Former Neverland Ranch maid Adrian McManus leaves the courtroom in Santa Maria, Calif., Friday, April 8, 2005, after she completed her testimony as a prosecution witness in Michael Jackson's child molestation trial. She testified that she and other employees used a 'media broker' to sell stories to tabloids, including one claiming inside knowledge of Jackson's sex life with ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley.(AP Photo/ Kevork Djansezian)
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By TIM MOLLOY, Associated Press Writer
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson's attorney on Friday extended his attack on the credibility of a former maid who said she saw the singer kiss and fondle young boys, accusing her of once threatening to testify against the pop star if he didn't give her millions of dollars.
Adrian McManus, a maid at Jackson's Neverland ranch from 1990 to 1994, testified Thursday in Jackson's child molestation trial that she saw him kiss and fondle three boys, including one who would later receive a multimillion-dollar settlement from the singer.
When she returned to the stand, defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. noted that she had in the past filed a claim against Jackson noting that she could be a "material witness" against him in a civil and criminal trial.
"You were essentially threatening Mr. Jackson that you would change your testimony unless you were paid," Mesereau said.
"I'm not familiar with a lot of attorney language so I really don't know how to answer that," McManus said.
McManus testified she was not seeking money, only justice.
"But your idea of justice was millions of dollars," Mesereau countered.
"A simple 'sorry for what we did to you' would have been enough for me," McManus said, but she acknowledged she never asked Jackson for an apology, saying she didn't know how to contact him.
It was not made clear specifically what McManus' claim was for, but she was among former Neverland employees who sued Jackson in the 1990s and lost.
McManus was one of two former Neverland employees who testified against him on Thursday.
Former security guard Ralph Chacon said he saw Jackson kiss, fondle and perform oral sex on a boy who later received a financial settlement from the pop star.
But Mesereau charged that Chacon was making the whole thing up "to get even" with the singer and portrayed McManus as a thief and a liar.
Mesereau accused Chacon of having tried to "extort" $16 million from Jackson in the lawsuit and lengthy trial that the ex-employees lost. They were ultimately ordered to pay more than $1.4 million in a judgment won by Jackson.
"After a six-month trial, this is a good way to get even with him, isn't it?" Mesereau asked Chacon, drawing a strong objection from the prosecution.
The former employees' testimony is part of a prosecution attempt to show that the current molestation allegations against Jackson are part of a pattern of inappropriate sexual contact with young boys dating back more than a decade.
In questioning by District Attorney Tom Sneddon, Chacon told of looking through a window one night at Jackson's pool house in late 1992 or early 1993 and seeing him perform oral sex on a 10-year-old boy.
Chacon said he saw Jackson get in a Jacuzzi and shower with a boy, then kiss the boy's head and shoulders before moving his hands "down to his private area." He also said there was another incident in which Jackson took the boy away in a golf cart and kissed him in front of a Peter Pan display.
The boy received a financial settlement, reportedly between $15 million and $20 million, from Jackson in 1994. The boy did not cooperate with a police investigation and no charges were filed against Jackson. The boy is not scheduled to testify in the trial.
Jackson, 46, is accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy in 2003, giving him alcohol and conspiring to hold the boy's family captive to get them to make a video rebutting a TV documentary in which Jackson said he allowed children to sleep in his bed but that it was innocent.
McManus testified she saw the pop star kiss actor Macaulay Culkin on the cheek while his hand was on Culkin's bottom. The defense has asserted that Culkin has repeatedly said he was never molested, and a spokeswoman for the actor has said he has no plans to be part of the case.
McManus described a similar scene with another boy and a third incident involving the same boy that Chacon testified about.
In the latter incident, she said, Jackson and the boy were changing their shirts when Jackson kissed the boy on his cheek and mouth and put his hand on his groin area.
But McManus also testified that when subpoenaed in the lawsuit that resulted in the 1994 settlement she did not tell attorneys that she had seen Jackson touching the boy.
"I didn't tell the truth. I said I didn't see anything," she said, asserting that she lied "the whole time" under oath.
Mesereau also pointed out that McManus and her husband were found in a lawsuit to have defrauded three children of more than $30,500 from their estate and that in the Jackson lawsuit she was assessed $30,000 for stealing a sketch of Elvis Presley that Jackson had drawn and selling it to a tabloid.
