Afrikaans
Akan
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bemba
Bengali
Bihari
Breton
Cambodian
Catalan
Cebuano
Cherokee
Chichewa
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Corsican
Czech
Danish
Esperanto
Estonian
Ewe
Faroese
Filipino
Finnish
Frisian
Ga
Galician
Georgian
Greek
Guarani
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Interlingua
Irish
Italian
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Kinyarwanda
Kirundi
Kongo
Korean
Krio (Sierra Leone)
Kurdish
Kurdish (Soranรฎ)
Kyrgyz
Laothian
Latin
Latvian
Lingala
Lithuanian
Lozi
Luganda
Luo
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Mauritian Creole
Moldavian
Mongolian
Myanmar (Burmese)
Montenegrin
Nepali
Nigerian Pidgin
Northern Sotho
Norwegian
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Occitan
Oriya
Oromo
Pashto
Persian
Punjabi
Quechua
Romanian
Romansh
Runyakitara
Russian
Samoan
Scots Gaelic
Serbian
Serbo-Croatian
Sesotho
Setswana
Seychellois Creole
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhalese
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Thai
Tigrinya
Tonga
Tshiluba
Tumbuka
Turkish
Turkmen
Twi
Uighur
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu
Escape to the English Riviera.
It is the antique capital of the UK.
As we follow the dealers. That's fantastic.
And customers.
Hunting for hidden gems.
Wouldn't it be marvellous if it was a real potato?
The Antiques Riviera on Mall 4. A brand new series. Starts 30 at 9.
Dialing up the romance for Valentine's. We've a first date special here come 10.
The intensity of the media spotlight on Channel 4 first, though, with themes of
child abuse. Michael Jackson, The Trial.
Channel
4
documentaries, sponsored by the new all -electric Ford Puma Jenny.
When you become an icon, like an international phenomenon, the jealousy
involved.
I mean, I've seen some serious jealousy.
They've been very, very cruel and mean to me.
If they don't think I hear it and see it, I do.
I do.
If people could only see way before any of this crap that they started and
allegations and all these lies and stories, if they could see all the
and all the orphanages and all those things that I've done, if they could see
that, I think they would totally have a different opinion.
But people, they don't want the good stories.
Breaking news once again, so stand by here on Fox News Live.
Michael Jackson, of course, facing seven counts of child molestation, two counts
of administering an intoxicating agent to a child. He's facing 20 years. Fans
started arriving in the middle of the night to get a good seat or stand right
next to the courthouse.
The famous arraignment. Oh, my gosh.
The entire world converged on Santa Maria.
More than a thousand journalists.
I was there for all of it. He is fighting these molestation charges and
going to do everything he can.
I think on my deathbed, certain events will flash before
my eyes because it was that intense.
Michael Jackson is motorcade winding its way to the courthouse under police
motorcycle escort.
I was about four or five miles to get to the courthouse.
And the cops, with their sirens blaring, there were six motorcycle cops.
Not even the president gets that.
It was a zoo.
What can you tell us outside the Santa Maria courthouse? We heard cheers.
We arrived about 8 .45.
Michael did stop to acknowledge the hundreds of fans.
It was just sheer craziness.
I was there trying to record it with my videographer.
His entourage is coming up.
And Michael was telling his videographer, get that, get that.
Michael Jackson was orchestrating.
There are people out there from all over the world.
So I think it's quite a spontaneous outpouring of support. That is nice to
A lot of those fans.
were buffed up there from Las Vegas, from San Diego, from Los Angeles.
So while his attorney called it a spontaneous outpouring of love, it was
actually highly orchestrated.
It shows Michael Jackson's genius at spectacle.
Members of a black separatist group, the Nation of Islam, flanked the street.
They're reported to be protecting and possibly advising the singer.
Jermaine Jackson brings the nation of Islam.
And when they marched ahead of Michael, it was the most amazing sight I had ever
seen, this show of force.
There is a strategy behind trying to galvanize the black community.
