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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (CBS) The defense rested Wednesday in Michael Jackson's molestation trial without testimony from the pop star, wrapping up a succinct, celebrity-studded presentation that portrayed the accuser as a cunning schemer and his mother as a shakedown artist.
Jackson was the victim of false charges that surfaced once the mother realized she was being weaned from a lavish lifestyle the singer had financed, defense lawyers claimed. It was a picture painted by witnesses who testified that the mother was a grifter who made a career of hitting up celebrities for money and defrauding others.
"Your honor, the defense rests," lead defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. told Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville at late morning
Jackson didn't take the stand, as defense lawyers had hinted at the trial's start, and only a few of the celebrities who might have been called to testify ended up in court. Those headliners including comedians Jay Leno and Chris Tucker, but absent were others listed as potential witnesses, including Elizabeth Taylor, Stevie Wonder and Kobe Bryant.
Other witnesses included actor Macaulay Culkin and two other young men who testified that, contrary to prosecution claims, Jackson never behaved inappropriately when they stayed at his Neverland ranch home as children.
Prosecutors had cast Jackson as a serial pedophile with a history of fondling boys, including the then-13-year-old cancer survivor in February or March 2003 at Neverland. Jackson also is charged with giving the boy alcohol and conspiring to hold his family captive to get them to rebut a documentary in which the boy appeared with Jackson as the entertainer says he let children into his bed for innocent sleepovers.
Jackson's attorneys will now be given an opportunity to respond, followed by closing arguments, which probably won't begin before next week.
As he left court Tuesday, Jackson declined to discuss the decision not to testify. Instead, he smiled, pressed his palms together and said he couldn't comment.
Because taking the stand would have exposed him to cross-examination by prosecutors, the odds of Jackson's testifying were considered remote from the outset.
But speculation that he might take the witness stand was fueled by Mesereau's remark during his opening statement that jurors would hear from Jackson on certain issues.
They did hear from Jackson when his attorneys played nearly three hours of videotaped interviews with the entertainer in which he talked about his feelings for children, which he said were innocent and loving.
"I haven't been betrayed or deceived by children," he said at one point. "Adults have let me down."
Tucker, who costarred with Jackie Chan in the "Rush Hour" movies, testified Tuesday that he met Jackson's accuser at a benefit while the boy was battling cancer in 2000. He said the boy's father introduced himself at the Laugh Factory comedy club in Hollywood and asked him to take part.
Tucker said that a few days after the benefit the boy told him it hadn't made any money, so he wired "probably $1,500 or more" to a foundation for the family.
Tucker said he also took the boy's family to an amusement park and on shopping trips to a mall.
"Tonight Show" host Jay Leno cracked a few jokes in court Tuesday, but in the end the defense wasn't laughing, reports CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales. He was yet another witness in this case that did not say what jurors had been promised they would hear.
Leno said he makes many calls to ill children, but he grew suspicious when he began receiving overly effusive voice mail messages from the boy in 2000. He said he thought it strange that a boy would tell a comedian in his 50s that he was his hero.
"I'm not Batman," Leno said, to laughter throughout the courtroom.
Leno said the boy left so many messages that he finally approached comedian Louise Palanker, a friend who was among several comedians helping the boy's family.
"I said, 'What's the story here? This doesn't sound like a 12-year-old. This seems a little scripted,'" Leno testified. But Leno said the boy never asked for money and he never gave him any, though he did send "Tonight Show" memorabilia and a picture.
"That wasn't what the defense promised the jury, but may have been enough because it clearly ties into the defense theory that this cancer survivor and his family, his mother notably, were leveraging his cancer condition to target celebrities so he could extract money from them," said CBS News Legal Analyst Trent Copeland. "So while it wasn't a lot, it was something from the defense."
Courtroom observer and former prosecutor Anne Bremner disagrees.
"This was a real misfire out here in the twilight zone of the Michael Jackson trial," she said Wednesday on CBS News' The Early Show. "There was nothing redeeming for the defense. In fact, there was a help to the prosecution in making this accuser look for sympathetic."
Hours after testifying, Leno was again mocking the pop star on the "Tonight Show." He showed the audience mock footage of his day in court, including a scene in which young male witnesses were sipping on drinks in martini glasses.
Two mothers testified at Michael Jackson's trial that they trusted the singer enough to let their sons sleep in his bed and were convinced that no molestation ever occurred.
Joy Robson and Marie Lisbeth Barnes praised Jackson from the witness stand Friday.
"I've known Michael for a long time. I've spent many hours talking to him about everything. I feel like he's a member of my family. I trust him. I trust him with my children," said Robson, whose 22-year-old son, Wade Robson, told jurors earlier that he was never molested by Jackson.
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"He's a very special person," she added. "He's not the boy next door. He's Michael Jackson. He's very unique. He has a very pure personality. To know him is to love him and to trust him."
Barnes also used the word trust in her statement. Her son, Brett Barnes, testified Thursday that nothing improper happened when he shared Jackson's bed.
"I trusted him implicitly," she said of Jackson. "He's a very nice person. You just know when you can trust someone."
Robson was critical of the mother of a boy who accused Jackson of molestation in 1993 and received a multimillion-dollar settlement from the singer. Robson said she had been at Jackson's Neverland ranch with the boy and his mother but spoke to them only a few times.
"My impression of (the mother) is she wanted to be mistress of Neverland," she said. "She would order the staff around like she owned it. My impression of (her) is she was a gold-digger."
Under cross-examination, District Attorney Tom Sneddon then asked whether Robson was jealous of the woman "because she replaced you."
"Absolutely not," the witness replied.
Sneddon also suggested that Robson ingratiated herself with Jackson because she thought he could help her son get into show business. Robson denied that.
Asked by Sneddon if she recalled being upset on Mother's Day 1990 because she didn't see her son all day and then found out he had been sleeping, she said yes.
But when the prosecutor asked if she remembered telling a member of the Neverland staff that she thought Jackson was separating her from her son, she said no.
Santa Maria - Two former Michael Jackson employees painted a lurid picture of the pop star's behaviour at Neverland Valley Ranch on Thursday, testifying he had oral sex with a young boy at midnight and secret kisses with Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin.
