Posted on 02/10/2003 3:08:27 AM PST by kattracks
Shocking charges Michael Jackson hushed up a decade ago with a big-bucks settlement were revealed yesterday in never-before-seen court papers detailing the entertainer's alleged sexual assaults on a young boy.The four-page declaration sworn by the then-13-year-old boy in 1993 portrays the self-proclaimed King of Pop as a pedophile pervert who performed a sex act on the boy and cried like a baby when he didn't get his way.
The accuser, now 23, said Jackson cozied up to him and his family with shopping sprees, invites to his Southern California ranch and exotic trips. He claimed that he and Jackson innocently slept in the same bed before their relationship went from hugs to depravity.
"He then started kissing me on the lips, first brief then for a longer period of time," reads the boy's statement, obtained by thesmokinggun.com Web site. "He would kiss me while we were in bed together."
In a BBC documentary aired last week, Jackson, 44, denied ever having inappropriate relationships with children, although he admitted sharing his bed with boys.
Millions to family
In 1994, Jackson paid the boy's family a settlement reported to be $15 million to end a civil lawsuit.
No criminal charges were brought against Jackson, but Santa Barbara District Attorney Thomas Sneddon has said Jackson was "never exonerated."
Jackson's spokeswoman, Marleah Leslie, did not return a call for comment last night. But the bombshell court papers accuse Jackson of being anything but innocent.
"The next step was when Michael Jackson put his tongue in my mouth," the child said. "I told him I did not like that. Michael Jackson started crying. He said there was nothing wrong with it."
The accuser, whose name is being withheld by the Daily News, claimed that Jackson told him how he kissed other young boys "with an open mouth."
In May 1993, while the boy and his mother were on a trip with Jackson in Monaco, the Gloved One allegedly took his act a step further.
"We took a bath together. This was the first time that we had seen each other naked," the boy said. He claimed Jackson told him about young friends who fondled themselves in front of him, and "Michael Jackson then [fondled himself] in front of me," the boy said.
The boy said Jackson then performed a sex act on him.
Meanwhile, the father of a cancer-stricken boy told a London newspaper there would be no more sleepovers with Jackson.
In the documentary "Living With Michael Jackson" by British journalist Martin Bashir, Gavin Arvizo, 12, describes sharing a bed with the entertainer.
"It's obvious that Gavin shouldn't be up on Jackson's ranch on his own and unsupervised," Gavin's outraged outraged dad, David Arvizo, told the Daily Mirror.
Jackson insisted in a statement yesterday he's no pedophile. He accused Bashir of betraying him and vowed to release his own video footage to prove he's fit to be a father.
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After working with people for 20 years as a social worker, I have to say, nothing surprises me anymore. As I watched that interview on TV,and I couldn't help but ask myself, why were there so many children running around Wacko's home unsupervised? Unless you just crawled out from under a rock, everyone knows about Wacko's admiration towards little boys. I couldn't help but wonder if some of these parents who allow their children to go to Jackson's home are wondering in the back of their minds, if there might be some money in it for them? YUK! (I know that sounds bad, but I've been involved in worst court cases.)
I agree. Jackson has created himself a little untouchable world, where he can lure in little boys and.................................EWWWWW! How horrible!
In the words of Neon Deon Sanders, "Money only makes you more of what you were before you had it."
On the program the other day, when they showed those two brothers and sister who are visiting Michael quite a bit - did they say they were underprivledged kids? I'm wondering because all three had braces on their teeth, and the little girl was wearing an Abercrombie tshirt.......... I thought I remembered them mentioning underprivledged kids, but that might have been in reference to something else...... I just immediately thought that Michael was supporting this family, possibly...........
My relationship with Michael Jackson ended when my father obtained custody of me in 1993 and I started living permanently at my father's house.
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