Jacko, His Rise and Fall: The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson (79 page)

Michael began to woo Jordie, Lily, and June with expensive presents. One
night at the local branch of Toys "R" Us , which had opened after hours just
for them, Michael spent $12,000 on gifts for Jordie and Lily.

During Michael's initial courting of Jordie, it's estimated that he spent $250,000 on gifts for the family, showering June with such elegant presents as
$25,000 in jewelry and Jordie with $20,000 worth of computer equipment.

Michael was obviously buying their friendship and, in the case of Jordie,
perhaps his love. One night in FAO Schwarz, the famous toy store of New
York, Michael spent more than $75,000 on toys for his friend, although earlier, he'd refused to buy a million-dollar solid gold Monopoly set.

In the civil lawsuit Jordie later filed against Michael, he claimed that it
was because of these expensive and lavish gifts that the pop star was "able to
seduce the plaintiff and thereby defendant Michael Jackson was able to satisfy his lust, passions, and sexual desires."

June's first concern about Michael was raised in February of 1993 when
Jordie and she took a two-hour limo drive to Santa Barbara. A young boy sat
in the front seat with Michael. June later reported that Michael hugged and
caressed the boy, kissing him often on the ear and cheek-soft, lingering kisses.

She reported that this blatant display ensued during the following day on
a three-and-a-half hour drive to Disneyland.

On a spectacular outing on April 9, 1993, Michael flew the Chandlers to
Las Vegas, checking them into a lavish $3,500-a-night suite at the swanky
Mirage Hotel. After Lily and June had retired for the night, Michael invited
Jordie to join him in bed to watch The Exorcist. Jordie was horribly frightened
by the movie, particularly when the demon-possessed nine-year-old Linda
Blair violated herself with a crucifix. Michael cuddled the boy to comfort him
and asked him to sleep over with him that night.

Sharing the same three-bedroom suite occupied by Michael and Jordie,
June discovered the sleepover arrangement the following morning when she
found that Jordie's bed had not been slept in. She went searching and found
Michael in red silk pajamas and Jordie in sweatpants sleeping in each other's
arms in the pop star's bedroom.
Immediately she protested such an
arrangement.

Nikki and Jordan Chandler

According to Jordie's testimony,
Michael, in tears, seemed shocked and
extremely hurt by her suspicions. He
claimed, "We are a loving family.
There's nothing wrong with my sleeping with Jordie. You should allow it
because it's simple and fun-and you
shouldn't set up barricades. You don't
trust me? Why can't he sleep in my
bed? There's nothing wrong. There's nothing going on."

Author Victor Gutierrez

That night June received an $18,000 diamond-and-ruby bracelet personally delivered by a
representative of Cartier's.

Michael's seduction of Jordie began gradually with slight protests. He didn't want Jordie to
close the bathroom door when showering. "It's
okay for us to be naked with each other," Michael
assured the boy. These maneuvers graduated to
hugs and long, lingering kisses on the cheek.

Beginning with the incident that occurred
with the screening of The Exorcist, Michael and Jordie would sleep together
in beds from Monte Carlo to Orlando until their intimate relationship came
crashing down in flames in July of 1993.

Soon, according to testimony later delivered by Jordie, it was mouth-tomouth kissing with tongue insertions. At first Jordie's protests brought tears to
Michael. "Just because most people believe something is wrong with it doesn't make it so," Michael told the boy. In the nights to follow, again according
to Jordie's testimony, both the man and boy took turns lying on top of each
other with erections.

Jordie would later reveal some of Michael's private vocabulary-erection
was "lights," cum was "duck butter."

In April of 1993 Michael stayed for one month at June's modest home in
Santa Monica, sleeping in a bed with her
son. Journalists who got news of
Michael's relationships with June and
Jordie at first misinterpreted it, speculating that Michael was trying to create a
ready-made family by marrying June and
adopting Jordie as his son. The National
Enquirer even managed to run a picture
of Michael with June, Lily, and Jordie
under the banner: JACKO'S NEW FAMILY.

