddon told Melville, would testify to five incidents involving four ruled today that Santa Barbara
children (ages 10-13) who were kissed and/or inappropriately touched in the genitals prosecutors can present jurors with
by Jackson. evidence that the performer previously
molested five young boys.
* Two witnesses will testify that they heard Jackson encourage children to call him
"Daddy," which echos claims by the current accuser and his family members. Full Story »

* One witness told probers of seeing the entertainer lick the head of a young boy.
The incident mirrors a claim from the current molestation case (the accuser's brother
and mother have both told investigators that they saw Jackson lick the accuser's head
while the boy slept during a 2003 flight from Miami to Santa Barbara).

In arguing for admission of such evidence, Sneddon said that Jackson has long
shown a proclivity for illicit behavior with young boys the entertainer considers
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"special friends." He noted that Jackson's grooming of young boys often included
the purchase of gifts for a child's mother, so as to keep the parent preoccupied while
he frolicked with the minor.
MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's
former bodyguard, expected to be a
After Sneddon's 40-minute presentation, Mesereau told key witness in the singer's child
Melville that the D.A.'s case so far has been a weak molestation case, was arrested in Las
one, riddled with repeated lies and contradictions from Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
the alleged victim and his two siblings. Testimony and kidnapping charges.
about uncharged behavior, Mesereau (pictured right)
said, would only serve to prop up Sneddon's case.
Full Story »

Noting that prosecutors had yet to call the victim's mother to the witness stand, MARCH 15--Michael Jackson
Mesereau asked that Melville delay his decision on the introduction of prior bad acts "doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
testimony until the woman testifies. Referring to how Sneddon's case has been He's really just this regressed 10-year-
unfolding, Mesereau remarked, "Every time they put on a witness, it gets worse." old." That was the surprising
evaluation offered to police by Dr.
Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
Jackson's lawyer then went into a point-by-point attack of the old material Sneddon
psychologist who interviewed the
sought to introduce. With the exception of Chandler and the maid's son, the other
singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
five boys allegedly molested by Jackson have all repeatedly denied being abused by
brother--and who is expected to soon
the performer, Mesereau said. Additionally, since Chandler is not going to testify,
testify as a government witness at
Mesereau said, jurors would only hear direct testimony from one of the seven boys
Jackson's molestation trial.
prosecutors claim Jackson sexually abused.

Full Story »
Mesereau said that many of the third-party witnesses Sneddon would call to testify
about the prior abuse were tabloid informants, disgruntled former employees, and
money-hungry litigants. He specifically mentioned a group of former Neverland
workers who sued Jackson for wrongful termination and were routed in court (in
fact, they lost a countersuit brought by Jackson and were hit with a seven-figure MARCH 7--With their sister already
legal judgment, which drove some into bankruptcy). struggling on the witness stand, the
Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
Testimony about the alleged prior incidents--most of which date back more than a the molestation case against Michael
decade--would be incredibly time consuming, Mesereau said, adding that "all is fair Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
game" when it came to examining the motivations of the third-party witnesses. with their anticipated testimony
Mesereau specifically mentioned how Francia sold her story to a television tabloid appearing more crucial than ever.
show, but then later disavowed her TV claims during a sworn deposition.
Full Story »
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Before Melville called a short break, Mesereau again mentioned the accuser's
mother, saying, "The best is yet to come because the mother has not yet testified."
He added, "I submit it (the government's case) looks real bad, and it's gonna get
worse."
FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be
reporting live from the Santa Maria
courthouse with up-to-the-minute
accounts of opening statements
delivered by Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.

Full Report »

FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles

Full Story »

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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Jackson Prosecution Witness In Stir - March 23, 2005

Jackson Prosecution Witness In Stir

Cops: Star's ex-bodyguard robbed Jack in the Box at gunpoint

MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's former bodyguard, expected to be a key witness in the

singer's child molestation case, was arrested in Las Vegas last month on robbery,
burglary and kidnapping charges. According to a 15-count indictment filed today,
Christopher Carter, 25, allegedly robbed four chain stores over a 16-month period
beginning in October 2003 (he left Jackson's employ that August). According to a
police report, Carter's last heist was the February 2 gunpoint robbery of a Jack
in the Box restaurant, which netted him $239. Carter is jailed in a Clark County
lockup and is scheduled for a March 28 Justice Court appearance on the
indictment's various felony charges. It is unclear how Carter's arrest, which came
on February 19, will affect his anticipated role as a prosecution witness. As TSG
first reported, Carter last year told a Santa Barbara grand jury that, one
afternoon, he discovered Jackson's teenage accuser drunk at the star's Neverland
Ranch. Carter testified that he confronted the boy, then 13, who replied, "Well, I
can handle it. Michael said if I can handle it, it's okay. It's part of being a
man." Carter, who worked for Jackson for about a year, testified that the
performer told children that he referred to wine as "Jesus Juice" because "Jesus
drank wine, so we shall be more like Jesus." Along with Jack in the Box, Carter's
alleged retail victims included Radio Shack, Subway, and KB Toys. Pictured below
in a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department mug shot, Carter is a felon whose
rap sheet includes an October 2000 conviction for drug possession with intent to
distribute. (9 pages)

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: The Psychologist - March 15, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

Doctor who interviewed accuser says Jackson no pedophile; tells cops that teenager invoked
name of boy who brought 1993 molestation charges

Doctor who interviewed accuser says Jackson no pedophile;

tells cops teenager invoked name of boy who brought 1993
molestation charges

MARCH 15--Michael Jackson "doesn't really qualify as

a pedophile. He's really just this regressed 10-year-old."
JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
victory for Michael Jackson, a
California jury today acquitted the
singer of charges that he molested a
teenage cancer survivor and conspired
to falsely imprison the boy and his
family at his sprawling Neverland
Ranch estate.

Full Story »

That was the surprising evaluation offered to police by Dr. Stanley Katz, the Los

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: The Psychologist - March 15, 2005

Angeles psychologist who interviewed the singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
brother--and who is expected to soon testify as a government witness at Jackson's
molestation trial.
MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
crucial defense witness in the Michael
In a taped June 2003 telephone interview, Katz, 55, gave a Santa Barbara sheriff's Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
investigator his "off the record" opinion of the 46-year-old entertainer. Jackson, Katz today fired a blank on the witness
told Det. Paul Zelis, "is a guy that's like a 10-year-old child. And, you know, he's stand, testifying that he was never
doing what a 10-year-old would do with his little buddies. You know, they're gonna asked for money when contacted five
jack off, watch movies, drink wine, you know. And, you know, he doesn't even years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
really qualify as a pedophile. He's really just this regressed 10-year-old." at the center of the current child
molestation prosecution.
"Yeah, yeah, I agree," replied Zelis.
Full Story »
According to Katz, he twice interviewed Jackson's alleged victim and the teenager's
younger brother in his Beverly Hills office, once on May 29, 2003 and again the
following month. During those interviews, the younger boy spoke openly of
Jackson's alleged illicit behavior, while the older boy broke down when Katz asked
whether he had ever been molested by the performer. MAY 11--Ending months of
speculation and anticipation,
It was during these sessions that the older boy surprisingly revealed that he was Macaulay Culkin took the witness
aware that Jackson had faced prior child abuse allegations (a criminal probe stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
evaporated after an eight-figure civil settlement was struck in 1994 with accuser morning and forcefully denied that the
Jordan Chandler and his family). entertainer ever molested him, terming
those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
Katz told Zelis that it took a lot of time to get the older boy to trust him, noting that
Full Story »
he was aided by the child's mother, who "had to really spell out" that the
psychologist was "helping us, working for us." Katz told Zelis that he assured the
child he was doing the right thing by relating his experiences at Neverland Ranch.
"We talked all about how courageous this was," Katz told Zelis, "and I said to him,
'You know, you don't want Jackson to do these things to kids again, do you?'" APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
Michael Jackson case couldn't
Katz recalled that the boy responded, "Well, Jordy Chandler did not stop him." possibly get any sleazier, things have
now officially hit the slippery slope.
The child's reference to Jackson's original accuser will likely be seized upon by Literally. In a legal motion released
defense attorney Thomas Mesereau, who has argued that the current molestation late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
allegations are a sham, part of a extortion scheme that has similarities to the 1993 that they are seeking to present jurors
case (while denying the original allegations, Jackson has said he paid more than $20 with testimony from a former
million to settle the case because he feared prolonged litigation would affect his employee that involves a jar of
career). Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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and a teenage boy in the singer's

A Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department report of Zelis's June
bedroom.
2003 interview with Katz, which The Smoking Gun has
reviewed, does not address how the boy knew of the
Full Story »
Chandler case or whether he had discussed the 1993 matter
with his mother, whom Mesereau has branded the grifting
mastermind of her children's abuse tales. The woman has
claimed that she first learned that her son was molested by
Jackson on September 30, 2003, when several APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
investigators, including District Attorney Tom Sneddon, that Michael Jackson sexually
broke the news to her during a meeting at an L.A. hotel. molested Macaulay Culkin and
screened X-rated movies for other
boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
prosecutors are expected to soon call
The lawyer for the current accuser's family is Larry Feldman, the Century City as a government witness a Los
litigator who represented Chandler and filed a sexual battery lawsuit against Jackson Angeles man who has described
in September 1993. Testifying last year before the Jackson grand jury, Feldman said himself as the "master authority" on
that he had a "sixth sense" that the older boy wasn't telling him what "really Internet porn.
happened" with Jackson. So, Feldman testified, he sent the boy and his family to
Katz, a child abuse specialist, for further interviews. Feldman also testified that he Full Story »
had retained Katz during the 1993 case, but that he never got around to using the
psychologist "because the case ultimately settled about four or five months into the
litigation."

While the accuser and his mother have repeatedly denied ever contemplating a MARCH 28--In a significant legal
lawsuit against Jackson, Katz left a different impression during his debriefing by setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
Zelis. The child psychologist noted that "Mr. Feldman actually referred these kids to ruled today that Santa Barbara
me. Because they had come to him in this lawsuit." After remarking that he was left prosecutors can present jurors with
with the impression that the accuser and his brother were not fabricating their evidence that the performer previously
claims, Katz said, "Now there's a lawsuit that Feldman's gonna file. And I don't get molested five young boys.
the idea that they're [the brothers] doing this for money. Whether mother's motive is
to do it for money, I can't tell you. I mean, certainly they're, they're kind of a poor Full Story »
family."

"I don't think they see the financial motive here because when I sat down with [the
accuser]," Katz continued, "I said,'...look, if you go ahead with the civil lawsuit your
family will get money if you win.'" When he told the boy that his identity could
become public via such a legal proceeding, Katz said, "he sat there and started
crying. So I don't feel like you know, from [the boy]'s point of view at all, this is
something he wants to do. I think he feels really caught."

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JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: The Psychologist - March 15, 2005

1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: Boys Don't Lie? - March 7, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

Discrepancies in the accuser and his brother's molestation accounts will fuel Jackson defense

Discrepancies in the accuser and his brother's molestation

accounts will fuel Jackson defense

MARCH 7--With their sister already struggling

on the witness stand, the Los Angeles brothers
at the heart of the molestation case against
Michael Jackson are now waiting in the wings, JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
with their anticipated testimony appearing victory for Michael Jackson, a
more crucial than ever. California jury today acquitted the
singer of charges that he molested a
teenage cancer survivor and conspired
to falsely imprison the boy and his
family at his sprawling Neverland
Ranch estate.
However, the pair's accounts of Jackson's illegal behavior have been fluid and filled
with the kind of troubling inconsistencies and contradictions that could easily Full Story »
undermine their uncorroborated version of the singer's alleged sex assaults in his
Neverland Ranch bedroom. Based on The Smoking Gun's review of sealed search
warrant affidavits and investigative reports and the 1903-page grand jury transcript,
below you'll find several key areas in which the teenage duo's tales appear ripe for a
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vigorous cross examination by Jackson lawyer Thomas Mesereau.

MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a

BROTHER SEES MOLESTATION
crucial defense witness in the Michael
Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
Like his siblings, the accuser's brother, now 14, first spoke of today fired a blank on the witness
Jackson's alleged abuse during a May 29, 2003 interview with stand, testifying that he was never
Stanley Katz, an L.A. child psychologist to whom the children were asked for money when contacted five
referred by the family's lawyer, Larry Feldman. years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
at the center of the current child
molestation prosecution.
In an interview with detectives, Katz recalled that the boy told him of two instances
in which he saw Jackson place his hand on his brother's crotch, above the boy's Full Story »
clothes. However, on July 7, during his first interview with sheriff's investigators,
the child's story shifted considerably.

This time, he claimed to have seen Jackson place his left hand under the front of his
MAY 11--Ending months of
brother's pajama pants during the first alleged incident. Jackson, he told cops, was
speculation and anticipation,
"jacking off" with his right hand. During the second molestation, the boy reported,
Macaulay Culkin took the witness
Jackson's erect penis was exposed and the performer was masturbating.
stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
morning and forcefully denied that the
The boy again tweaked his account in an August 13 police interview, saying that entertainer ever molested him, terming
Jackson had placed his hand inside the front of his brother's boxer shorts--the only those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
mention that his brother wore that kind of underwear. The accuser has said he wore
Hanes briefs during the molestations, and when investigators raided Jackson's estate
Full Story »
in November 2003, among the items they searched for were that brand of briefs, not
boxers.

