@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen That's not correct. Jackson and Tucker actually met through Gavin. The Arvizos tried getting to Jackson through two different people - Jamie Masada and Vernee Watson-Johnson. It's unclear whose messages out of those two prompted Jackson to actually make contact.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen Jackson and Tucker formed their own tight friendship away from the Arvizos. Then Tucker grew deeply suspicious of the Arvizos and tried frantically to warn Jackson not to have anything else to do with them because he believed they were running some sort of con.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen Around the same time, a lady called Carole LaMere, whose son took dance lessons with the Arvizos, had a conversation with Davellin Arvizo in which she said the girl confessed that her mum planned to falsely accuse & blackmail Jackson. She too began frantically trying to warn him.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen Shortly thereafter, Janet Arvizo approached Jesus Salas in tears & asked to leave the ranch. As he drove her home, she said she was leaving because she was being kept away from Jackson. She later recast this tantrum as an 'escape' & it was rolled into the conspiracy charge.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen After storming off the ranch over being 'separated' from Jackson, she had a (recorded) phone call with Frank Cascio in which she said over & over that Jackson was her family, she loved him & wanted to go away with him, but complained members of his team were keeping them apart.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen She then returned to the ranch twice, voluntarily, where she excitedly talked about going on holiday to Brazil & asked Tucker's girlfriend to come with her and celebrate Carnival. But Jackson was largely not there, nothing came of it, they went home & never heard from him again.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen Jackson's team still had the family's passports as they'd been arranging the Brazil visas. She asked a civil lawyer to get them back. He heard the name Michael Jackson & called his pal Larry Feldman. Within weeks, Janet's talking about suing for supposed molestation.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen Feldman tells several people Janet's a 'wacko' out for money & he's refused to represent her. The case hits the headlines, he changes tune & suddenly Janet - ever the drama queen - is calling old acquaintances, telling them they can now reach her via her new lawyer Larry Feldman.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen She called one lady & said her new civil lawyer was Feldman in late 2004 - right before the criminal trial. That lady was Mary Holzer. Her conscience drove her to contact Jackson's defence & tell them who Janet really was. Thus came to light the truth about the JC Penney case.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen Holzer was petrified of testifying against Janet. Janet had repeatedly threatened that if she ever told the truth about the JC Penney case, Holzer & her daughter would be murdered by Janet's relatives in the Mexican mafia. But Holzer's conscience precluded her from keeping quiet.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen She came to court & testified that Janet had confessed to her that she'd fabricated her violent, sexual allegations against JC Penney security staff & coached her children to lie under oath & back her up. This turned out to be the tip of the iceberg of Janet & co's con-artistry.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen The family told numerous people they couldn't afford Gavin's medical bills in order to obtain many thousands of dollars. He turned out not to have any medical bills. His dad was a Teamster and he was receiving treatment at Kaiser Permanente on Sunset, covered by full insurance.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen Those duped into providing money for fictitious medical bills included Chris Tucker and many readers of the Arvizos' local newspaper, which initially ran the story but later grew suspicious, called Kaiser & learned they & their readers had been hoodwinked.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen One of Janet's first actions upon hearing Gavin's diagnosis was to call several celebrities they'd met at a summer comedy camp months earlier & shriek down the phone at them that her son had cancer & she needed help. Many gave lots of money & hospitality - including Jackson.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen Fundraisers were held to pay the fake medical bills. Janet's ex-husband later said she took all the money and spent it on herself. On one occasion, when he refused to hand over the proceeds of a fundraiser, she began smashing every piece of glass in the house til he gave in.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen Carole LaMere got roped into one fundraiser and told investigators that she forever regretted it, as from then on she received phone calls from Janet every single day asking her to try to get money for them from various celebrities.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen Weeks after her $150,000 settlement from JC Penney, for fabricated allegations, Janet filled out a welfare application, failing to declare the settlement or that she now lived with a boyfriend who earned $8,000 a month. She stole tens of thousands of dollars from the Government.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen During Janet's divorce from her husband, Davellin confided in LaMere that Janet had asked her kids to falsely accuse him of beating them & asked Davellin to falsely accuse him of molesting her - the 2nd time Janet had coached her kids to lie under oath about fictitious sex abuse.
@JaneByfield @pamelaegeonu @shlharris @MeirionTweets @Sanchia7 @phillips_owen I would continue, but am now at the end of my lunch break. Back to work...
