According to reports, Michael Jackson's mom, Katherine, was absent from the premiere of the documentary movie "This Is It" showcasing his last rehearsals, for his ill-fated tour of the same name.
Jackson never made it to the tour, overdosing on copious amounts of prescription pills and illegally administered anesthetic, days before the tour was to begin.
Numerous entertainers showed up for the premiere, such as Jennifer Lopez:
In recently released interviews from eight years ago, Michael Jackson stated his family was subjected to racism that greatly upset him:
Michael Jackson: My mother - she was pulling out of the market, right, it was a block from my house in Encino and she was in her Mercedes. And this white guy in a car screams out to her, "Go back to Africa, you n***ger." Just like that. It hurt me so much that that happened to be mother. Or stories of my brothers in their Rolls-Royces, you know, get out of the car, lock the door, when they come back to the car they would find a key, some guy walked by and scrape off all the paint.
Shmuley Boteach: 'Cause it was a black man driving it?
Michael Jackson: A black man driving a Rolls Royce, you know. I just hate anything to do with because the color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.
In addition to accusing the press of racism, Jackson divulges painful stories about the ugly overtones of race that hovered over his family, long after he became a superstar.
In other news, Michael Jackson could not stand his reflection and thought he looked like "a lizard." I'm not gonna lie, I laughed when I read that and if you have ever seen a lizard, you'll know why.
But more often, he sounds anguished and sad. The star who spent his adult life morphing from one look to another, actually admits his own face repulses him.
Michael Jackson: I saw it on the computer, it made me sick when I saw it.
Rabbi Shmuley: Why?
Michael Jackson: I look like a lizard, I look like, it's horrible. I don't like it, I never like it. That's why I wish I could never be photographed or seen and I push myself to go to the things that we go to.
Jackson looked his best during his "Off The Wall" and "Thriller" album days. He looked better before all the plastic surgery and skin alterations.
Story Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com The Jackson Brothers In a secretly recorded interview, the late pop singer Michael Jackson, slammed several members of his family. Katherine Jackson The recording indicates Jackson wanted these segments of the interview off the record. The journalist agreed, but kept recording anyway. Now the tapes have been released online and they are very embarrassing. The entrance of Forest Lawn in Glendale, California, where Michael Jackson is buried Hear secret Michael Jackson tapes Shock Neverland tapes reveal what Jacko really thought about family The singer branded his brothers in the Jackson 5 LAZY MOANERS who just sat around relying on him to make them money... One by one he dubbed them DULL, a COPYCAT, a WOMANISER and ARGUMENTATIVE. Then he bitched about sisters La Toya and Janet. And he even called MUM Katherine "disappointing" in astonishing rants recorded with the ghost writer of his autobiography Moonwalk. Then Jacko, who died in June, realised he'd gone too far several times, snapping: "You can't print that." ... "The brothers didn't give me support," he snipes on one tape. "We'd be working on a TV show or video and they'd be sitting around moaning and groaning but I'd be watching and learning. "It takes a talent, but some people are lazy and don't want to develop anything." Then he goes through the original band members - Jackie, 58, Tito, 55, Jermaine, 54, and Marlon, 52 - in turn. ON TITO: "Tito is into the anatomy of how a car is built," scoffs Jacko who pinpoints him as one of the biggest whingers in the band. "He is a grease monkey. "He still goes to the hobby shop and buys airplanes and flys them. He loves putting them together - they're on these plastic things and you glue them. That is so boring." ON MARLON: "People used to call him ugly and make fun of him - and people would say, 'Which brother is that one?'. "He constantly imitates me on stage. Whatever I do he'll do right after me. I hate when that happens because he looks too "doo woppy" and so old-fashioned." ON JERMAINE: Jackson accused Jermaine - who split from first wife Hazel over a fling with another beauty - of being a womaniser and not having the self-belief to follow him as a successful solo act. Jermaine would either be looking for girls or going along with the jokes," said Jacko. As a songwriter he lambasted him for "always letting outside influences change what style and beauty he's created. "It always ends up not being his creation and changed in some type of way." ON JACKIE: The eldest brother was simply dismissed as stubborn and argumentative. "He approaches everything with so much negativity and doubting," stormed Jacko. ON RANDY: His youngest brother - who joined the group when they became The Jacksons - made the mistake of never taking Jacko's advice. "He doesn't listen and is real hard-headed," he said of Randy, now 47. "You say it's dark - he'll say it's daylight. And he has to be macho. I'll never forget the day we had a meeting with our producer who said you've got to stand up on your own. "Randy stood up and said: "I'm a man' - we are all started laughing." ... ON HIS MUM: Publicly Jackson has always insisted that Katherine, 78, was "the closest person in his life, a great mother and provider." But on the secret tapes he said: "She disappointed me. She did an interview (about him). I don't like her to talk. It's none of those people's business." ... ON JANET: ..."Janet is a tomboy. That is why it kills me to see her off and married. We did everything together and were just alike. We write a whole schedule for the day and follow it. It's a terrible loss." ... ON DAD JOE: "I would suffer if I had to spend a whole day with him... |
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According to disgraced, former Fox News gossip columnist, Roger Friedman, who now works for the Hollywood Reporter, Jermaine Jackson, was set to publish an explosive book on his brother, Michael Jackson, before the pop star passed away.
