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(Transcrito por TurboScribe.ai. Atualize para Ilimitado para remover esta mensagem.) There's nothing pure, there's nothing more spiritual to me than children.

I think it's the most golden thing we have.

I can be myself and jump into their magical world.

If you told me right now that you could never see another child, I would kill myself.

And I swear to you, I would do it.

Because I have nothing else to live for.

See the way I feel about Gavin? I multiply that millions of times over.

And that's why I know this magic of love is so important.

He is such a beautiful child.

I told him, I said, you look just like an angel.

Michael said, Gavin, when you get out of the hospital,

you come to Neverland Ranch and I will heal you.

And then the Martin Bashir documentary caused a worldwide commotion.

And then he finally said, okay, if you love me, you sleep on the bed.

I was like, oh man. And so I finally slept on the bed.

You gotta give the devil his due. Martin Bashir did an incredible job.

Did that lead to the trial? You bet.

People just can't stop talking about the interview with Michael Jackson,

a British documentary which aired in the U.S. last night.

The man is 44 years old.

What in the hell is he doing sleeping in the bed with kids who are not his,

who are not related?

The Martin Bashir documentary drops.

And it's like the pedophile heard around the world.

For Michael Jackson, this was a nuclear bomb.

Why can't you share your bed?

The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.

You know? You really think that? Yeah.

The media painted Michael to be a child molester.

And they replayed that Bashir clip probably one billion times.

Why are you holding the hand of a 13-year-old kid?

You know that if it were any of us and we were engaging in that kind of behavior,

the cops would be all over us.

You would be cringing.

You would be cringing if your client got on national TV

and said words to the effect that he'd hosted sleepover parties for small boys.

The media certainly felt that Michael was fair game to go after anything and everything.

He hated it.

The press, they wait with knives.

Because I was the pioneer.

And that's why they start the story.

He's weird. He's gay.

Anything to turn people against me.

They tried their hardest.

It's a frenzy.

My phone doesn't stop ringing with press people.

They want to talk. You know, everybody wants to get a story going.

I even get a phone call from a tabloid

offering an incredible amount of money just to talk dirt.

It's a PR meltdown.

There is tremendous pressure to get it all under control.

Michael, great entertainer.

Big celebrity status.

But he has a habit of tripping.

So when this Beshear interview was released in the United States,

I get a call from my friend Frank,

who's Michael Jackson's PR manager.

He's like, come out to L.A.

and come out and work on this.

This damage control which is occurring right now.

Frank was very close to Michael.

I asked him, you know, before I leave and I take this job,

has Michael ever harmed a child?

And he says, Vin, you know me.

I am the closest person to him.

And he said, never would happen.

So I trusted Frank and I made a decision to take the job.

The best thing that we could do to defend Michael Jackson

was to film our own documentary

to get a really good rebuttal to who Michael was

and that he's a good person.

Michael Jackson take two is going to air on Fox February 20th.

So then what do you think about Michael's version of this show

that's going to come out?

Positive spin. I mean, it'll help him.

It'll help him, but he said what he said.

For about a week to a week and a half,

I was trying to line up all the press around the documentary.

The participation of the boy in the documentary,

Gavin DeViso, is a key element in how it's all going to work.

So the idea is we're going to capture an interview

with the Arvizo family to show that there hadn't been

improper contact or conduct between Michael Jackson and Gavin.

It was essentially to get this interview done

before the tabloids get a hold of this family

My first task dealing with the Arvizo family

was to go pick up the mother, Janet Arvizo,

and bring her to Michael's videographer.

She was very upset.

She was complaining about the family

and all their dreams are shattered now because of this.

We started pretty late in the evening.

I talked the family through what we're going to be talking about,

basically just giving them a rundown

that this is a total fluff interview,

but we want you to be honest.

The family is supposedly totally on board,

but the mom won't start the interview

because I need signed model releases

before we can do the interview.

But she didn't want to sign the model releases.

Why don't you sign a model release?

Money.

So is she worried that she's not going to get a piece of this

if we sell this footage?

And then suddenly she's on the phone with lawyers.

At some point, someone tells Janet

that it's okay for us to sign the model releases

and to film the interview.

Wait, wait. You know how Bashir...

Hey, you know how Bashir zoomed in on him holding hands?

Do that, the same thing.

Because that's what a mother does with a son

or a father does with a son, you know?

And they try to make it out to be something wrong and dirty.

