Word: jacksonism
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...witness stand, guided by district attorney Thomas Sneddon, the boy, who is not being named to protect his identity, declared that two years ago, in Jackson's bedroom, the singer twice molested him. "I was under the covers, and that is when he put his hand down my pants and started masturbating me," the boy said. A day or two later, "he did it one more time." He said that Jackson showed him and his younger brother pornography in magazines and on the Internet, and plied them with wine--"Jesus juice"--in Diet Coke cans. Under stern cross-examination...
...Jackson in 2000, when the accuser was 10 and suffering from what was diagnosed as incurable leukemia. Surgeons removed his left kidney and spleen and a 16-lb. tumor. He was given large doses of chemotherapy, which doctors said would either save his life or kill him. The kid deserved a break. When he asked to meet his hero, Michael Jackson, it was arranged...
During one of the first visits to Neverland, Jackson invited the boy and his brother to stay in his room but insisted they first get permission from their parents. The boy says his parents agreed. Did they believe that Jackson was the sinless benefactor he has always proclaimed himself to be, or were other forces--ignorance, celebrity fever, avarice--at play? Over the next two years, the boy, his mother and his younger brother and older sister were stay-over guests at Neverland. Jackson lavished gifts and attention on them and provided them an SUV and rides in limousines. Gradually...
...family didn't hear from Jackson again until the fall of 2002, when British documentarian Martin Bashir was shooting a feature on the star. Jackson invited the boy to take part and supposedly told him that if he did a "good job acting" in this "audition," he might get acting jobs in film. Again the boy saw Jackson as "the coolest guy in the world, like my best friend ever." He and his family say they didn't know the film was for public, worldwide consumption...
When Living with Michael Jackson aired in the U.S. in February 2003, with the boy prominently on view, the Jackson camp, apparently worried that it showed the singer as child-obsessed, if not a child molester, quickly planned a rebuttal video. That brought the boy and his family back to Neverland, where again the boy and his brother slept in Jackson's bedroom...