During the younger boy's initial grand jury appearance, he testified that his brother
was wearing "underwear and a shirt" during the first assault and "pants shorts" APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
during the second alleges molestation. Gone were any mentions of pajama pants, Michael Jackson case couldn't
boxers, and, of course, inappropriate touching over his brother's clothes. possibly get any sleazier, things have
now officially hit the slippery slope.
In a follow-up grand jury appearance on April 15, the boy also committed himself to Literally. In a legal motion released
other facts that will surely be called into question by Mesereau. late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
that they are seeking to present jurors
For example, the boy said that the two molestations occurred between 1:00 AM and with testimony from a former
2:00 AM--when Jackson's home was presumably quiet. The child testified that as he employee that involves a jar of
headed for the singer's bedroom, which is on the second floor of Neverland's main Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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house, he set off two alarms, which were triggered by hidden sensors. The boy and a teenage boy in the singer's
claimed that tripping the sensors triggered two loud "ding-ding" sounds. Asked if bedroom.
Jackson could have heard the tones, the boy first said no, since a door leading to the
stairs to the singer's bedroom was closed. He later modified that claim, noting that Full Story »
you can, in fact, hear the warning alarm from Jackson's bedroom if the downstairs
door was closed. But, the boy claimed, the alarm sound was "really low." Which, it
seems, would defeat the purpose of a security system that detectives have claimed,
for more than a decade, was used by Jackson to alert him when someone was
approaching the stairs to his bedroom. The inference being, of course, that those APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
"ding-ding" warnings would give Jackson time to stop molesting a boy before that Michael Jackson sexually
someone--maids, aides, police--reached his room. molested Macaulay Culkin and
screened X-rated movies for other
The boy, who claimed to have seen his brother's molestation from a vantage point on boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
the stairs, testified that he watched each episode for "about a minute" before heading prosecutors are expected to soon call
downstairs and out of the main house. In his opening statement, District Attorney as a government witness a Los
Tom Sneddon told jurors that the child was "frozen by what he saw" from his Angeles man who has described
stairwell perch. The boy, however, never offered investigators (or the grand jury) himself as the "master authority" on
such a dramatic explanation for his lingering look. Internet porn.

[March 7 update: During the younger brother's direct testimony this afternoon, the Full Story »
boy told Sneddon that he watched the first molestation for four seconds and the
second assault for three seconds. Sneddon did not ask about the child's grand jury
claim to have watched each episode for "about a minute." Additionally, when
Sneddon asked if he saw any liquor in Jackson's bedroom during the first
molestation, the boy answered, "I don't think so." However, during his March 29, MARCH 28--In a significant legal
2004 grand jury testimony, the boy said, "there was vodka on the, like there's a little setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
night table with two glasses on the side."] ruled today that Santa Barbara
prosecutors can present jurors with
evidence that the performer previously
Based solely on the younger brother's account, Jackson has been charged with a pair
molested five young boys.
of felony molestation counts in connection with these two alleged incidents.
Full Story »
GOLF CART GROPE

During his interview with Katz, the younger brother claimed that he was once
traveling in a golf cart with Jackson when the entertainer allegedly reached over and
placed his hand on the child's penis--again over the clothes. At the time of this
alleged March 2003 incident--which the boy said occurred in the days before he
watched Jackson molest his brother--the child was driving the golf cart, with
Jackson to his right.
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In his first interview with detectives, on July 7, the boy claimed that while he drove,
Jackson reached over with his left hand and touched the boy's "penis and testicles"
over his clothing. MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's
former bodyguard, expected to be a
However, by the time the boy reached the Santa Barbara grand jury on March 29, key witness in the singer's child
2004, his story had changed. During a drive through Neverland, Jackson, he molestation case, was arrested in Las
testified, "put his hand--he wasn't close to my private area, but he put his hand on Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
my leg until we reached the train station, then he moved his hand." During his and kidnapping charges.
second grand jury appearance, on April 15, the boy said Jackson placed his hand on
his right thigh. When prosecutor Ronald Zonen asked, "How close to your crotch?" Full Story »
the child replied, "About a couple of inches. But he wasn't touching it."

Jackson has not been charged in connection with the alleged golf cart incident.
MARCH 15--Michael Jackson
"doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
ATTEMPTED MOLESTATION
He's really just this regressed 10-year-
old." That was the surprising
During his first interview with detectives, on July 7, 2003, the alleged evaluation offered to police by Dr.
victim, now 15, claimed that Jackson once took his hand and made Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
him touch the performer's "private part" over his clothes. The child psychologist who interviewed the
would later testify that he believed the incident occurred while he singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
was being molested by Jackson. brother--and who is expected to soon
testify as a government witness at
Jackson's molestation trial.
In an August 13 police interview, the accuser was again asked if he was "made to do
anything to" Jackson. He answered, "I don't know. I don't think he did." The child
told detectives that he believed Jackson "asked him something about touching" him, Full Story »
but that he told the performer he "didn't want to." When detectives reminded him of
his July 7 claim that Jackson made him touch him on the outside of his pants, the
teenager "said he could not remember that," according to a sealed search warrant
affidavit.
MARCH 7--With their sister already
struggling on the witness stand, the
However, by the time of his first grand jury appearance, the boy had rallied, Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
becoming more certain of this alleged molestation attempt. the molestation case against Michael
Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
Asked if he ever touched Jackson, the boys said, "No. He--he wanted me to, but I with their anticipated testimony
didn't. I said no. And I pulled my hand away." He added, "He put his hand on my appearing more crucial than ever.
hand, and he was trying to gesture my hand to go to where he wanted me to touch it.
I pulled my hand away." Full Story »
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For this alleged incident, Jackson was charged with a felony count of attempting to
commit a lewd act upon a child. In his closing statement to grand jurors, Zonen
claimed that while the incident wasn't "even attempted, it's actually completed child
molestation," prosecutors were "going to give Mr. Jackson the benefit of the doubt FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be
on that one" and only charge him with an attempted lewd act. reporting live from the Santa Maria
courthouse with up-to-the-minute
accounts of opening statements
delivered by Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.

Full Report »

FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles

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FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

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JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

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1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Case Against Michael Jackson

Teen accuser told investigators he knew more about "birds and bees" than Michael Jackson

The Smoking Gun reports live from opening statements in the

Michael Jackson trial.

MARCH 1--TSG continues with our dispatches from the Santa Maria courthouse,
so check back regularly for the most up-to-date accounts of arguments delivered by
Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson lawyer Thomas
Mesereau. Today, Mesereau resumes his opening statement. JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
victory for Michael Jackson, a
California jury today acquitted the
8:35 AM PST: Resuming his opening statement, singer of charges that he molested a
Mesereau came out blasting this morning, aiming his teenage cancer survivor and conspired
fire at the accuser and his siblings, saying that while to falsely imprison the boy and his
the children were initially well behaved, they became family at his sprawling Neverland
"out of control" while in residence at Jackson's Ranch estate.
Neverland Ranch. Mesereau told jurors that they:
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* Broke into the estate's wine cellar

* Broke into a refrigerator MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a

crucial defense witness in the Michael
* Stole alcohol that Jackson had ordered for guests (and were found drunk by ranch Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
employees) today fired a blank on the witness
stand, testifying that he was never
* At Neverland's amusement park, they were discovered at the top of a ferris wheel, asked for money when contacted five
where they threw objects at elephants and people years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
at the center of the current child
Addressing the stash of porno magazines discovered in his home during a November molestation prosecution.
2003 raid, Mesereau said, "Mr. Jackson will freely admit that he does read girly
magazines from time to time." But, Mesereau added, Jackson kept titles like Playboy Full Story »
and Hustler in a briefcase. When the accuser and his brother removed magazines
from the briefcase, Mesereau said, Jackson took them back from the boys (this
would seem to serve as the defense explanation for why the fingerprints of Jackson
and the boys were recovered from the magazines). He also noted that forensic
investigators did not discover the accuser's DNA in Jackson's bedroom, where MAY 11--Ending months of
multiple acts of molestation allegedly occurred. speculation and anticipation,
Macaulay Culkin took the witness
Continuing his attack on the accuser's mother, Mesereau said that the woman stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
deposited illegally obtained welfare checks into the account of her boyfriend, an morning and forcefully denied that the
Army Reserves major who earned $8000-a-month. He also said that the woman had entertainer ever molested him, terming
numerous chances to alert law enforcement authorities that her family was being those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
held against its will at Jackson's estate...but she never said a thing. And as for
prosecution claims that the family has never considered filing a lawsuit against Full Story »
Jackson, Mesereau pointed out that the mother, in conversations with law
enforcement officials, mentioned that her children would have until they were 18 to
file a civil claim against the performer (while the woman's daughter is 18, the
accuser is 15 and his brother is 14).
APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
Countering Sneddon's claim that the woman was not Michael Jackson case couldn't
seeking money from Jackson, Mesereau said that he will possibly get any sleazier, things have
prove that her lawyer, Larry Feldman, told CNN's Larry now officially hit the slippery slope.
King (during a lunch) that "she wants money." He also Literally. In a legal motion released
told jurors that Jackson's doctor (apparently Alimorad late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
Farshchian) would rebut prosecution witness claims that that they are seeking to present jurors
Jackson served alcohol to the teenage accuser on a with testimony from a former
February 2003 flight from Miami to Santa Barbara. employee that involves a jar of
Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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and a teenage boy in the singer's

bedroom.

Mesereau may also have signaled plans to have his client testify by remarking to Full Story »
jurors that, "Michael Jackson will tell you" that he eventually became suspicious of
the family. Mesereau noted that the performer was particularly put off once when
the accuser's mother grabbed his hand and asked her children to kneel down and
pray with "Daddy Michael."
APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
Jackson, Mesereau said, was "sucked in" by the accuser and his family, and paid the that Michael Jackson sexually
price when he declined to underwrite them: "Look what happens when you don't molested Macaulay Culkin and
take responsibility for this family for the rest of your life." Mesereau concluded by screened X-rated movies for other
saying that jurors would hear a lot of testimony during a lengthy trial, but would boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
come to the determination that Jackson is "absolutely not guilty of any of this." prosecutors are expected to soon call
as a government witness a Los
9:43 AM: Meserau's opening concludes and the court takes a brief recess. When Angeles man who has described
court resumes, journalist Martin Bashir will be called as the prosecution's first himself as the "master authority" on
witness. Internet porn.

Full Story »
February 28...

9:12 AM PST: "On February the 3rd of 2003, Michael

Jackson's, the defendant in this case, world was rocked.
And it didn't rock in a musical sense. It rocked in a real life MARCH 28--In a significant legal
sense," District Attorney Tom Sneddon told Santa Barbara setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
jurors this morning. On that date, Sneddon explained, ruled today that Santa Barbara
Martin Bashir's documentary "Living with Michael prosecutors can present jurors with
Jackson" aired in England, immediately creating a evidence that the performer previously
firestorm over the pop singer's admission that he shared his molested five young boys.
bed with boys to whom he was unrelated. Jackson's world
was so rocked, Sneddon reported, that an associate, Marc Full Story »
Schaffel, described the fallout from the Bashir production
as a "train wreck."

At this point, Sneddon noted that some might be surprised that the defendant was
"heavily in debt." An objection from Jackson lawyer Thomas Mesereau was
sustained by Judge Rodney Melville, despite Sneddon's contention that the motive
for the alleged conspiracy revolved around Jackson's possible financial peril.

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9:28 AM PST: The case against Jackson, Sneddon said, is "about the manipulation
of the young boy's adolescence through exposing him to strange sexual behavior and
introducing him to sexually graphic adult magazines." The child, a 13-year-old
MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's
cancer survivor, was exploited, in part, because he was estranged from his father.
former bodyguard, expected to be a
Sneddon noted that Jackson was a man who had a "long-standing custom and habit
key witness in the singer's child
of sharing his bedroom, and his bed, with young boys." Sneddon also noted that the
molestation case, was arrested in Las
singer had the teenage accuser refer to him as "Daddy."
Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
and kidnapping charges.
In the wake of the Bashir broadcast, Sneddon told jurors, the accuser and his family
were viewed as a "loose end" that needed to be contained and isolated by the
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Jackson camp, which was, in early-February 2003, planning a "rebuttal" video to
"Living with Michael Jackson." In a bid to secure an interview with the family for
the rebuttal program, Jackson and his aides used "logic, reason, and appeals to trust,"
but when those approaches failed, they got their interview "through extortion."
MARCH 15--Michael Jackson
9:45 AM PST: After his opening remarks, Sneddon fell into a familiar recitation of "doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
the case against Jackson, which he said began in 2000 when the accuser, then 10, He's really just this regressed 10-year-
was living in a studio apartment in Los Angeles. It was then that the child was old." That was the surprising
diagnosed with cancer and underwent operations to remove a 16-pound tumor, evaluation offered to police by Dr.
lesions from his lung, and a kidney. While doctors told his family to prepare for a Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
funeral, Sneddon noted, the child is a "fighter" who survived cancer. Now 15, he is a psychologist who interviewed the
high school freshman, who plays on his school's football team and participates in a singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
Navy-sponsored youth program. brother--and who is expected to soon
testify as a government witness at
The youth's cancer diagnosis, Sneddon reported, led to his introduction to Jamie Jackson's molestation trial.
Masada, owner of L.A.'s Laugh Factory. As a "last wish," Masada arranged for the
boy to speak with comedians Chris Tucker and Adam Sandler. And with Jackson, Full Story »
who invited the child and his family to his Neverland Ranch. The boy's first visit to
the 2800-acre estate came while he was in recovery (Jackson dispatched a limousine
to the family's home for the three-hour trip to Neverland).

