Sunday People

Superstar molested me at 14’

- By Patrick Hill

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.

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