Former Neverland security guard Ralph Chacon told jurors that he watched through a bathroom window late one night in the early 1990s as Jackson fondled and kissed a boy who later collected a reported $23 million from the entertainer in an out-of-court settlement.
"I saw them standing in the nude...facing each other. I saw that Mr. Jackson was caressing the boy's hair, kissing him on his head, his face, his lips," said Chacon, whom a defence lawyer suggested was nursing a grudge after losing a $1.4 million lawsuit to the singer.
"(Jackson) started sucking his nipples, started going down to his penis," Chacon said. "He put the little boy's penis in his mouth."
Chacon, who said he had earlier seen the pair showering together, described a separate incident in which Jackson planted a "passionate" kiss on the boy's mouth and placed his hands on the youth's crotch while they stood before a Peter Pan and Tinkerbell display.
During a blistering cross-examination by Jackson attorney Tom Mesereau, Chacon conceded that he was ordered to pay Jackson $1.4 million in the wrongful termination suit after a judge found that he had stolen from the pop star.
MACAULAY CULKIN INCIDENT
Jackson's mother, Katherine, and brother Tito, walked out of court during Chacon's testimony. Onetime Neverland maid Adrian McManus described Jackson kissing three boys who routinely shared his bed, including the youth identified by Chacon in the bathroom incident.
McManus said she was "shocked" to see Jackson's hand on the boy's privates.
She was also concerned about Jackson's behaviour toward Culkin, once stumbling on what she said was a disturbing scene as she walked out of his bathroom.
"I saw Mr. Jackson and Macaulay in the library and Mr. Jackson was kissing him on his cheek and he had his hand kind of on his leg, kind of on his rear end," McManus said.
The housekeeper, who told of a similar kissing incident between Jackson and a third boy, said she frequently found underwear belonging to Culkin and the other boys in or near the singer's spa bath.
Representatives for Culkin, who has denied that Jackson ever acted inappropriately, say he won't testify in the case.
Jackson is charged with molesting a 13-year-old boy, plying the youth with alcohol in order to abuse him and conspiring to commit child abduction, extortion and false imprisonment.
The 46-year-old singer, who has pleaded innocent, faces more than 20 years in prison if convicted.
Both McManus and Chacon were involved in the failed lawsuit against Jackson after leaving their Neverland jobs. The suit resulted in a six-month trial in which a judge found that they had acted with "fraud, oppression and malice" and stole from the pop icon.
"After a six-month trial this is a good way to get even with (Jackson), isn't it?" Mesereau asked Chacon. Prosecutors objected to the question and Chacon was not allowed to answer.
Chacon and McManus, who admitted selling their story to tabloid newspapers, said they sued Jackson because they were forced out amid the 1993 sex abuse accusations against him.
Both claimed they had been harassed and threatened by members of Jackson's armed personal security detail. Chacon said an anonymous phone caller threatened to kill him and McManus told of being chased by a Jackson bodyguard wielding a stun gun.
McManus said she lied during a deposition in the 1993 case when she denied any improper behaviour by Jackson. She did so because Jackson once threatened that someone would "come after her" if she ever did anything wrong, she said.
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - In another day of rough sledding for prosecutors in Michael Jackson's molestation trial, the pop star's estranged ex-wife praised him yesterday as a "brilliant businessman" and a "good father" who was "great with kids" and lambasted his handlers as "opportunistic vultures" who didn't always act on his behalf.
"There's lots of Michaels," said Debbie Rowe, the mother of two of Jackson's children, dabbing away tears with a tissue during her testimony in state court here. "There's my Michael, and the Michael everyone else sees."
Prosecutors called Rowe, who divorced Jackson in 1999 and is battling the singer over rights to see her children, to testify that she was pressured and scripted to say favorable things about him in a 2003 videotaped interview designed to control damage from a documentary in which he admitted sleeping in the same bed with children.
The testimony was supposed to bolster charges that Jackson and his advisers conspired to imprison a 13-year-old boy and his family at the Neverland ranch to coerce them into taping similar scripted interviews, and that he subsequently molested the boy. Instead, in testimony that began Wednesday, Rowe confounded prosecutors.
She said any scripting during the February 2003 taping session was limited to a few suggestions for rephrasing answers from Marc Schaffel, a Jackson adviser. And her contemptuous description of Schaffel and two other Jackson business aides - all unindicted co-conspirators - suggested Jackson may have been a victim of his handlers' greed and misconduct.
Rowe said the aides bragged about how much money they were making from the rebuttal video, and said she warned police investigators that Jackson was "easily manipulated, especially if he's scared." The handlers, she said under cross-examination, "make all the decisions. There's a number of times they don't consult him."
Legal observers who follow the trial said Rowe's affectionate description of her ex-husband could gain him sympathy with jurors, and her testimony about the advisers could support a defense claim that Jackson was not part of any conspiracy.
"Debbie Rowe was a devastating witness for the prosecution," said Michael Cardoza, a former California prosecutor. "... Debbie Rowe distanced Jackson from the handlers who were running around doing the things that are on trial here."
Rowe, 45, a former plastic surgeon's assistant, married the singer in 1996. They had two children, Prince Michael, 8, and Paris, 7. Rowe has had almost no contact with Jackson since their divorce, except for a call in which he asked her to tape the rebuttal interview in 2003.
In testimony Wednesday, Rowe said she had lied during the taped interview about Jackson. Yesterday, she said the lies included describing herself as part of the Jackson "family" and praising Jackson's parenting skills even though her last contact with him and the children was in 1999.
Rowe said she agreed to back Jackson in 2003 in hopes that it would gain her access to her children. Jackson, she said, was ultimately responsible for the fact that hadn't happened, but she also blamed his advisers for poisoning him against her.
Rowe's lawyer, Iris Finsilver, testified later that during the making of the video the possibility of a reunion was dangled at least twice by Schaffel.
Leaving court with his entourage, Jackson was asked yesterday if it was good to see Rowe again. He appeared to nod and move his lips in a soft, "Yes."
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michael jackson molestation court papers Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe can now be called to testify against him, trial judge Rodney Melville has ruled.
