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Allegations
Michael did sleep in bed with boys. ✅
🗸 TRUE.
-> Consider one of the most pro-MJ sources in the 2005 court documents, Macauley Culkin’s testimony. Even he stated that he slept in the same bed with Michael.
“7 Q. How many nights do you believe you spent
8 alone in Michael Jackson’s room and in his bed,
9 alone with Michael Jackson, between the ages of 9
10 and 14?
11 A. It couldn’t have been more than like — it
12 was a handful of times. It couldn’t have been more
13 than, like, five times, four times.
Source: People v Michael Joe Jackson 2005. Cross-Examination Trial Testimony Culkin, Macauley, 11.5.2005. 9853, via Court-Transcript. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
On the nature of these sleepovers:
24 Q. All right. So is it safe to say that up
25 until and through your 13th year, you stayed with
26 Mr. Jackson in his room?
27 A. On occasion —
28 Q. More frequent —
[Page Break]
1 A. On occasion I’d fall asleep there or
2 wherever. It wasn’t really like a thing to, like,
3 “Let’s go to sleep in a particular place.” On
4 occasion I’d end up falling asleep there. I’d fall
5 asleep anywhere.
He didn’t find anything weird about it, nor did his parents ever interfere.
Source: People v Michael Joe Jackson 2005. Cross-Examination Trial Testimony Culkin, Macauley, 11.5.2005. 9847-9848, via Court-Transcript. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
He did have sleepovers with several kids. ✅
🗸 TRUE.
Macauley Culkin Testimony:
20 Q. Were you ever in Mr. — in Mr. Jackson’s
21 bedroom overnight while another boy was present in
22 that room, other than your brothers?
23 A. On occasion, the other kids there that —
24 like I said, some of them were introduce — like, I
25 was introduced to as, like, cousins or family
26 friends and stuff like that. And they’d bring their
27 kids there, and then — same as me. They would —
28 they would play with me, and we’d fall asleep
[Page Break]
1 anywhere, sometimes his bedroom, sometimes in the
2 theater, sometimes anywhere.
Source: People v Michael Joe Jackson 2005. Re-Crossexamination Trial Testimony Culkin, Macauley, 11.5.2005. 9850-9851, via Court-Transcript. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
Michael had the book “Boys will be Boys” in a locked drawer in his master bedroom. ✅
🗸 TRUE.
-> This was found during a raid in 1993. There was no evidence the book had ever been used by anyone else. (e.g. fingerprints)
Despite that the prosecution wanted to use it as a source for his interest in that kind of material in court in 2005.
-> Michael had inscribed the book. The inscription elaborates on his reason for keeping it, which runs contrary to the pedophelia narrative.
Testimony Detective R.F.Smith:
26 Q. Did you seize those two books?
27 A. Yes, I did.
28 Q. From where?
[Page Break]
1 A. These books were seized from a cabinet
2 within Michael Jackson’s closet in the master
3 bedroom.
[Page Break]
10 Q. Was that file cabinet locked?
11 A. Yes, it was.
People v Michael Joe Jackson 2005. Direct Examination Testimony Smith, R. F., 29.4.2005. 8162-8164, via Court-Transcript. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
Defense Attorney Robert M. Sanger:
14 MR. SANGER: […]
17 We still object on the grounds that this is
18 remote in time. We have books from — seized in
19 1993 with regard to events that allegedly occurred
20 in 2003, so the probative value of these books is
21 minimal at best, and it’s outweighed by the
22 confusion to the jury, prejudicial effect, and
23 everything else. There’s got to be some connection
24 in time. It’s just plain stale to bring in
25 something from that far back and try to use it by
26 way of not much more than innuendo at this time.
27 These books were not shown to anybody. There’s no
28 evidence they were shown to anybody. No evidence
[Page Break]
1 they were shown to minors. They were locked in a
2 cabinet.
People v Michael Joe Jackson 2005. Direct Examination, 29.4.2005. 8165-8166, via Court-Transcript. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
About Michael’s interest in the book:
14 MR. SANGER: Okay. On 841, if you look at
15 that, it appears to be Mr. Jackson’s own
16 inscription, and he says, “Look at the true spirit
17 of happiness and joy in these boys’ faces. This is
18 the spirit of boyhood, a life I never had and will
19 always dream of. This is the life I want for my
20 children. M.J.”
People v Michael Joe Jackson 2005. Direct Examination, 29.4.2005. 8172, via Court-Transcript. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
There was an alarm on his bedroom door. ✅
🗸 TRUE.
Trial Testimony Macauley Culkin:
5 Q. All right. Is there — was there at the
6 time an alarm on his door going into his bedroom?