The former guard also acknowledged he was ordered to pay $25,000 for allegedly stealing Jackson's property, which he said was only a candy bar, and that at their lawyer's suggestion, the ex-employees sold a story to a tabloid for $17,000 to fund their lawsuit.
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Jackson: DA's Witnesses Admit Lying
Friday, April 08, 2005
By Roger Friedman
Jackson: DA's Witnesses Admit Lying
The prosecution put on two witnesses yesterday in the Michael Jackson child molestation case, each determined to demolish the defense. At first their plan looked good. But then defense attorney Tom Mesereau came twirling on to the court, and the rest is history.
Mesereau’s big moment came at 9:35 a.m. PDT. With 10 minutes to go before the first break in the morning session, Mesereau knew that he had to act fast to counter allegations from former Neverland security guard Ralph Chacon. These included two instances of child molestation described in graphic detail by Chacon.
The episodes were so intense and unsavory that they sent Jackson’s mother Katherine Jackson fleeing from the courtroom.
That left only brother Tito Jackson to stand by the pop star during perhaps his worst-ever moments in a courtroom. (Father Joseph Jackson was in Las Vegas, according to sources, on business.)
Mesereau had no time to waste. The jury, the judge, the press and public had just heard Chacon peel off what might have been a scenario from a porn novel issued by the National Man Boy Love Association.
Chacon said that he saw Jackson perform oral sex on a boy, among other upsetting things.
When Chacon described a second episode, in which Jackson was “passionately kissing” the boy in front of a Peter Pan display, even Tito vacated the courtroom.
Prosecutor Tom Sneddon asked Chacon why he’d never mentioned the latter incident in previous depositions.
“Who would believe me?” Chacon responded. For a minute, the answer was everyone. The shock of his vulgar description was just enough to get the attention of all in the room.
But then came Mesereau, driving hard down the court like Michael Jordan.
Armed with Chacon’s deposition from the 1994 “Neverland Five” case, in which former Jackson employees unsuccessfully sued the singer for wrongful termination and harassment, Mesereau didn’t take long to make mincemeat of the witness.
Suddenly Chacon’s every answer was “I don’t know” when Mesereau plied him for details of the famous lawsuit, the longest civil trial in Santa Maria history.
“The jury said you stole and acted with malice,” said Mesereau. “There was a judgment against you for fraud. Do you recall stipulating that that you acted with fraud, oppression and malice?”
Suddenly Chacon, who claimed to have a clear memory of seeing Jackson in an incriminating situation, could not remember a thing.
He couldn’t recall the exact amount each defendant in the dismissal case was ordered to pay Jackson ($1.4 million), or a judgment against Chacon in another case ($2,600), or his telling a doctor that he’d rather get $1 million than work again.
Even when Mesereau, in a flamboyant but familiar lawyerly move, showed him his contradictory depositions from a year ago, Chacon was flummoxed.
Did he remember his lawyer saying he wanted $16 million for the five former employees?
"No," said Chacon. Mesereau showed him his deposition. The ex-security guard, now a substitute teacher, had an epiphany. “Now I see it,” he declared.
Did Chacon recall saying in his deposition that Jackson used to stare continuously at him? That he stared at no one else? The witness, in a rare moment of clarity, explained: “I said it just to say it.”
Those 10 minutes were perhaps the most crucial in Jackson’s life.
Things went just as badly for former personal maid Adrian McManus. Even though her appearance and demeanor were a marked improvement over Chacon's, her forceful testimony was quickly cut to shreds by Mesereau.
At one point, jurors started looking around the room rather than pay attention to her. This happened after the umpteenth time Mesereau -- by now riffing on the “may I refresh your memory by showing you that page from your deposition routine?” -- sauntered over to the witness stand, book in hand.
McManus should have been a reliable, prepared witness. Mesereau got her to admit she’d had a three-hour meeting with prosecutors on Wednesday night. But even under direct questioning, her natural bubbly personality had been supplanted by somber tones.
And it didn’t help that Mesereau knew a lot of dirt about her past. He avoided any reference to her direct testimony that she claimed she’d seen four boys -- including Macaulay Culkin -- share Jackson’s bed. Instead, he pounced on her personal credibility.
Among McManus’s “secrets”: She and her husband were sued by their sister-in-law, who won a judgment against them of $30,584.89. The crime? They “willfully and maliciously defrauded” the woman’s children after her husband died when they served as their guardians.
