A 1987 Pepsi ad [during the making of which special effects set Michael’s hair on fire] is now being linked to more controversy as a child who worked on the commercial has filed a sexual assault complaint against the late singer last week in court…
Two sources have said the complaint is sealed but revealed the man to be James Safechuck. Safechuck appeared in the 1987 Pepsi commercial and claims Jackson molested him for several years when starting when Safechuck was 10 years old.
(The Huffington Post, May 13, 2013)
Yesterday Michael Jackson’s estate released Xscape. It’s the latest in what seems destined to be an endless (financial) stream of posthumous albums. But his die-hard fans could be forgiven suspicions that the latest filing of sexual molestation charges against him on Friday was timed to undermine sales.
On the other hand, they should beware that anyone insisting Michael was not a pedophile is as willfully ignorant as V. Stiviano insisting Donald Sterling is not a racist.
The facts this latest victim alleges are now all too familiar – complete with Michael grooming him not just with his parents’ giddy approval, but even in the full glare of public view. Five victims are now parties to the class-action lawsuit Wade Robson filed a year ago this month. But I have no doubt that many more will come out of the woodwork before this case is closed.
Of course, more molestation charges are not the only career-killing fate Michael escaped by dying. After all, reports were that – with over $500 million in debt, the spending habits of a spendthrift billionaire, and his earning abilities vanquished by incapacitating drugs – he was facing the ignominy of court-mandated bankruptcy.
When one juxtaposes these grave facts with the fact that his estate has generated over $275 million since his death, there can be no denying the timeliness of his death…
So, ‘gone too soon’? I don’t think so.
(“Michael Jackson: Worth more Dead than Alive,” The iPINIONS Journal, October 28, 2010)
All the same, I see no point in lamenting Michael’s well-documented perversions anew. Instead, I shall suffice to reprise “Proof Michael Jackson Was a Serial Pedophile…,” July 1, 2013, which I wrote last year when Robson … came out.
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Based on HIStory, it might be helpful for die-hard fans to know that I’m on record hailing Michael Jackson as easily the most talented and exciting performer in the history of entertainment.
That said, here’s a little of what I wrote when prosecutors finally put Michael on trial for being an open and notorious groomer and sexual abuser of little boys:
In a rather pathetic attempt to delay or escape his trial for sexually molesting a little boy, Michael Jackson failed to show up as required in court yesterday. The judge immediately issued a warrant for his arrest – telling Michael’s lawyer that he’s fed up with Michael’s prima donna antics…
It is clear beyond all reasonable doubt that Michael is a mentally unbalanced, absurdly egocentric, self-destructively narcissistic and unrepentant corrupter of little boys who fascinates more today as a walking freak show than he ever did as the King of Pop!
Michael’s grip on reality remains tenuous at best. His Neverland, never-grow-old schtick has, frankly, grown old. And, it may soon dawn on him (perhaps even before the end of this trial) that the only way to ensure his Peter-Pan legacy is to “Beat It”…
(“Michael Jackson Cops a Sick Plea,” The iPINIONS Journal, March 11, 2005)
And here’s a little of what I wrote when, thanks to an O.J. (criminal) jury, he got off:
Given his apparent nature, it’s only a matter of time before Michael begins sleeping with little boys again…
I believe enough is known about Michael’s unnatural predilection for the intimate company of little boys to convince me that he is a pedophile. And we need only recall that after he was forced in 1993 to payout over $20 million for sleeping with a little boy, his lawyer Johnnie Cochran declared (in unwittingly incriminating fashion) that – even though he did not molest the child – Michael learned a very costly lesson not to sleep with little boys again.
Except that he didn’t. After all, he not only continued to do so, but did it more often and more boldly. And now that he probably feels his perverted behavior has been vindicated in a court of law, I suspect his molestation of boys will become even more egregious.
(“Michael Jackson: Not Guilty! But Hardly Innocent…,” The iPINIONS Journal, June 14, 2005)
I’m sure it would surprise none of you to learn that Michael’s fans reacted to my calling him a pedophile the way Beliebers would react if I called Justin Bieber the talentless, overhyped little twerp that he is.
But what I found truly surprising was the number of erstwhile reasonable grown-ups who actually believed that there was nothing sexual about Michael’s predilection for having slumber parties and sleepovers with little boys. Not to mention all of the parents who thought nothing of prostituting their children for these occasions….
Well, now comes my vindication; alas too belatedly:
Michael Jackson paid $35 million in hush money to at least two dozen young boys he sexually abused over 15 years, it has been alleged.
Sunday People has published explosive ‘secret FBI files’ suggesting the King of Pop groomed and molested children from at least 1989, despite his insistence he was just spending time with them.
The damning files claim the deceased popstar was a ‘pedophile’ who watched porn while assaulting a boy, molested a famous child star, fondled a child’s genitals in his private cinema and groped another child whose mother wasn’t ‘bothered’ by it.
(Daily Mail, June 29, 2013)
Frankly, all that’s left now is for child stars like Macaulay Culkin (Home Alone) and Emanuel Lewis (Webster – who Michael used to carry around on his hip like his chimp Bubbles) to join famed choreographer Wade Robson in coming out about the years Michael spent grooming and molesting them….
