Thursday, August 13, 2009

Two Definitive Articles on Michael Jackson - GQ and Vanity Fair

VF: Jackson had abruptly dropped out from doing the theme song and video for the film Addams Family Values; when the movie was released, there was now a scene in which a kid sees a Michael Jackson poster and recoils in horror. People magazine's November 29 cover read, MICHAEL JACKSON CRACKS UP.

Out of the blue, just as the judge denied Jackson's petition to postpone the civil suit, five ex-bodyguards of the Jackson family sued, claiming they had been fired because they knew too much. One reported that Jackson had asked him to destroy a photograph of a nude boy that was in a bathroom in the family home. Fields dismissed the charges as bogus.

SHOOT: Check out the links below. The Vanity Fair piece is long, 12 pages.
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To some observers, the Michael Jackson story illustrates the dangerous power of accusation, against which there is often no defense — particularly when the accusations involve child sexual abuse. To others, something else is clear now — that police and prosecutors spent millions of dollars to create a case whose foundation never existed.
clipped from www.vanityfair.com

Nightmare in Neverland


While Michael Jackson was whisked away to detox treatment, the star's lawyers fought a desperate battle to protect him from facing the sexual-abuse charges brought by his 13-year-old accuser. The author untangles the whole painful story to provide the definitive account of Jackson's fall, and in it finds a late-20th-century parable of manipulation, corrupted fantasy, and lost innocence.

clipped from www.vanityfair.com
A week later, his brother Jermaine was quoted in the London tabloid Daily Express: "I love him, but you have to wonder if there might not be some truth in it." Jermaine later denied ever having made the statement.
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