In the Jackson dismissal case, Mesereau revealed that McManus had stolen an ink drawing of Elvis Presley by Jackson and sold it -- her contribution to the “fraud, oppression and malice” part of the case that included fellow former employees Chacon, Melanie Bagnall, Sandi Domz and Kassim Abdool.
Part of what Mesereau was able to establish with McManus and Chacon was their unwillingness to work with or for Jackson’s new security team appointed in 1994.
Called The Office of Special Services, or “OSS,” the internal Neverland outfit was run by longtime Jackson crony Bill Bray.
Fearing disloyalty after the Chandler scandal broke in 1993, Bray brought in his own security force to run roughshod over the Neverland staff.
The result is much as it is presently at Neverland -- fear and loathing rules, with no one in charge. It’s a management style made for disaster.
McManus’ final half-hour on the stand was almost painful. She was reminded of a statement she’d made in a deposition about the alarm system for Jackson’s bedroom: “When you’re a celebrity, you lead a difficult life. People kill celebrities. That little sensor benefits him for his life.”
She also admitted to having lied in the Chandler v. Jackson civil suit a decade ago. In that case she claimed she’d never seen any kids sleeping in Jackson’s room. She also said in that that June Chandler, the mother of the kid who eventually got a $20 million settlement from Jackson, had brought her son’s clothes to Jackson’s room, knowing full well he’d be staying there.
Mesereau said: “You’re saying you committed perjury in the Chandler deposition?”
McManus: “The whole time .”
Mesereau: “Knowing that it was a crime?”
McManus: “I didn’t think of it that way.”
By then, the jury had long forgotten about Chacon’s pornographic musings
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152871,00.html
Tak, a drugim swiadkiem był Phillipe LeMarque, oboje zostali totalnie zniszczeni przez TMeza
... A dzisiejsze posiedzenie skończyło się tak szybko, bo Sneddon nie mał więcej świadków...
Friday, April 08, 2005
By Roger Friedman
Jackson: DA's Witnesses Admit Lying
The prosecution put on two witnesses yesterday in the Michael Jackson child molestation case, each determined to demolish the defense. At first their plan looked good. But then defense attorney Tom Mesereau came twirling on to the court, and the rest is history.
Mesereau’s big moment came at 9:35 a.m. PDT. With 10 minutes to go before the first break in the morning session, Mesereau knew that he had to act fast to counter allegations from former Neverland security guard Ralph Chacon. These included two instances of child molestation described in graphic detail by Chacon.
The episodes were so intense and unsavory that they sent Jackson’s mother Katherine Jackson fleeing from the courtroom.
That left only brother Tito Jackson to stand by the pop star during perhaps his worst-ever moments in a courtroom. (Father Joseph Jackson was in Las Vegas, according to sources, on business.)
Mesereau had no time to waste. The jury, the judge, the press and public had just heard Chacon peel off what might have been a scenario from a porn novel issued by the National Man Boy Love Association.
Chacon said that he saw Jackson perform oral sex on a boy, among other upsetting things.
When Chacon described a second episode, in which Jackson was “passionately kissing” the boy in front of a Peter Pan display, even Tito vacated the courtroom.
Prosecutor Tom Sneddon asked Chacon why he’d never mentioned the latter incident in previous depositions.
“Who would believe me?” Chacon responded. For a minute, the answer was everyone. The shock of his vulgar description was just enough to get the attention of all in the room.
But then came Mesereau, driving hard down the court like Michael Jordan.
Armed with Chacon’s deposition from the 1994 “Neverland Five” case, in which former Jackson employees unsuccessfully sued the singer for wrongful termination and harassment, Mesereau didn’t take long to make mincemeat of the witness.
Suddenly Chacon’s every answer was “I don’t know” when Mesereau plied him for details of the famous lawsuit, the longest civil trial in Santa Maria history.
“The jury said you stole and acted with malice,” said Mesereau. “There was a judgment against you for fraud. Do you recall stipulating that that you acted with fraud, oppression and malice?”
Suddenly Chacon, who claimed to have a clear memory of seeing Jackson in an incriminating situation, could not remember a thing.
He couldn’t recall the exact amount each defendant in the dismissal case was ordered to pay Jackson ($1.4 million), or a judgment against Chacon in another case ($2,600), or his telling a doctor that he’d rather get $1 million than work again.
Even when Mesereau, in a flamboyant but familiar lawyerly move, showed him his contradictory depositions from a year ago, Chacon was flummoxed.
Did he remember his lawyer saying he wanted $16 million for the five former employees?
