Jacko, His Rise and Fall: The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson by Darwin Porter

Author:Darwin Porter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-08-26T05:48:00+00:00

Princess Di, 1985

During his brief marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, Michael taunted her, claiming he had this ongoing affair with Princess Di. It was reported that Lisa Marie was jealous, although for what reason is not known. Certainly she had no sexual interest in her husband. It must have been for some other reason, perhaps resenting that Michael had such a world-famous friend.

When Bob Jones heard that Michael was creating some imaginary affair with Princess Di, he said, "Give me a break! The King (i.e., Michael) didn't have a relationship with Princess Diana. He admired her, and a number of calls were put into Diana's people on behalf of Michael. He badly wanted to be friends with her, but apparently she wasn't the least bit interested."

Bob claimed that he personally made calls to Kensington Palace. Instead of getting Diana on the phone, "a polite gentleman" answered. "I told him that Michael had matters he wished to discuss with the Princess," Bob said. "I was told to write down the subject matter in detail, send it along, and they'd get back to me. To my knowledge, none of those calls was ever returned."

Finally, through this "polite gentleman," Michael was told in rather harsh terms that no more presents for William would be accepted but would be returned unwrapped to Neverland. Michael was also told that because of prior commitments, William would not be available to be Michael's guest at Neverland-"not at the present time, not in the near or even distant future." At the bottom of the carefully written note, the Princess had scrawled in her own handwriting:

"Michael,

Please stop sending gifts! They aren't wanted. And please stop calling. Your calls will not be returned. Best wishes in your future career."

It was reported that Michael, after receiving this note, stayed in his bedroom at Neverland, crying for three days and refusing to eat except for a cup of vegetable broth a day.

Princess Di wasn't the only dilemma facing Bob Jones as Michael's publicist. Within a few months after signing on, Bob came to believe that his new employer was a racist.

In his book, The Man Behind the Mask, Bob writes: "Michael Jacksonbeneath the bleached skin that has made him a grotesque caricature of a female alien-was black too. He was also the weirdest and most inexplicable of racists. His favorite word to describe blacks, his original race, was Splaboo. Yep, Splaboo. It was a word he used a lot, a word he used around people such as Macaulay Culkin."

Bob also noted in his memoirs that Papa Joe always "favored lightskinned black folks" and that "Tito, Jackie, Janet, and many of the younger generations have selected white or non-blacks as their mates."

Michael was never known as a public champion of black people, as was his close friend, Marlon Brando, or many other stars such as Harry Belafonte. As Bob and the rest of the world were observing in the late 1980s, Michael's skin color became a source of endless tabloid speculation. He was in denial of his own pigmentation, which was changing before the eyes of his fans.

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