During that first stay, Sneddon said, Jackson pulled the boy aside at one point and MARCH 7--With their sister already
asked him to ask his parents if he could stay with the performer, then 43, in his struggling on the witness stand, the
bedroom. The parents agreed and the child and his younger brother bunked that Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
night with Jackson, (the boys slept on Jackson's bed while the performer slept on the the molestation case against Michael
floor). It was during the brothers's first Neverland stay that Jackson and aide Frank Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
Cascio showed the boys pornographic web sites on a laptop computer in Jackson's with their anticipated testimony
bedroom. As they looked at photos of topless women, Jackson remarked "Got appearing more crucial than ever.
Milk?" at one point, Sneddon said. The singer even directed a lurid comment at his
three-year-old son, who was sleeping on the bed. "Prince," he said to the boy, Full Story »
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"you're missing a lot of pussy."

From that point, Sneddon noted, the accuser "became one of those boys that shared
Michael Jackson's bed." The prosecutor added that "the private world of Michael FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be
Jackson is quite different" from the public perception. When the star entertained reporting live from the Santa Maria
children at his home, the minors visited porn sites with Jackson and viewed sexually courthouse with up-to-the-minute
explicit magazines like "Barely Legal" and "many others with far more offensive accounts of opening statements
covers and cover titles." delivered by Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
9:55 AM PST: Segueing into a section of his opening dealing with alcohol, lawyer Thomas Mesereau.
Sneddon painted a dark picture of what boys encountered at Jackson's home: "You
see, the private world of Michael Jackson reveals that instead of cookies and instead Full Report »
of milk, you can substitute wine, vodka, and bourbon." While the entertainer claims
not to drink, Sneddon said, witnesses will dispute that contention. In fact, he added,
Jackson encouraged children to imbibe, and personally served them alcohol at times.

To support these alcohol claims, Sneddon said prosecutors will present testimony FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles
from flight attendants who served Jackson alcohol concealed in Diet Coke cans. boy who has accused Michael Jackson
Jurors will also hear from ex-bodyguard Christopher Carter, who will testify that he of molestation told investigators that
once saw the accuser drunk at Neverland, and former house manager Jesus Salas, the singer was a naif when it came to
who told investigators that he once brought booze to Jackson and several young "the birds and the bees," claiming that
children. And when Salas arrived in Jackson's bedroom, Sneddon noted, "he saw the his alleged abuser "didn't know much.
defendant and three children sitting on the bed. And when he came back the next I knew more than he did."
morning to clean out the bedroom, both bottles were empty, and the glasses had
been used." Full Story »

A peek into Jackson's world, Sneddon said, reveals that it is not a Peter Pan
existence, but rather one filled with sexually explicit magazines and frequent talk
with boys about masturbation, which the singer emphasizes is "normal." These acts,
Sneddon said, were "calculated to desensitize the boy, to change his moral antenna, FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual
and to add the trust and the admiration of an adult voice to the boy's conduct to molestation case against Michael
convince him that what was being done was all right in the adult world. And it Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
worked." highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
10:02 AM PST: Moving into a description of Jackson's estate, Sneddon described it younger brother, a Santa Barbara
as a place that has been "used for beautiful causes. For the children, the grand jury last year heard testimony
underprivileged children, for the children who have been suffering, who have been from other key witnesses--several of
brought there to share a day or a weekend on the ranch. It's something very good." whom worked closely with the
The prosecutor added, however, "But just like so many things in life, something very embattled singer--that appears to
good can end up being, on another occasion, in another setting, something very corroborate many key aspects of the
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bad." Sneddon told jurors that they would get a good sense of Neverland through children's accounts of their troubling
videos shot at the sprawling property. He described the estate as a children's relationship with Jackson.
wonderland, with its amusement park, zoo, and go-cart track. He also told of a secret
wine cellar--the entrance to which is hidden behind a jukebox in the arcade Full Story »
building--where Jackson's "special guests" were poured alcohol by the entertainer
himself.

Sneddon's tour of the property stopped into Jackson's office and bedroom, where, he
said, investigators found pornographic magazines and DVDs during the execution of FEBRUARY 17--In addition to
a November 18, 2003 search warrant. Fifteen sexually explicit magazines were valuable items of evidence seized
found "laying by the tub" in Jackson's private bathroom. A briefcase also contained from Michael Jackson's Neverland
porno mags. And raiders, Sneddon noted, also found porn in a nightstand, which Ranch, investigators also hit major
also contained cards and letters from the accuser and his family (some missives were paydirt while executing search
addressed to "Daddy Michael"). warrants at the home of a business
associate of the singer and the Beverly
10:22 AM PST: Testimony from two former Jackson employees--Salas and maid Hills office of a private investigator
Blanca Francia--will show that Jackson, Sneddon told jurors, was "pathological" working for Jackson, according to
about not allowing anyone in his Neverland bedroom without his permission. sealed court records reviewed by TSG.
Because, he said, "it is in this room and on that bed" that Jackson "opened up his
Samsonite briefcase and displayed to the boys numerous sexually explicit Full Story »
magazines." While in his bedroom with the accuser, Sneddon said, Jackson
simulated sexual intercourse with a mannequin and once walked in naked while the
child and his brother watched a movie. And, Sneddon said, "It's in this room and on
that bed that [the accuser] was molested by the defendant. And it's in this room and
on that bed that [the accuser's brother] saw his brother molested on two separate FEBRUARY 17--During a November
occasions." 2003 press conference called to
announce criminal charges against
Michael Jackson, Santa Barbara
Returning to the pornographic magazines seized by investigators Steve Robel and
investigators were asked about the
Paul Zelis, Sneddon told jurors that latent fingerprints from both boys were lifted
prospect of additional victims besides
from the titles, one of which also carried Jackson's fingerprints. Jackson used the
the Los Angeles boy who had accused
magazines, Sneddon told jurors, to "stimulate" the accuser's "emerging sexuality."
the entertainer of molestation. Sheriff
Jim Anderson replied, "Yes, there is
10:40 AM PST: Turning to the alleged victim's brother, who is seen on the Bashir that possibility and we would
video as a chubby-faced 12-year-old, Sneddon said that jurors will hear testimony encourage the public to come forward
from a 225-pound 14-year-old who plays center on his school's freshman football if they have any information" about
team. The child will testify that, on two occasions, he saw his brother being similar sexual assaults.
molested by Jackson while the child lay unconscious on the singer's bed. The child
was "frozen by what he saw" from the staircase leading to Jackson's bedroom, and
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did not mention the incidents until months later when he was interviewed by
psychologist Stanley Katz. The boy will testify that he saw empty wine bottles on
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Jackson's nightstand during the alleged molestations, said Sneddon.

Referring to the accuser's mother, Sneddon said that the woman hired a lawyer in the JANUARY 13--Two New Jersey
wake of the Bashir broadcast not because she was upset with Jackson, but because children were served alcohol by
Bashir had not obtained releases to include her children in his documentary. Michael Jackson during an early-2003
Sneddon said that the woman has never considered filing a lawsuit against the visit to the singer's Neverland Ranch,
performer. As for the accuser himself, Sneddon noted that the child will describe according to police interviews with the
with "vivid particularity" how Jackson sexually assaulted him. California boy who has accused
Jackson of sexual molestation.
10:55 AM PST: Moving into a further description of Jackson's alleged
coconspirators--Schaffel; Cascio; Ronald Konitzer; Dieter Wiesner; and Vincent Full Story »
Amen--Sneddon referred to the 28 separate overt acts that comprise the felony
conspiracy charge leveled against Jackson (each of the coconspirators is mentioned
in multiple overt acts). The "central focus" of the alleged plot, said Sneddon, was to
isolate the family and get them to agree to appear in the Jackson camp's rebuttal
video, which was to be broadcast on Fox. JANUARY 6--While jury selection is
scheduled to begin later this month,
Hired days after the February 6, 2003 U.S. broadcast of specific details of the criminal
Martin Bashir's "Living with Michael Jackson" molestation case against Michael
documentary, Ann Gabriel briefly handled crisis Jackson have been shrouded through a
management and public relations chores for the judicial gag order, heavily redacted
entertainer. She was hired by David LeGrand, a Las legal filings, sealed court proceedings,
Vegas attorney who began representing Jackson in and other secrecy measures. But now,
January 2003. for the first time, The Smoking Gun
has compiled an authoritative, behind-
the-scenes account of the prosecution's
case against the King of Pop.
11:15 AM PST: One of the first witnesses jurors will hear from, Sneddon said, was
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Ann Gabriel, who was hired by a Jackson lawyer to handle crisis management
chores in the wake of the Bashir broadcast. Gabriel will testify about the Jackson
organization's strategy to contain fallout from the program and how the singer
himself was intimately involved in decision making.

Jackson's agreement to do interviews with Bashir was based on his belief that the
resulting documentary would help jumpstart his stalled career, Sneddon said. And
that is what led the singer to contact the accuser after having had nothing to do with
the boy for about a year. Jackson told the child to go before Bashir's camera and tell
the journalist of the star's crucial role in helping him recover from cancer. But,
Sneddon noted, that plan backfired when viewers saw the finished Bashir product,
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with its scenes of the child holding Jackson's hand and resting his head on the
performer's shoulder.
JANUARY 6--A raid of Michael
Even before the Bashir program aired in England, Sneddon said, Jackson aides were Jackson's bedroom suite turned up
panicked. Because, he told jurors, Schaffel--though his media contacts--had obtained porn galore--including books of
a transcript of the program. They realized, Sneddon said, the documentary "was photographs of nude women and
clearly a boomerang on a comeback attempt." boys--and many items related to the
13-year-old boy who has accused the
11:28 AM PST: Speaking to jurors from a podium, Sneddon said that when the singer of molestation.
documentary aired in England on February 3, 2003, 17 million viewers tuned in. The
program, he said, held the possibility of being a "moving landslide. And if it wasn't Full Story »
stopped, it was going to destroy everything in its path, including Michael Jackson."
And the performer will not be able to argue that Bashir somehow tricked him into
making damaging statements, Sneddon said, since Jackson subsequently made
similar statements about sharing his bed with boys to Ed Bradley on CBS's "60
Minutes." JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,
you won't find one more intrusive than
Sneddon said that Gabriel, when asked to rate the trouble faced by Jackson on a the one executed on Michael
scale of 1 to 10, placed it at 25. He quoted Jackson videographer Christian Robinson Jackson's, um, person in 1993. And
as describing the post-Bashir period as a "nightmare." For the accuser, Sneddon said, the results of that intimate Kodak
the feedback was particularly brutal, with classmates calling him a "faggot" and moment from a decade ago could
directing "rude, crude sexual remarks" at him. [The child testified in the grand jury resurface in the performer's upcoming
that fellow students taunted him by saying he was "booty busted" by Jackson.] molestation trial.

11:41 AM PST: Placing Jackson at the center of the alleged conspiracy to falsely Full Story »
imprison the accuser and his family at Neverland, Sneddon said that, the day after
the Bashir documentay aired in England, Jackson placed a 27-minute call to the
accuser and his family, which "reasserts himself into" the family's life. Clearly
referring to toll records, Sneddon said that Jackson reached the California family at
6:58 PM Pacific time. He also mentioned that a note seized from the home of JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine
Jackson's assistant, Evelyn Tavasci, showed that Jackson was seeking to contact the test would reveal that he was giving
accuser's family at this time. alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
[Since Sneddon finished at about 12:30 PM--and the TSG scriveners are still according to sealed investigative
trying to catch up on his opening statement, we're now going to pick up with records.
Mesereau's opening argument]
Full Story »

12:36 PM PST: After noting that it was an honor to represent Jackson, Thomas
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Mesereau told jurors, "I'm here to tell you these charges are fictitious, they're bogus,
and they never happened." He than bellowed, "These charges are fake, silly,
ridiculous." After Melville sustained an objection from Sneddon, Mesereau 1. The Mug Shot
described what he said were attempts by the accuser's mother to weasel money from 2. The Felony Complaint
several celebrities while her son was ill. The woman, Mesereau said, tried to score 3. The Indictment
cash from Jay Leno, comedian George Lopez, and an actress who appeared on "The 4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
Fresh Prince of Bel Air." "Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
These gambits were scams, Mesereau said. In one instance, the mother received
Victim
$20,000 from comedian Louise Palanker, claiming that the funds would be used for
her son's medical bills and living expenses. Instead, Mesereau said, Palanker was 6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
upset to learn that the money was used to buy "a huge TV and DVD player." The Accuser
mother also approached celebrities like Mike Tyson, Jim Carrey, and Adam Sandler.
But, he noted, "the best-known celebrity and the most vulnerable celebrity became
their mark, Michael Jackson."

After claiming that his client has been the subject of much inaccurate reporting,
Mesereau launched into a brief biographical sketch of Jackson and his creation of
Neverland Ranch, a place where Jackson can enjoy the childhood spoils he never
had while a young man.