"No," said Chacon. Mesereau showed him his deposition. The ex-security guard, now a substitute teacher, had an epiphany. “Now I see it,” he declared.
Did Chacon recall saying in his deposition that Jackson used to stare continuously at him? That he stared at no one else? The witness, in a rare moment of clarity, explained: “I said it just to say it.”
Those 10 minutes were perhaps the most crucial in Jackson’s life.
Things went just as badly for former personal maid Adrian McManus. Even though her appearance and demeanor were a marked improvement over Chacon's, her forceful testimony was quickly cut to shreds by Mesereau.
At one point, jurors started looking around the room rather than pay attention to her. This happened after the umpteenth time Mesereau -- by now riffing on the “may I refresh your memory by showing you that page from your deposition routine?” -- sauntered over to the witness stand, book in hand.
McManus should have been a reliable, prepared witness. Mesereau got her to admit she’d had a three-hour meeting with prosecutors on Wednesday night. But even under direct questioning, her natural bubbly personality had been supplanted by somber tones.
And it didn’t help that Mesereau knew a lot of dirt about her past. He avoided any reference to her direct testimony that she claimed she’d seen four boys -- including Macaulay Culkin -- share Jackson’s bed. Instead, he pounced on her personal credibility.
Among McManus’s “secrets”: She and her husband were sued by their sister-in-law, who won a judgment against them of $30,584.89. The crime? They “willfully and maliciously defrauded” the woman’s children after her husband died when they served as their guardians.
In the Jackson dismissal case, Mesereau revealed that McManus had stolen an ink drawing of Elvis Presley by Jackson and sold it -- her contribution to the “fraud, oppression and malice” part of the case that included fellow former employees Chacon, Melanie Bagnall, Sandi Domz and Kassim Abdool.
Part of what Mesereau was able to establish with McManus and Chacon was their unwillingness to work with or for Jackson’s new security team appointed in 1994.
Called The Office of Special Services, or “OSS,” the internal Neverland outfit was run by longtime Jackson crony Bill Bray.
Fearing disloyalty after the Chandler scandal broke in 1993, Bray brought in his own security force to run roughshod over the Neverland staff.
The result is much as it is presently at Neverland -- fear and loathing rules, with no one in charge. It’s a management style made for disaster.
McManus’ final half-hour on the stand was almost painful. She was reminded of a statement she’d made in a deposition about the alarm system for Jackson’s bedroom: “When you’re a celebrity, you lead a difficult life. People kill celebrities. That little sensor benefits him for his life.”
She also admitted to having lied in the Chandler v. Jackson civil suit a decade ago. In that case she claimed she’d never seen any kids sleeping in Jackson’s room. She also said in that that June Chandler, the mother of the kid who eventually got a $20 million settlement from Jackson, had brought her son’s clothes to Jackson’s room, knowing full well he’d be staying there.
Mesereau said: “You’re saying you committed perjury in the Chandler deposition?”
McManus: “The whole time .”
Mesereau: “Knowing that it was a crime?”
McManus: “I didn’t think of it that way.”
By then, the jury had long forgotten about Chacon’s pornographic musings
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152871,00.html
Tak, a drugim swiadkiem był Phillipe LeMarque, oboje zostali totalnie zniszczeni przez TMeza
... A dzisiejsze posiedzenie skończyło się tak szybko, bo Sneddon nie mał więcej świadków... 
“The jury said you stole and acted with malice,” said Mesereau. “There was a judgment against you for fraud. Do you recall stipulating that that you acted with fraud, oppression and malice?”
Suddenly Chacon, who claimed to have a clear memory of seeing Jackson in an incriminating situation, could not remember a thing.
At one point, jurors started looking around the room rather than pay attention to her. This happened after the umpteenth time Mesereau -- by now riffing on the “may I refresh your memory by showing you that page from your deposition routine?” -- sauntered over to the witness stand, book in hand.
tylko w ten sposób jestem w stanie to skomentować: śmiechem
Suddenly Chacon, who claimed to have a clear memory of seeing Jackson in an incriminating situation, could not remember a thing.
