Jackson's explicit letters seized (child's name redacted for FR)

The Daily Telegraph ^ | November 24th, 2003 | CAROLINE GRAHAM and SHARON CHURCHER

[Sabertooth]

EXPLICIT letters and poems said to have been written by Michael Jackson to his alleged victim will form the centrepiece of the sex-abuse case against him.

Police seized at least a dozen letters during the raid on Jackson's Neverland ranch last week.

"The district attorney is convinced these letters will be crucial to the case against Jackson," a source close to the investigation said yesterday.

"The boy told investigators about letters and poems and their precise location inside Michael's home. These letters were among the evidence seized, along with videotapes.

"They are very explicit and intimate and show a degree of familiarity. Basically, they appear to be love letters from Michael to the boy."

The accuser, 12-year-old Los Angeles cancer victim ******, also told police Jackson's pet name for him was Rubba.

"The boy first told this to his therapist, then repeated it to police," the source said.

"He said Jackson called him Rubba because one of the games they used to play was called rubba rubba. The boy said, 'Michael told me he was my rubba rubba friend."'

Although police handling the case in Santa Barbara, California, have been barred from revealing any details, it is understood the alleged abuse took place in February.

Jackson is said to have befriended ****** -- who, during a controversial British documentary screened earlier this year, admitted having shared a bed with the singer -- over a long period.

A source close to 45-year-old Jackson said: "For the past five or six years, he's taken kids from fractured homes and nurtured them as a father figure. As they get older, he teaches them fun things to do.

"Michael says he learned this from an adult when he was a teenager. No-one on his staff ever said anything. He's a tyrant. Everybody obeys the man."

Another Jackson source said: "The boy told of everything that went on and described things in Michael's closets, his bathroom, what was under his bed."

In her statements to police, ******'s mother, #####, has revealed that Jackson encouraged her son to call him "Daddy".

##### has claimed she, ****** and his two siblings were held virtual prisoners at Neverland, 100km north of Santa Barbara.

When she learned of her son's accusations of molestation -- which included claims that Jackson plied him with wine and sleeping pills -- she fled with her family in the dead of night.

A source close to district attorney Tom Sneddon, who will prosecute the case, said: "The DA is very confident with the evidence he has. This includes letters, videos and computer files. They believe they have enough to nail Jackson."

Jackson's legal team is said to be encouraging him to consider a plea bargain, possibly an insanity defence that would allow him to serve time in a state mental hospital instead of jail.

There was speculation yesterday that the singer raised his $3 million bail with the help of Miami-based Al Malnik, a lawyer for notorious gangster Meyer Lansky, who died in 1983.

Malnik reportedly began making large loans to Jackson when his career nosedived.

Malnik, 69, was cited by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission in 1980 and 1992 as a person of unsuitable character.

The prosecution source said: "It just gets weirder and weirder. Michael supposedly has financial problems, but hiring someone with Mob connections is bizarre."

Prosecutors are said to be spreading a net around the world for other alleged victims. One boy of special interest is said to be in El Salvador, another in South Africa.

They are also said to be considering quizzing the son of an English premiership footballer.

Charges of aiding and abetting are likely to be filed against members of Jackson's entourage.

At the same time as the Neverland swoop, police raided two homes in Los Angeles.

One was reportedly the residence of Marc Schaffel, a gay video producer who filmed the rebuttal tape Jackson released just after Martin Bashir's British documentary aired.

[Lorenb420]

OOps. Didn't paste in the correct URL before. To post that picture, put this into a comment:

<img src="http://www.southbeach-usa.com/features/features1/forge/images/malnik-jackson.jpg">

[oceanperch]

With his daring style and leading-man good looks, Shareef Malnik also demonstrates a distinct adeptness for acquiring high-profile wives.

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Uh call me picky but his looks suck and I doubt that his distinct adeptness had anything to do with "acquiring" high profile wives. He bought his women which would make them his high profile ho's legally married to him. That is not a very nice thing to say but that dude gives me the willies with his appearance.

[Betty Jo]

Now you know how dumb I am.

http://ammar.com/pages/alwaleed2.html

Is the site of the Jacko-Alwaleed pix. Thank you for trying.

[Chantal]

BTW the mother should also be sent to jail for this crime.

I know you're a mj fan, but why punish the mother for your favorite pervert. Can't you read? She was not allowed to leave the premises but as soon she saw an opening, she fled.

[Stop Legal Plunder]

And in the meantime, we have an election coming up, and the less the Dem dwarves get headlines, the better for all of them, since every time they make the news, they embarrass themselves. MJ is doing liberals a huge favor here.

