Trial of Michael Jackson: Difference between revisions

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Phillip LeMarque, Jackson's cook, said that he entered Jackson's room and saw Jackson with his hand in Culkin's underpants.<ref name=":9" /> LeMarque and his wife, also a Jackson employee, had considered selling the story to a tabloid,<ref name=":26">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/michael-jackson-cook-takes-stand-255055/|title=Michael Jackson Cook Takes Stand|last=Mar|first=Alex|date=2005-04-11|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621030427/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/michael-jackson-cook-takes-stand-255055/|archive-date=June 21, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> but had backed out as the intermediary was "sleazy".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-04-09-0504090282-story.html|title=Developments in the molestation case against Michael Jackson|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=2005-04-09|access-date=2019-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621030429/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-04-09-0504090282-story.html|archive-date=June 21, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> LeMarque said he had decided not to sell because it was "against our principles".<ref name=":26" />
 
Jesús Salas, a former house manager at the Neverland Ranch, testified that he often saw Jackson drunk or affected by prescription drugs, and once saw three teenage boys emerging drunk from the wine cellar after having spent time with Jackson. When the prosecution attempted to confirm Jackson had served wine to minors, Salas said that although he brought a bottle of wine to Jackson's bedroom, sodas were also ordered for the children.<ref>People of the State of California v. Michael Joseph Jackson, court transcripts, April 4th, 2005, pp. 4676, 4682, 4686–4687, 4761-4765 & 4773.</ref> The judge ruled out testimony from a former security guard who alleged that he saw Jackson in his bedroom with a boy.<ref name=":16">{{Cite worknews|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4471187.stm|title=Expert barred from Jackson trial|date=2005-04-22|access-date=2019-01-31|work=BBC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903193744/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/pizzaamericas/4471187.stm|archive-date=September 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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