White folks are doing this. White folks are prosecuting him. White folks are
accusing him.
And he's come to us for help. We're going to help.
And Michael knew that.
And he used that.
As we're arriving at the courthouse, there were three helicopters flying
circling.
There were a few thousand demonstrators, literally screaming.
This was child molestation.
He's a 15 -year -old kid.
He's a 15 -year -old kid who's a cancer survivor.
You didn't see him crying or holding his head down because he knew he was
innocent.
During his time in court, Michael would call me at 2 and 3 in the morning.
You've got to go out there and tell people I'm innocent.
Michael feels very confident in his defense team, and we have a long way to
And that's what I did.
Michael Jackson leaving Judge Rodney Melville's courtroom.
We know that Jackson nodded when he asked if he understood the charges. He
not guilty when asked for his plea.
Michael Jackson walks out of court, surrounded by his family, surrounded by
bodyguards, and when he's about to get into his SUV limo, all hell breaks
Oh, my goodness, look at this. He's jumping on top of the car.
Oh, yeah, we see him.
It's truly performing for his fans, truly performing.
The crowd is just going completely insane, and he's just turning around and
of doing a move.
Consequently, what was happening outside court made the headlines, as opposed to
what was happening inside court.
Brilliant strategy.
Pull focus.
Pull focus.
A lot of people said, hey, that's just disrespectful.
That's not the way you conduct yourself. You conduct yourself with decorum. Any
attorney will tell his client, no, no, no, you show respect.
Uh -uh, not Michael Jackson.
If you want the world to know you are innocent, you show your face to
everybody that you are not afraid.
And that's what he did.
fire and the majesty when you can command an audience.
I love my fans, the loyal ones, that no matter what, they're there, man.
They're thick and thin.
Whatever you do, they're right there with you.
They love me unconditionally.
I'm like a lion. Nobody can hurt me. Nothing can harm me.
I think people believe what they want to believe.
And it's not necessarily based on logic.
I think it's based on emotion.
He had the ability to be able to convince them of things that are
unbelievable.
And I think that created for him a sense of invincibility.
But from the prosecution standpoint, we knew we were dealing with a pedophile.
And he was the pedophile who could abuse children almost with impunity.
And we felt that we had enough cooperative evidence to be able to win
Michael was feeling frightened.
Pure, plain, and simple, he was scared to death.
He called me in the middle of the night, so upset.
Brian, why are they doing this to me?
Because your name is Michael Jackson.
If your name were Smith Jones, they'd throw this case out in a hot second.
This is a fraudulent scam.
Gavin Arvizu was misrepresenting.
telling fantasies and false statements.
He says, how are we going to win, Brian?
And I said, we have to overturn every stone.
It means subpoenaing and interviewing every witness there is.
And Michael said, do it, Brian.
That's what you're going to do.
I said, you bet.
Another allegation of sexual abuse was going to bankrupt Michael Jackson, and
they knew it.
They knew what the consequence of a child coming forward and making another
allegation of child sexual abuse was going to be because of what happened
Jordan Chandler back in 93.
Pop superstar Michael Jackson is facing allegations of child abuse and Los
Angeles police have launched a criminal investigation.
This is the boy at the center of the allegations.
13 -year -old Jordan Chandler was pictured with Michael Jackson on holiday
Monte Carlo earlier this year.
In 1993, I was Michael Jackson's...
personal chambermaid for his bedroom.
I think he chose me because I was quiet.
And I think he thought that he could keep his secrets with me.
Hold on, let me use the inhaler.
Sorry.
Sometimes when I think of him, I get asthma.
Sorry.
Sorry, I'm probably crazy.
I don't know.
There were always little boys, different little boys, that never left.
Running around the property.
At the theater, watching movies with no parents around.
And I think he'd get a kick out of watching them fight for his attention.
There was one day when Mr. Jackson had come into his bedroom with one of his
little friends.
And his little friend was Geordie Chandler.
I was cleaning the stairwell, and so I kind of glanced, and where they stood,
they couldn't see me.