At one point, jurors started looking around the room rather than pay attention to her. This happened after the umpteenth time Mesereau -- by now riffing on the “may I refresh your memory by showing you that page from your deposition routine?” -- sauntered over to the witness stand, book in hand.
tylko w ten sposób jestem w stanie to skomentować: śmiechem
ten facet który zeznawał jest byłym ochroniażem MJ i nazywa się Ralph Chacon; jeśli mam być dokładna to powiem, że Chacon stwierdził, że widział jak MJ uprawia seks oralny z chłopcem. Zeznawała też była sprzątaczka - Adrianne McManus, która również stwierdziła, że miał miejsce kontakt seksualny pomiędzy MJ a chłopcami (w tym Culkinem). Ale obrona udowodniła, że byli oni zamieszani w oszutstwa przeciwko Jacksonowi i że w innej sprawie McManus wraz z mężem dawali fałszywe zeznania i w tamtym czasie ława przysięgłych nie uwierzyła im. Tak przy okazji, to musieli jeszcze zaplacić odszkodowanie Michaelowi - ponad 1mln $.
Phillip LeMarque, który wraz z żoną pracował na ranczo przez 10 miesięcy w 1991 i który nie wyjawił swoich zarzutów aż do 1993 roku, kiedy to zjawili się u niego oficerowie sledczy w związku z zarzutami innego poszkodowanego, zeznał wczoraj, że widział MJa dotykajacego Macaulaya Culkina za genitalia. Nie powiedział nikomu, gdyż "i tak nikt by mu nawet nie uwierzył".
LeMarque zeznał, ze pewnego wieczoru MJ kazał przynieść mu frytki do salonu gier i wchodząc do pomieszczenia zobaczył MJ trzymającego Maca nad konsoletą do gier jedną ręką przytrzymując go w pasie, drugą wsadzając do jego spodenek. Był wstrząśnięty, mało co nie wypuścił z rąk frytki. Następnie się ulotnił i wracając narobił hałasu, by dać znać, że ktoś się zblirza.
Przepytywany przez Mezoratora, przyznał, iz wraz z zoną brali pod uwagę sprzedawania historii brukowcom za co żądali 500 000 $ . Wycofali się jednak, kiedy zreflektowali się, ze pośrednik negocjujacy z nimi jest zbyt podejrzany. LeMarque mówi: "Wszyscy próbowali sprzedwać nasze historie", jednak zdecydowali się ich nie sprzedawać, ponieważ było to "wbrew ich zasadom".
T-Mez podkreślał, że Mac kilkakrotnie zaprzeczał, aby spotkało go cos niewłaściwego ze strony MJ. Rzeczniczka aktora poinformowała, ze nie zamierza brać udziału w sprawie. Widocznie nie przeszkadza to prokuratorowi przywoływać go przez kilka dni (Adrianne McManus zeznała, ze widziała MJa całującego Maca podczs gdy jego ręka powędrowała na dół) jako ofiarę "prior bad acts".
Obrońca MJa wykazał, ze byli pracownicy (tzw. "the neverland five") próbowali się dorobić sprzedając różne historie prasie brukowej. McManus na przykład przyciągała swomi opowiesciami na temat życia łóżkowego MJ i jego byłej zony - Lisy M. Presley. McManus wyparła sie, ze była źródłem w artykule "Zboczone tajemnice sypialni MJ i LMP". Wg niej wielokrotnie pisano co innego, niz przekazywała. Zeznała, ze tak naprawdę nie wiedziała o zadnych zboczonych zachowaniach swojego byłego szefa i LMP. Ponadto, wraz z innymi zwolnionymi pracownikami NL, domagała się na drodze sądowej odszkodowania ze niewłaściwe wyrzucenie z pracy. Ławnicy nie uwierzyli jednak zeznającym, w związku z czym to oni łącznie zostali zobligowani do zapłacenia łącznie 1,4 mln $. Mimo wszystko nadal twierdzi, że została bezpodstawnie zwolniona. LeMarque z małżonką z kolei wnieśli sprawę do sądu, twierdząc, że MJ nie zapłacił im za nadgodziny pracy.
Korzystałam z:
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf ... 085150.xml
I jeszcze NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/natio ... ckson.html
LeMarque zeznał, ze pewnego wieczoru MJ kazał przynieść mu frytki do salonu gier i wchodząc do pomieszczenia zobaczył MJ trzymającego Maca nad konsoletą do gier jedną ręką przytrzymując go w pasie, drugą wsadzając do jego spodenek. Był wstrząśnięty, mało co nie wypuścił z rąk frytki. Następnie się ulotnił i wracając narobił hałasu, by dać znać, że ktoś się zblirza.
