Roger Friedman writes about a plot to smear Michael Jackson

Last week, the tabloid Mirror wrote that Michael Jackson—during his lifetime—had sued them for lying. The paper claimed it has files from the FBI showing that Michael paid a sum of money as hush money to the parents of several children who were victims of sexual abuse. The story appeared in the newspaper’s Sunday special edition, “Sunday People” (Sunday People). It is completely false and meaningless.

First, the FBI files were released six months after Michael’s death. There were a lot of them, and they showed that the organization had been monitoring the King of Pop for more than a decade, using the first accusation against Michael as the starting point. These files only proved Michael’s innocence. Two years later, the Child and Family Support organization also announced that Michael Jackson was innocent.

During the A.J. trial, this is the second time accusations have been raised against Michael, and in both cases the rumor began with the media.

Roger Friedman, who has always defended Michael’s innocence in his column, has now rejected the claims of these unethical English newspapers and wrote that the story originates in the mind of a reporter who is no longer alive and was known during his lifetime for having no conscience or ethics. The reporter’s name is Jim Mettiger. He worked for the National Enquirer, which is also notorious for spreading lies. Friedman writes that he has met many celebrities who told him that Mettiger paid people to fabricate stories against them. The fake “FBI files” attributed to the FBI are, in reality, files created by Jim Mettiger.

Friedman wrote that he had seen Mettiger’s files against Michael in 2005. They were not usable in court because they were fake. But whether these files are fake is not important to Sunday People and Mirror—they print them and they get paid.

It is unlikely that the FBI will pay attention to what these newspapers publish and, by issuing a statement, announce that the files are fake.

In the 2005 case, some former employees of Michael testified against him in court and said they had seen Michael molest children. These people were also under legal pursuit, and the jury did not care about their false testimony. After the claim by Wade Robson, the name of one of Michael’s housemaids again spread through the media and her lies were brought up. But the fact that this woman sold her sensational story about Michael to newspapers is a proven truth.

Friedman writes that over the years he has spoken with many people who had contact with Michael, and all of them rejected the accusations. He said he himself tried to find the person who had been sexually abused by Michael, but there was no trace of a victim because, in his belief, “he never existed at all.”

The story of Bobby New and the National Enquirer’s plot to smear Michael Jackson

Friedman wrote that the people whom newspapers like Mirror claim were sexually abused in childhood have denied the allegations. Some of them are men in their mid-thirties named Bobby and Robert New, who—along with their other brother Ronald, who has since died—lived for two weeks in the Jackson family home in Hayvenhurst in the mid-1980s. The reason they were in the Jacksons’ home was that, at age eleven, they were excellent performers. Their father had arranged a three-boy music group called The Newtrons. At his insistence, Joe Jackson, Michael’s father, became the manager of the group. He arranged a performance in West Hollywood for the group. Michael saw their act and became interested. The result was that the boys stayed in Hayvenhurst for two weeks in 1985 to work on their music. The group finally signed a contract with a company, and as their first job, they recorded the successful Jackson 5 song, I Want You Back, in the Hayvenhurst studio. Bobby says that during those two weeks, Michael watched television with the kids at night, but he never once tried to do any improper acts they were accused of.

Over the years, Michael had supported talented and ambitious children and teenagers, taught them, and even signed contracts with some of them so their music careers could flourish.

In 2005, on Fox News, Friedman reported on the National Enquirer’s plot to smear Michael. When the first sexual accusation against Michael was raised in 1993, the National Enquirer heard that the New family’s sons had been spending time with Michael years earlier. The publication contacted Robert New’s father and told him that if he said in an interview that Michael had abused his son, they would pay him $200,000. Mr. New agreed. A day was set for signing a contract at the Marriott Hotel in San Francisco in the presence of Jim Mettiger. The National Enquirer editor, David Perel, signed the contract, and when it was time for Robert New’s father, Mr. Ron New Sr., he wrote on the document: “I’m not stupid.” Why didn’t he sign the contract? His conscience wouldn’t allow him to accuse an innocent man.