12:49 PM PST: Countering Sneddon's assertion that Jackson's estate was a den of
iniquity, Mesereau told jurors, "We will prove that Neverland is not a haven for
criminal acts, a lure for molestation, a magnet for crime." The singer's intentions
toward the teenage accuser were honorable, Mesereau said, noting that Jackson
"took a lot of time away from his career to help this child and help this family",
unaware that "the trap was being set" for him by the family. In describing the kind of
help Jackson provided when the child was ill, Mesereau said the performer asked the
boy to "envision he's playing Pac Man, and the cancer cells are being gobbled up by
the good people. He had gotten that from studies of visualization techniques that
were perfected in England years ago for cancer patients."

In a broadside on the accuser's mother, Mesereau described the woman as a

shakedown artist who used her sick son as bait, a woman who coached her kids to lie
in connection with an assault lawsuit the family once brought against J.C. Penney.
Mesereau referred to a newly surfaced witness--who worked as a paralegal for the
lawyer representing the family in the Penney case--who claims that the mother
fabricated her allegations in that civil case. The paralegal contends that she hesitated
to come forward because the mother once told her she had relatives in the Mexican
Mafia.
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Along with the alleged J.C. Penney scheme, the woman

illegally obtained welfare benefits, Mesereau said,
adding that she never bothered to mention her six-figure
settlement from the department store when applying for
those benefits. In other instances, Mesereau said, the
woman "undertook a program to use her son to raise
money." That bid, Mesereau told jurors, involved the
family targeting Jay Leno, who spoke with the accuser
on the telephone at one point. Mesereau said that Leno
rebuffed the financial pitch and later told Santa Barbara
police that the family was looking for a "mark."
Mesereau said, "Mr. Leno has told the Santa Barbara police, 'Something was wrong.
They were looking for a mark. It sounded scripted. The mother was in the
background, and I terminated the conversation.'"

1:08 PM PST: Another celebrity mentioned by Mesereau was comedian George

Lopez, who the family apparently met via Jamie Masada, the Laugh Factory owner.
Without providing any details, Mesereau told jurors that Lopez was approached by
the accuser and his mother, who "asked for money. He didn't want to give money,
and then they accused him of stealing $300 from [the accuser]'s wallet."

Reeling off one financial scam after the other, Mesereau remarked, "It goes on and
on."

Addressing the mother's claim that she and her children were held against her will at
Neverland, Mesereau told jurors that the guest unit in which she was held allegedly
captive was the suite that Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor requested when they
individually stayed at Jackson's estate. He also mentioned that during this same
period the Jackson camp paid more than $3300 for the woman's beauty treatments
(cosmetics, aromatherapy, leg waxing) and other costs.

Mesereau told jurors that after the Bashir documentary aired, the mother was
expecting a payday in return for her children's participation in the Jackson rebuttal
video. However, when an opportunity to cash in never materialized, Mesereau said,
the molestation accusations emerged. And the family "went to a lawyer, and then
another lawyer," added Jackson's lawyer.

With Bashir expected to be called tomorrow as the first prosecution witness,

Mesereau spent much time ripping the British journalist, whom the attorney claimed
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set Jackson up in a bid to "humiliate, degrade, and deceive" the entertainer.

2:26 PM PST: At this point, Mesereau stopped his opening argument, which he will
resume tomorrow at 8:30 AM.

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: Sex Education - February 27, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

Teen accuser told investigators he knew more about "birds and bees" than Michael Jackson

Teen accuser told investigators he knew more about "birds

and bees" than Michael Jackson

FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles boy who

has accused Michael Jackson of molestation
told investigators that the singer was a naif
when it came to "the birds and the bees," JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
claiming that his alleged abuser "didn't know victory for Michael Jackson, a
much. I knew more than he did." California jury today acquitted the
singer of charges that he molested a
teenage cancer survivor and conspired
to falsely imprison the boy and his
family at his sprawling Neverland
Ranch estate.
The surprising appraisal from the boy, now 15, came during a January 19, 2004
interview with Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department officials, The Smoking Gun has Full Story »
learned.

At the interview's conclusion, a detective asked the child about conversations he had
with Jackson about girls and any related guidance offered by the performer. The
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boy, who was 13 at the time of the alleged molestation, replied that Jackson would
"always, like, try to give me" advice about "the birds and the bees."
MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
However, the boy told investigators, "He didn't know much. I knew more than he crucial defense witness in the Michael
did." Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
today fired a blank on the witness
The Q&A session, which was audiotaped, came about two months prior to the stand, testifying that he was never
child's initial appearance before the grand jury that later voted to indict Jackson on asked for money when contacted five
ten felony counts. During his testimony, the boy occasionally appeared flippant years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
while discussing the alleged sexual assaults and Jackson's provision of wine and at the center of the current child
assorted booze to him and his two siblings. molestation prosecution.

When District Attorney Tom Sneddon asked if he had ceased drinking alcohol after Full Story »
leaving Neverland Ranch for the last time, the boy responded, "That period of my
life, I went to AA. That period of my life is over." To "make sure the record is
clear," Sneddon asked the boy whether he was kidding about attending Alcoholics
Anonymous. "I'm just joking," replied the accuser.
MAY 11--Ending months of
At another point during his testimony, the boy was asked to describe the alleged speculation and anticipation,
molestation incidents in Jackson's bedroom, which he did in graphic detail. The boy, Macaulay Culkin took the witness
who has been enrolled for years in a Navy sea cadets program, was then asked by stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
Sneddon if anyone else had been present during the assaults. "No," the child morning and forcefully denied that the
answered, adding, "Not unless a Navy SEAL dropped down." entertainer ever molested him, terming
those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
At the close of his first day of testimony, the boy received Sneddon's standard
witness admonition that a judicial gag order barred him from talking to the media Full Story »
about his confidential testimony. "Oh man," the child replied, "I was going to have a
press conference."

The grand jury transcript, which TSG exclusively obtained earlier this month, also
APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
reveals that sheriff's detectives interviewed a young friend of Jackson's during the
Michael Jackson case couldn't
November 2003 raid of his California estate.
possibly get any sleazier, things have
now officially hit the slippery slope.
The performer befriended the teenager, Omer Bhatti, in Literally. In a legal motion released
1996 during a Tunisian stop on the singer's HIStory late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
tour (the child, then a 12-year-old Jackson imitator, that they are seeking to present jurors
was apparently spotted in front of Jackson's hotel). with testimony from a former
employee that involves a jar of
Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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and a teenage boy in the singer's

bedroom.

Full Story »

Investigator Jeffrey Ellis testified that when he "broached the subject of APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
pornography," Bhatti became nervous and "seemed to have trouble forming a that Michael Jackson sexually
sentence. It was almost like a stutter." Ellis added that when he asked Bhatti a series molested Macaulay Culkin and
of questions about the consumption of wine and alcohol and references to "Jesus screened X-rated movies for other
Juice," he saw "that same type of uneasiness in him that I noticed when I started boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
talking to him about pornography." prosecutors are expected to soon call
as a government witness a Los
While prosecutors apparently sensed Bhatti had a story to tell, the Jackson crony Angeles man who has described
appears only on the defense's list of prospective witnesses. himself as the "master authority" on
Internet porn.

Full Story »

MARCH 28--In a significant legal

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: The Witnesses - February 17, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

The Witnesses

Page 1 of 2 | 1 2

In secret grand jury testimony, Jackson aides backed claims

made by teen accuser and family

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and victory for Michael Jackson, a
highly detailed accounts provided by California jury today acquitted the
the alleged teenage victim and his singer of charges that he molested a
younger brother, a Santa Barbara teenage cancer survivor and conspired
grand jury last year heard testimony to falsely imprison the boy and his
from other witnesses--several of family at his sprawling Neverland
whom worked closely with the Ranch estate.
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the Full Story »
children's accounts of their troubling
relationship with Jackson.

However, in what would be considered a plus for the defense camp, no witness--
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with the exception of the accuser and his brother--testified to ever seeing Jackson act
inappropriately toward children. And since some of these 41 witnesses were close to
the performer--including his round-the-clock bodyguard and Neverland's longtime
MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
house manager--this lack of independent corroboration of the boys's molestation
crucial defense witness in the Michael
claims reflects a key weakness in the prosecution case.
Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
today fired a blank on the witness
In addition to testimony from Jackson aides and business associates, the 19 grand stand, testifying that he was never
jurors were also presented with surveillance videos and a tape of a secretly recorded asked for money when contacted five
telephone conversation, powerful evidence that could support prosecution claims years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
that Jackson and his cohorts conspired to threaten and falsely imprison the accuser at the center of the current child
and his family (see "Search. And Destroy?" sidebar at right). The Smoking Gun has molestation prosecution.
reviewed sealed police and court records--including the 1903-page transcript from
last year's grand jury proceeding--that detail how District Attorney Tom Sneddon
Full Story »
and fellow prosecutors methodically sought to buttress testimony from the boys,
their sister, and mother.

While the brothers are the only witnesses to the four acts of molestation charged in
the Jackson indictment, grand jurors heard damaging testimony from Jackson MAY 11--Ending months of
insiders, most of which served to flesh out details of the alleged conspiracy to speculation and anticipation,
silence, extort, and falsely imprison the accuser, then 13, and his family. Highlights Macaulay Culkin took the witness
of the grand jury presentment included: stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
morning and forcefully denied that the
* A California cop who moonlighted as a Neverland Ranch security guard told of entertainer ever molested him, terming
seeing a written directive ordering that the accuser not be allowed to leave the 2800- those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
acre property. The directive, posted in the estate's security office, came during the
period in which investigators allege the boy and his family were imprisoned at Full Story »
Jackson's estate.

* An ex-bodyguard who testified that his job was to shadow Jackson 24 hours a day,
said that one afternoon he discovered the teenage accuser drunk. When he
confronted the boy and told him he should not be imbibing, the child replied, "Well, APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
I can handle it. Michael said if I can handle it, it's okay. It's part of being a man." Michael Jackson case couldn't
Jackson has been charged with four felony counts of providing booze to the accuser, possibly get any sleazier, things have
a cancer survivor who lost his spleen and a kidney to the disease. now officially hit the slippery slope.
Literally. In a legal motion released
* Jackson's former house manager testified that the accuser and his family were held late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
against their will at Neverland and that two of the singer's top aides told him that the that they are seeking to present jurors
boy's mother "wasn't allowed to leave the property." He also noted that the alleged with testimony from a former
victim and his brother, then 11, slept almost every night with Jackson in the singer's employee that involves a jar of
bedroom. Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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and a teenage boy in the singer's

* A public relations expert hired to handle crisis management chores for Jackson bedroom.
testified that one of the singer's lawyers was "absolutely gleeful" when he told of
plans to smear the accuser's mother as a "crack whore." Full Story »

* A corporate flight attendant testified that Jackson was "secretive about his
drinking" and rejected spirits she delivered in a "fluted crystal stem." Instead, the
singer wanted his wine served in a Diet Coke can, which the woman emptied and
refilled in the privacy of a Gulfstream bathroom. The alleged victim has testified APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
that Jackson provided him wine concealed in a Diet Coke can on several occasions, that Michael Jackson sexually
including one cross-country trip staffed by the flight attendant. molested Macaulay Culkin and
screened X-rated movies for other
* A second attendant, who worked 18 Jackson flights, also told of the entertainer's boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
principal travel request: "The first one is--the white wine in the Diet Coke can." prosecutors are expected to soon call
as a government witness a Los
* Corroborating accounts from the accuser's family, a school administrator testified Angeles man who has described
that he chased away a man videotaping the alleged victim outside his Los Angeles himself as the "master authority" on
middle school. Investigators determined that the thuggish surveillance agent--who Internet porn.
tailed the accuser and his family after they left Neverland for the final time--was
working for a private investigator hired by the Jackson camp. Full Story »

What follows are recaps of significant grand jury testimony given by witnesses
likely to appear during the prosecution case against Jackson (the individual
questioning of prospective jurors, the voir dire process, began yesterday). MARCH 28--In a significant legal
setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
ruled today that Santa Barbara
BRIAN BARRON
prosecutors can present jurors with
evidence that the performer previously
Of the 16 law enforcement officers to testify before molested five young boys.
the Jackson grand jury, 15 were part of the Santa
Barbara investigative team targeting the pop star.
Full Story »
But Brian Barron (pictured at left) surely had the
most intimate knowledge of Neverland Ranch.
That's because Barron, a patrol officer and K-9
handler with the nearby Guadalupe Police
Department, has worked as a part-time security
guard at the estate since 1997, when he was a police
academy trainee.

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After providing an overview of the property's security setup during his April 2004
testimony, Barron was asked by prosecutor Gordon Auchincloss about a directive
posted in the Neverland security office in early-2003. Barron testified that a message
MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's
on a whiteboard notified guards that "[the accuser] is not allowed off property."
former bodyguard, expected to be a
Asked if that was the first time a Neverland guest "was not allowed to leave," Barron
key witness in the singer's child
answered, "Yes." He added that, during the week or so that the directive was posted,
molestation case, was arrested in Las
had the child tried to leave the property, "we would not have opened the gate"
Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
without first getting permission from a security supervisor or the ranch manager.
and kidnapping charges.
Barron, who testified that he never saw Jackson act inappropriately with young
Full Story »
boys, was not asked whether he ever questioned the directive (though as a cop he
might have been expected to wonder what right Neverland brass had to issue such a
detention order).