Judge Melville told the court that prosecutors could call Ms Rowe - the mother of his two eldest children - to give evidence. She could prove to be one of the strongest, most damning witnesses in the case against the star.
Ms Rowe is currently locked in a bitter custody battle with Jackson over their children. She had been subject to a gagging order forbidding her to speak about Jackson but that will be over-ruled by Judge Melville when she takes the stand.
She is expected to testify that she was part of an effort to salvage Jackson's image following the broadcast of a ITV documentary.
Prosecutor Ron Zonen said Ms Rowe will tell how she was pressured into giving a "highly scripted" interview supporting him in exchange for visits with her two children.
Prosecutors say Jackson's camp panicked after the Living with Michael Jackson documentary, which aired in February 2003. It showed him nuzzling the boy who later accused him of child abuse, and defending his practice of sharing a bed with boys.
Jackson is charged with molesting the boy, then 13, at his Neverland ranch and faces more than 20 years in prison if convicted. He denies all the charges against him.
Meanwhile, Jackson's lead lawyer, Tom Mesereau, has filed a notice with the Santa Maria court saying Jackson's family lawyer Brian Oxman will no longer be part of the singer's trial, but gave no explanations as to why.
Outside the courtroom, Mr Oxman only told reporters that there had been "consternation on our team."
SANTA MARIA, Calif., April 25 -- The former head of security at Neverland Ranch told jurors Monday that Michael Jackson Accuser's Mother Says She Was a Captive
By Linda Deutsch
Associated Press
Friday, April 15, 2005; Page C03
SANTA MARIA, Calif., April 14 -- The mother of Michael Jackson's accuser told jurors Thursday a bizarre story of weeks during which she was shuttled around by Jackson's associates, made a virtual prisoner and warned that "killers" were after her.
The woman said that, during the entire period, she never tried to call police because "who could possibly believe this?"
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Jackson, 46, is on trial on charges of molesting a 13-year-old and keeping the youngster and his family captive.
The boy's mother testified that Jackson's people claimed the family needed to be protected from killers. She said they kept her in line by threatening her parents and her boyfriend.
Prosecutors allege that the family was held to get them to make a video rebutting a Feb. 6, 2003, TV documentary in which Jackson appeared with the boy who would eventually accuse him of molestation. In the program, Jackson said he let children sleep in his bed, but he characterized the practice as innocent.
The woman, who had testified emotionally on Wednesday, was more controlled in her second day on the stand as she answered questions from prosecutor Ron Zonen about her excursions with two Jackson aides, Frank Tyson and Vince Amen.
The woman said she was given a script to follow for the rebuttal video and was instructed to say repeatedly "that he's a wonderful father. Basically, in summary, that he's a wonderful father . . . to my children."
The prosecutor asked if she really believed the things she said on the video.
"I was confused, I was sad, so basically I was acting," she testified.
She said that all of her activities from Feb. 21 to March 10, 2003, were dictated by Jackson's henchmen, who she said monitored her calls, stood outside her window or her hotel door, and would not let her leave their custody.
She said she did not learn of any molestation allegations until she was informed by law enforcement authorities, who had been contacted by a psychologist to whom her children had been referred by a lawyer.
As Zonen's two-day examination of the woman concluded, she said she never received or requested any money from Jackson, and does not plan to sue him. The defense's cross-examination of the mother was expected to begin Friday.
Jackson stood before a statue of Peter Pan and snuggled and kissed a boy who later accused the pop star of molesting him in the early 1990s.
how's jackson's trial going SANTA MARIA, Calif., April 25 -- The former head of security at Neverland Ranch told jurors Monday that Michael Jackson stood before a statue of Peter Pan and snuggled and kissed a boy who later accused the pop star of molesting him in the early 1990s.
"He was hugging him from behind," said Kassim Abdool, who worked the overnight security shift for Jackson from 1991 until 1994. "I saw him give him a little kiss on the side" of the cheek.
Michael Jackson arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse for his child molestation trial on Monday, April 25, 2005, in Santa Maria, Calif. (AP Photo/ Ric Francis) (Ric Francis - AP)
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The testimony of Abdool, a former policeman from the island of Trinidad with a brushy full beard and downcast eyes, was intended by prosecutors to corroborate the previous eyewitness account of fellow security guard Ralph Chacon. Earlier this month, Chacon told jurors he saw Jackson perform oral sex on the boy, then around 9 or 10 years old.
But just as he did with Chacon, Jackson defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. launched a withering counterattack against Abdool -- characterizing him as a bitter former employee who had lost a wrongful termination lawsuit against the entertainer and had repeatedly sold his stories of life at Neverland to the tabloid press. ("Kinky Sex Secrets of Michael and Lisa Marie's Bedroom" was the headline on one of those stories, Mesereau noted.)
The appearance of Abdool took jurors back again to the early 1990s, when Jackson was first investigated for child molestation. No criminal charges were ever brought in that case, and Jackson has denied he did anything wrong, though he did pay his accuser a financial settlement, reportedly $20 million.
PATERSON, N.J. -- An 18-year-old New Jersey man who is a potential defense witness in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial has pleaded innocent to his own child sex charge.
Ahmad Elatab of Clifton is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old Paramus Catholic High School girl.
His lawyer, Joseph Pospis, on Monday entered a plea of not guilty on Elatab's behalf to charges of sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and impairing the morals of a minor. Elatab remains free on $25,000 bail.
He could be sentenced to as many as 10 years in prison if convicted of sexual assault.
Pospis and Elatab declined comment after the hearing in state Superior Court, but Said Elatab, the defendant's father, told reporters, "We are having this problem because we support Michael Jackson."
"Now, my son may not be able to testify to help him, and Michael Jackson cannot help my son anymore," the father said. Said Elatab said he has another, younger son suffering from brain cancer.
"I think Michael Jackson is innocent, and I think my son is innocent also," Said Elatab said.
Police said the 14-year-old girl knew Elatab from a belly-dancing class, and invited him to her home while her parents were sleeping on April 11. They watched pornographic discs and other computer-generated images that Elatab had brought, police said, and the girl told them Elatab bragged that he had been at Jackson's Neverland Ranch and had seen the pop star seduce a girl.
