Monday, November 19, 2007
By Roger Friedman
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Nov. 8, 2007: Michael Jackson on the red carpet during the RainbowPUSH Coalition Los Angeles 10th annual awards dinner in Los Angeles.
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Jacko Lived With New Jersey Family for Three Months
Michael Jackson, homeless and drifting — and still in default on a $23 million loan against his Neverland Ranch — spent the last three months living in Franklin Lakes, N.J., in a family’s private home, trying to be normal.
Sources — not anyone from the actual family — have confirmed for me that Jackson showed up on the doorstep of Dominick and Connie Cascio in mid-August and stayed until the day he left for Los Angeles and Jesse Jackson’s birthday party around Nov. 7.
Jackson had been spotted on Halloween day at a costume shop in Wyckoff, N.J. That was the tip-off that a new weird chapter in Jackson’s soap opera was being written. But the visit got little buzz and the news mostly faded before it left the confines of the Garden State.
Jackson has had a long association with the Cascios. He met Dominick in the mid-'80s when the latter worked for the Helmsley Palace Hotel. Jackson immediately became fast friends with the Cascios, staying in their home and adopting them as his surrogate family.
Frank Cascio, now known as Frank Tyson, the eldest of five children, worked for Jackson starting when he was 18. Tyson was one of five unnamed co-conspirators in the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s failed prosecution of Jackson in 2005. In fact, it was Tyson’s meticulous record-keeping that probably saved Jackson from the state’s conspiracy charges.
Since the end of the trial in June 2005, Jackson and the Cascios have had little contact, sources say. In December 2005, Jackson had Prince Abdullah of Bahrain fly over members of the family to help him celebrate Christmas. The Prince is now suing Jackson in London’s High Court for $7 million plus damages.
According to insiders, Jackson — after being booted from his Las Vegas digs last spring — first relocated to the Northern Virginia area at the behest of his Washington, D.C.-based publicist/manager Raymone Bain. But by mid-August he’d had enough, and escaped Bain’s control. He arrived in Franklin Lakes with his three kids, a tutor and security.
“He just showed up, a driver brought them, and left,” reports an observer, who says Jackson and kids may have also had pets with them.
For the three months, the Cascios simply absorbed the Jackson contingent into their home and daily life. Four of the Cascio children still live in the Franklin Lakes home. Occasionally, Jackson was seen eating at the family’s Italian restaurant in neighboring Wyckoff, N.J. The stay, according to sources, did not include nanny Grace Rwaramba, who remains in her luxury condo in Las Vegas.
Calls to Tyson and to the Cascios were not returned.
So where is Jackson now? “He left for the Jesse Jackson party but he didn’t want to go,” says a source. Speculation is that he is now residing in his parents’ home in Encino, Calif., called “Hayvenhurst” for its address.
And why not? Jackson has a $4 million mortgage on the place. Meanwhile, he remains in default on a $23 million loan secured by his Neverland Ranch. He has until Jan. 19, 2008, to refinance or see the famous venue sold at auction.
There is a silver lining to all this: according to my sources, despite suffering from bouts of depression, Jackson remained drug-free at the Cascios, and appeared to be clear-eyed and focused. His children, say observers, also seemed to be in good shape and received tutoring from a teacher who was lodged at a nearby motel.
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