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Jacko's 'Victim' Bought $2.3 Million House
The ghosts of the past are knocking on Michael Jackson's door and rattling his windows. Over the weekend, TheSmokingGun.com posted the 1993 child molestation complaint against Jackson by the then 13-year-old plaintiff. The graphic claims of sexual abuse in the affidavit are hair-raising and difficult to take.
I can tell you that the boy, now a 23-year-old man living under an assumed name, found some consolation after the firestorm that grew out of the scandal. In 1999, when he turned 18, he used his $20 million settlement to buy a $2.35 million home on eastern Long Island near the beach. I hope that some of the money was spent on therapy of some kind as well.
The man's father, a Hollywood dentist who aspired to be part of the film community, also lives on Long Island under a different name. It was he who put a stop to his son's life at Neverland.
What's most interesting is the race to figure out who first leaked the court papers to KABC-TV in Los Angeles, and then to The Smoking Gun. You can bet the man's attorney, Larry Feldman, will want to get to the bottom of that. I am told that the culprit is closer at hand than we might think (not Feldman or his office, by the way), and that all it takes is a little connecting of the dots to come up with a name. I'm also told that all parties involved in this are red-faced about it.