And I saw Mr. Jackson kissing Geordie on the cheek near his mouth, and I saw
his hand by his crotch.
And I was bothered by seeing that, very, very bothered.
I didn't, I didn't...
I thought that I didn't want to believe Michael Jackson was a
man who had a problem with little boys.
They had been in a jacuzzi.
They changed their clothes and they took off.
It was an awful feeling.
I can't even explain it.
And then, you know, I kept thinking, well, maybe...
Maybe that's not what I'm seeing. You start questioning yourself for what you
did see, and then you think, well, you can't just call the police over there.
They're going to think you're crazy.
My detective supervisor says, hey, Rose, I have a case that I need you to
investigate.
We have allegations from a young victim that Michael Jackson sexually molested
him on numerous occasions.
So I'm like, Michael Jackson, you're kidding, right?
It was almost unbelievable.
The media, they found out right away.
So it was all over the news.
That very same day, we went out to the victim's home.
I introduced myself and then began my interview.
One of the first things he talked about being in Las Vegas with Michael Jackson.
The parents became very comfortable with Michael Jackson and allowed the victim
to spend time with Michael alone.
They were seeing, hugging, and touching.
Jackson was talking to the kid, and the kid was overwhelmed, according
to him, seeing his star.
And being able to touch him and say, wow.
This is the grooming process.
That night in his suite, Michael asked him, come on, let's watch
a movie.
The movie was The Exorcist.
He was petrified.
Michael said, would you like to stay here, sleep with me?
And they did.
The victim described the abuse initially began with fondling, kissing.
Later on, it progressed to more aggressive sexual contact.
When mom found out that the child had slept with Michael Jackson, she
became pretty upset.
Whenever he was confronted by a parent, Michael would start crying.
He made himself the victim.
You know, how can you think this of me? Oh my God, I would never do anything
like that. You know, I love children.
You have to trust me.
Children, I think, can be very loyal.
A lot of adults, they sell out to what they think people want to hear.
A good child will not do that. You show them a good time, the next day they're
all over you with love and hugs and kisses.
Michael Jackson today refused to comment on the police investigation as he
prepared for the first stage of his world tour in Thailand.
I remember when the allegations came out, the Jackson family, they held a
conference. We join you here today as a family united, a family that has
struggled from the bottom up.
The family felt like somebody was trying to shake him down.
Michael has been made...
a victim and cruel, obvious attempt to take advantage of his fame and success.
The most important thing to them was that this image they had to protect.
Certainly in the black community, they were always like, we're the black
Kennedys. We're America's royalty.
Believe me, in 1993, the Jackson family was extremely powerful.
And boy, oh boy, did they ever come to his defense.
Jackson's Mr.
Fix -It. Private investigator Anthony Pelicano, one of Hollywood's most
people, called in to do damage control.
The strategy, it was about protecting the golden goose, number one, but also
protecting the family's name.
Now you're seeing him start to take on this victimhood.
This victim mentality.
It's not me.
It's somebody else who's the bad guy.
Good morning, everyone. The Michael Jackson child sex abuse investigation is
expanding. Authorities are looking into his relationships now with at least four
boys.
The names were given by the victim's mom.
She has a list of all the children that they met.
There were a lot of times where we went to locations to interview people.
Anthony Patacano was there before we were.
First was Wade Robson.
Michael was helping him with his music career that he brought him from
because Michael saw the talent that he had.
When we got there, he refused to open the door at the beginning.
They basically, you know, said, look, Anthony Pelicano was here. We spoke to
him. He says that we're not obligated to speak to the police.
He's working for Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson never abused me.
Wade Robson denied everything.
Then Mr. Pelicano put the children on TV.
I know Michael very well.
I know he wouldn't do anything like that.
Has he ever tried to do anything with you that would even be considered
questionable?
No, nothing.
With Brett Barnes, it was the same thing. He's a great man, and we don't
anything to say.
When you'd have sleepovers and you'd stay in the same room or the same bed,
that seem unusual to you at all?
