When Bashir asks him about the Jordy Chandler case, JacksonĬlaims he cannot talk about it for legal reasons. He says his fans 'were chanting they wanted to see the baby and I was kind enough to show them'. 'That's the dumbest stupidest story I ever heard.' 'Why would I throw a baby off the balcony?' he asks. 'I had my own sperm cells in my other two children - they are all my children.'īashir speaks to Jackson minutes after the infamous moment when he dangled the baby over a balcony in Berlin, and the star cannot see what he has done wrong. 'We all would just jam in the bed, you know, we would wake up like dawn and go in the hot-air balloon.'Īsked how his third child, Prince Michael II, was conceived he says: 'I used a surrogate mother and my own sperm cells. 'When Macaulay Culkin was little, Kieran Culkin would sleep on this side, Macaulay Culkin was on this side his sisters in there. He denies sleeping in the same bed as Gavin but adds: 'I have slept in a bed with many children. They say, "Can I stay with you tonight?", so I go, "If it's OK with your parents then yes you can".'Īsked if he can understand others' concerns, Jackson, looking increasingly nervous, says: 'Why should that be worrying? What's the criminal? Who's Jack the Ripper in the room?' 'Whenever kids come here they never want to stay in the guest rooms. Every song I write, every dance I do, all the poetry I write, is all inspired from the level of innocence. I've said it many times, my greatest inspiration comes from kids. Was it a sleeping bag?'Īsked what he gets out of a relationship with a young boy, he explains: 'I love, I feel, I think what they get from me I get from them. Gavin adds: 'I was like, "Oh man!" So I finally slept on theĪn apparently-unconcerned Jackson interjects: 'I slept on the floor. They had an argument about who should sleep where and Jackson said, 'Look, if you love me you'll sleep in the bed'. Gavin says he regularly stays at Neverland and adds: 'There was one night, I asked him if I could stay in his bedroom.' Since then the disease has gone into remission but Gavin and Jackson have maintained their friendship, apparently with the blessing of the boy's mother. The pair apparently met two years ago when the boy was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He adds that his third child was produced with a surrogate mother he had never met, says that his other two children were a 'present' from his ex-wife Deborah Rowe, and also describes sharing a bed with a 12-yearold cancer victim named Gavin.ĭuring the programme Bashir is seen chatting with Gavin at Neverland, Jackson's ranch. Yet during the programme the singer openly admits sleeping with Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin and his brother Kieran, at the time aged 12 and Jackson's career was blighted when he was accused of child abuse a decade ago by dentist's son Jordy Chandler, 13, and paid a reported £18.5million in an outof-court settlement. The extraordinary revelations come in Living With Michael Jackson, a documentary by Martin Bashir, for which the reclusive superstar allowed his movements to be filmed for eight months. It's very charming, it's very sweet, it's what the whole world should do.'
He says he sees nothing wrong with a 44-year-old man having such relationships.Īnd insisting there is 'nothing sexual' going on, he declares: 'I give them hot milk, you know, we have cookies. and countries in continental Europe including France, Portugal and Germany.Michael Jackson has proudly admitted sharing his bed with children. While many of the images' origins are unknown, they are believed to be from the U.S. While there were pockets of acceptance - the raucous, sexually liberal nightclubs of early 1930s Berlin became the inspiration for the hit musical Cabaret - many were wiped out by the rise of fascism in Europe or social conservatism elsewhere.Īll of the photos collected by Mr Lifshitz predate what he called the Stonewall Era, when the Stonewall riots in 1969 New York triggered a global movement towards acceptance, and the end of an era of 'shame and seclusion'. Homosexuality remained illegal in Britain until 1967, and was only declassified as a mental illness in the U.S.
Gay couples had plenty of reasons to be discreet in the early 1900s. They, therefore, had to run the risk of exposing themselves socially.' 'Because to obtain these images, they had to have gone to a small neighborhood photo lab to develop the film and then go back to pick up the prints. Homosexuality remained illegal in Britain until 1967, and was only declassified as an illness in the U.S. Span: The photos span from around 1900 to around 1960.