7 A. There was like a walkway kind of thing where
8 if somebody was approaching the door, it would kind
9 of like “ding-dong, ding-dong.”
10 Q. All right. Do you remember hearing any
11 “ding-dongs, ding-dongs” as your father came into
12 the room?
13 A. When anyone would approach the room, yeah,
14 you’d hear this kind of — soft kind of alarm, like
15 “ding-dong” kind of thing.
Source: People v Michael Joe Jackson 2005. Re-Crossexamination Trial Testimony Culkin, Macauley, 11.5.2005. 9861, via Court-Transcript. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
The bedroom door at Neverland was never locked. ✅
🗸 TRUE in sofar as Macauley Culkin was involved.
Macauley Culkin stated that MJ had an open-door policy that applied to everyone.
10 Q. BY MR. MESEREAU: Did you ever think Mr.
11 Jackson was somehow trying to exclude your family
12 from his room?
[…]
19 THE WITNESS: Absolutely not. It was a real
20 open-door policy just with the entire ranch.
21 Q. BY MR. MESEREAU: Okay. That applied to
22 your family as well as you?
23 A. Yes, everyone.
Source: People v Michael Joe Jackson 2005. Direct Examination Trial Testimony Culkin, Macauley, 11.5.2005. 9824, via Court-Transcript. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
The bedroom door was open, too.
25 A. Yeah. He had a very open-door policy. His
26 bedroom door at that time was never locked. Anyone
27 could walk in.
Source: People v Michael Joe Jackson 2005. Re-Crossexamination Trial Testimony Culkin, Macauley, 11.5.2005. 9862, via Court-Transcript. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
Everyone could come and go as they wanted.
8 A. Well, no doors were ever really locked in
9 his place. It wasn’t like — you know, you could
10 always — you could always come — he always told
11 me, “You can just come to the ranch whenever you
12 want.” And every door was open, and you can go
13 anywhere you wanted, and that included the bedroom.
14 Q. And did you feel that adults were free to
15 come in and out as well as children?
16 A. Absolutely.
Source: People v Michael Joe Jackson 2005. Redirect Examination Trial Testimony Culkin, Macauley, 11.5.2005. 9868, via Court-Transcript. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
Jordan Chandlers description of MJ’s penis is accurate. ❌
✗ Mostly FALSE.
Chandler said Jackson was circumcised. He was not.
The genitalia are those of an adult male. The penis appears uncircumcised.
Rogers, C. (2009). Autopsy Report (Case No. 2009-04415 Jackson, Michael), 5. County of L.A., Department of Coroner. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
Additionally there is a note with a drawing and description. This note is not the actual court document but if it is at all authentic, might have been used in preparation for the later testimony. The note describes blotchy skin and what looks like ideas rather than statements. The author could be anyone with the knowledge of Jackson’s vitiligo making an educated guess.
This note can not be authenticated, since it was originally published by Victor Gutierrez, who is not a credible source, in the book “Michael Jackson was my Lover”. In it he claims that the note was given to him by the Chandler family.
Source: The original version of the Note which is attributed to Jordan/Evan Chandler
What did Jordans testimony actually entail and what is known about that:
The Smoking Gun, a now-defunct website very close to the prosecution, claimed to have seen a sealed affidavit by former Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department deputy Deborah Linden that “was filed in 1993 to secure court permission to photograph Jackson’s private parts”.
Chandler gave them a roadmap to Jackson’s below-the-waist geography, which, he said, includes distinctive “splotches” on his buttocks and one on his penis, “which is a light color similar to the color of his face.” The boy’s information was so precise, he even pinpointed where the splotch fell while Jackson’s penis was erect, the length of the performer’s pubic hair, and that he was circumcised.
A conversation that allegedly took place between Evan Chandler and Jordan’s lawyer indicates that the vitiligo was a “no-lose” opportunity for them – if the description was not accurate you could always say the vitiligo had progressed and changed the placement of blotches, if it was correct it was a lucky guess. They just had to be in the general ballpark (pun intended).
Evan Chandler talking to Larry Feldman, Jordan’s lawyer in his civil trial against MJ, on November 29, 1993:
“Oh, yeah, Lauren Weis* told me today that this disease Michael says he’s got, vitiligo, that it’s capable of changing anywhere you look, so that anything Jordie says is irrelevant. It can change very quickly with this disease.“
“Shit, these guys seem to have an answer for everything.”
“No, that’s good for us!”
‘Why?”
“Because if he’s right, he’s right. And if he’s wrong, we’ve got an explanation!”
“Ha!”
“Yeah, it’s a no-loser for us.”
Transcript/bolding [JS]
Source: Raymond Chandler – All That Glitters: The Crime and the Cover-Up (Windsong Press Ltd, September, 2004).
The Michael Jackson Allegations