MARCH 15--Michael Jackson

CHRISTOPHER CARTER "doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
He's really just this regressed 10-year-
After meeting Jackson at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Christopher Carter left the old." That was the surprising
Strip in August 2002 for a temporary security gig with the King of Pop. After a trial evaluation offered to police by Dr.
run, he was hired full-time and would eventually, according to his grand jury Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
testimony, "pretty much stay with [Jackson] 24 hours a day" until he quit Neverland psychologist who interviewed the
in August 2003. singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
brother--and who is expected to soon
During that year's employment, Carter testified, he observed Jackson entertaining testify as a government witness at
the accuser, his brother, and three minor siblings of aide Frank Cascio in his office. Jackson's molestation trial.
Carter said the group watched movies as they sat around a table filled with glasses of
wine (though Carter testified that he did not see the children drinking). But Jackson, Full Story »
he testified, would tell kids that he called wine "Jesus Juice," explaining that, "Jesus
drank wine, so we shall be more like Jesus."

Carter also recalled an encounter with the tipsy teenage accuser, who was planning
to drunkenly pilot a golf cart around the Neverland property. "I was like, 'Whoa, MARCH 7--With their sister already
whoa, whoa,'" Carter recalled, adding that when he told the child the should not struggling on the witness stand, the
drink, the boy claimed that Jackson told him if he could handle the booze, it was Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
okay to drink. In police interviews and grand jury testimony, the child said that, the molestation case against Michael
despite his illness, Jackson encouraged him to drink, saying that the alcohol would Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
relax him. with their anticipated testimony
appearing more crucial than ever.
In addition to his booze recollections, Carter reported that Jackson secretly
monitored telephone calls placed by Neverland visitors. "He has a machine inside Full Story »
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his room, and pretty much he can pick up his phone any time he wants and listen on
any call inside the ranch," Carter testified, noting that Jackson "showed me a tape of
when he had did it." Carter added that he once walked into the singer's bedroom
when "one of the kids" was eavesdropping on a call.
FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be
reporting live from the Santa Maria
This account dovetails with the accuser's grand jury testimony. The boy told the courthouse with up-to-the-minute
panel that Jackson demonstrated how the eavesdropping device worked and said that accounts of opening statements
the entertainer "would like to listen to the security guards talking to their girlfriends delivered by Santa Barbara District
and stuff." Both the accuser and his brother told sheriff's investigators that the Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
listening device was used to monitor their mother's phone calls during the month- lawyer Thomas Mesereau.
long period the family was held at Neverland in early-2003.
Full Report »
Like Barron, Carter testified that he never saw Jackson inappropriately touch
anyone.

NEXT PAGE →
FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles
boy who has accused Michael Jackson
of molestation told investigators that
the singer was a naif when it came to
Page 1 of 2 | 1 2 "the birds and the bees," claiming that
his alleged abuser "didn't know much.
I knew more than he did."

Full Story »

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: Search. And Destroy? - February 15, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

Search. And Destroy?

Investigation hit paydirt during raids at private eye's office,

Jackson crony's home

FEBRUARY 17--In addition to valuable items of evidence seized from Michael

Jackson's Neverland Ranch, investigators also hit paydirt while executing search
warrants at the home of a business associate of the singer and the Beverly Hills
office of a private investigator working for Jackson, according to sealed court JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
records reviewed by TSG. victory for Michael Jackson, a
California jury today acquitted the
Simultaneous with the November 2003 raid of Jackson's estate, detectives searched singer of charges that he molested a
the office of P.I. Bradley Miller, who was retained by Jackson's handlers in the teenage cancer survivor and conspired
immediate wake of the February 2003 broadcast of Martin Bashir's documentary to falsely imprison the boy and his
"Living with Michael Jackson." As alleged in the warrant for the search of Miller's family at his sprawling Neverland
South Beverly Drive office suite, the investigator played a central role in the alleged Ranch estate.
conspiracy to intimidate and falsely imprison Jackson's teenage accuser and his
family. Full Story »

Inside Miller's office, detectives discovered two tapes

containing surveillance footage of the boy and his
family, video shot after they unexpectedly left
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Neverland in mid-February 2003 (they would return in a

few days) and in mid-March, after the family departed
Jackson's estate for good. The video was shot on
MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
multiple dates and as early as 4:48 one morning,
crucial defense witness in the Michael
according to a time stamp on the footage. The surveillance camera recorded the
Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
accuser, his mother, brother, and sister, the children's grandfather, and the mother's
today fired a blank on the witness
boyfriend.
stand, testifying that he was never
asked for money when contacted five
For investigators, the surveillance videos provided key corroboration of the family's years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
claims that they were stalked and harassed by Jackson representatives after bolting at the center of the current child
Neverland. Prosecutors contend that Jackson's henchmen tailed the family due to molestation prosecution.
concerns that they might contact law enforcement agents, child welfare officials, or
journalists.
Full Story »
In fact, when a Santa Barbara grand jury indicted Jackson on a felony conspiracy
charge related to alleged child abduction, false imprisonment, and extortion, one of
the 28 "overt acts" cited in the indictment dealt exclusively with the surveillances.
MAY 11--Ending months of
The videos, though, were not the only valuable tape found in Miller's office. speculation and anticipation,
Detectives also discovered a 15-minute audio recording of a phone conversation Macaulay Culkin took the witness
between Jackson aide Frank Cascio and the alleged victim's mother. Cascio placed stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
the call--which was recorded illegally--after the woman and her children left morning and forcefully denied that the
Neverland in the middle of the night around February 12, 2003. entertainer ever molested him, terming
those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
During the call, Cascio urged the woman to return to Jackson's home in light of
purported threats against her family. "I'm worried about you and the protection. Full Story »
Because there's a lot of evil people out there right now," Cascio claimed. "And that's
why even staying another night alone is not safe." Investigators contend that the
Jackson camp fabricated these threats in a bid to lure the family back behind
Neverland's gates, in part so that they would participate in the filming of a video
rebuttal to the devastating Bashir documentary. APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
Michael Jackson case couldn't
Cascio remarked that Jackson, "was just so worried about you," adding later that he possibly get any sleazier, things have
was seeking to shield her family "and to protect Michael. Because we have been in now officially hit the slippery slope.
this situation many times...And you know what? It ends up hurting the kids. And we Literally. In a legal motion released
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In June 2003, when the accuser's family began meeting with Santa Barbara with testimony from a former
detectives, each of them talked about being threatened by Jackson's German employee that involves a jar of
business managers, Dieter Wiesner and Ronald Konitzer. Each told cops that the Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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men pressured them to participate in the rebuttal production, and the mother told and a teenage boy in the singer's
investigators that she actually feared Wiesner. These contentions appear to be bedroom.
corroborated by the mother's talk--recorded four months earlier--with Cascio. "We
left because those Germans," she said. "Those people terrify me, Frank. They were Full Story »
threatening."

During the taped conversation, Cascio also made a pitch for her to do an interview
for Jackson's Bashir rebuttal. "We'd love for you to go on tape and just say
something beautiful about Michael." The woman replied, "Not with those Germans. APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
Because they were trying to dictate to me what, exactly what to say." that Michael Jackson sexually
molested Macaulay Culkin and
During his summation last year to the grand jury that later indicted Jackson, screened X-rated movies for other
prosecutor Gordon Auchincloss called the surreptitiously recorded tape "such a boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
powerful and important piece of evidence. I can't emphasize it enough." The sixth prosecutors are expected to soon call
overt act listed in the indictment's conspiracy count is based on the illegally recorded as a government witness a Los
phone conversation. In addition, overt act 23 alleges, in part, that Jackson used Angeles man who has described
eavesdropping equipment to "personally monitor" the woman's Neverland telephone himself as the "master authority" on
conversations. Internet porn.

*** Full Story »

Two months after the searches at Neverland and

Miller's office, investigators raided the $2 million
Calabasas home of Marc Schaffel, a close Jackson aide MARCH 28--In a significant legal
who, before meeting the singer, made his fortune in the setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
porno movie industry. Prosecutors allege that Schaffel, ruled today that Santa Barbara
named an unindicted coconspirator in the Jackson prosecutors can present jurors with
indictment, served as sort of a paymaster in connection evidence that the performer previously
with the plot to imprison the family--and then ship molested five young boys.
them off to Brazil.
Full Story »
Led by Detective Craig Bonner, investigators zeroed in on a locked bedroom closet
that Schaffel used as a document storage area. Inside, were about seven four-drawer
file cabinets, numerous boxes, and shelves on which documents were piled. As
investigators examined the material, it became apparent that Schaffel was a
fastidious record keeper and that many documents--e-mails, handwritten notes,
receipts, model releases, financial ledgers--referred to the Jackson organization's
"handling" of the accuser and his family during the one-month period prosecutors
allege they were falsely imprisoned against their will.

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According to an investigative report, one document recovered by detectives was

titled "[Mother's first name] Strategies." Evidence item #1302 "posed five possible
problems which could be associated with [the woman] and the manner in which the MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's
problems could be addressed, so as to benefit and/or protect Michael Jackson. The former bodyguard, expected to be a
scenarios included conflicts arising from the Bashir film, [the woman] claiming she key witness in the singer's child
was threatened, [the woman] being sexually assaulted, [the woman] being promised molestation case, was arrested in Las
things, and [the woman] being given money." Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
and kidnapping charges.
Other records seized referred to financial aspects of the Jackson camp's involvement
with the accuser's family. One note written by Schaffel answered a request for a cash Full Story »
advance by a Jackson employee by noting that he first needed to "get the 'vacation'
for [the accuser] and his family taken care of immediately." A receipt for $1000
provided to Cascio noted that the money was also for "vacation" expenses. The
quotes around the word vacation on the Schaffel documents are a clear indication
that Jackson aides regarded the family's planned Brazilian as more of an exile than a MARCH 15--Michael Jackson
holiday. "doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
He's really just this regressed 10-year-
Other documents seized recorded the payment of old." That was the surprising
passport and visa fees for the family. A detailed evaluation offered to police by Dr.
cash ledger listed expenses incurred "for [the Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
woman] and kids," including small purchases at psychologist who interviewed the
stores like Banana Republic, Levis, and Robinsons- singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
May, and restaurants like Sbarro, Johnny Rockets, brother--and who is expected to soon
and Hot Dog on a Stick. Investigators even found testify as a government witness at
a March 10, 2003 ledger entry for a lunch tab in Jackson's molestation trial.
the cafeteria at Kaiser Hospital in Hollywood.
Submitted by Vincent Amen, Cascio's sidekick, Full Story »
the bill helps partially corroborate one of the
Jackson indictment's most bizarre overt acts (#26 to be exact). For additional details,
read "Urine Trouble," published here last month.

One Schaffel folder was labeled "Fires Brewing-PR" and contained an assortment of MARCH 7--With their sister already
e-mails on topics ranging from a supposed tell-all biography being prepared by actor struggling on the witness stand, the
Corey Feldman, a former Jackson pal, to Konitzer's thoughts on the activities of a Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
crisis management team. Elsewhere, detectives found faxed copies of model releases the molestation case against Michael
for the accuser and his family that were sent to Schaffel by Jackson lawyer David Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
LeGrand. These were needed in advance of the family's filming of the rebuttal with their anticipated testimony
interview, questions for which were jointly crafted by Schaffel, LeGrand, and appearing more crucial than ever.
Christian Robinson, a Schaffel associate.
Full Story »
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FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be

reporting live from the Santa Maria
courthouse with up-to-the-minute
accounts of opening statements
delivered by Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.

Full Report »

FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles

Full Story »

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

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1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: Topless Photos - February 15, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

Topless Photos

In search warrant barrage, investigators even probed photos

of Jackson and his teen nephews

FEBRUARY 15--During a November 2003 press conference called to announce

criminal charges against Michael Jackson, Santa Barbara investigators were asked
about the prospect of additional victims besides the Los Angeles boy who had
accused the entertainer of molestation. Sheriff Jim Anderson replied, "Yes, there is JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
that possibility and we would encourage the public to come forward if they have any victory for Michael Jackson, a
information" about similar sexual assaults. California jury today acquitted the
singer of charges that he molested a
By all accounts, however, Anderson's casting call did not result in the kind of teenage cancer survivor and conspired
witness stampede that investigators had expected. to falsely imprison the boy and his
family at his sprawling Neverland
So, four months later, when a tantalizing anonymous e-mail message addressed to Ranch estate.
"[email protected]" arrived in Anderson's office, his deputies pounced.
Referring to an attachment that contained photos of Jackson posing with teenage Full Story »
boys (two of whom were shirtless), the writer noted, "I don't know who took the
photos, probably his personal photographer but they don't look like any Sears
portraits I've seen."

