The LeMarque testimony came on the heels of Adrian McManus'. She was the ex-Neverland maid who said Thursday she saw Jackson kiss a young Culkin on the cheek while fondling the boy's "rear end."
Culkin has publicly denied being molested by Jackson. The former Home Alone star, now 24, is said to want no part of the trial. He is, however, on the defense's witness list.
The defense was eager to combat LeMarque's sensational testimony with sensational details on LeMarque's own subsequent career in Internet porn, but Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville ruled the topic off-limits.
In theory then, Jackson jurors will never know what readers of the Smoking Gun already do--that LeMarque once operated a site called Virtual Sin, featuring "hours of live sex" and "XXX videos."
And if the jurors stay off the Web, it's possible they'll also remain none the wiser about Never Never Land, the "complete story" of LeMarque and his wife's tenure with Jackson. The book, promising to reveal "the most hush-hush topic at the ranch that barely anyone has ever unveiled," is available from LeMarque's restaurant-consulting Website, BestEatz.com. For $7.95 a download, the buyer also receives Jackson's "two favorite recipes" and the identity of the singer's "favorite soda."
With his hands tied on the Web porn matter, defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. still managed to work in a mention of an adult-film star whom he suggested acted as a go-between for LeMarque and the tabloid press. LeMarque denied ever selling his story to the supermarket-stand media.
But Mesereau pressed the issue, asking LeMarque if he told the porn star he wanted $500,000 for his Culkin story. LeMarque said it was the porn star who pressed for the pricey price tag, and advised him to goose the tale. "Then we realized the guy was so sleazy...," LeMarque said. "So we backed out, and we said, 'We are not game.' "
Like other ex-Neverland staffers called to the Santa Maria, California, courthouse this week, LeMarque was involved in a Jackson lawsuit. But LeMarque maintained that he sued Jackson's corporation, not the singer personally, in a dispute over unpaid overtime. LeMarque and his wife eventually received a settlement from Jackson, he said.
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