No. Because I slept on one side of the bed, he slept on the other, and that was
that. It was ruthless with what they did. They really just had absolutely no
regard. They all negated that they were victims.
Things at Neverland change dramatically.
Michael brought these.
seven bodyguards back, and they would harass the employees.
They had guns.
They'd point them at people. They didn't care.
They'd do whatever they can do to scare you to just shut the hell up.
One day I was in his bedroom when he was standing by his bed, and out of the
blue he says, Adrian, you know, if you ever say or do anything that I don't
like, All I have to do is tell security.
They would take care of you, but it wouldn't come from me.
I thought, you're threatening me.
And then I got a subpoena, and I had to give a deposition.
My head was spinning.
I was questioned about what I had seen.
with Mr. Jackson and Geordie.
I was young. I was scared, very mixed up.
Michael had some kind of control over me, and I
didn't say what I should have said,
which was the truth, and I held it back.
Amid all Michael Jackson's trouble, it finally seemed he'd gotten his family in
line behind him. Except, of course, for the renegade Latoya.
Michael is my brother.
I love him a great deal.
But I cannot and I will not be a silent collaborator of his crimes against
small, innocent children.
What 35 -year -old man is going to take a little boy and stay with him for 30
days? It blew everyone away. The family is horrified and angry at the same time.
There's no validity to what she is saying. It's absolutely not true. My
is not a child molester.
Latoya is lying, and I'll tell her to her face she's lying.
Latoya was ostracized for that.
And not only was she ostracized from the family, but fans turned on her and
drove.
Michael was raised by a very pious mother.
I mean, any time I walked in on her, she was reading the Bible.
And Michael was raised in that milieu.
He was deeply connected to his mother, who offered unconditional love and
acceptance.
All the stuff that goes on about my family and about Michael, it really
When they were talking about him, about the child molestation thing, it makes me
angry because he needed someone to help him, to protect him.
The family of a teenage boy is dropping a charge that Michael Jackson molested
the boy.
The case was settled in secret, reportedly for millions.
The resolution of this case is in no way an admission of guilt by Michael
Jackson. I felt the victim was very credible.
But once that was settled, our case was gone.
It was killed.
One
afternoon,
I was cleaning in Michael's room.
And he came up to me and he said, Adrian, this is for you.
And he handed me an index card, and he wrote on it, Adrian, thanks for
everything.
I opened it, and it was three $100 bills.
I felt like that was a payoff to cover up for him.
Kind of sad, so I don't know.
Can you guys hold on? Because my eyes feel like they're glossy.
Because I feel like stupid.
Just dumb mistakes you make in life that, you know, you shouldn't do
And I did it.
But you live and learn.
Is that restroom open?
Sure. Okay, let me just stop because I don't want them to open.
Back in 1993, George Chandler became one of the wealthiest 13 -year -olds in
America overnight with the settlement of that case.
Did I feel that justice wasn't done? Sure.
But their visa family was very different.
They were determined that they weren't going to take money.
Gavin was going to testify.
I'm very different.
I don't follow a trail. I make the path.
I'm an innovator, a pioneer.
But have you had to pay a price because of that?
Yes, I have.
Terrible price.
Terrible price.
Racism, jealousy, just hate, just evil.
But I'll never lose it because it's what my heart is.
After five weeks of jury selection, the trial of the singer Michael Jackson will
begin in California later today.
Celebrity justice correspondent Jane Velez Mitchell has been following the
She joins us from Santa Barbara. This is a Shakespearean tragedy.
It's an American tragedy. It's a human tragedy.
There was a certain sense of privilege of being able to cover it.
What do we know about the 12 -year -old? The story today is he's a cancer
survivor. There was so much media there, you would have thought it was like a
national political convention.
Michael Jackson arriving with his mother and brother Jermaine was greeted by
both cheers and jeers.
The entire world was focused on whether Michael Jackson is or is not a
pedophile.
This was the most expensive prosecution in the history of Santa Barbara County.