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MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a

crucial defense witness in the Michael
Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
today fired a blank on the witness
stand, testifying that he was never
asked for money when contacted five
To anyone who has even loosely years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
followed the Jackson matter--let alone at the center of the current child
case detectives--the attached images molestation prosecution.
should have been familiar. The dozen
pictures were publicity photos taken Full Story »
of Jackson and three of his nephews.
The young trio, sons of Jackson's
brother Tito, perform under the name
3T and posed with their famous uncle
to promote a single off the group's 1995 debut, "Brotherhood." MAY 11--Ending months of
speculation and anticipation,
While Santa Barbara detectives recognized the 3T publicity photos, which have been Macaulay Culkin took the witness
published and circulated on the Internet, they still rushed to Judge Rodney Melville stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
for a search warrant. According to a sealed court affidavit, Anderson's deputies morning and forcefully denied that the
needed the warrant to obtain subscriber information from an Internet service entertainer ever molested him, terming
provider so they could track down the identity of the person who had sent the 3T those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
images.
Full Story »
The semi-anonymous correspondent, investigators speculated, might have further
information about Jackson and the bare-chested 3T boys. Or, they reasoned, the
tipster--who used a starpower.net e-mail account--might even possess information
about other alleged molestation victims.
APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
The possibility that the e-mail's author was just a guy who had Michael Jackson case couldn't
found the images online and simply forwarded them to cops was possibly get any sleazier, things have
not addressed. Nor was there apparently any attempt to now officially hit the slippery slope.
determine his identity short of an intrusive search warrant. Literally. In a legal motion released
Using the e-mail address, it took a TSG reporter 30 minutes to late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
identify the correspondent, determine that he lives in San Diego, that they are seeking to present jurors
works for the Transportation Security Agency, and once managed a Maryland photo with testimony from a former
studio. Oh, and he was recently looking to start an adult-themed web site. While employee that involves a jar of
documents reviewed by TSG do not reveal whether detectives got their man, it is Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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likely he was tracked down--and found to be of little use. and a teenage boy in the singer's
bedroom.
The 3T warrant, signed in April 2004, was one of more than 100 search warrants
secured by investigators in the 13-month period following the November 2003 raid Full Story »
of Jackson's ranch. The singer's lawyers have contended that this barrage reflected
the overzealous and vindictive ways of Anderson and Santa Barbara District
Attorney Thomas Sneddon. Investigators have countered that their tactics, while
certainly aggressive and proactive, have been legal, appropriate, and often court-
authorized. APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
that Michael Jackson sexually
molested Macaulay Culkin and
screened X-rated movies for other
boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
prosecutors are expected to soon call
as a government witness a Los
Angeles man who has described
himself as the "master authority" on
Internet porn.

Full Story »

MARCH 28--In a significant legal

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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Jackson Gave Jesus Juice To Other Kids - January 13, 2005

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JANUARY 13--Two New Jersey children were served alcohol

by Michael Jackson during an early-2003 visit to the
singer's Neverland Ranch, according to police
interviews with the California boy who has accused
Jackson of sexual molestation.

The alleged victim, who has told investigators that

Jackson also provided wine and liquor to him and his
two siblings, mentioned the pair of New Jersey minors
during an August 2003 interview with Santa Barbara
detectives, according to sealed records reviewed by The
Smoking Gun.

Documents and TSG sources identified the two children as siblings of Frank Cascio,
a 24-year-old Jackson aide who prosecutors branded an unindicted co-conspirator in
the entertainer's April 2004 criminal indictment. Cascio, who uses the name Frank
Tyson, has been close to Jackson for nearly ten years, and was at Neverland during
the early-2003 period when the accuser and his family claim they were held against
their will. Cascio is pictured with Jackson in the above video still.

It was during that period of purported incarceration that the accuser and his
family met Cascio's young relatives--a sister who is currently a high school
sophomore in Bergen County, and a brother who is about 12 years old.

While answering a question about where at Neverland Jackson

provided him alcohol, the accuser, now 15, remarked that
"sometimes Michael would also give wine" to the New Jersey
siblings when they all were in the estate's wine cellar, which
is accessed via a hidden staircase in the Neverland game arcade.
He added that Jackson's young drinking buddies would imbibe
wine--which Jackson called "Jesus Juice"--straight from the
bottle and sometimes from glasses.

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The alleged victim told detectives that Cascio's little brother "would not always
drink because he did not like it." Additionally, he told investigators that the
New Jersey boy also slept with Jackson in his Neverland bedroom.

Joseph Tacopina, a lawyer for Frank Cascio, told TSG that Santa Barbara
prosecutors have not sought to interview the New Jersey children about their
Neverland stay. While Tacopina would not say whether the minors had spoken with
Jackson's legal team, he did acknowledge that defense investigators had been
desirous of interviewing the siblings.

According to police interviews with the accuser, his brother, and their mother,
the New Jersey children were present at Neverland during a crucial moment in the
prosecution's conspiracy timeline. It appears Cascio's siblings could provide a
unique, first-person account of what transpired during that period (keeping in
mind, of course, that their older brother has been accused of playing a leading
role in the false imprisonment scheme).

Along with noting Jackson's alleged provision of wine to the New Jersey siblings,
the accuser told detectives that Cascio's little brother slept in Jackson's bed
with him and the 46-year-old entertainer. The accuser added that the New Jersey
boy, Jackson, and the accuser's younger brother also shared the performer's bed.

So, even in the wake of the firestorm caused by the

February 2003 broadcast of Martin Bashir's "Living
with Michael Jackson" documentary, the performer was
apparently still sleeping with three boys to whom he
was not related.

In a July 2003 police interview, the accuser's mother recounted how, at one point
during her family's Neverland imprisonment, she escaped one night with her
children, "running in the dark through Neverland, being led by [Cascio's sister]"
to find their way to the car.

That car, a black Rolls Royce, transported the family back to their home in Los
Angeles and was driven by Jesus Salas, a Neverland security official. The mother
claimed that she was forced to bolt from Neverland due to threats directed at her
clan by, among others, Jackson's German managers, Dieter Wiesner and Ronald
Konitzer.

She acknowledged returning with her children almost immediately, however, telling
detectives that Frank Cascio told her that her family's life was in danger, and
that they would be safer behind Neverland's wall. She also claimed that Jackson's
aide assured her that Wiesner and Konitzer had been fired. Upon her family's
return to Jackson's estate, the mother told investigators, the first people she
encountered were the two Germans, who were still working for the entertainer.

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The Case Against Michael Jackson - January 6, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

The Predator

Page 1 of 5 | 1 2 3 4 5

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Case Against Michael Jackson

House Of Porn

Neverland's naughty stash discovered in raid

JANUARY 6--A raid of Michael Jackson's

bedroom suite turned up porn galore--including
books of photographs of nude women and boys--
and many items related to the 13-year-old boy who
has accused the singer of molestation.
JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
victory for Michael Jackson, a
A nine-page inventory of items removed from California jury today acquitted the
Jackson's Neverland chamber reveals that singer of charges that he molested a
investigators found a photo of the child in his teenage cancer survivor and conspired
nightstand, a folder of e-mails about the youngster, to falsely imprison the boy and his
and several letters and cards from the boy, who family at his sprawling Neverland
signed one missive with his Jackson-bestowed nickname, "Doo Doo Head." Ranch estate.

Pornographic magazines like Club, Barely Legal, and Couples were Full Story »
found in a leather bag next to the bathroom sink, in a box at the base of
Jackson's bed, in a Samsonite briefcase, and inside the nightstand. Four
"Barely Legal" DVDs and the hustler documentary "Pimp Up, Ho's
Down" comprised his bedroom's video library on the November 2003
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morning when investigators arrived unannounced.

The affidavit sworn in support of the Neverland raid lists items that MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
investigators were looking for, including magazines depicting lewd acts crucial defense witness in the Michael
involving minors and/or adults, any photo of a minor without clothes, Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
and any images showing and representing children and/or animals today fired a blank on the witness
engaging in sexual conduct. Seized item #365 is described as "2 books stand, testifying that he was never
of photographs of nude women and boys, located in master bedroom." asked for money when contacted five
years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
And then there was the underwear. at the center of the current child
molestation prosecution.
Since the victim told detectives that, after sexual
encounters, Jackson had him swap his dirty underwear for Full Story »
clean garments, investigators were on the lookout for the
brand and size the boy said he wore--Hanes white briefs,
size "small." The inventory reveals that the raiding party
booked into evidence item #327, "Underwear: Hanes:
White boys underwear located in Paris' bathroom." Paris MAY 11--Ending months of
Jackson is the singer's six-year-old daughter. speculation and anticipation,
Macaulay Culkin took the witness
On a related note, agents cut away portions from the top and bottom of Jackson's stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
mattress, and walked out with the entertainer's mattress pad. morning and forcefully denied that the
entertainer ever molested him, terming
Jackson's bathroom, where he apparently spends quality time, those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
yielded all sorts of interesting items, including open bottles of
Jack Daniels and Pinot Noir, a book "containing nude Full Story »
photographs of men," two nude art magazines, and three
"books containing nude photos in plastic bag." Other assorted
items scooped by the raiding party were a "book containing
pictures of children on beach," a photo inscribed "To Apple
Head," a letter addressed "Dear Apple Head," commercially APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
produced photographs of semi-nude girl, and a Liza Minnelli Michael Jackson case couldn't
Christmas invitation. possibly get any sleazier, things have
now officially hit the slippery slope.
Finally, sometimes there is less than meets the eye when it Literally. In a legal motion released
comes to search warrant inventories: late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
that they are seeking to present jurors
with testimony from a former
On the inventory, Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department officials
employee that involves a jar of
reported seizing "The Chop Suey Club" a book described as
Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
containing "photos of nude young boys." While it may sound to the
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uninitiated like some Asian rough trade volume, the book is and a teenage boy in the singer's
actually by famed fashion photographer Bruce Weber. bedroom.

The book "Poo-Chi," detectives wrote, Full Story »

contained "photographs of female groin area." Officers,
they only look like the female groin area! The volume is
the, um, inventive work of Mayumi Lake, who
photographs underarms and knees to create the illusion that
you are looking at a woman's nether region. Some photo APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
titles: "Wetting Porn," "Puffy Pink Porn," and "Cheerleader that Michael Jackson sexually
Porn." molested Macaulay Culkin and
screened X-rated movies for other
boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
prosecutors are expected to soon call
as a government witness a Los
Angeles man who has described
himself as the "master authority" on
Internet porn.

Full Story »

MARCH 28--In a significant legal

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Case Against Michael Jackson - January 6, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

The Telltale "Splotch"

Photos of Jackson's body confirmed '93 claims

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go, you won't find one more intrusive than the
one executed on Michael Jackson's, um, person in 1993. And the results of that
intimate Kodak moment from a decade ago could resurface in the performer's
upcoming molestation trial.
JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
A detailed recounting of the criminal probe of Jackson is victory for Michael Jackson, a
contained in sealed documents reviewed by TSG. An California jury today acquitted the
affidavit from former Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department singer of charges that he molested a
deputy Deborah Linden was filed in 1993 to secure court teenage cancer survivor and conspired
permission to photograph Jackson's private parts. to falsely imprison the boy and his
Investigators sought the images in a bid to corroborate family at his sprawling Neverland
allegations made by 13-year-old Jordan Chandler. The boy Ranch estate.
told police that Jackson frequently masturbated him, adding
that he could provide a detailed description of the star's
Full Story »
penis as a way of proving the pair had been intimate.

According to the Linden affidavit, Chandler told police that Jackson justified the
illicit acts by saying, "it was okay and natural because other friends had done this"
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with him. The singer, then in his mid-30s, also allegedly told the boy that,
"masturbation is a wonderful thing." The celebrity also told Chandler that if he ever
spoke about the incidents, he would be "placed in Juvenile Hall," and they both
MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
would get in trouble.
crucial defense witness in the Michael
Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
The document also describes a confrontation between Jackson and Chandler's father today fired a blank on the witness
Evan, who suspected that the performer may have been assaulting his son during stand, testifying that he was never
sleepovers. The elder Chandler tracked Jackson down to his "hideaway apartment" asked for money when contacted five
in Los Angeles. years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
at the center of the current child
The boy's father asked Jackson, "Are you fucking my kid?" molestation prosecution.

The entertainer "became very upset" and told Chandler that he did not use that word. Full Story »
Linden notes that the singer did not answer the question or deny the allegation.

Full Story »
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FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be

reporting live from the Santa Maria
courthouse with up-to-the-minute
accounts of opening statements
delivered by Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.

Full Report »

FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles

Full Story »

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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The Case Against Michael Jackson - January 6, 2005

1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Case Against Michael Jackson - January 6, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

Urine Problem?

The strange story of a "spilled" sample

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine test would reveal that

he was giving alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael Jackson
allegedly participated in a bizarre scheme to dump the
sample, according to sealed investigative records.
JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
The urine plot is one of 28 "overt acts" that comprise a victory for Michael Jackson, a
felony conspiracy count included in the pop star's April California jury today acquitted the
2004 indictment. While details of those specific acts have singer of charges that he molested a
been redacted from the charging instrument, TSG has teenage cancer survivor and conspired
reviewed sealed court, police, and grand jury records that detail the nature of the to falsely imprison the boy and his
purported conspiracy hatched by Jackson and several associates. family at his sprawling Neverland
Ranch estate.
The urine caper occurred in March 2003, several weeks after Jackson allegedly
began providing wine and assorted booze (Jim Beam, tequila, vodka) to the 13-year- Full Story »
old boy, who had been diagnosed in 2000 with a rare form of cancer and lost a
kidney and a spleen to the disease. On the night before the urinalysis, Jackson told
the boy of his concern that the alcohol might be detected, a worry the child shared
with his mother the following day as they were driven to a medical laboratory.
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According to a sealed search warrant affidavit, the boy was scheduled to submit a 24-
hour urine sample for a creatinine clearance test, which allows his doctor to monitor
the health of the youngster's remaining kidney. The large sample was stored inside a MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
car carrying the boy, his mother, and driver Vincent Amen, a Jackson aide, from crucial defense witness in the Michael
Neverland Ranch to the Los Angeles lab. Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
today fired a blank on the witness
En route to the lab, Amen pulled over at a restaurant so the woman could use the stand, testifying that he was never
restroom. When she returned, she discovered "the container of [the boy's] urine was asked for money when contacted five
almost empty, though it had been full before they stopped at the restaurant." The years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
mother told detectives that when she questioned Amen about missing urine, "Vinny at the center of the current child
told her that he accidentally knocked it over and spilled the contents," according to molestation prosecution.
the affidavit.
Full Story »
But she did not buy that excuse, especially since the container had a screw-on top,
making an accidental spill nearly impossible.