Is he? I don't think so, because his trial will keep homosexual vice in the minds of the public (even though the media won't call his behavior what it is, many viewers will link it in their minds). This, in the context of Lawrence v. Texas and the recent Mass. court decision, will force Dem candidates to take a stand on the proposed marriage amendment, which divides the Democratic base.

[Lorenb420]

It's all good. Here are the images from that link:

Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal with "King of Pop" Michael Jackson celebrating the birth of their joint-venture "Kingdom"...

Prince Alwaleed with Michael Jackson during a meeting in the George V Hotel in Paris.

The two partners leaving the George V Hotel...

... Then holding the first meeting of "Kingdom Entertainment"

[Letitring]

That, and child molesters choose kids who are at risk, or compromised in some fashion, for a purpose. They KNOW it'll be messy and contentious, and in that chaos, hope to find a loophole.

I've heard they've got Jackson this time. It's about danged time.

[ChemistCat]

A judge needs to lock them all down and shut them all up....

If Geragos is doing it, it's sure no favor to his client.

I'm betting he will be found unfit to stand trial, myself.

[Chantal]

Serena Williams. You can telel by looking at her that she's a freak too.

Michael Jackson only associates with the brothers when it time to cover up for his crimes.

[dougherty]

I remember seeing this kid on the tv special. If there are love letters, that is just sick, sick, sick. If anything did indeed happen, I wonder if the mother knew but was silent because of all the freebies Jackson was doling out. Truly bizarre.

[oceanperch]

I was one of those kids starting at the age of 6 and ending at the age of puberty.

The last man to unleash his perversion on me was offier friendly who turned Detective and he sunk himself into a world of Alchoholism losing everthing.

My ill feelings are not so much with the pedophiles that passed me around but with the adults who looked the other way.

I took a knife to the last guy when I was 13yrs old and no one ever touched me again. I stood up for myself.

Don't have any connection to my family to this day. I am still blamed for telling and making trouble.

Went to a shrink when I was 20 something spilled my guts to him and he said my problem was I hated men.

Now I am 43 and have to say I don't hate men actually in healthy relaionships/freindships I love men what I hate is perverts/pedaphiles and their enablers that are men.

[Chantal]

Serana looks like a normal women to be.

Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are.

[Betty Jo]

Thank you!

So, is Michaels love for Saudies just cause they got the $$$$$$,or is it something deeper?

[Lorenb420]

I read another article that has the interesting claim:

XXXXX's mother, XXXXX XXXXX, who went through a bitter divorce with the boy's father, XXXXX XXXXX, revealed Jackson encouraged her son to call him "daddy". She has claimed she, XXXXX and his two siblings were held virtual prisoners at Neverland, north of Santa Barbara.

When she learned of her son's accusations of molestation – which included claims Jackson plied him with wine and sleeping pills – she fled with her family in the dead of night.

[daylami]

hi, being new to free republic, i find it a bit funny that some on this forum act like they exist in a vacuum.

this boys name not only has been printed all over the world but he was on the big VH1 special (which airs again sunday evening).

so why the big secret?????

[Chantal]

MJ will commit murder-suicide..

He already said that if there were no more children around him, he would rather be dead. Well somebody give him a gun or a balcony.

[Miss Marple]

Because we have higher standards than the losers in the media. If you are dying to know the name, go find a source that is releasing it. You're not going to find it here.

[ChemistCat]

My dear oceanperch, your post makes me want to go buy big boxes of knives on Ebay and hand them out free to all kids old enough to handle them without cutting themselves.

NOBODY should have to put up with that and I'm with you--the adults who stand there and do nothing are worse than the sick freaks who molest. There may be some physiological reason for being attracted to immature members of your species--not that it shouldn't still be a capital crime, but there may be a valid cause. How can there be a reason to stand aside and let someone do that to your or anyone's child?

[oceanperch]

Yeah I saw the kids biological father on tv blasting the mom for his own agenda.

I wondered if Mark Gagross put him up to it?

Then a few stories later was a story on Mark Gagross and his life bio on what a tough life he had which makes him cut out to hanlde these criminal cases. Even had his Dad and Brother doing a he's a good man PR blab in the story.

Follow the stench folks and fall into the cesspool.

When I was younger I had a name for evil perverted souls. Lower than the Devil's Poop (enter the other word for it).

[Chantal]

"I heard the father of the boy yesterday...

Not so fast buster, the father has been in jail and was not even around to protect his boys.....the creep has nothing to say....