So you can have that.

When I first met Michael,

all I thought was he was a loving, kind, humble man.

And all he wanted to do was good.

As I'm doing an interview,

I really do feel like Gavin is very sincere.

He treats me like he's my father.

He gives Gavin advice.

And Michael is exactly an answered prayer

to my children and me.

Michael is there for us,

there for all three of them.

Janet's just over the top.

I dislike her immediately.

Every door closed on us.

And Michael said, all my doors are open.

My home is your home and your children.

I am like their father.

And his interactions with my children were all innocent,

as a father interacts with his children.

Where she really loses my credibility

is just how she suddenly adopted this idea

that Michael is their real father.

Either this mom is completely in love with Michael Jackson,

or she's driven by the world of Michael Jackson possibilities.

It disturbed me greatly when I saw them

and the innuendos he was making.

They took a beautiful relationship,

relationship that he has with Gavin,

and spun it out of control.

We completed the interview.

But then the director of photography

would not give me the footage.

This interview was obviously very important.

And he wanted Michael to pay him.

So, unfortunately, it never went into the Fox special.

It wasn't a good situation

with tabloids hovering around everybody at the time.

I had a strong feeling that I didn't trust Janet.

So I am absolutely worried

that this is the type of person who might take money

to say, Michael Jackson blessed my kid.

Because there's a lot of money in that.

I have very few friends.

And the friends that are family to me

are because they have exhibited honesty,

trustworthiness, love.

This video, I've never seen it.

I don't know how you guys got all this.

And that is why we are very thankful

and appreciate that Michael calls us family

because he exhibits all that.

And he gives these boys much direction

because 12 and 13, they need a whole bunch of it.

So what you're seeing in Janet here,

she just truly wants this all to be true.

Because this is just a godsend

that there would be a male influence in her children's life

who was kind and caring.

She says things very dramatically,

but Janet really feels what she's saying.

I know her. That's what she feels.

You know, she had been going through a lot of stuff.

She was getting a divorce.

Gavin's father had been abusive to her and the kids.

So at this point,

the idea that somebody this important

would value her children and parent them,

that was meaningful to her,

like extraordinarily meaningful to her at the time.

She craved it.

After the Martin Bashir documentary aired,

I became concerned.

I start calling.

Their numbers are disconnected.

I didn't know where she was.

Clearly, they were at the center of a hurricane.

Anybody that had any kind of show

would have wanted to talk to this family.

Michael Jackson's team would have wanted to keep them contained.

Okay, everybody, that two-hour documentary

on living with Michael Jackson is still making news.

Michael Jackson's image has taken a brutal beating

over the past few months, as you know.

Among the madness of Bashir,

I get a phone call,

hey, we're going to go to Gary, Indiana

and visit Michael's child at home.

Any kind of distraction.

Give them some new Michael Jackson stuff that was positive.

I would like to officially,

on behalf of the men and the women

and the young people of the city of Gary,

welcome back home Mr. Michael Jackson.

I am the biggest fan.

Well, probably not the biggest

because there's a lot of them here,

but I just love Michael Jackson.

Just his persona, he loves children.

I just, in a good way, he loves children.

He, uh, listen, he a role model.

And I love him.

I originally thought we were going

because he wanted to visit his hometown.

But as it turns out,

it was to capture footage of Michael's humble beginnings

because that was what the narrative was going to be.

It was like going to be the sickly sweet,

you know, you know, here comes the king,

you know, like wah, wah.

The management of Michael's image,

that's the number one thing.

When you saw Michael's childhood home,

it was pretty rough.

You know, we're talking a two,

a small two room home where 10 or 11 people lived.

Michael grew up in abject poverty,

certainly in an age of discrimination.

Opportunities for black men and black families especially

was, were, were very limited.

But the one thing that really affected him

was his relationship with his father.

Father, he did some rough, cruel,

the way he would beat you.

He would make you strip nude first.

So when, when the foot of the, um,

of the ironing court hit you,

it would just, you know, fall on your face, your back.

Everywhere.

He would tell us,

don't call me dad.

I'm Joseph.

I never felt love from him.

All I want is his, is his love, his approval.

I think the broken relationship

between father and son was monumental.

They were really like two Michael Jacksons.

One needed love and validation,

the other needed attention and celebrity.

I proudly present to you Mr. Michael Jackson.

Everything is already geared up like a machine.

All this love.

