Superstar molested me at 14’
A TEENAGE Michael Jackson fan who befriended the star claims he was also abused.
Michael Jacobshagen said he was 14 when the singer stripped naked while they shared a whirlpool bath, and touched him inappropriately after begging him to join him in bed.
Michael, now 35, also said Jackson gave him a book “full of photos of naked young boys” as a gift and wrote a note inside calling the youngster his “rubba rubba friend” – a supposed reference to Jackson rubbing himself against him in bed.
Silence
He said Jackson bought for his silence by buying gifts, including a Cartier watch.
Michael has finally decided to speak out after becoming a dad and coming to terms with what happened to him.
Michael was introduced to the singer while visiting Disneyland Paris in 1995. He had an odd relationship with Jackson, travelling the globe on tours with the star and spending three weeks with him in a Munich hotel, in Michael’s home city.
He said: “I always had my own junior suite, but he was always asking me to sleep in his bed. I would say ‘no Michael, I can sleep in my own suite’, but he was inviting me all the time and saying ‘please, please... for Michael Jackson’. Since I had a son, it made me look at everything in a different way and I realise now how wrong it was.
“Becoming a father changed my feelings. It feels like a stone has been inside of me all of this time and I can let it go.”
Jackson’s estate declined to comment when approached by the
People.