Przepytywany przez Mezoratora, przyznał, iz wraz z zoną brali pod uwagę sprzedawania historii brukowcom za co żądali 500 000 $ . Wycofali się jednak, kiedy zreflektowali się, ze pośrednik negocjujacy z nimi jest zbyt podejrzany. LeMarque mówi: "Wszyscy próbowali sprzedwać nasze historie", jednak zdecydowali się ich nie sprzedawać, ponieważ było to "wbrew ich zasadom".
T-Mez podkreślał, że Mac kilkakrotnie zaprzeczał, aby spotkało go cos niewłaściwego ze strony MJ. Rzeczniczka aktora poinformowała, ze nie zamierza brać udziału w sprawie. Widocznie nie przeszkadza to prokuratorowi przywoływać go przez kilka dni (Adrianne McManus zeznała, ze widziała MJa całującego Maca podczs gdy jego ręka powędrowała na dół) jako ofiarę "prior bad acts".
Obrońca MJa wykazał, ze byli pracownicy (tzw. "the neverland five") próbowali się dorobić sprzedając różne historie prasie brukowej. McManus na przykład przyciągała swomi opowiesciami na temat życia łóżkowego MJ i jego byłej zony - Lisy M. Presley. McManus wyparła sie, ze była źródłem w artykule "Zboczone tajemnice sypialni MJ i LMP". Wg niej wielokrotnie pisano co innego, niz przekazywała. Zeznała, ze tak naprawdę nie wiedziała o zadnych zboczonych zachowaniach swojego byłego szefa i LMP. Ponadto, wraz z innymi zwolnionymi pracownikami NL, domagała się na drodze sądowej odszkodowania ze niewłaściwe wyrzucenie z pracy. Ławnicy nie uwierzyli jednak zeznającym, w związku z czym to oni łącznie zostali zobligowani do zapłacenia łącznie 1,4 mln $. Mimo wszystko nadal twierdzi, że została bezpodstawnie zwolniona. LeMarque z małżonką z kolei wnieśli sprawę do sądu, twierdząc, że MJ nie zapłacił im za nadgodziny pracy.
Korzystałam z:
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf ... 085150.xml
I jeszcze NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/natio ... ckson.html
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Ktoś tam na mjjforum wspominał, że tego dnia Sneddon miał powołać jeszcze dwóch świadków: June i Boba Jonesa, ale kiedy zauważył, co Mez zrobił z zeznaniami LeMarqua i McManus, chyba się rozmyślił...Sade pisze:Phillip LeMarque, który wraz z żoną pracował na ranczo przez 10 miesięcy w 1991 i który nie wyjawił swoich zarzutów aż do 1993 roku, kiedy to zjawili się u niego oficerowie sledczy w związku z zarzutami innego poszkodowanego, zeznał wczoraj, że widział MJa dotykajacego Macaulaya Culkina za genitalia. Nie powiedział nikomu, gdyż "i tak nikt by mu nawet nie uwierzył".
LeMarque zeznał, ze pewnego wieczoru MJ kazał przynieść mu frytki do salonu gier i wchodząc do pomieszczenia zobaczył MJ trzymającego Maca nad konsoletą do gier jedną ręką przytrzymując go w pasie, drugą wsadzając do jego spodenek. Był wstrząśnięty, mało co nie wypuścił z rąk frytki. Następnie się ulotnił i wracając narobił hałasu, by dać znać, że ktoś się zblirza.
Przepytywany przez Mezoratora, przyznał, iz wraz z zoną brali pod uwagę sprzedawania historii brukowcom za co żądali 500 000 $ . Wycofali się jednak, kiedy zreflektowali się, ze pośrednik negocjujacy z nimi jest zbyt podejrzany. LeMarque mówi: "Wszyscy próbowali sprzedwać nasze historie", jednak zdecydowali się ich nie sprzedawać, ponieważ było to "wbrew ich zasadom".
T-Mez podkreślał, że Mac kilkakrotnie zaprzeczał, aby spotkało go cos niewłaściwego ze strony MJ. Rzeczniczka aktora poinformowała, ze nie zamierza brać udziału w sprawie. Widocznie nie przeszkadza to prokuratorowi przywoływać go przez kilka dni (Adrianne McManus zeznała, ze widziała MJa całującego Maca podczs gdy jego ręka powędrowała na dół) jako ofiarę "prior bad acts".