But Elatab told police he never said that. The only comments he claimed to have made about Jackson is that the pop star is "smooth" with women.
In previous interviews with The Associated Press, Elatab said he never saw Jackson engage in any inappropriate conduct with children at Neverland, describing him as a father figure to youngsters there.
Accuser 'kept at Neverland ranch'
Jackson faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted
A former security guard at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch has testified that the singer's accuser was for a time not allowed to leave the property.
Brian Barron said at Mr Jackson's trial that a note to this effect was posted on a board in the ranch's guard house for about a week in 2003.
Prosecutors say this evidence supports allegations that the Arvizo family were held against their will at the ranch.
The prosecution's case against the star is expected to end next week.
The announcement by chief prosecutor Tom Sneddon will clear the way for the defence to begin presenting arguments.
Mr Jackson, who is accused of molesting a teenage boy in 2003, denies all of the 10 charges against him.
'Pins and needles'
Mr Barron, a local policeman who used to moonlight at the ranch, was one of a few minor witnesses called by the prosecution as they wound down their case.
Janet Arvizo (right) has been a key prosecution witness
He said the accuser, Gavin Arvizo, and his brother and sister were regular visitors to Neverland.
In one period in January or February 2003, he said, the memo "Gavin is not allowed off the property" was written on the guard house board.
However, the former guard conceded under cross-examination that it was appropriate to keep child guests on the estate when their parents were not around.
Mr Barron was also unable to confirm that Gavin's parents were there.
But he claimed that there was a tense atmosphere at the ranch with staff on "pins and needles" when Mr Jackson was at home.
"He's like a perfectionist," Mr Barron was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying.
"Everything has to be right."
The defence case will begin almost immediately after the prosecution finishes.
'Inappropriate behaviour'
When it begins making its case it is expected to call on a host of celebrities to testify to the singer's good character and innocent love of children.
The stars could include Liza Minnelli and Liz Taylor, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and interviewer Larry King, as well as the former child star Macaulay Culkin.
Mr Culkin, now 24, was befriended by Mr Jackson as a child in the early 1990s.
Earlier in the prosecution case, a former maid at the pop star's ranch claimed seeing Mr Jackson behave inappropriately towards the Home Alone actor.
Mr Culkin's spokeswoman has indicated that he does not want to take part in the trial.
Among the stars the defence says will appear is talk-show host Jay Leno, who the defence says will testify that Gavin Arvizo, the teenager who Mr Jackson is accused of abusing, sought financial help from him.
The testimony will boost claims that the molestation accusations were fabricated by the family to extort money from the singer.
Janet Arvizo, Gavin's mother, who stepped down on Tuesday after giving evidence for five days, told jurors that she had never asked Mr Leno for money and was unaware of her son doing so.
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In what appears to be an apparent suicide, musician Michael Jackson was pronounced dead as a result of cardiac arrest after consuming more than two-dozen sleeping pills.
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Jackson defense witness list includes Elizabeth Taylor, Kobe Bryant
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) - A defense witness list that sounded like coming attractions for a major Hollywood spectacle was read to prospective jurors in the Michael Jackson molestation case Monday, but the judge advised the panelists that some of the big names may be no-shows.
The list of possible witnesses included Elizabeth Taylor, producer Quincy Jones, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Backstreet Boy Nick Carter and his younger brother Aaron, and Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant.
Names of defense and prosecution witnesses were revealed to the prospects so that attorneys could find out if any of the more than 240 members of the pool had associations that may be important in selecting 12 jurors and eight alternates for the trial. Only one prospect, who had a health problem, was immediately dismissed.
Defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. also named Jackson's children Paris and Prince Michael, who have been raised in such seclusion that the public has never seen their faces, but many on the list are well known.
The ensemble included "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno, actors Chris Tucker and Corey Feldman, CBS correspondent Ed Bradley, CNN's Larry King, Fox , broadcaster Rita Cosby, New Age guru Deepak Chopra, psychic Uri Geller, Las Vegas tycoon Steve Wynn and relatives of the late Marlon Brando.
Also listed was journalist Martin Bashir, whose 2003 TV documentary "Living With Michael Jackson" showed Jackson and his accuser holding hands and Jackson defending his practice of sharing his bed with children.
Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville limited the time attorneys were allowed to question the prospects.
One woman said she was falsely accused by a relative of molesting a boy, and later was falsely accused by a parent of assaulting a child while she was a teacher.
"I don't know the truth about Mr. Jackson but I'd like the truth to come forward," she said. "I'm sympathetic."
Another woman said she had to go to police when she found out that a brother-in-law molested her nieces.
Both women said their experiences would not influence their decisions and they could be unbiased.
Several prospective jurors said they believe children often lie under pressure by their parents or others. One man said he believed that siblings could plant ideas in a child's head.
Quizzed on their views of the news media, most said they thought the press goes overboard in covering some issues but said they watch news on TV and read newspapers.
Jackson, who is accused of molesting a 13-year-old former cancer patient, smiled across the courtroom at the prospects. Maintaining his star persona, he came to court in a black suit with a red satin shirt, gold and red brocade vest, with a sunburst pin on his pocket and a jewel-encrusted accessory on his vest.
Both the prosecution and the defense included in their prospective lists former Jackson attorney Mark Geragos, and the defense list included Jackson's chief prosecutor, District Attorney Tom Sneddon.
The prosecution list included a group that the defense did not: the entire family of a boy involved in 1993 allegations of molestation by Jackson. The judge has not yet ruled whether that incident can be mentioned in the trial. No criminal charges were filed, but there was a civil settlement reportedly amounting to $15 million.
The prosecution also said it would call Debbie Rowe, the mother of Paris and Prince Michael.
A little over two weeks ago, Michael Jackson looked as if he was sailing towards an acquittal in his trial on child-molestation charges.
The family accusing him of abusing their 13-year-old son was vague on the details, contradictory, unsupported by much corroborating evidence and happy to admit a history of lying, even under oath. Now things look considerably dicier for the 46-year-old in the wake of a single ruling which allowed the prosecution to present evidence of prior claims of molestation even though they do not pertain directly to the charges he now faces.
