In the So What’s The Big Deal About That Department:
MICHAEL Jackson’s young accuser and his family were offered a house and a college education in return for filming a rebuttal to British journalist Martin Bashir’s controversial documentary, a court heard yesterday.
(The boy’s) stepfather, Jay Jackson, told Santa Maria court, California he feared the pop star’s aides were taking advantage of the family.
He claimed one employee, Frank Tyson, had told him that…Jay Jackson’s fiancée, had to urgently sign a contract to make the video.
Jay Jackson said he asked what the family would be given in return and was offered a college education and a house for (the boy).
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.