Instead, she believed that Amen dumped most of the urine to stymie the test and
MAY 11--Ending months of
keep Jackson's provision of alcohol to the 13-year-old a secret. If that was, in fact,
speculation and anticipation,
Team Jacko's goal, it worked. While the mother and son continued on to the lab and
Macaulay Culkin took the witness
submitted the remains of the urine sample, they subsequently received a letter from
stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
Kaiser informing them, the affidavit stated, "that the sample was insufficient" to
morning and forcefully denied that the
perform the creatinine clearance test.
entertainer ever molested him, terming
those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
In an interview with detectives, the woman said that the urine episode served to
confirm her belief that the Jackson camp was a bunch of scheming manipulators.
Full Story »
"After Vinny spilled [the boy]'s urine sample, she finally felt she had something
people were going to believe and that she was not crazy," one investigator wrote.

Full Story »

MARCH 7--With their sister already

Full Story »
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FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be

reporting live from the Santa Maria
courthouse with up-to-the-minute
accounts of opening statements
delivered by Santa Barbara District
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.

Full Report »

FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles

Full Story »

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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The Case Against Michael Jackson - January 6, 2005

children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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The Case Against Michael Jackson - January 6, 2005

1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Smoking Gun: Archive

This is the confidential Department of Children & Family Services memorandum detailing the Los
Angeles child welfare agency's February 2003 investigation into sexual abuse allegations against
Michael Jackson. The Smoking Gun has blurred the names of the children involved in the probe,
which ended with a finding that the charges were "unfounded."

Click here for Court TV's comprehensive coverage of the Jackson case.

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Inside The Jackson Grand Jury - February 17, 2005

Inside The Jackson Grand Jury

The Transcript

JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping

victory for Michael Jackson, a
California jury today acquitted the
singer of charges that he molested a
teenage cancer survivor and conspired
The Smoking Gun obtains 1903-page record of panel that to falsely imprison the boy and his
indicted Michael Jackson on molestation and conspiracy family at his sprawling Neverland
Ranch estate.
charges
Full Story »
FEBRUARY 17--It has been ten months since a Santa Barbara grand jury voted to
indict Michael Jackson on charges that he molested a 13-year-old boy and conspired
with several associates to falsely imprison the child and his family at the singer's
Neverland Ranch. Due to extraordinary (some say unwarranted) secrecy imposed on
the case by Judge Rodney Melville, the grand jury transcript--not to mention many MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
court filings, search warrants, and other usually public documents--remain under crucial defense witness in the Michael
seal, cloaking many case details. In fact, the 13-page indictment itself has only been Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
released in a redacted form, with six entire pages removed. today fired a blank on the witness
stand, testifying that he was never
Last month, The Smoking Gun provided the first detailed, behind-the-scenes asked for money when contacted five
account of the case, which was based on a review of scores of confidential law years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
enforcement reports, sealed court records, and grand jury transcript. Today we go a at the center of the current child
step further with the publication of hundreds of pages of secret grand jury transcript. molestation prosecution.
In addition, we've published three new stories about the Jackson probe, all based on
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our review of the transcript and other confidential investigative records. Click here Full Story »
for those reports.

The complete grand jury transcript runs 1903 pages and includes the testimony of 41
witnesses, including the alleged victim and six members of his family, several
MAY 11--Ending months of
Jackson employees and associates, flight attendants, child welfare officials, four
speculation and anticipation,
lawyers, one clinical psychologist, and a comedy club owner. Below you'll find the
Macaulay Culkin took the witness
complete testimony given last spring by the alleged victim, his younger brother,
stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
sister, and mother. Since TSG does not identify alleged sexual abuse victims (or
morning and forcefully denied that the
family members), we've covered their names with the aliases they have been
entertainer ever molested him, terming
assigned in court filings. The teenage accuser, now 15, is "John Doe." His mother is
those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
"Jane Doe." His 13-year-old brother is "James Doe." And his 18-year-old sister is
"Judy Doe."
Full Story »
In addition to the family's testimony, since a prosecutor read the entire Jackson
indictment to the grand jury, we've included those transcript pages that provide a
verbatim account of what's on the six pages that have been cloaked for nearly a year.
We're scanning as fast as we can and plan on posting most witness testimony, so APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
check back in the next day for continuing additions. Michael Jackson case couldn't
possibly get any sleazier, things have
now officially hit the slippery slope.
JOHN DOE: In two appearances, the 15-year-old accuser tells Literally. In a legal motion released
grand jurors that his relationship with Jackson began when he was late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed
hospitalized with cancer. It ended, the boy testified, shortly after the that they are seeking to present jurors
performer allegedly molested him inside a Neverland Ranch with testimony from a former
bedroom. employee that involves a jar of
Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
March 30, 2004 testimony (112 pages) and a teenage boy in the singer's
bedroom.
April 15, 2004 testimony (42 pages)
Full Story »

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JAMES DOE: In highly detailed testimony, the 13-year-old

brother of the alleged victim recounts watching, on two occasions,
as Jackson molested his sibling. The child also tells the panel that
APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors
the singer gave him wine, displayed pornography to minors, and
that Michael Jackson sexually
once paraded nude in front of him.
molested Macaulay Culkin and
screened X-rated movies for other
March 29, 2004 testimony (119 pages) boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
prosecutors are expected to soon call
April 15, 2004 testimony (51 pages) as a government witness a Los
Angeles man who has described
himself as the "master authority" on
JANE DOE: Derided by Team Jackson as a grifter on the make, Internet porn.
the accuser's mother claims she was terrorized by the singer's
associates. During two appearances, the 36-year-old occasionally Full Story »
seems erratic--and even the prosecutor questioning her has a hard
time keeping her in check.

April 6, 2004 testimony (102 pages)

MARCH 28--In a significant legal
setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
April 7, 2004 testimony (173 pages)
ruled today that Santa Barbara
prosecutors can present jurors with
evidence that the performer previously
JUDY DOE: Like most girls in boycentric Neverland, the 18-year- molested five young boys.
old was the third sibling out on visits to Jackson's ranch. She didn't
even rate a nickname like her brothers, whom the performer dubbed
Full Story »
Blowhole and Doo Doo Head.

March 30, 2004 testimony (66 pages)

MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's

INDICTMENT: While details of the alleged criminal conspiracy former bodyguard, expected to be a
hatched by Jackson have been judicially scrubbed from court files, key witness in the singer's child
they were read verbatim into the record on April 20, 2004 by molestation case, was arrested in Las
prosecutor Ronald Zonen. Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
and kidnapping charges.
Read the indictment (9 pages)
Full Story »

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Inside The Jackson Grand Jury - February 17, 2005

LARRY FELDMAN: The Los Angeles lawyer, who represented

the boy who made molestation allegations against Jackson in 1993,
told grand jurors that John Doe's mother was not angling for a
MARCH 15--Michael Jackson
payday: "If I wanted to settle this lawsuit for money...or the kid
"doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
wanted to do that, all I had to do was pick up a phone and tell them
He's really just this regressed 10-year-
what I had."
old." That was the surprising
evaluation offered to police by Dr.
March 29, 2004 testimony (21 pages) Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
psychologist who interviewed the
singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
DR. STANLEY KATZ: Acting on a referral from Feldman, the brother--and who is expected to soon
clinical psychologist interviewed the accuser and his brother. testify as a government witness at
During these sessions, the children spoke about their relationship Jackson's molestation trial.
with Jackson, admissions that caused Feldman to report his
suspicions of abuse and molestation to child welfare and law Full Story »
enforcement officials.

March 29, 2004 testimony (18 pages)

MARCH 7--With their sister already

JESUS SALAS: Until his resignation in June 2003, Salas had been struggling on the witness stand, the
a fixture at Neverland since Jackson purchased the ranch in the mid- Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
80s. Salas, the property's house manager, testified that Jane Doe the molestation case against Michael
"wasn't allowed to leave" Neverland without the approval of Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
Jackson aides Dieter Wiesner and Frank Cascio. Asked by with their anticipated testimony
prosecutor Gordon Auchincloss if he believed Doe family members appearing more crucial than ever.
were held against their will, Salas answered, "Yes."
Full Story »
March 30, 2004 testimony (25 pages)

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Inside The Jackson Grand Jury - February 17, 2005

BRIAN BARRON: The part-time Neverland Ranch security guard

told grand jurors that, during the period the Doe family was
allegedly falsely imprisoned, he saw a written directive posted in
FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be
the estate's security office regarding the teen accuser. According to
reporting live from the Santa Maria
Barron, the directive notified guards that the boy was "not allowed
courthouse with up-to-the-minute
off property." As the panel was informed, Barron's full-time gig is
accounts of opening statements
with the Guadalupe Police Department, where he works as a patrol
delivered by Santa Barbara District
officer and K-9 handler.
Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.
April 12, 2004 testimony (23 pages)
Full Report »
MARIA DOE: Testifying in Spanish through an interpreter, John
Doe's maternal grandmother told jurors about alleged threats and
harassment directed at family members following their departure
from Jackson's estate. She also claimed that before her FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles
grandchildren went to Neverland she gave them this curious boy who has accused Michael Jackson
warning: "...little boys should never allow themselves to be touched of molestation told investigators that
by anybody." the singer was a naif when it came to
"the birds and the bees," claiming that
April 7, 2004 testimony (23 pages) his alleged abuser "didn't know much.
I knew more than he did."

OPENING STATEMENT: On the grand jury's opening day, Full Story »

prosecutor Ronald Zonen gave panel members a broad outline of
the charges against Jackson, as well as brief biographical sketches
of Doe family members.

March 29, 2004 statement (21 pages) FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual
molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
children's accounts of their troubling
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MICHAEL DAVY: Corroborating Doe family claims that they relationship with Jackson.
were being surveilled after leaving Neverland, Davy, an official
with the Los Angeles Unified School District, testified that he saw Full Story »
a man videotaping the accuser in front of the child's school. Davy
chased the man, who cops later identified as working for Jackson's
private investigator, Bradley Miller.

April 6, 2004 testimony (18 pages) FEBRUARY 17--In addition to

valuable items of evidence seized
from Michael Jackson's Neverland
CYNTHIA BELL: According to the corporate flight attendant, Ranch, investigators also hit major
Jackson was among the most nervous fliers she'd seen, and paydirt while executing search
apparently calmed himself with in-flight shotgunning of wine and warrants at the home of a business
other alcohol (which he guzzled from an emptied-out Diet Coke associate of the singer and the Beverly
can). Along with describing the pop star as "touchy-feely," Bell Hills office of a private investigator
called John Doe "very rude" and a "weird kid" who was "defensive working for Jackson, according to
when I had conversations with Mr. Jackson." sealed court records reviewed by TSG.

April 1, 2004 testimony (21 pages) Full Story »

LAUREN WALLACE: When Jackson flew on chartered

Gulfstream jets, he had one principal "unwritten special request," FEBRUARY 17--During a November
according to Wallace, a flight attendant. "The first one is--the white 2003 press conference called to
wine in the Diet Coke can," testified Wallace. announce criminal charges against
Michael Jackson, Santa Barbara
April 1, 2004 testimony (14 pages) investigators were asked about the
prospect of additional victims besides
the Los Angeles boy who had accused
the entertainer of molestation. Sheriff
Jim Anderson replied, "Yes, there is
that possibility and we would
encourage the public to come forward
if they have any information" about
similar sexual assaults.

Full Story »

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Inside The Jackson Grand Jury - February 17, 2005

CHRISTOPHER CARTER: A bodyguard who shadowed

Jackson round-the-clock, Carter recalled how he once discovered
John Doe intoxicated at Neverland. After advising the boy he
JANUARY 13--Two New Jersey
should not drink, Carter testified that the child responded, "Well, I
children were served alcohol by
can handle it. Michael said if I can handle it, it's okay. It's part of
Michael Jackson during an early-2003
being a man." Asked about the accuser and his siblings, Carter
visit to the singer's Neverland Ranch,
described the children "running around the ranch like reckless,"
according to police interviews with the
adding that it "was getting on Mr. Jackson's nerves in a way."
California boy who has accused
Jackson of sexual molestation.
April 2, 2004 testimony (32 pages)
Full Story »
ANN GABRIEL: Hired as part of a post-Bashir damage control
effort, Gabriel testified that she was made "sick to my stomach" by
the maneuverings of some Jackson associates. "I felt personally like
this was something out of a very bad 'B' movie," she told jurors. JANUARY 6--While jury selection is
Gabriel also recalled a conversation with Jackson lawyer David scheduled to begin later this month,
LeGrand during which the attorney gleefully told of plans to smear specific details of the criminal
Jane Doe as a "crack whore." molestation case against Michael
Jackson have been shrouded through a
April 15, 2004 testimony (48 pages) judicial gag order, heavily redacted
legal filings, sealed court proceedings,
and other secrecy measures. But now,
JAMIE MASADA: The owner of Hollywood's Laugh Factory for the first time, The Smoking Gun
comedy club, Masada met the accuser's family before John Doe has compiled an authoritative, behind-
was diagnosed with cancer. After the child fell ill, Masada arranged the-scenes account of the prosecution's
for him to meet comedians like Adam Sandler and Chris Tucker. case against the King of Pop.
More importantly, Masada also facilitated the boy's initial contact
with Jackson in mid-2000 (which came while the child, then 10, Full Story »
was hospitalized).