Michael Jackson's word against theirs.
They say he exposes kids to alcohol, porn, and...
Strange sexual behavior.
He is very serious, subdued. He came in, he waved briefly to his fans. He came
in with Jermaine, his brother, and his mother.
He was elaborately dressed, sort of a regal thing.
He also wore a band, and I guess the significance of the band was for him
saying, I'm innocent.
From everything I've seen and I've heard and I've followed, there's no way he's
guilty, you know.
The sale of his record soared. I said, Michael, your records are selling like
hotcakes. Your fans believe in you.
And I am going to prove you innocent.
The jury in the Michael Jackson trial will hear two very different stories
opening statements began today.
The defense is expected to describe Jackson as the victim of a money -hungry
who coached her son to lie for cash.
The prosecution, on the other hand, will paint Jackson as a wicked pedophile who
got a sick boy drunk to molest him.
Did I ever feel that we had it in the bag? No, not at all. Not at all.
I knew that ultimately, for a jury, it would be very easy for them to absolve
themselves of any of the responsibility of him going off into prison.
That was my biggest fear.
Now it's all up to them, the jury. Four men, eight women.
You're very conscious of what you're doing and what the magnitude of your
participation is.
It's Michael Jackson's legacy up for grabs.
Is he going to be remembered as this person that just loved children or one
the world's greatest entertainers who was a child molester?
It was Martin Bashir's documentary, Living With Michael Jackson, which
an investigation which led to this trial.
When people hear that children from other families have come and they've
in your house, they've stayed in your bedroom,
Well, very few.
But, you know, some have.
I thought that that was good, compelling evidence for us. It's the admission
that he sleeps with kids.
Is that really appropriate for a man, a grown man, to be doing that? How do you
respond to that? I feel sorry for them because that's judging someone who wants
to really help people.
Why can't you share your bed?
The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.
You really think that?
Yeah.
Martin Bashir's reaction to it, I thought was the reaction a reasonable
would have.
How do you justify having children in your bed?
What other adult man do you know anywhere in the world who does that
a pedophile?
Who would you be willing to let your children sleep with in terms of an adult
man?
And the answer is nobody.
The defense set out to undermine Martin Bashir's credibility, bombarding him
with questions, most of which he refused to answer, citing a journalist's right
to protect his sources.
Jackson and Gavin had a very emotional connection.
When they first met, Gavin was recovering from cancer, he had been
sick, and Michael Jackson was there to offer support.
Gavin said Michael would do things that would take down inhibitions.
And then it escalates into increasingly sexual language. So he's
desensitizing kids.
He makes them feel like they're culpable. He uses the word we.
We're doing this. We'd be in trouble.
He... incorporates the child in all of the misbehavior,
you're already in trouble for drinking alcohol,
watching porn.
Like, there's already a million things your mom can never know about by the
you're abused.
Michael Jackson's public persona was the person who just loved children.
And what he was trying to convince people of was that he really was the
-day Peter Pan.
But there is no such thing as Peter Pan.
What he was always doing was looking for a child that he could eventually get
into his bed.
And, of course, it was Gavin who was the target of his attentions.
For Gavin, it was worse than getting cancer, which how can you...
say that? How can anybody say that about anything?
I know Gavin, and Gavin's just a very truthful person.
He isn't the person that wants to hang on to a lot of baggage.
He's just going to confront what this is and deal with the repercussions.
The key witnesses in this extraordinary trial whisked into court this morning
through a side entrance.
Gavin, Michael Jackson's accuser.
It's the big moment of the trial.
The accuser is taking the stand.
The heart of the testimony is going to be delivered by the accuser on this day.
I was standing right there outside the courthouse waiting for Michael Jackson
arrive, and that is the day that Michael Jackson doesn't come to court.
His face etched with anxiety, Michael Jackson's lawyer waits for a client
gone missing.
The judge says, you better get to court within the hour or I'm going to arrest
you. We're just waiting on pins and needles, literally staring at where the
is supposed to show up.
