Ik kon het eigenlijk niet geloven, zoals het er staat op MJ Facts. Toch even gecheckt. Ik heb niet alles kunnen vinden. Het aantal nachten dat Brett Barnes het bed deelde met Michael Jackson. Tot op de dag vandaag is Barnes loyaal aan MJ en moet hij zoals al gezegd helemaal niets hebben van Wade en James. Barnes had al eerder in een interview gezegd dat hij en MJ ieder aan een kant van het bed sliepen, al die nachten.
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Michael Jackson shared a bed with a pre-teen Brett Barnes for more than 460 nights over a 2 year period;
1 A. I don’t remember. It’s been that many that
2 I -- I simply can’t recall.
3 Q. Hundreds, maybe?
4 A. Well, I wouldn’t say hundreds. But
5 definitely more than 10, 20, 30 times, yes.
6 Q. More than a 100?
7 A. I don’t remember, but maybe.
8 Q. Okay. And of that 100 or so nights at
9 Neverland, you’ve spent only two nights in Mr.
10 Jackson’s room?
11 A. That I remember, yes.
12 Q. Okay. And of those 100 nights that you
13 spent at Neverland, how many nights was Mr. Jackson
14 there?
15 A. Probably about 80, 90 percent.
16 Q. Okay. And of that 100 nights, how many
17 nights was your brother there?
18 A. All the time.
19 Q. Okay. Every time that you were there?
20 A. Every time I was there, my brother was
21 there, yes.
22 Q. And of those hundred or so nights, 80
23 percent of the time your brother slept -- when Mr.
24 Jackson was there, your brother basically slept in
25 Mr. Jackson’s room virtually every one of those
26 nights, didn’t he?
27 A. Yes, because he wanted to.
28 Q. That’s a “yes” or “no” question. 9411
1 A. Yes.
2 Q. Can you tell me why you didn’t spend the
3 night in Mr. Jackson’s room as much as your brother?
4 A. Because I’m a girl, and I prefer to have a
5 little bit of privacy.
6 Q. Okay. I see. Is it your opinion that --
7 well, let me back up.
8 How old was your brother at that time?
9 A. What, when we first started going to his
10 house?
11 Q. Uh-huh.
12 A. He was about -- well, I was about 12, so he
13 was about ten.
14 Q. Okay. So are you saying that it’s okay for
15 a 35-year-old man who’s unrelated to sleep with a
16 ten-year-old boy, but it’s not okay for a
17 35-year-old man who’s unrelated to a girl to sleep
16 A. Yes. Well, yes.
17 Q. Thank you.
18 Now, when you went on tour with Mr. Jackson,
19 you spent how many nights on tour?
20 A. Well, as I said, it was about half the year
21 I was in Europe when I was in the seventh grade, and
22 about half of the year I was in South America in the
23 seventh -- in the eighth grade.
24 Q. How old was your brother at that time?
25 A. I was what, 13, 14. So he would have been
26 about 11 or 12.
27 Q. And virtually every night on that tour, Mr.
28 Jackson slept with your brother Brett? 9413
1 A. Yes.
2 Q. How many nights would that have been,
3 approximately?
4 A. Let’s see, let’s divide 365 days into half.
5 Q. Okay. Is that about it? About --
6 A. Well, if I said I spent half the year
7 overseas with him one year and half of the year
8 overseas with him the other year, I think that would
9 total about 365 days altogether.
10 Q. Okay. So 365 nights he spent the night
11 alone with your brother in his room?
12 A. Yes.
13 Q. Did that ever -- did that ever seem odd to