One witness after another has come forward to give dramatic descriptions of a rich and famous man who literally could not keep his hands off pre-teen boys.
The son of an ex-Neverland maid recounted fondling sessions. A former security guard described seeing a naked Jackson kissing 11-year-old Jordy Chandler’s body and putting the boy’s penis in his mouth.
Another former maid said she had seen Jackson kiss and grope child actor Macaulay Culkin.
A former major domo corroborated the story, saying he was once called to serve chips at 3am, only to stumble on Jackson with his hands in the boy’s trousers. "I was shocked. I almost dropped the fries," Phillip LeMarque told the court.
The defence, has had to work fast to cast serious doubt on every claim and hope the jury does not remain haunted by the testimonies.
The defence does have a certain amount of material to play with. Lead lawyer Tom Mesereau used every opportunity to suggest the witnesses bore obvious grudges against Jackson and wanted to get even. He pointed to flaws in testimonies - many initially gave depositions in 1993, before Chandler dropped charges following a multimillion-dollar out-of-court settlement.
He made sure the jury heard of every tabloid deal they made. Observers were impressed, but it is unclear whether it will be enough.
As the week wore on, he was challenged by the sheer number of witnesses coming forward to allege sex acts. It was hardest to discredit Jason Francia, whose account of alleged molestation was intensely emotional. Mesereau has to make a decision. Either seek to persuade the jury that every witness is lying or argue that whatever Jackson did in the past, the only thing that matters is whether he abused Gavin Arviso, the person at the heart of the case. Jackson denies all wrongdoing.
SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- A former chef at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch testified Friday that he saw the pop star improperly touch child movie star Macaulay Culkin in the early 1990s.
"I was shocked," said Phillip LeMarque, who said the incident happened about 3 in the morning, after he was summoned to cook and deliver french fries to Jackson and Culkin. "I almost dropped the french fries."
Testifying in Jackson's child molestation trial, LeMarque said Jackson was holding Culkin up so he could reach the controls of the video game.
One hand was holding the boy by the waist, and the other hand was coming up through the leg of Culkin's shorts and was on his crotch, LeMarque said.
Culkin, who has denied that Jackson ever touched him sexually, would have been 10 or 11 at the time of the alleged incident in 1991.
LeMarque's testimony came Friday morning after the defense lost a bid to try to impeach his credibility by introducing evidence that he operated an explicit adult Web site from 1997 until recently.
"We can prove this witness tried to use tabloid stories about Mr. Jackson to get into this business," defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. said.
Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville ruled the evidence could not be admitted because it concerned events that happened years after the events about which LeMarque was testifying.
Also Friday, the defense sought to discredit the testimony of Adrian McManus, a former maid at Neverland, by suggesting to jurors that she tried, and failed, to win millions of dollars in a wrongful termination suit against the pop star.
On the stand Thursday, McManus testified about an incident she says she saw between Jackson and a boy whose family reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with Jackson in 1994 after alleging molestation.
She said she saw Jackson kiss the boy on the mouth and put a hand on his crotch, over his pants, in Jackson's bedroom.
McManus also said she saw Jackson put his hands on the leg and buttocks of Culkin, while kissing him on the cheek, and witnessed a similar episode with another young boy.
She said she left Neverland in 1994 after being harassed and receiving "death threats" from members of an armed security detail, dubbed the Office of Special Services, that arrived at Neverland after the settlement.
McManus and four other employees sued Jackson for wrongful termination, seeking $16 million.
The suit backfired when Jackson countersued and the jury found in his favor in 1995, leaving the employees on the hook for nearly $1.5 million in legal fees.
Pressed by Mesereau on Friday on how much money she wanted from Jackson, McManus replied, "I wanted justice."
She also said that if she had gotten an apology for the way she had been treated by Jackson's security staff, "that would have been enough."
Asked if she had ever called Jackson to ask him for that apology, she said, "I didn't have a phone number to call Mr. Jackson."
McManus admitted she had accepted money from tabloids to provide information about Jackson and his ex-wife, Lisa Marie Presley, including participating in an article about their "kinky sex secrets."
But she insisted that the bulk of the money went toward financing the employees' legal action.
"We tried to get money to help with our lawsuit to fight Mr. Jackson," she said.
While she was quoted in the article about "kinky sex secrets," McManus said she had no such information about Jackson and Presley, who were married in 1994 and divorced in 1996.
McManus said that during her time at Neverland she never saw a woman spend the night in Jackson's bedroom suite.
She said actress Brooke Shields, who had been romantically linked to Jackson before his marriage, stayed in a guest cottage when she came to Neverland.
The 46-year-old singer is accused of molesting a boy -- now 15 years old -- at Neverland Ranch, giving him alcohol and conspiring to hold the boy's family captive in 2003.
Jackson has pleaded not guilty to the charges
CNN's Dree De Clamecy contributed to this report
Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville will allow each side four hours to make its final argument to the jury, sources told CNN. The judge told jurors he expected closing arguments to last all day Thursday and spill into Friday, after which the case will go to the jury.
Santa Barbara County District Attorney Thomas Sneddon decided not to give the prosecution's final summation, assigning that task instead to his deputy, Ron Zonen.
Sneddon, who has been accused by Jackson and his supporters of engaging in a decade-long vendetta against the entertainer, gave the prosecution's opening argument -- a performance that was panned by many courtroom observers. (Opening statements)
Accompanied by his parents and brothers Jermaine, Tito and Randy, Jackson arrived at the Santa Maria courthouse Thursday wearing a black jacket and pants, a vest festooned with green-and-red plaid and a red armband.
Also at the courthouse Thursday to lend moral support was comedian and activist Dick Gregory, who met with Jackson's family Wednesday night.
About 75 fans and supporters gathered outside the gates of the entertainer's Neverland Ranch Wednesday night for a 30-minute prayer vigil. As the time of prayer concluded, the event became celebratory, with people singing Jackson's songs and dancing.
Fans also were on hand to greet Jackson when he arrived Thursday morning, and he acknowledged them with a wave.