Everybody's like, is he going to show? Isn't he going to show? What on earth is
going on here?
There was a giant motorcade.
helicopters above as Michael Jackson raced from the hospital to the
They were driving up the 101 freeway at 110 miles an hour.
Because the judge said, if you're not here in an hour, I'm forfeiting your
Somebody was going to get killed.
I was furious.
Judge, you have to understand this man's life and the people surrounding him.
Nope. An hour. That's it.
It was like watching a movie unfold, but you're part of the movie.
A strange day was just about to get even stranger.
After a while, he shows up, and he gets out very slowly in his
pajamas.
All the focus shifts to outside court, not to the little boy.
waiting in the wings to testify and accuse Michael Jackson of molestation.
Imagine what he was going through.
A couple ways to look at this. First of all, he really was hurt and needed to
get to the hospital. The other is that maybe it's just a ploy to drum up some
kind of sympathy from the jury.
A cynic would say, brilliant orchestration to destabilize the
I mean, this guy knows.
how to direct the attention to him and away from what's happening inside court.
And he did it over and over and over again.
What does this kid have to say?
Well, I'll tell you, he comes across as a very believable, articulate, and
sympathetic witness.
This boy has been waiting in the wings for this moment, and his moment has
It's kind of strange.
You know, here we sit, you know, 20 years later, and I'm still remembering.
how I felt, he absolutely looked believable to me.
To me he appeared to be a child that was going through this really
terrible struggle to admit
that as a boy he had been molested by a
man.
Now you have to tell your story in front of the world, talk about all these
things that you did. You know, that's really hard to do.
It's the worst thing that a boy would ever have to say out loud.
It's why most men go to their death with these secrets.
And now the race is on.
Can Jackson's defense sufficiently discredit a child witness over the next
days without upsetting him?
We went to trial with the molestations that took place in the three -week
after the Bashir documentary.
We believe that he was molesting Gavin prior to that as well.
But I think that the bulk of the molestation and all of the charged
the molestation occurred during the three -week period.
Why would he do it with that focus of attention?
The answer is he can't help himself.
He was a pedophile.
Michael Jackson's lawyers are taking aim at his accuser.
Jackson's lawyer's clear intention is to paint this boy as someone whose word
the jury simply cannot afford to trust.
We asked the prosecution when it was that Michael Jackson molested Gavin
Harvey's. One incident was February 21st, they said.
The family was at the ranch. Gavin was in bed with Michael and Star, the
brother, came up the stairway and Star saw Michael masturbating the boy in bed.
I said, really?
I have here an article from the Palm Beach newspaper, February 22, that the
before Michael Jackson was seen shopping in Palm Beach, Florida.
Now, how was it that he was at Neverland Ranch on the 21st?
Bingo, I got him. Michael was telling the truth.
These accusers were not.
It's a tough thing for kids to come forward and publicly talk about having
victim of sex crime.
Very often, the victims of sexual abuse can't say with certainty the details of
what had happened on this occasion or that occasion or the next occasion.
It's just the nature of the phenomena.
This isn't a whodunit where there's clearly a crime and one or more victims.
This is a, did it really happen?
Everything about this case is confounding.
There's the innocent explanation and the sinister explanation.
Is Gavin the accuser credible?
Is Michael Jackson credible?
You decide.
The defense in the Michael Jackson trial suffered a big setback today. The judge
said he will allow the prosecution to present evidence that Jackson has been
accused of molesting children before.
What we were able to bring in with regards to past bad acts was that a
years earlier, Jordan Chandler walked away with millions of dollars.
The jury looks at that and they think, come on, how is this going to happen
twice? It's a huge blow to Jackson, and it's great news for prosecutors. They
essentially get a second chance to make a first impression, and the whole case
has changed. It's a new dynamic.
What happened 10 years ago is irrelevant.
You have to prove the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt based on what
they did now, not what they did before.
Oh, you can besmirch the defendant, you can make the defendant look bad.
That's not evidence.