It's all orchestrated to get support from the fans,

you know, because they would defend him no matter what.

The Gary Community School Corporation

welcomes home the king of pop, Michael Jackson.

The intrigue surrounding Michael Jackson

it continues tonight.

Would you let your son or daughter

stay over at Neverland?

No, and I can't understand why these other boys' parents

allowed them to either.

I believe that Child Welfare Services

should interview every child that has been at Neverland

with Mr. Jackson in his bedroom.

The tabloids are still foaming at the mouth.

And there was a sense that

you want to keep Janet Arvizo,

who seems like a bit of a live wire,

as far away from tabloids and people with checks

as possible.

The Arvizo family is surrounded by handlers.

They're getting carted around

by people inside the Jackson team.

And there is a controlled element of

making sure they don't talk to people

that they shouldn't be talking to.

I would bring Janet and the kids

back and forth between the Neverland Ranch and L.A.

I was told to spend my time

with assisting Janet Arvizo,

whatever needed to get done.

I drove her all over the place.

The Arvizos are okay with it at first,

but slowly they start to, you know,

become resentful of being controlled.

No, no, no, you don't go get your groceries.

We'll do it with you.

And then I was told that Vinny

was going to help them move.

And I go, why?

Do they want to move?

Well, we need a better location.

We? Who's we?

You know, so this is, this is curious language.

The Arvizo family were getting

a lot of pressure from the press.

And there was a need for a place

where they can stay with their kids.

Where they can feel safe.

There was also a lot of talk

about taking the family on a vacation.

Vinny was running around getting passport photos.

And I thought that was probably

a really smart idea as well.

And to make sure that this family

is off in Mars,

as far away from the press

and the tabloids as possible.

I'm being asked,

wouldn't you like to let go to Brazil?

I'm like, no.

Why is the family being coaxed

to go to Brazil?

There is this plan that's going on,

but who's the guy behind the curtain

in The Wizard of Oz?

Nothing's going to get done

without Michael's approval.

He knows what's going on.

One day,

I get a frantic phone call from Janet

who is being kept somewhere

and whispering.

She was panicky

and she wants me to come to where she is

and get her and the kids

and bring them back to my house.

She sounded desperate

and I felt her panic

for her own children.

She felt they were keeping her family

at Neverland

and that they were going to send them to Brazil

and make the family disappear.

And it's not like you can call the police

and say,

you know,

I think there's a family

being held against their will

by Michael Jackson.

I don't know there's,

that's a 911 call

that's going to be put through.

I had extended to her,

you know, call me in 24 hours

and then I would have

better resources in place.

And she never called.

When I became involved

with Janet

and her family,

they were allowed to go

anywhere they wanted

and I would take them

wherever they wanted.

One day she said,

please bring my children

down to their grandparents' house.

My mother is sick.

I didn't think anything of it.

After that day,

we hadn't heard from them.

They were done with us

and we were finished

working with them

and that was it.

They were going to leave

anywhere, any time,

any day.

When I finally heard

from Janet,

she told me about the danger

that she felt

had been visited

upon her family.

They had been kept at Neverland

for three weeks or so

and when Janet got her kids home,

they were not behaving normally.

Janet spoke to

her lawyer.

He heard enough

and saw these boys

and thought,

I don't like the way

this is sounding at all.

I told Michael,

don't work with kids,

work with their parents.

It's their parents

who are supposed to be

leading them.

You're not the child's Messiah.

I always feel that

I don't want the parents

to get jealous

because it happens sometimes

and I always say,

I'm not trying to take your place.

I'm just trying to help

and I want to be a friend

and the kids end up

just falling in love

with my personality.

Sometimes it gets me

into trouble.

In 2003,

I was a senior prosecutor

in the district attorney's office.

I was the supervisor

of a two-page report

and I'm looking at it

and it seems to be

kind of the ordinary preamble

that you see in these investigations

and I don't understand

why I'm sitting there

looking at this thing.

It's like dozens of other cases

I've looked at.

And then I look at the top

that has the name.

I never went to the name

and the name was

Michael Joe Jackson.

Gavin,

can you tell us

what your conversations,

what you guys talked about?

He says that,

I know you're stressed out

about all the stuff

that's going on

so I have something

that can relax you.

He said,

drink it.

And I said,

what's that?

And he said,

it's drinking

so I drank it.

I didn't like the taste

and I asked him,

what is it?

