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MJ Mystery Witness Revealed
There’s going to be a tug of war between the defense and the prosecution over a key mystery witness in the Michael Jackson case.
I told you the name of Jay Jackson just the other day. No relation to the Jackson family, Jay — a Caucasian — is thought to be the boyfriend of the mother of Jackson’s 13-year-old accuser.
This Jackson will prove to be integral to the case as he was witness to the goings-on between the Jackson camp and the mother and her children.
Jackson met the mother and her kids through a youth program in Los Angeles run by the U.S. Navy called Sea Cadets.
In fact, Jackson is actually an employee of the United States Army. He works in the personnel office of the National Guard in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
When I called him this week, Jackson immediately hung up the phone. What followed was a call from a representative of the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s office. The message delivered: Jay Jackson would be a witness for the prosecution and therefore under the gag order issued by Judge Ronald Melville.
“He can’t talk to the press,” the official said.
Interestingly, Jackson decamped from his mid-Wilshire apartment immediately after the Neverland raid on Nov. 17. His apartment was rented to new tenants one month later according to records I saw. He left no forwarding address but remains in the area.
His apartment figures into the story because the mother is said by sources to have used the address so her kids could attend the nearby middle school. I am told that when the school discovered the deception, they bounced the kids.
According to my sources, after meeting Jackson through the Sea Cadets program, the mother began cleaning his apartment in exchange for use of the address. Gradually the relationship became more serious until the mother, as she did with Michael Jackson, urged her children to call Jay Jackson “Daddy.” Jay Jackson may also be called to testify about what the mother’s ex-husband refers to in his own court affidavit as the mother’s “erratic behavior.” I told you this week that the boy’s mother spent time in a Los Angeles mental hospital in 1998.
Jay Jackson will also conceivably be called by the prosecution to corroborate the mother’s testimony about Michael Jackson. But in the end, my sources say, Jay Jackson’s comments about Michael Jackson will only be hearsay, fed to him by the mother. In fact, Jay Jackson may wind up being a better witness for the defense when he is questioned about his relationship with the mother and her attitudes about Michael Jackson.
Jay Jackson will also be questioned on the stand about the “handling” of the mother and children by Michael Jackson’s employees, starting with then-manager Dieter Wiesner, videographer Marc Schaffel, and Schaffel’s employees Frank Tyson and Vincent Amen. The latter two, I am told, at Schaffel’s direction (which was based on instructions from Wiesner), entertained the family from late February to early March with the intention of weaning them from Jackson’s generosity and helping them get settled in a new apartment. In the end, sources say, the mother chose to live with Jay Jackson in Los Angeles when Tyson and Amen refused to help her relocate to a home near Neverland in Solvang, California.
MJ Mystery Witness Revealed
There’s going to be a tug of war between the defense and the prosecution over a key mystery witness in the Michael Jackson case.
I told you the name of Jay Jackson just the other day. No relation to the Jackson family, Jay — a Caucasian — is thought to be the boyfriend of the mother of Jackson’s 13-year-old accuser.
This Jackson will prove to be integral to the case as he was witness to the goings-on between the Jackson camp and the mother and her children.
Jackson met the mother and her kids through a youth program in Los Angeles run by the U.S. Navy called Sea Cadets.
In fact, Jackson is actually an employee of the United States Army. He works in the personnel office of the National Guard in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
When I called him this week, Jackson immediately hung up the phone. What followed was a call from a representative of the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s office. The message delivered: Jay Jackson would be a witness for the prosecution and therefore under the gag order issued by Judge Ronald Melville.
“He can’t talk to the press,” the official said.
Interestingly, Jackson decamped from his mid-Wilshire apartment immediately after the Neverland raid on Nov. 17. His apartment was rented to new tenants one month later according to records I saw. He left no forwarding address but remains in the area.
His apartment figures into the story because the mother is said by sources to have used the address so her kids could attend the nearby middle school. I am told that when the school discovered the deception, they bounced the kids.
According to my sources, after meeting Jackson through the Sea Cadets program, the mother began cleaning his apartment in exchange for use of the address. Gradually the relationship became more serious until the mother, as she did with Michael Jackson, urged her children to call Jay Jackson “Daddy.” Jay Jackson may also be called to testify about what the mother’s ex-husband refers to in his own court affidavit as the mother’s “erratic behavior.” I told you this week that the boy’s mother spent time in a Los Angeles mental hospital in 1998.
Jay Jackson will also conceivably be called by the prosecution to corroborate the mother’s testimony about Michael Jackson. But in the end, my sources say, Jay Jackson’s comments about Michael Jackson will only be hearsay, fed to him by the mother. In fact, Jay Jackson may wind up being a better witness for the defense when he is questioned about his relationship with the mother and her attitudes about Michael Jackson.
Jay Jackson will also be questioned on the stand about the “handling” of the mother and children by Michael Jackson’s employees, starting with then-manager Dieter Wiesner, videographer Marc Schaffel, and Schaffel’s employees Frank Tyson and Vincent Amen. The latter two, I am told, at Schaffel’s direction (which was based on instructions from Wiesner), entertained the family from late February to early March with the intention of weaning them from Jackson’s generosity and helping them get settled in a new apartment. In the end, sources say, the mother chose to live with Jay Jackson in Los Angeles when Tyson and Amen refused to help her relocate to a home near Neverland in Solvang, California.