Jackson was indicted in April 2004 on 10 counts stemming from incidents prosecutors say occurred in February and March 2003.
The charges against Jackson include:
Four counts of committing a lewd act on a child.
One count of conspiracy to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion.
One count of attempting to commit a lewd act on a child.
Four counts of administering an intoxicating agent to assist in the commission of a felony.
Jackson pleaded not guilty to the charges and did not testify during the trial.
Melville ruled earlier this week that the charges of furnishing alcohol to a minor -- normally a felony -- could be considered a misdemeanor.
The chain of events that led to the charges against Jackson began in February 2003 after broadcast of "Living With Michael Jackson," a documentary by British journalist Martin Bashir.
In the program, Jackson was shown holding hands with the 13-year-old boy who later accused him of child molestation, and he defended as "loving" his practice of letting young boys sleep in his bed.
Prosecutors alleged that after the broadcast Jackson and five associates plotted to control and intimidate the accuser's family to get them to go along with damage control efforts, including holding them against their will at the entertainer's Neverland Ranch.
Jackson's lawyers have tried to paint his accuser's family as grifters with a habit of targeting the rich and famous for money
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Jackson team in Macaulay court move Michael Jackson's defence team will call Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin to give evidence in the pop star's child molestation trial, it has been claimed.
Lawyers reportedly want him to refute testimony by former Neverland staff who claim they saw Jackson engage in inappropriate behaviour with the former child actor.
Culkin, now 24, has repeatedly denied being abused by the pop star who befriended him in the early 1990s.
His spokeswoman has indicated he does not intend to take part in the trial.
But if he does not volunteer to give evidence at Santa Maria court, California, a subpoena will be served, sources told the Celebrity Justice website.
Jackson's former chef has claimed he once caught the pop star with his hand down Culkin's pants.
A former maid has recalled seeing Jackson kissing Culkin's cheek, his hand resting on the child's bottom.
The defence is expected to launch its case next week and has indicated an intention to call a host of celebrities to the stand to talk up Jackson's good character and love of children.
Stars including Liza Minnelli, Liz Taylor, Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross have all been listed as potential witnesses.
Jackson Defense Investigate Diane Dimond
MICHAEL Jackson's defense is trying to find out if Court TV's Diane Dimond has been nosing around prosecutors.
Newly released documents show that Jackson's lawyers cast a wide net of "discovery" — prosecution evidence entitled to the defense — in July, and asked for any notes made by DA Tom Sneddon of talks he might have had with Dimond.
The TV reporter, who has been a thorn in Jackson's side going back to the 1990s in her years at "Hard Copy," scored the best Jackson story of the year so far.
Back in mid-June, she obtained previously secret documents that fully detailed Jackson's $25 million civil settlement with young accuser in 1993.
DA Sneddon has so far denied the defense's Dimond mining expedition — claiming Jackson's request fell outside the scope of discovery.
Source: New York Post
Born July 1968.
Married David Arvizo in 1985, they had three children including Gavin, Michael Jackson's Accuser.
Attended Citrus Community College and Cal State Los Angeles, studied criminal justice.
Divorced David Arvizo in April 2004. Re-married in May 2004 to a Jay Jackson, becoming Janet Jackson. Had her fourth child in the summer of 2004.
MEET THE NEW 'JANET JACKSON'; ACCUSER'S MOM REVEALED
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This is the face of Michael Jackson's biggest nightmare: Janet Arvizo, the mother of the boy who alleges he was abused.
The media may be shielding her face from public view for now, but if the case holds together through trial, she will become the center of blistering international media attention.
Janet Arvizo married Army Reserves Major Jay Jackson in Las Vegas. She is now: Janet Jackson!
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She has been moved into protective custody with her husband, and with alleged victim Gavin Arvizo, age 15, his little brother, Star Arvizo, 14, and older sister, Davellin Arvizo, 18.
Lawyers for Michael Jackson claimed on Monday the Arvizo boys have recently been spotted shopping in Beverly Hills -- with the district attorney!
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The family's accusations are at the heart of criminal charges brought against Jackson by Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon: All will take the stand in open court.
But mother Janet Arvizo's conflicting and documented accounts of what transpired at the Neverland compound are seen to be a major hurdle for Sneddon.
Shortly after the famed GRANADA/ABC Martin Bashir documentary aired, Janet offered words of support for her son's "hero."
She said: "At no time has Gavin ever been treated with anything other than love, respect and the deepest kindness by Michael. Michael has been so important in Gavin being able to recover from cancer. His constant support, both practical and emotional, helped give my beautiful little boy the strength to fight his cancer."
Janet now claims she did not know of the abuse at the time.
She also claims she was pressured into making a show of support for Jackson.
But the Arvizo family was also caught on film strongly denying any Jackson wrongdoing.
"There were tears, they were holding hands, they were talking about Jesus and God and Michael as the ultimate father figure," claimed videographer Christian Robinson on ABC last year.
Robinson says he spent two years recording Michael Jackson and those who made it into the pop star's inner circle.
Robinson claims the alleged victim, his brother, his sister and his mother all said Jackson did nothing wrong.
"Yeah. I asked. And they answered, and they were very up front and they, of course, said absolutely not," said Robinson. "All of them, every single one," he said.
"And just to clarify that even a little bit more, during this interview I told them to speak truthfully probably more than 30 times. I kept on reminding them, I'm like I want you guys to tell the truth," Robinson explained.
It's going to be a 'Janet Jackson' vs Michael Jackson showdown this spring in a California courtroom!
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SEEKING TRUTH IN THE JACKSON CASE
Created: Wednesday, 13 April 2005
By Roger Friedman
U.S. Army Maj. Jay D. Jackson may not have told the complete truth Tuesday when he took the witness stand in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial.
The question is: Will Jay Jackson's testimony be considered a white lie, or something worse?
Jay Jackson, the husband of Janet Arvizo, mother of Michael Jackson's accuser, and no relation to Jacko himself, said under oath that he did not sell a story to a pair of British tabloid reporters in February 2003.
