the latest on michael jackson

[VeggieLifterGal]

Is there a link to the love letter rumor?

I saw on tv, I think it was Extra or ET, that he had a secret room with a hidden trap door that can only be entered through his closet. The room was filled with dolls. I saw video footage of it, it was fuckin creepy.

[VeggieLifterGal]

I found an article from the Herald Sun online that was pretty disturbing and mentions the love letter thing. Read on:

Jackson's 'love letters' exposed

24nov03

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

A source close to the investigation said: "The District Attorney is convinced these letters will be crucial to the case against Jackson.

"They are very explicit and intimate and show a degree of familiarity.

"Basically, they appear to be love letters."

The accuser also told police Jackson's pet name for him was "Rubba".

The source said: "The boy first told this to his therapist and then repeated it to police. 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'."

Jackson was arrested on multiple child sex charges, said to include fondling a minor, and released on $4 million bail. He was yesterday at a remote farm near Las Vegas with his entourage, including his three young children.

Jackson is said to have befriended the boy -- who admitted sharing a bed with the singer in Martin Bashir's documentary about the star -- "over a long period".

A source close to Jackson, 45, said: "For the last five or six years he's taken kids from fractured homes and nurtured them as a father figure, and 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."

In her statements to police, the boy's mother, who went through a bitter divorce from the boy's father, revealed Jackson encouraged her son to call him "Daddy".

She has claimed she, the boy, and his two siblings were held virtual prisoners at Neverland, 96km north of Santa Barbara.

When she learned of her son's accusations -- which included claims 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 said: "The DA is very confident with the evidence he has. This includes letters, videos and computer files.

Jackson's legal team is said to be encouraging him to consider a plea bargain, possibly an insanity defence.

Jackson's mother, Catherine, hinted racism may have motivated the charges. She told German magazine Bunte there were two interpretations of US law, "one for whites and one for blacks".