March 30, 2004 testimony (18 pages)

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Inside The Jackson Grand Jury - February 17, 2005

HAMID MOSLEHI: The Los Angeles videographer, who worked

frequently for Jackson, testified that he was hired to film the so-
called rebuttal statements by the Doe family. Videotaped in
JANUARY 6--A raid of Michael
Moslehi's home two weeks after the Bashir documentary aired, the
Jackson's bedroom suite turned up
Does had nothing but positive things to say about Jackson.
porn galore--including books of
However, their salutes did not appear in the rebuttal film produced
photographs of nude women and
by the Jackson camp and later aired on the Fox network. Moslehi
boys--and many items related to the
testified that he refused to provide Jackson associate Marc Schaffel
13-year-old boy who has accused the
with the Doe interview tape because "my invoices were not being
singer of molestation.
paid for a year and a half with Mr. Jackson." The Doe tape,
however, was recovered during a police raid of Moslehi's West
Hills home in November 2003. Full Story »

April 2, 2004 testimony (25 pages)

JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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Inside The Jackson Grand Jury - February 17, 2005

1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: The Witnesses - February 17, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

The Witnesses

Page 1 of 2 | 1 2

In secret grand jury testimony, Jackson aides backed claims

made by teen accuser and family

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

However, in what would be considered a plus for the defense camp, no witness--
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JANUARY 6--As search warrants go,

Full Story »

JANUARY 6--Concerned that a urine

test would reveal that he was giving
alcohol to a teenage boy, Michael
Jackson allegedly participated in a
bizarre scheme to dump the sample,
according to sealed investigative
records.

Full Story »

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: The Witnesses - February 17, 2005

1. The Mug Shot

2. The Felony Complaint
3. The Indictment
4. DCFS Memo Finds Charges
"Unfounded"
5. 1993 Declaration Of Alleged
Victim
6. Jackson Pays Off His 1993
Accuser

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Inside The Jackson Grand Jury: John Doe - February 17, 2005

Inside The Jackson Grand Jury: John Doe

In two appearances, the 15-year-old accuser tells grand jurors that his
relationship with Jackson began when he was hospitalized with cancer. It ended,
the boy testified, shortly after the performer allegedly molested him inside a
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Inside The Jackson Grand Jury: James Doe - February 17, 2005

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In highly detailed testimony, the 13-year-old brother of the alleged victim
recounts watching, on two occasions, as Jackson molested his sibling. The child
also tells the panel that the singer gave him wine, displayed pornography to
minors, and once paraded nude in front of him.

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Inside The Jackson Grand Jury: Jane Doe - February 17, 2005

Inside The Jackson Grand Jury: Jane Doe

Derided by Team Jackson as a grifter on the make, the accuser's mother claims she
was terrorized by the singer's associates. During two appearances, the 36-year-old
occasionally seems erratic--and even the prosecutor questioning her has a hard
time keeping her in check.

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Inside The Jackson Grand Jury: Judy Doe - February 17, 2005

Inside The Jackson Grand Jury: Judy Doe

Like most girls in boycentric Neverland, the 18-year-old was the third sibling out
on visits to Jackson's ranch. She didn't even rate a nickname like her brothers,
whom the performer dubbed Blowhole and Doo Doo Head.

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Inside The Jackson Grand Jury: The Indictment - February 17, 2005

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While details of the alleged criminal conspiracy hatched by Jackson have been
judicially scrubbed from court files, they were read verbatim into the record on
April 20, 2004 by prosecutor Ronald Zonen.

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The Case Against Michael Jackson: The Witnesses - February 15, 2005

The Case Against Michael Jackson

The Witnesses

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JESUS SALAS

When Jackson purchased Neverland in the mid-1980s, Jesus Salas was already
working at the 2800-acre estate. He stayed on and eventually became the property's JUNE 13--In a stunning and sweeping
house manager before resigning in June 2003. victory for Michael Jackson, a
California jury today acquitted the
During his March 30 grand jury appearance, Salas testified that the accuser's mother singer of charges that he molested a
was crying and distraught during her early-2003 stay at Neverland. Salas said that, teenage cancer survivor and conspired
on the orders of Cascio and Dieter Wiesner (a German businessman who co- to falsely imprison the boy and his
managed Jackson), the woman "wasn't allowed to leave" the California property. family at his sprawling Neverland
Ranch estate.
However, Salas testified, he agreed one night to drive the woman and her three
children from Neverland to their Los Angeles home (they were transported there in a Full Story »
Rolls Royce). After the family subsequently returned to the estate, Salas testified, he
was told by Cascio that if the accuser's family again sought to depart Neverland, the
Jackson camp "would decide if she was going to be able to leave or not." He added,
"It had to be okay with them."
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Prosecutors contend that Jackson and his cohorts sought to initially isolate the
family at the property in a bid to stymie any possible contact with law enforcement
MAY 24--Despite his positioning as a
officials or the press. They then plotted to ship the family off to Brazil, claiming that
crucial defense witness in the Michael
the move was needed because of purported death threats.
Jackson case, comedian Jay Leno
today fired a blank on the witness
"Did it appear to you, based on everything you saw that [family members] were stand, testifying that he was never
being held against their will?" Auchincloss asked Salas. He answered, "I would say asked for money when contacted five
yes." years ago by the Los Angeles teenager
at the center of the current child
molestation prosecution.
ANN GABRIEL
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Hired days after the February 6, 2003 U.S. broadcast of
Martin Bashir's "Living with Michael Jackson"
documentary, Ann Gabriel briefly handled crisis
management and public relations chores for the
entertainer. She was hired by David LeGrand, a Las MAY 11--Ending months of
Vegas attorney who began representing Jackson in speculation and anticipation,
January 2003. Macaulay Culkin took the witness
stand in the Michael Jackson trial this
morning and forcefully denied that the
entertainer ever molested him, terming
those claims "absolutely ridiculous."
Gabriel, who spent only two weeks with the so-called Michael Jackson Working
Group, told grand jurors that she dealt principally with Marc Schaffel, a Jackson
intimate who prosecutors have named an unindicted co-conspirator of the performer. Full Story »

Gabriel testified that after the accuser and his family unexpectedly left Neverland
one night (apparently in the Rolls driven by Salas), an "extremely upset and
agitated" Schaffel called her to say that "there was a problem at the ranch." Schaffel, APRIL 21--Just when you thought the
she testified, said he was worried that the mother might seek to sell her story to a Michael Jackson case couldn't
British tabloid. In a subsequent conversation, Schaffel told Gabriel that "the possibly get any sleazier, things have
situation had been contained" and "we found them and brought them back to the now officially hit the slippery slope.
ranch." Literally. In a legal motion released
late yesterday, prosecutors disclosed Advertisement
Schaffel's reference to a "situation" being "contained" that they are seeking to present jurors
left Gabriel concerned. "I felt personally like this was with testimony from a former
something out of a very bad 'B' movie. It made me sick employee that involves a jar of
to my stomach," she testified. After repeating to Vaseline, an "aroused" King of Pop,
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LeGrand (pictured at left) what Schaffel said, Gabriel and a teenage boy in the singer's
told the attorney, "Don't make me think that these bedroom.
people were basically hunted down like dogs and
brought back to the ranch." LeGrand, Gabriel testified, Full Story »
"told me that he couldn't talk about it."

APRIL 4--In a bid to convince jurors

During one conversation with LeGrand, Gabriel testified, Jackson's lawyer said that
that Michael Jackson sexually
he was not concerned about the accuser's mother. "We've got her on tape and we're
molested Macaulay Culkin and
going to make her look like a crack whore," LeGrand said, according to Gabriel's
screened X-rated movies for other
grand jury testimony. "The only thing I can tell you adamantly is that he was
boys visiting Neverland Ranch,
absolutely gleeful when he said that to me," she added.
prosecutors are expected to soon call
as a government witness a Los
Gabriel, who said she disagreed with the Jackson team's cautionary PR style, was Angeles man who has described
canned via e-mail in mid-February. A Jackson associate previously told TSG that himself as the "master authority" on
she got bounced after booking herself on "Access Hollywood" without Working Internet porn.
Group authorization.
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MICHAEL DAVY

In March 2003, after the accuser and his family left Neverland for the final time, the
boy and his brother re-enrolled in an L.A. middle school. It was there that MARCH 28--In a significant legal
administrator Michael Davy confronted a man videotaping the children. setback for Michael Jackson, a judge
ruled today that Santa Barbara
Davy testified that he was alerted to the surveillance agent's presence by Jay prosecutors can present jurors with
Jackson, then the boyfriend of the pair's mother (he has since married her). Jackson evidence that the performer previously
had arrived at John Burroughs Middle School at dismissal time to pick up the boys molested five young boys.
when he spotted the man filming from a car. According to Davy's testimony, a "very
agitated" Jackson told him about the surveillance, which prompted the educator to Full Story »
confront the man.

"You can't videotape schoolchildren," Davy said he told the man, who detectives
later identified as Johnny Majetich, a 43-year-old Los Angeles man working for
Bradley Miller, Michael Jackson's private investigator. Since a school police officer
was not on duty when Majetich was approached, Davy testified that he told cops
about the incident the following day, and provided them with a description of
Majetich's car, a pearl white Nissan.

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Davy's testimony corroborated family accounts that, after departing Neverland, they
were harassed, followed, and intimidated by Majetich and other Jackson
representatives. MARCH 23--Michael Jackson's
former bodyguard, expected to be a
key witness in the singer's child
CYNTHIA BELL molestation case, was arrested in Las
Vegas last month on robbery, burglary
Michael Jackson had terrible taste in wine. He preferred "yucky Kendall Jackson," and kidnapping charges.
which had to be decanted into an empty Diet Coke can before it was served, testified
flight attendant Cynthia Bell. His food of choice on chartered Gulfstream jets was Full Story »
"KFC with all the fixings."

Bell testified that the first time she flew with Jackson, the performer's doctor "pulled
me aside on the ground and asked me to make certain that Mr. Jackson had wine."
When she tried to serve Jackson the wine in a fluted crystal stem, "he sat the drink MARCH 15--Michael Jackson
down and went, 'No.' At that point I went ahead and took away the glass and put it in "doesn't really qualify as a pedophile.
a Diet Coke can." Though she had manned a previous Jackson flight--during which He's really just this regressed 10-year-
he drank alcohol from a "weird plastic mug thing"--Bell had forgotten that the star old." That was the surprising
was a "secretive drinker." evaluation offered to police by Dr.
Stanley Katz, the Los Angeles child
When Auchincloss asked about a February 2003 flight from psychologist who interviewed the
Miami to Santa Barbara--on which the accuser and his singer's teenage accuser and the boy's
family were passengers--Bell testified that Jackson drank brother--and who is expected to soon
wine and vodka to the point of intoxication. She said that testify as a government witness at
the performer was seated next to the alleged victim and that Jackson's molestation trial.
Jackson "had his arm around him at times."
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MARCH 7--With their sister already

struggling on the witness stand, the
Los Angeles brothers at the heart of
According to the grand jury testimony of the accuser and his brother, Jackson gave
the molestation case against Michael
them wine inside Diet Coke cans on the Florida-California trip. The younger boy
Jackson are now waiting in the wings,
told investigators that Jackson was "acting funny" during the flight, poking
with their anticipated testimony
passengers "in the butt with his foot." The entertainer, then 44, also passed the time
appearing more crucial than ever.
by placing obscene crank calls (the younger child said Jackson asked one person
who answered the phone, "Does your pussy stink?"). It was also during this flight,
according to testimony from the alleged victim's mother and brother, that Jackson Full Story »
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licked the accuser's head while the child slept.

LAUREN WALLACE
FEBRUARY 28--TSG staffers will be
reporting live from the Santa Maria
Like Bell, Lauren Wallace flew with Jackson while working as a flight attendant for courthouse with up-to-the-minute
Xtra Jet, a Santa Monica charter firm. When asked if she fulfilled any "unwritten accounts of opening statements
special requests" for Jackson, Wallace replied, "The first one is the--the white wine delivered by Santa Barbara District
in the Diet Coke can." Attorney Tom Sneddon and Jackson
lawyer Thomas Mesereau.
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FEBRUARY 27--The Los Angeles
boy who has accused Michael Jackson
of molestation told investigators that
the singer was a naif when it came to
"the birds and the bees," claiming that
his alleged abuser "didn't know much.
I knew more than he did."

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FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual

molestation case against Michael
Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and
highly detailed accounts provided by
the alleged teenage victim and his
younger brother, a Santa Barbara
grand jury last year heard testimony
from other key witnesses--several of
whom worked closely with the
embattled singer--that appears to
corroborate many key aspects of the
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children's accounts of their troubling

relationship with Jackson.

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JANUARY 6--A raid of Michael

Jackson's bedroom suite turned up
porn galore--including books of
photographs of nude women and
boys--and many items related to the
13-year-old boy who has accused the
singer of molestation.

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