That's character assassination.
When I left Neverland and walked out of that job, me and a lot of the employees,
we sued Mr. Jackson for the treatment that we got, the things that we saw,
Michael with kids and stuff.
There were a lot of different counts, and there was molestation in there.
The judge ruled that we could not bring up molestation.
We lost our lawsuit.
So when I got called for his trial, I didn't want nothing to do with Michael.
I didn't even want to look at him.
Former Jackson maid Adrienne McManus is now on the stand. She is talking about
the parade of young boys who came through Neverland.
When I walked in there, he looked at me like... Oh, Adrian, where have you been?
I've missed you.
That angered me because I could see the games through him.
You know, I saw what he did to me. I saw that he only cared about himself.
I said what I had to say about what I saw with Mr. Jackson and Jordan Chandler
and what I had seen.
And Michael just turned his face.
He would not look at me again.
And I thought, good, I am free from you now.
You don't control me.
I truly felt that Michael Jackson was a child molester.
I felt that then, and I haven't changed my mind now. I still feel that way.
But I had to give Michael Jackson the benefit of the doubt.
You know, he really didn't do this or whatever. That's what the jury was
supposed to do.
What should have been a damaging account instead fizzled after Tom Mesereau
dismantled her on cross -examination, getting her to admit she tried to sue
Jackson and lost, and lied in an earlier deposition.
They destroyed us.
So, and that's, like I said, I get angry that, you know, a lot of people,
especially the jurors, right away they were like, yeah, these people.
They just want money. They just want money. It was a tough situation dealing
with that.
The problem that we had was that a number of the people who worked for him
brought a lawsuit against him and lost and ended up with a
judgment against them for expenses, a judgment that they never paid,
and it seriously affected their credibility.
and their ability to be able to talk about what had happened.
It really hurt us.
There was another witness that really, to this day, sticks with me, was
Jordan Chandler's mom.
The latest twist in his trial, a claim that Michael Jackson begged a young
mother to allow the youngster to sleep with him.
That allegation was made by June Chandler, who said she was showered with
jewelry by the singer as he swept her family off on trips to Monaco, Florida,
and Las Vegas.
I remember her taking a stand just 10 years after Jordan's situation.
And she said she was a horrible mother, and her exact words was, I sold my son
to Michael Jackson.
She said that she hadn't heard from her son, and she understood why.
I just thought, oh, my gosh.
It moved me. I can't understand how it would not have moved any jury.
I thought it was very damaging testimony, particularly the moment where
that Michael Jackson, crying and shaking and trembling, begged her to allow.
her son to sleep with him and basically said we're family well they're not
family why should a mother be asked to trust a middle -aged man to be entitled
to sleep with her son i thought oh my gosh what kind of grown man
would try because this mother decides she don't want to bring her little boy
have a sleepover with you and i thought
She's gonna lose this thing what possessed a mother to allow her son to
stranger's bed was never made clear But asked by the prosecution as she
concluded her testimony whether she regretted placing her trust in Michael
Jackson June Chandler replied very much though The message it was kind
of clear to me
The parents didn't protect their sons because they were groomed as much as the
kids were into thinking that everything was going to be okay.
They were as awestruck with Michael Jackson as the kids themselves.
This was what Michael Jackson would do. He was able to win over the loyalty.
of the mothers of these children by giving them lavish gifts and treating
to a lavish lifestyle.
We had Jordan Chandler's mother in there. We had the proof that there was a
settlement. We had the proof that he had spent an endless amount of time in bed
with him. I've won cases with no more evidence than that.
There's witness after witness that say Jackson had the pattern and practice of
molesting children. And I'll tell you, the jury's going to look to that, and
they're going to have a difficult time saying that Jackson is not a pedophile
this case.
If you've been affected, you can get support by heading to channel4 .com
support and the case concludes tomorrow night from 9. Or stream the whole of
Michael Jackson The Trial right now on Channel 4 Streaming.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Get subtitles in any language from opensubtitles.com, and translate them here.