Obrońca MJa wykazał, ze byli pracownicy (tzw. "the neverland five") próbowali się dorobić sprzedając różne historie prasie brukowej. McManus na przykład przyciągała swomi opowiesciami na temat życia łóżkowego MJ i jego byłej zony - Lisy M. Presley. McManus wyparła sie, ze była źródłem w artykule "Zboczone tajemnice sypialni MJ i LMP". Wg niej wielokrotnie pisano co innego, niz przekazywała. Zeznała, ze tak naprawdę nie wiedziała o zadnych zboczonych zachowaniach swojego byłego szefa i LMP. Ponadto, wraz z innymi zwolnionymi pracownikami NL, domagała się na drodze sądowej odszkodowania ze niewłaściwe wyrzucenie z pracy. Ławnicy nie uwierzyli jednak zeznającym, w związku z czym to oni łącznie zostali zobligowani do zapłacenia łącznie 1,4 mln $. Mimo wszystko nadal twierdzi, że została bezpodstawnie zwolniona. LeMarque z małżonką z kolei wnieśli sprawę do sądu, twierdząc, że MJ nie zapłacił im za nadgodziny pracy.
Korzystałam z:
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf ... 085150.xml
I jeszcze NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/natio ... ckson.html
A propo naprawde nie wyobrażam sobie Boba Jonesa zeznającego przeciw MJ...nie wyobrażam sobie tego, no chyba, ze wszystko jeszcze przede mną... A co do June ponoć łączył ją z MJ bardzo bliski związek...nie wiadomo do końca czy ta dwójka będzie tak jednoznacznie negatywna... June będzie miała problem, zeznając w zastępstwie swojego nieobecnego syna... la_licorne pisze:
Ktoś tam na mjjforum wspominał, że tego dnia Sneddon miał powołać jeszcze dwóch świadków: June i Boba Jonesa, ale kiedy zauważył, co Mez zrobił z zeznaniami LeMarqua i McManus, chyba się rozmyślił...
Jones ponoć został wciągnięty w tą sprawę w dość "dziwny" sposób. Dwie osoby, z którymi pisze książkę o MJ, utrzymują, że Bob deklarował że widział coś niewłaściwego w zachowaniu MJ wzgledem dzieci, tymczasem wg FoxNews chodziło jedynie o jakis naprawdę marginalny incydent, bodajże trzymanie dziecka na kolanach w samolocie. Więcej tutaj:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151774,00.html
Mnie zastanawia jak Evan przeciągnął June na swoją stronę. Stała ona murem za MJ do pewnego momentu.... Co do ich związku, to czy oprócz listu MJ do Jordy'ego i wersji Joe o tym, że byli przez pewien czas razem, nawet MJ mieszkał u niej przez 3 m-ce, istnieją jakieś inne źródła w tym temacie?
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"But later in court, defense attorney Tom Mesereau announced that Jones had recanted his statement.
Indeed, my sources say that Jones never claimed to have seen anything unsavory. He's very upset about the book proposal getting out and having something wrong in it, my insider says.
In fact, if Jones takes the stand, he will only say that he saw Jackson curled up in an airplane seat with the boy on a flight home from Europe. No kissing, touching, licking or anything else."
Czyli nic ciekawego raczej nie ma do powiedzenia, no chyba, że będzie się chciał zemścić za fakt, że został jak to sam określił brutalnie wyrzucony przez Randy`iego... Pamiętam, jak bardzo na początku wszyscy byli zaskoczeni jego zwolnienieniem... Na pierwszy rzut oka jest raczej nieszkodliwy... Będzie też musiał wytłumaczyć się z tego, że nie mógł zdecydować się na jedą wersje i sam zaprzeczył swoim wcześniejszym słowom...
Indeed, my sources say that Jones never claimed to have seen anything unsavory. He's very upset about the book proposal getting out and having something wrong in it, my insider says.
In fact, if Jones takes the stand, he will only say that he saw Jackson curled up in an airplane seat with the boy on a flight home from Europe. No kissing, touching, licking or anything else."
Czyli nic ciekawego raczej nie ma do powiedzenia, no chyba, że będzie się chciał zemścić za fakt, że został jak to sam określił brutalnie wyrzucony przez Randy`iego...
Pamiętam, jak bardzo na początku wszyscy byli zaskoczeni jego zwolnienieniem... Na pierwszy rzut oka jest raczej nieszkodliwy... Będzie też musiał wytłumaczyć się z tego, że nie mógł zdecydować się na jedą wersje i sam zaprzeczył swoim wcześniejszym słowom...