Thread by @JuliaBerkowitz1

THREAD: Australian media is now going crazy with putting all these Hard Copy refugees on various shows to slander Michael Jackson. So let's have a thread about who these people are. Because the media just won't fact check anyone these days, so we will.
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The people I have seen appear on these shows are: Charli Michaels, Adrian McManus, Michael Jacobshagen and Diane Dimond. It looks like Australian media is recycling 30 year old Hard Copy stories now.

Charli Michaels was a security guard at Neverland until MJ fired her in 1992. She never claimed anything until Diane Dimond's Hard Copy didn't offer her money for a story. She was a particular favorite of Dimond since she featured her on three episodes.

Michaels also filed court documents in connection with a lawsuit filed by five other former guards against Jackson for unfair dismissal. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed by the Court.

The story she came up with featured the Robsons. However in a 2016 e-mail exchange that was found out about by the Estate in discovery during this current Robson case, Wade's own mother, Joy Robson refuted Charli Michaels' story! The e-mail that Wade wrote to his mother:

The answer of Joy Robson: "Wow. None of that is true." The rest of the answer is cut off and when Joy Robson was asked about it, she said she couldn't find the rest of the e-mail, neither could Wade present it.

Wade nevertheless included this story in his complaint despite of his mother telling him it was not true - which shows how dishonest he is.

It also shows that Charli Michaels is simply not credible. She is one of those people who came up with stories about inappropriate behavior by MJ to children when they were paid for it by Hard Copy. In 2005 the prosecution planned to put her on the stand, but then they declined.

We already addressed Adrian McManus - another Hard Copy starlet. But here it is again.

Diane Dimond is their queen bee leading them to these Australian shows to collect some more cheques. She was the host of Hard Copy that paid all these people to come up with lies against MJ.

To use Michael Jacobshagen as a "victim" is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. He is a fraud, plain and simple. A little bit of research would have revealed that to this Australian channel, but I guess it wasn't in their interest to kill off another slanderous MJ story.

He met MJ in 1998 when he was a kid as a fan. He followed him around for about two days during MJ's stay in Germany, along with other fans. In a 1998 report on German TV he and his mother talked about this experience. There they say that was their first meeting with Jackson.

However, when Jacobshagen grew up he started to embellish this story more and more. He started claiming that he was on the HIStory Tour with MJ, sleeping in his bed, but he did not claim sexual abuse.

Except, the HIStory Tour was in 1996-97 and they first met in 1998. MJ was not on any other tour after HIStory either. So this was a big fat lie and no one ever saw this kid with MJ on HIStory Tour either. He just made it up and he even wrote a book about this fantasy.

He did not only make up stories about MJ, but also memorabilia. He habitually forges notes that he falsely claims came from MJ. He was scamming money out of fans with those fake notes.

A German TV channel exposed his lying, cheating ass in a 2017 report (yeah, in some places real investigative journalism still exists). Here it is: vimeo.com/314538532

Here is an English language summary of what is said in the report:

So yeah, these are the people the Australian media is now parading around. Simply pathetic. #RealJournalismIsDEAD

The book and notes Jacobshagen dangles around in the show are not MJ's! Like he always does, Jacobshagen simply forged MJ's writing there. They are forgeries. Forging MJ's writing is Jacobshagen's modus operandi!

Melanie Bangal was a member of the group of disgruntled ex-employees against whom MJ won a counter-suit. Bangal falsely accused a male employee of MJ of sexually harassing her. Interesting because Adrian McManus tried to get other female employees to falsely accuse people as well

Some more information about Jacobshagen. This post was made about him in 2013. Even before he made any allegations fans called him out on his BS.