Jackson Camp Responds
Published January 31, 2004
The Jackson family - after 40 years in showbiz and with a who's who list of friends and acquaintances - has chosen ... ... Firpo Carr to speak for them regarding the scabrous allegations made against Michael in the new Vanity Fair by Jackson nemesis Maureen Orth.
- Firpo Carr, a Jackson family friend, told reporters that the Gloved One's parents and siblings are outraged by a Vanity Fair article out this week that reports Jackson provided young children with wine he referred to as "Jesus juice" or "Jesus blood."
Carr charged Vanity Fair writer Maureen Orth with including false statements and allegations in her article without attribution.
"We find it curious that this article appears when Michael's legal team cannot respond to this yellow journalism because of a gag order," Carr said.
....Vanity Fair issued a terse statement in support of its story, saying only: "Vanity Fair stands by Maureen Orth's Michael Jackson story. The article underwent rigorous fact-checking and legal vetting."
Carr did admit that Jackson had been in and out of rehab in attempts to kick his painkiller addiction. The Vanity Fair piece included an anecdote from a former Jackson employee stating that Jackson once collapsed to the floor of a plane as a result of sipping Jesus juice and popping pills.
....It's not the first time Orth has crossed the Jackson machine. In a article written for Vanity Fair last year, she alleged, among other nuggets, that Jackson bleaches his skin because he doesn't like being black; that he wears a prosthetic nose tip; and that he cursed enemies such as Steven Spielberg and David Geffen in a Swiss voodoo ritual. [E! online]
I would be so much more inclined to give Jackson the benfit of the doubt if he had just once come clean about anything and taken some measure of responsibility for his actions. This is a man who still denies having more than four plastic surgeries, who can't deal with ANY problem until forced to by legal action of one kind or another. My guess is that if he is found guilty of any of the crimes with which he is currently charged, there will be a total collapse and the puddle that remains will be carted off to the loony bin. And his fans will still "support" him, whatever the hell that means.
- Jackson Camp Responds
- Published: January 31, 2004
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I liked Bad quite a bit and the song "Black and White" but every year has produced more weirdness and less music.
I often wonder ----
...So Mr. Carr admits the part about drugs is true .....
We DO know that is bizarre, disingenuous, irresponsible, misguided, and when the family offers up an almost laughably tepid defense against these kind of explosive allegations (of which they admit the drug-addiction part is true) in the person of ... ... Firpo Carr, the writing between the lines looms perilously large...
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NR: 1.# Jackson already admitted, having a treatment for dependency of prescripted painkillers, *funny - when the 1st allegations surfaced, in 1993; ...
--- Jackson WAS and IS still suffering from the PEPSI-burn, on his scalp; ... Whenever other troubles show up, his health collapses - as anyone, whoīs in that psycho-somatical s**t will know ;-)* - and as well as I know, when something LIKE THAT showes up -- and you get DISHED & EXPOSED on page six ; ...
... Itīs hard to discern WHERE the pain comes from, and if itīs physical or emotional; ... So you sort of drown yourself, take as much MEDICINE as it takes to make the pain go away; ...
----- SO, this is not something ANYBODY exposed;
This is something the Jacko-guy freely admitted a decade ago;
And that he might be drinking, isnīt something that could shock anyone, not even the RELIGOUS-FANATIC fans among his; ... ;-)
But weīre witnessing just another chapter, of the BIGOTERISTICAL, SPINNING, SLEAZY-SLANDEROUS attempt to discredit Jackson & the Family all-together...;
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I do not know how this man Firpo Carr can even show his face after stating he "witnessed" Michael getting slammed against the wall and frisked like he had weapons of mass destruction after getting off the plane when he was arrested. The video looked pretty calm to me, no one showing ANY signs of anything like this had went on. I was a huge MJ fan until right after the Thriller album, that is when he started showing signs of weirdo-ing out and when his music started going downhill. I know he is "innocent" until proven guilty, but I find it hard to believe he is innocent. I think MJ has enough money to pay anybody off for saying anything for him, including his camp, family and victims.