Jacko pal Debbie Allen: Michael should be buried at Neverland
Jul 23, 2009 Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson’s longtime friend Debbie Allen has joined the dispute over where the superstar’s final resting place and has said Jacko should be buried at Neverland.
The King of Pop died suddenly in LA, on 25 June, and his family are still split over where his final resting place should be.
Fame choreographer Allen said: “I really wish he could be there [Neverland]. Michael just loved being there. It was his fantasy come true.”
Allen revealed that she had a “great” time with her children visiting the singer at his Neverland ranch.
“We had so many great days there,” she said.
“The movie theatre, the trains, the animals, the lions, the games room, the candy, the popcorn – all these things I can never forget.”
She added: “One time, he [Jackson] took my son on all the rides. They had such a good time on the bumper cars.”
“I really wish he could be [at Neverland], but I have no idea what’s going to happen.”
Source: Splash News
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Michael Jackson ‘had string of gay lovers’
Jul 13, 2009 Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson had a string of gay lovers who he seduced by saying: “The King of Pop is going to lick your lollipop,” according to a new book entitled Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson.
Biographer Ian Halperin, who insists everyone around the superstar knew that he was gay, claims to have spoken to two of the superstar’s male lovers – a Hollywood waiter and an aspiring actor.
One man claims that Jackson would arrange seedy liaisons with him in a cheap motel – arriving there dressed as a woman.
And one of the alleged lovers told the writer: “The very first time he had sex with me, he said, ‘The King of Pop’s going to lick your lollipop.’ I still laugh thinking about that.”
Halperin said: “Virtually everybody I’ve interviewed about Jackson has told me he’s gay. Even those who are his most ardent defenders, people who maintain that he is innocent of the molestation charges, insist that he is homosexually inclined.”
One of Jackson’s alleged lovers said: “He was very shy. But when he started to have sex, he was insatiable.”
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The Queen of Soul wants people to stop talking about the King of Pop’s alleged drug use
Jul 10, 2009 Aretha Franklin, Drugs, Michael Jackson
The Queen of Soul thinks we should reserve comments about the King of Pop’s drug use until after the full coroner’s report is released.
Aretha Franklin – who lived next door to the Jackson family in Encino, California, in the late 1970s and early 1980s – says: "Those are natural questions, but in fairness to him, we should wait for the coroner’s report and stop speculating."
The 67-year-old says she befriended Michael Jackson back in 1970 when she and her two sons met the Jackson 5 backstage at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
Franklin says of the singer, who was about 12: "I thought: ‘This little boy can really sing.’
"He liked James Brown and Jackie Wilson, especially his rendition of Doggin’ Around.
"He kind of emulated that. But when you listened to his albums, you knew he was an original and had things of his own coming from his heart."
Franklin lived next door to the Jacksons from 1979 to 1982 before she returned to Detroit.
She found the talented family to be "very intelligent and well mannered". Jackson, who was in his early 20s at the time, was, "quiet but still very precocious".
Franklin treasures those days with the superstar family, including a picture of the singer and his baby sister Janet taken under a tree in her garden when they came over for a swim.
She says she and her sons had a "super time" visiting Disneyland with Jackson. "He was very playful that day," she says.
"My son told me he kept sneaking up behind me like he was going to run into me."
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