In 2005, Bobby New told Friedman that in 1993 Mettiger had asked him to lie. When he was eighteen at the time, he was told, “Say (Michael) touched your butt,” “Say he touched you like this and like that.” But Bobby only remembered happy memories of Michael and life with him. Mettiger had told Bobby New: “I’ve taken down all these people. Now I want to take down Michael.” Mettiger considered his work to be: “Taking down famous and successful people.” He had fabricated cases for several celebrities and said, “That’s what we do.”

Friedman says New has evidence to prove this claim: the contract that the Enquirer editor signed, and his father’s profanity written on it.

Bobby told Friedman: “Mettiger knew these claims were lies. He wanted me to lie. He said, just say it and get your money. And I was just saying that Michael never touched me.” Most people who are offered money make these kinds of claims against Michael.

Mettiger tried to coach Bobby. He told him to be ready because after he made his claim, Oprah would interview him—or maybe he would go to court to testify. Many people wouldn’t like it, but he would become famous. Meanwhile, based on what Bobby said, Mettiger knew that Michael hadn’t even tried to touch the kids.

There is a second piece of evidence to prove Bobby’s claim. The conversation had been recorded by Mettiger. At the end, Bobby and his father rejected Mettiger and the National Enquirer’s requests.

Mettiger instructed that after his death, these documents be handed to Paul Barcy, a self-styled investigator, with the idea that Barcy would do the “right thing” with them. Barcy was an assistant to Anthony Pellicano, who had worked for a time as Michael’s lawyer. Barcy thought the documents were important, but he didn’t realize their historical significance. He was faced with a mountain of documents showing how Hollywood and gossip outlets operate around stars and their character assassination. In the end, these documents reached the prosecutor handling Michael’s case.

In 1993, Michael Jackson’s cook and maid, Philip and Stella Lammarck, asked Paul Barcy to publish the fake story they had written about Michael sexually abusing children. Barcy didn’t believe their story. But these same people were treated by the prosecutor in Michael’s case, Thomas Sneddon, as witnesses, and Sneddon brought their names—along with those of several other Michael employees who had sold their stories to newspapers—into his witness list (the 2005 court).

It’s hard to imagine that Mettiger’s files didn’t reach Sneddon, who was searching newspapers for evidence against Michael. Barcy had informed Sneddon about the fake story of Philip and Stella Lammarck. That year, Barcy had told Friedman that the couple was after money, not defending the alleged victims’ rights. In that case, it must be said that Sneddon accused Michael in court of a crime that he himself knew was fake!

Now Wade Robson says that at age thirty, he came to the conclusion that the King of Pop had been sexually abusing him as a child. In 1993, Tom Sneddon claimed that Robson was one of Michael’s victims. Robson defended Michael that year and also in 2005. As an adult in court, he rejected all of Sneddon’s claims.

In addition, in 2005, Bobby New also rejected the possibility that Wade Robson was also a victim of Michael. Referring to the people who accused Michael—such as the Arvizos’ family, who took Michael to court in 2005—he shook his head and told Friedman:

“You have to look at these people. Go see when their relationship with Michael turned bad. From the time Michael stopped seeing them and stopped calling them. They probably didn’t like it, and so they retaliated like this.”

Bobby has his own experience. Michael helped them record their first song, and after that, he never saw those three boys again. That didn’t upset them too much, but not everyone was like that.

Michael’s defense attorney, Thomas Mesereau, warned in the 2005 court that Sneddon’s case against Michael would be buried under a mountain of witnesses and documents defending Michael’s innocence. Mesereau didn’t bring many of these documents and witnesses to court because the jury had already decided before it even needed to hear them. Michael Jackson’s accusations case in the 2005 court ended with his acquittal, but the case is still open in the media and will likely remain open for years. In the meantime, fans must stay vigilant to defend Michael’s legacy and be diligent in spreading the truth.

Source: eMJey.com / Showbiz411