And he said,

it's wine.

Just keep drinking it.

Okay, don't drink it.

And my head started hurting

and stuff.

I fell.

Gavin talking about

alcohol use

and, if you will,

demeanor of somebody

that's been abused.

You know,

the shying away from the questions,

not wanting to talk about anything,

keeping himself closed up

during the interview.

He said that

we boys have to

masturbate

because if we don't

we can go crazy.

He said that

he wanted to show me

how to masturbate.

Okay.

I said no.

And he said,

he'd do it for me.

Okay.

And did he do it for you?

Go ahead, Gavin,

it's fine.

He put his hand in my pants.

Did he put it on the outside?

Inside.

Inside?

And what did he do next?

He started masturbating me.

And

after a while,

I told him I didn't want to do it.

Did he stop?

He told me he kept on doing it.

Having to publicly talk about

sexual abuse

is not an easy thing.

But he was courageous.

I had complete faith

in everything Gavin was saying.

And I,

there was never a question in my mind

as to the honesty

of his statements.

Never.

But I knew we were going after

an international superstar.

And that changes the equation.

That was the part that was

the unknown for all of us.

Romance.

Is love and romance

two different things?

I'm in love with

innocence.

That's what I'm in love with.

And that's why I love children so much.

I can relate to them easier.

Much easier.

You just

play.

Just love and innocence

and to find true happiness

and magic, you know?

There are surprising developments

at the home of Michael Jackson.

Authorities are serving

a secret search warrant

at his ranch

near Santa Barbara, California.

Although there is no official word

as to the nature of the warrant,

a number of news outlets

are reporting that the search

is tied to allegations

from a 12-year-old boy

that he was molested by Jackson.

I was watching CNN

and I saw all of these police

entering the gates of Neverland.

Investigators have swarmed

Jackson's Neverland ranch.

Target Neverland is underway.

I picked up the phone

and I said, Mr. Jackson,

are you okay?

And he says, yeah, why?

I said, they're raiding Neverland.

He says, what?

I said, turn on CNN.

You'll see it there.

It's live.

They're raiding Neverland.

Michael was really shocked

and I'd never seen

anything like it.

I mean, the gate of Neverland

is a good mile from the house

and here's this string of cars

and suddenly it's just abuse.

It's harassment.

The media has set up camp out here.

We're told as many as 60 investigators

are inside at this point

searching the ranch.

It was a very large operation.

I was a newly promoted detective.

I was a big Michael Jackson fan

as a teenager.

When Michael Jackson

would come out to perform,

you can imagine teenage girls

screaming at the top of their lungs.

That's what we were doing.

When I was told about the allegations

against Michael Jackson,

I was kind of surprised.

I was assigned to search

the main residence.

Hi.

How you doing?

Sheriff's Department.

We have a search warrant.

To me, Michael Jackson

was just another celebrity.

When you're dealing with celebrities,

you have accusations that are made

and you have to take those accusations

with a grain of salt.

You have to do your investigation.

Whose office is this?

That's his office.

This is Michael's?

Does he have anything else?

Michael Jackson's mansion

was like no other house

I've ever seen.

There was just so much stuff everywhere.

This is the area right here.

This is the way we have to go.

This is where we get in.

And that is...

My assignment was going to be

going into Michael Jackson's bedroom.

Somebody said now he's moved upstairs

rather than down here.

So we're also going to have to check up on that.

Let's just secure everything right now.

Gavin had disclosed

that there would be a briefcase

with pornographic magazines

that were used by Michael

to provoke an arousal.

Those items we refer to

as grooming materials.

My job was to do the library.

First thing that caught my attention,

it was all cluttered.

Boxes of books on the floor.

The books I remember seizing

were books of children

posing in their underwear.

In and of themselves,

they're not child pornography.

They weren't posing together

in sexual acts

or anything like that.

But based on the investigations

I'd done in the past,

to me those were grooming books.

We'd found books like that

in other situations.

We also found

a pair of underwear briefs

stuffed in a box.

They were

either very small adults

or children's briefs.

We asked the housekeeper

where's the bedroom.

That's when we were told

no one was permitted

into his bedroom

and nobody had a key

for his bedroom.

We were able to make entry.

And when we walked in,

it was a mess.

Papers,

clothes

covering the whole floor.

I found some

pepperoni sausages

that were just thrown in there.

I remember thinking,

oh my gosh, this?