Questioned by prosecutor Ron Zonen, Jay Jackson conceded that when the reporters, David Gardner of The Daily Mail and photographer Alec Byrne, came to him, he immediately asked them for compensation.
But, he testified, after a couple days of negotiations — and an offer from The Mail for $15,000 —he turned them down.
In fact, Jay Jackson repeatedly denied on the stand that he ever took money for a story about Michael Jackson.
Well, that's true, and yet it isn't completely true.
The truth is that Jay Jackson and Janet Arvizo did sell a story to Gardner and Byrne. The story was published on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2003, in The Daily Mail, and then ran in Australia the next day. It had quotes from both the accuser's mother and her friend, comedy-club owner Jamie Masada. I told you about this article, which was never published in the United States, some time ago.
But no money ever changed hands, and The Mail wound up getting it for free.
I am told by sources that Gardner and Byrne conducted part of the interview, took pictures of the family and got other pictures from them.
But when they testify in the defense portion of the Michael Jackson trial, the two journalists will have an interesting story to tell, one that will provide a missing piece of the puzzle in this bizarre tale.
According to my sources, Gardner and Byrne finished Part 1 of the interview on Feb. 4, 2003, right after the accuser and his family were featured in the British broadcast of the Martin Bashir documentary "Living With Michael Jackson." They planned to get Part 2 the next day.
But when Gardner and Byrne returned to the family's apartment on Feb. 5, they were surprised to find them completely gone.
Ironically, both Jay Jackson and Janet Arvizo had negotiated a fee even higher than $15,000 with the British reporters. But they and the kids had vanished overnight.
The reporters, I am told, surmised that Jay Jackson must have realized that if merely knowing Michael Jackson (there was no molestation allegation at the time) was worth at least $15,000 to The Daily Mail, then it must have been worth even more to … Michael Jackson.
The thinking is that Jay Jackson and Janet Arvizo called Neverland and told someone there what was going on. The result was that the family was quickly whisked away to Miami.
The scenario makes sense and suddenly explains why Michael Jackson — who was in Miami at the time — wanted the family brought to him immediately.
The commonly accepted reason is that the family came to Miami to be part of a press conference. But no such event ever materialized, and the family returned with Michael Jackson by private plane to Neverland within 48 hours.
Now it seems that the Miami trip may have been triggered by a call from Jay Jackson and the accuser's mother.
"How else would Michael have known they were in 'danger' from the media?" asks a source. Good point.
It may have been only at that moment that Michael Jackson's managers, Dieter Wiesner and Ronald Konitzer, realized that the accuser and his family were vulnerable to questioning from tabloid reporters.
Wiesner and Konitzer likely put together the plan to keep the family isolated and entertained for a period — a plan which was bungled and then mushroomed into what is now called "The Conspiracy."
Gardner's story, by the way, will be key to Michael Jackson's defense, because the truncated interview occurred right before all hell broke loose.
In the story, Janet Arvizo — with no prompting from anyone — said: "Michael has brought something special into our lives. All of my kids have stayed over with Michael. I am comfortable with that. ... They are happy with him and have a lot of fun. They are hoping to travel the world with him. He is their angel."
Masada, a family friend, discounted rumors of possible inappropriate behavior to Gardner: "[The accuser] is not a naive kid. He would have said if something bad had happened."
Meanwhile, Jay Jackson will have some problems on the stand as his cross-examination by defense attorney Thomas Mesereau continues on Wednesday.
His truthfulness about the Daily Mail reporters hinges on his claim that he didn't take money. He also testified very clearly that he never told the accuser's mother about the monetary offers or the amounts involved.
That, I am told, is simply untrue. Janet Arvizo, who sounded very articulate and composed on a tape recording played in court Tuesday, is said to have participated in the negotiations with Gardner and Byrne.
As an addendum to this, there is also the matter of Jay Jackson's evident astonishment in court Tuesday as Mesereau played a 20-minute tape made by private investigator Brad Miller of Janet Arvizo and her three children.
On the tape, the family members waxed poetic about Michael Jackson being their savior and father figure.
At the time, they were living in Jay Jackson's home, and he considered himself their surrogate dad.
No mention was made by any of the family members of Jay Jackson. It was as if he didn't exist.
As the tape played, Jay Jackson rocked back and forth in the witness chair, drank a pitcher of water and wiped sweat from his brow.
It was a stroke of brilliance on the part of Mesereau to subject the witness to this evident humiliation.
The tape made him seem like a sucker in a con game, one made all the worse since he later married Janet Arvizo and now has a baby with her.
The mother of Michael Jackson’s accuser clashed with his lawyer in court today as she staunchly defended her testimony in a fast and furious exchange.
Judge Rodney Melville threatened to close Santa Maria court, California, after repeatedly warning Janet Arvizo and lawyer Tom Mesereau to stop sniping at each other.
Mr Mesereau accused the woman of being a good actress as he tried to undermine her credibility while she was quick to declare that Neverland was “all about booze, pornography and sex with boys.”
Both comments were struck from the court record.
Mrs Arvizo insisted that the video filmed to offset a potential backlash from Martin Bashir’s documentary was entirely scripted.
She said she was admonished by Jackson aides after being instructed to defend the star because she was a “bad actress.”
“I think you’re a good actress,” Mr Mesereau shot back.
He played the 30-minute video for a fourth time, stopping and starting it to question the apparent spontaneity of the family’s comments as they took breaks from filming and joked together.
But Mrs Arvizo stuck to her guns, claiming every word was rehearsed and she had met one of Jackson’s aides ten times to discuss what she would say.
Mr Mesereau suggested she was embellishing her story. For her part, she later turned to jurors declaring that the lawyer’s facts were “inaccurate”.
She maintained that she was held captive at Neverland in February, 2003. While acknowledging that she had left the property several times, she said she was always enticed back by Jackson’s aides.
When Mr Mesereau played a recording of a conversation between her and one of Jackson’s associates, she snapped: “This tape has been manipulated.” Mrs Arvizo did admit that she had once lied under oath in a lawsuit she filed against a US department store.
She won more than 150,000 dollars (£79,000) in 2001 after alleging she was assaulted and her family beaten by guards when her son Gavin was caught shoplifting.