Jermaine Jackson
In the manuscript, he allegedly accused his dad Joe of molesting two of his sisters, Rebbie and Latoya. The manuscript also contained items regarding Michael drinking, taking drugs and attracting gay men.
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Jermaine Jackson Told All in Shocking 2003 Book Proposal
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - Books, Music / By Roger Friedman
Whatever happened to Jermaine Jackson’s book proposal? Three years ago I wrote in my old column about a stunning document that Jermaine had put together with Stacy Brown, a family friend and co-author of an amazing memoir with Michael Jackson’s late, longtime PR man, Bob Jones.
Jermaine often protested that such a proposal existed, but he talked about it with Larry King on TV. New York literary agent Laurie Liss sent the proposal around to three publishers, but no one bit. Maybe they’ll be more interested now that Michael is gone.
I was so interested in Jermaine’s 2003 proposal that I called around to find the actual document. Sure enough, there still were copies to be found.
Here are excerpts from it, in Jermaine’s own voice, circa early 2003:
“My brother is a superstar, yes. My brother is wealthy. He owns shares in Sony music. He drinks, he does drugs, he lies, he cheats, he changed his skin color and mostly, he’s human. He attracts gay men and wards off women like the plague.”
“He married a woman because she was pregnant and he was doing business with Muslims (which I am a Muslim) and Muslims won’t do business with someone who is engaged in having children without being married.
“He paid this woman, who nobody would ever look twice at, several million dollars. My brother purchased children. It is like a sanctioned black market. He is very powerful; he picked the sperm donor by using information provided by a sperm bank. Now, who can do that? Michael Jackson, that’s who, my brother.
“I have maintained my residence by my mother’s side at the family’s Hayvenhurst estate in Encino, California because I know how much I am needed there. Michael counts on me to be there as does the rest of my family.”
[Columnist note: this would verify the long-held belief that Katherine and Joseph Jackson, who have filed for divorce in the past, do not live together. Joseph’s fathering of an illegitimate child, reported and documented in several places, could have contributed to this.]...
“Joseph did some disgusting things to LaToya and Rebbie, especially. If it weren’t for Mother’s loyalty to him, he’d probably be in prison for what he did to our sisters.” ...
Michael Jackson's mom, Katherine, granted Geraldo Rivera's request for a telephone interview, regarding the death of her famous son.
Katherine was very close to Michael and is devastated by his passing, which she stated is not from natural causes. She also cleared up rumors that her husband Joe Jackson is estranged and banned from the family's Encino home.
Katherine Jackson Breaks Silence: I Don’t Think Michael Died of Natural
Posted on Aug 03, 2009 @ 01:23PM - ...When asked about Murray's alleged role in her son’s June 25 death, the 79-year-old matriarch said: "All I know that my son is dead and I don’t think that he just died of natural causes or whatever. He’s too young for that, but something happened. I don’t know what it was and I can’t say.”...
She also cleared up misconceptions surrounding her relationship with husband Joe and his place in the family- including the rumor that he was barred from visiting the grandchildren.
"I don't know why they're saying he's not being allowed in the house," she said. "My husband's never done nothing of the sort that they trying to say he did 39 years ago. I don't understand that, and I just believe it's something that they cooked up."...