But this seems a good time to address the other big lie Michael lived. This one also pertained to his relationship with children. Except that, instead of lying about sexually abusing them, he lied about giving birth to them.
Here’s a little of what I’ve written about this:
The most manifestly troubling aspect of Michael’s personal life was his role as a father. In addition to many other Freudian questions, I wonder about the psychological impact on his three lily-white children of having this Black man (notwithstanding his appearance) insist that he is their biological father. Just imagine the psychological defect (self-hatred?) or physical dysfunction that led Michael to choose the sperm of a White man, instead of using his own (or that of a Black man) to inseminate the (White) surrogates who gave birth to his designer babies.
(“Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, Is Dead,” The iPINIONS Journal, June 27, 2009)
And again here:
Nothing is more pathetic than watching his siblings on TV going on about how these kids look just like Michael – seemingly unaware that surgically or cosmetically altered features (like his pointed nose, bleached skin, and long wig) cannot be inherited.
(“52nd Annual Grammy Awards,” The iPINIONS Journal, February 1, 2010)
Unfortunately, there was nothing in those FBI files about the true biological father of Michael’s three children. Therefore, only DNA will provide the vindication I am certain will eventually come.
In the meantime, I found Matt Fiddes’s claim that he is the biological father of Michael’s son Blanket so convincing that I duly commented on it in “The Kid (Blanket) Is Not (Michael’s) Son,” The iPINIONS Journal, April 24, 2012. And just last week the London Daily Mirror reported that Michael actually admitted British actor Mark Lester (“Oliver” in the original Oliver Twist) is the biological father of his daughter Paris and son Prince.
We shall see….
Meanwhile, the Jacksons are suing concert promoter AEG in Los Angeles for $40 billion. They are claiming that its executives saw Michael as a potential cash cow; that they literally drove him to death with their unforgiving rehearsal regime for the scheduled 50 performances of his “This Is It” concerts; and that they failed to properly supervise Dr. Conrad Murray and were negligent in hiring him to care for Michael in the first place – as if Michael were still the child performer he was 40 years ago.
But here is what I wrote specifically about this wholly foreseeable tragedy:
Michael was considered a shrewd businessman who reportedly earned over one billion during his lifetime. Yet he was such an unconscionable and irresponsible spendthrift that he died almost half a billion in debt.
Reports abound that Michael fed this habit in recent years by contracting to perform, collecting hefty advances, and then resorting to all kinds of ploys (often involving hospital visits) to avoid getting on stage. Indeed, despite reports of him rehearsing for his big comeback series of concerts, I am convinced that, having collected a hefty percentage of the advance ticket sales, he had no intention of actually performing.
Therefore, it shall remain one of the greatest ironies, if not mysteries of his life that, for a man who claimed to be happiest when performing, Michael did so much during the last years of his life to avoid being on stage. His last concert performance was in 1996….
(“Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, Is Dead,” The iPINIONS Journal, June 27, 2009)
And again here:
This film will do far more to seal his legacy (and make him a legend) than the 50 shows he was scheduled to perform ever could.
Because as brilliant as he undoubtedly would have performed in a few of them, the inescapable and wholly warranted fear is that, inevitably, his patented off-stage antics would have detracted too much from his stellar on-stage performances. Not to mention that, after 10 shows, the novelty would have worn off, and his (aging and frail) body might have given way.
This is why I am left with the admittedly perverse feeling that, even though ‘a comet blazing across the evening sky, [Michael was not] gone too soon….’
(“’This Is It’ Reinforces My Conflicted Feelings About MJ,” The iPINIONS Journal, October 29, 2009)
I will only add that it’s an indication of what venal parasites Michael’s brothers are that, on the one hand, they are suing AEG for his wrongful death, while on the other hand, they are still performing their Michael-less hits for AEG. Which, incidentally, is rather like the Rolling Stones performing their hits without Mick Jagger. Who’d want to see that?! But is it any wonder Michael spent the last years of his life trying to avoid his brothers like the plague…?
The Jacksons won’t get anything near $40 billion of course. But they will win their lawsuit (i.e., if AEG does not wise up and settle before it goes to an O.J. (civil) jury)…. If there is a God, however, these FBI files will embolden all of the children Michael molested to come out of the woodwork to sue the Jacksons/his estate for every dime they collect from AEG … and then some.
Finally, there’s this:
You’re probably wondering why the FBI would have files documenting Michael’s molestation of dozens of little boys and refuse to turn them over to state prosecutors in Los Angeles. Well, it might be helpful to know that the FBI keeps files on virtually every public figure in the United States. And where the FBI regularly shares those files with federal prosecutors, only God knows what it would take for the FBI to share them with state prosecutors. Yes folks, law-enforcement agencies really are that territorial.
But, apropos of God, if you think there’s something immoral about the FBI having such files on a pop star and refusing to turn them over to prosecutors, just bear in mind that the Catholic Church had/has similar files on hundreds, if not thousands, of pedophile priests and has steadfastly refused to turn them over.
Talk about a special place in Hell — for Michael and them….
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