Originally posted by Tabloid Junkie
RON RICHARDS: Because, Dan, most mothers, and I believe you have great parents yourself, would not sell your victimization to a tabloid journalist!
TAIBBI: Actually, Ron, it's more than that. It's actually more than that. She not only sold her story, she sold a photograph of Michael Jackson and her son because, she said on the stand today, that she didn't think anybody would recognize him.
Yeah I posted that at MJJF:
TAIBBI: …She's a woman who's a Salvadorian woman who worked for Jackson for 4 or 5 years, somewhere in that range.
…And here's where Mesereau did make some inroads. He got her to admit, got the mother to admit that 3 times, her wages had been garnished. That she'd stolen things -- taken things without permission from Michael Jackson; watches, other trinkets and samples, she described them.
She had been in trouble with the IRS. That she owed stores around town money. That she had gone into a co-worker's purse without permission to take a look at her paycheck to see how much she was making. And that she had other problems, etc., etc., at the time this so-called snowball effect of cases and claims and accusations against Michael Jackson were all bursting in 1993.
She got lawyer-ed up at that point. She talked to Larry Feldman. Mesereau's trying to bring that in. And he did make some points with her in that regard. But she stuck to her story just as her son had stuck to his story.
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ABRAMS:…If you've got a story to tell, why not?
RON RICHARDS: Because, Dan, most mothers, and I believe you have great parents yourself, would not sell your victimization to a tabloid journalist!
TAIBBI: Actually, Ron, it's more than that. It's actually more than that. She not only sold her story, she sold a photograph of Michael Jackson and her son because, she said on the stand today, that she didn't think anybody would recognize him.