Have promised not to start any new threads for a while, so I'm posting this MJ update here:
February 04, 2003
Jackson faces ruin after admitting: I sleep with boys
By Adam Sherwin, Media Reporter
MICHAEL JACKSON’S career lay in ruins last night after he admitted in a television documentary that he coaxed young boys into sleeping in his bed.
The star, who was accused of molesting a boy ten years ago, said that he recently encouraged a 12-year-old cancer sufferer to sleep in his bedroom. He also claimed to have slept in the same bed alongside several other young boys.
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Jackson defended his desire to sleep in close proximity with young boys, under persistent questioning from Bashir.
He described the practice as “very charming, very sweet” and recommended that Bashir sleep in the same bed as friends of his own children. He also claimed that children like to be touched and said he would kill himself if he could not be close to them.
“It’s what the whole world should do,” he told the interviewer, Martin Bashir, when questioned about the incident during the Granada television programme, Living With Michael Jackson.
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Jackson’s friend, Uri Geller, persuaded him to allow Bashir to become part of his entourage for eight months. But the resulting film, which has been bought by the US broadcaster ABC for £3.5 million, could lead to police action against the fallen star.
One executive described it as the “longest suicide note in history”.
Tom Sneddon, the District Attorney behind the Chandler investigation, is expected to look at the new allegations after the programme is screened in the US this Friday. A spokesman from his office said: “We will be watching the programme with interest.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-565675,00.html