Vampires and Werewolves

Jacques Peretti made a second documentary for British television about Michael Jackson, which was aired December 30 2010. For his first documentary about Michael, Jacques flew to America a few weeks after 25 June 2009 to interview people for “Michael Jackson’s Last Days: What Really Happened”, which was aired 12 July 2009.

The latest documentary “Michael Jackson’s Secret Hollywood” included some interesting new information, and confirmation of what some of us had already suspected.

That Michael was surrounded by advisors, doctors, lawyers and fixers that all wanted a piece of him.

People fought to get into his entourage, and often wanted to BE the star at the center of the entourage. Brian Oxman was interviewed, and said that the theft from Michael by his own staff was astronomical, and that Michael told him  ”I hire the people that steal from me the least”.

It was clear that Michael knew EXACTLY what was going on around him, and periodically had a ‘spring clean’ of his staff, replacing managers and even bodyguards.  Michael‘s managers over the years:

1984-1989 Frank DiLeo

1989-1997 Jim Morey/Sandy Galin

1996–2003 Dieter Wiesner

Wiesner was interviewed for the documentary, and said that Michael asked him to spring clean, to “To get rid of everybody” and also to come up with a plan for his future : MJ Universe (see my post for more details about this 2003 project). Wiesner says that because he was not part of the Hollywood scene, MJ Universe never took off, but we all know the real reason; the Bashir interview and the child molestation charges brought against Michael in 2003.

Brian said that the reason for the trial, was NOT about child abuse, but because the prosecution had found out about Marc Shaffel’s gay pornography background. Marc was a videographer who had made a video for Michael for his single called “What More Can I Give”. They wanted to prove a connection between Schaffel’s shady past and Michael, and tar Michael with the same brush. To top it off, it was then revealed that Wiesner himself owned a string of sex clubs across Germany. This is what they wanted to use to take Michael down. Guilt by association. Fans such as myself, know that Michael would be horrified to find out about such connections to the sex industry, as it went against everything he stood for. But Michael knew that people were manipulative and out for themselves.

Jacques also looked into the ‘clean-up’ services provided by Hollywood when things went wrong for stars like Michael. He spoke to Private Eye Paul Berezi or ‘The Enforcer’, who realised that witnesses to the alleged 1993 child molestation charges against Michael, were embellishing their story, as the price for their story went up. Berezi spoke about another job he had undertaken for Eddie Murphy, and how he had got witnesses to recant their stories, and that the only witness not to do so had mysteriously fallen to her death. At this point, I started to realise that the idea that the deaths of Peter Lopez, Bruce Ayers and Sulema and Jerriell Wilborn, could be linked to the vampires and werewolves surrounding Michael’s Jackson, really wasn’t as farfetched as I had thought.

Berezi’s story made me realise that there really was a dark underbelly to Hollywood, and that the ‘cleaning-up’ operation after 25 June 2009 was in full swing.