She conceded that she was lying when she denied being abused by her husband, but said it was because she was embarrassed and explained that she had subsequently tried to get the record corrected.
Mr Mesereau sought to portray the woman as the architect of an elaborate plot to extort money from Jackson, but Mrs Arvizo stressed for the second day in a row, that she had no intention of suing the star.
“I want justice here,” she said.
Earlier, the court was played surveillance tapes found in the office of Jackson’s private investigator.
The footage of Gavin Arvizo and his family was proof they were closely monitored as they were held captive at Neverland, the prosecution claimed.
The tapes included shots of Janet Arvizo, her parents and boyfriend, mostly filmed in February 2003.
One showed the family’s belongings being packed up and moved out of their Los Angeles flat at around the same time they claim Jackson’s associates were planning to send them to Brazil.
Jackson, 46, denies molesting 13-year-old Gavin, plying him with alcohol and conspiring to hold him and his family captive. The trial continues.
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Michael Jackson showered with a boy of eight at his Neverland Ranch home, the star's former maid told his abuse trial yesterday (05.04.05).
Blanca Francia told the Santa Maria courtroom that she once caught the star and young friend Wade Robson "laughing and giggling" in the bathroom of a luxury suite.
She said she entered Jackson's private bedroom to clean it.
Wade, 22, first met Jackson after winning a dancing competition in 1987. The dancer and former choreographer to Britney Spears struck up a friendship with the eccentric star and sometimes stayed with him.
Francia said during Wade's sleepovers it was obvious only one bed had been used by the pair and she often found Wade's clothes and underwear on the floor of Jackson's suite.
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JACKSON ACCUSER'S MOTHER TALKS ABOUT CRAZY KIDNAP ORDEAL
The mother of MICHAEL JACKSON's teenage child molestation accuser has testified in court she didn't call the police when she and her family were kidnapped by the pop star's aides because she thought no one would believe her bizarre story.
JANET JACKSON - previously known as JANET ARVIZO before her 2004 marriage - took to the stand in court in Santa Maria, California yesterday (14APR05) and told the court Jackson's employees VINNIE AMEN and FRANK TYSON shuttled the family around California, informing them that "killers" were on their trail.
Prosecutors in the case claim the family was held captive while Jackson attempted to persuade them to take part in a video rebutting MARTIN BASHIR's LIVING WITH MICHAEL JACKSON documentary.
The witness broke down in tears during her testimony when the prosecution team showed her passports she claimed she had been forced to obtain for her and her kids for a trip to Brazil.
She said she had never been given the documents.
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MOTHER OF JACKSON ACCUSER TAKES STAND
The mother of MICHAEL JACKSON's teen accuser GAVIN ARVIZO took the witness stand this morning (13APR05), following doubts on whether she would testify at all.
The judge in the case ruled, over defence objections, that JANET ARVIZO could plead the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution and refuse to answer questions about welfare fraud.
Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge RODNEY MELVILLE threw out a bid by Jackson's lawyers, who called the mother a "kingpin" of the kidnap conspiracy charges against the BAD singer, to prevent the woman from testifying at all under such conditions. He also denied a motion for a mistrial.
Janet, who has been portrayed by defence attorneys as a liar and a grifter who preyed on celebrities, said she would testify on any other matters relating to the charges against 46-year-old Jackson.
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In what appears to be an apparent suicide, musician Michael Jackson was pronounced dead as a result of cardiac arrest after consuming more than two-dozen sleeping pills.
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In what appears to be an apparent suicide, musician Michael Jackson was pronounced dead as a result of cardiac arrest after consuming more than two-dozen sleeping pills.
Complete details are not yet available, as this story is still developing.
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Santa Maria - Michael Jackson designed his Neverland ranch as a retreat from the prying world.
But testimony at his trial shows it became a nest of backstairs intrigues among gossiping employees who are now offering stories to bolster prosecution claims that Jackson molested boys.
Jackson's lawyer has effectively worked to confront the witnesses with their own financial motives, portraying them as mercenaries and liars who abused Jackson's trust.
The former employees have admitted they sold out Jackson to the highest bidder, peddling alleged inside dirt on his sex life with ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley and his relationship with child actor Macauley Culkin.
In testimony at Jackson's trial last week, maid Adrian McManus acknowledged that she knew nothing about Jackson's sex life with Presley but nevertheless signed contracts to sell details of "kinky sex" to tabloid magazines.
Media broker
She said employees used a "media broker" to sell gossip because they needed money to finance their multimillion-dollar wrongful termination suit against Jackson.
They lost in court and were ordered to pay Jackson $1.4m.
Another maid acknowledged she got $20 000 from the TV show Hard Copy, with another maid acting as her agent, then sued Jackson saying her son had been molested and won a $2.4m settlement.
Security guard Ralph Chacon, who was part of the employees' suit against Jackson, said he was forced into bankruptcy when they lost.
The defence portrayed his testimony - a graphic account of seeing Jackson perform a sex act on a child - as a way to "get even".
Neverland chef Phillip LeMarque acknowledged he once asked for $500 000 to tell a tabloid that he saw Jackson with a hand up Culkin's shorts.
The actor was well-known in the 1990s as a Jackson companion.
The defence has said the Home Alone star has repeatedly denied anything inappropriate happened, and a spokesperson has said Culkin does not plan to be a part of the case.
'You couldn't have friends'
LeMarque said he did not receive any money from tabloids.
"Everybody was trying to sell our stories," said LeMarque, saying the competition to cash in on Jackson's fame divided the employees.
"You couldn't have friends. Everyone was spying on each other."
Jackson, 46, is charged with molesting a 13-year-old boy in February or March 2003.
J Randy Taraborrelli, a CBS news analyst and author of the book Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness, said that when he was researching his book 12 years ago, he interviewed many of the Neverland employees now testifying and decided not to quote them because they had financial motives to lie.
"But if you really saw these things, a normal person would call the police; you don't call the National Enquirer."
Terry George Has been in the newspapers and featured in several TV documentaries about his teenage friendship with Michael Jackson. It makes interesting reading how one story printed in 1993 can be rehashed in so many different was by the worlds media.
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