The infamous expose

When Evan Chandler dropped by to
call on his ex-wife and visit with his son,
he was surprised to find Michael in residence. During his visit, Evan snapped a
now infamous picture of Michael sitting
in Jordie's bedroom. In striped silk pajamas, Michael with stringy black hair is wearing a black hat. He'd coated his lips with a very bright ruby-red lipstick,
and is in full pancake makeup with a Band-Aid on his nose. He'd applied a
thick black eyeliner. The picture was later used as the cover photo on a notorious book, Michael Jackson Was My Lover: The Secret Diary of Jordie
Chandler, written by Victor M. Gutierrez, an investigative journalist. Instead
of white socks that day, Michael wore one sunflower yellow, the other as
bright as a Christmas orange.

A bright, well-educated, and concerned parent, Evan was initially suspicious of Michael and the obsessive attention he was showing Jordie. In spite
of that, Michael overcame Evan's doubts and for a very brief time the two men
bonded. But the relationship almost ended before it had begun. The first time
Evan was alone with Michael, the dentist bluntly asked the pop star: "Are you
fucking my son up the ass?"

Raymond Chandler, Evan's brother, claimed that "Michael giggled like a
schoolgirl, but never batted a false eyelash. `I never use that word,' he
responded."

Michael bragged to Jordie about all the powerful people he knew and
promised to introduce the boy to many of them, including Elizabeth Taylor.
When he learned that Ronald Reagan was operating out of an office near his
Century City condo, he called Reagan's office and solicited an invitation to
come by. Ostensibly Michael wanted to welcome the former president to
California and to thank him for the hospitality that Nancy and the President
had shown to him during his visit to the White House in the 80s.

Surprisingly, Michael's request for a meeting was granted, although
Reagan's aide warned Michael to "make the visit short."

Michael arrived at Reagan's office accompanied by Jordie, who sat close
to him in the back of a limousine. After a security search by Reagan's Secret
Service staff, Michael and Jordie were ushered into the office of the former
leader of the Free World.

Jordie had expected to meet an old man and therefore
wasn't surprised by Reagan's appearance. But Michael
later claimed that, "I was devastated." This was not the
leader of charm and grace that Michael had encountered on the White House lawn. Reagan seemed to have
aged twenty years, not ten, and Michael was not at all
certain that the former president knew who he was.

President Reagan

Reagan knew enough to realize that Michael was a
singer, and he seemed to assume that Jordie was the
star's son. "I have a son of my own," he informed
Michael as if it was a revelation and not a fact known
around the world. "He dances in the ballet, or at least I think he does. Maybe not."

The president spoke nostalgically of how
Nancy and he would drive along the California
coast listening to Michael's music. He claimed that
he particularly liked "Surfin' U.S.A." and "Sweet
Little Sixteen." Suddenly, Michael realized that
Reagan was not talking about him, but The Beach
Boys.

Raymond Chandler

To avoid embarrassment, Michael tried to
change the subject. He noted a photograph of the
White House placed on a shelf near Reagan.
Michael picked it up and began to comment on his
visit there, perhaps in the belief that it would
refresh the president's memory.

Reagan asked to see the picture, staring at it for a long moment. "This
house looks familiar," he said. "But I don't think Nancy and I would like to
live there. It's too big, too impersonal."

Reagan's mind seemed to wander. To Michael's utter astonishment, he
was left with the impression, as he'd later report to friends, that he felt that
Reagan did not recognize the White House or even know that he had for eight
years been the President of the United States.

After thanking Reagan, Michael retreated, holding the boy's hand as he
made his way out of the building. When Michael later learned that Reagan
suffered from Alzheimer's disease, he was not surprised.

The most spectacular trip that Michael ever took with Jordie and June, and
one that attracted world attention, occurred in Monaco when Michael accepted an invitation to attend the World Music Awards, where he was to be honored as the "World's Best-selling Record Artist of the Era."

Michael's publicist, Bob Jones, related that on the plane from Los Angeles
to Paris, "Michael and the young boy were hugging and very close. They held
hands and Michael lovingly gazed into the boy's eyes much like a man would
gaze into the eyes of a woman he's in love with. He'd kiss him on the cheek,
rub his arms, pet him and inexplicably lick the boy's head."