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DEPOSITION DUMP:

Gayle Goforth (Housekeeper 1989-2002) - Full Depo 2016-10-24 (237 Pages): mjjr.net/docs/Depositio…

Deposed by Finaldi.
Follow-up by Liskin.

Another witness Finaldi hoped would bolster his case based on tabloid tales, but fell flat. She believes MJ was innocent.

Finaldi tossed in Quindoy's tabloid tale that he warned staffers "never leave MJ alone with a kid!" (Quindoys spoke positively of MJ until pay-day after Chandlers, this never happened.)

Gayle confirmed no staff told her any such thing. "That's something I would have remembered."

In another part of Finaldi's reoccurring questioning, he attempts to paint Gayle like all the other staff as "untrained" to know about sexual abuse or report it.

Gayle explains to him that her own son *was* abused by a coach and his demeanor had changed dramatically after.

Continuing his obsession over falsely portraying everything in MJ's room as "all boys" Finaldi asked about his "male closet...where he had the boy's pictures and everything."

Gayle: "He had all kinds of everything. He had memorabilia in both closets."

The "secret closet" that guilters love to ramble on about, which was part of the original architect's design years before MJ purchased the house...was also an openly accessible area including to staff & where maintenance crew would enter to fix bathroom piping and utilities.

When Finaldi keeps circling back to how "weird" it was that MJ had pictures of children hanging in his mansion's bedroom closet, Gayle responded:

"They were friends of his. He had pictures of Muhammad Ali in there. There was other pictures in there."

When asked why MJ would let kids stay in his room, Gayle explained how "he didn't know how to say no."

Gayle described how MJ would give out alarm codes to anyone that asked, even if he didn't want kids in.

She also shuts down Finaldi's attempt of spinning that sinister.

On the claim of only ever having boys sleep in his room, Gayle explained (in 93 & in her depo) how "It's not necessarily for male or female...it was like a big slumber party, a big free-for-all..."

This included seeing June, Lily & Jordie on bed watching TV & girls on MJ's lap.

Gayle recalled Jordan, Jason and Gavin all acting like brats.

She did not believe the allegations and noted that MJ never directly talked to her about the Chandler case or heard MJ telling anyone else about it.

(Wade/James claim he called them & coached them to lie for him.)

Gayle again comments on how she had seen Jordie with his MOTHER and SISTER on the bed with MJ.

Finaldi continuously implies boys being "in" MJ's bed means something nefarious, so she clarifies that too.

"Lying on the bed watching TV...innocently watching TV...sleeping..."

Regarding Safechuck, Gayle recalled his parents being around and even after he grew up they'd be guests at the ranch, together. Few times alone.

She called James a "nice kid" but spoiled - he was "just like his parents...snap his fingers and 'I want this' and 'I want that."

Finaldi fixates on Gayle's duties of taking dirty laundry to the wash. His obsession is about "underwear." An innocuous story morphed by McManus & Blanca.

Gayle explained she'd find dirty clothes of all kinds from everyone and load it up for the wash.

Nothing sinister about it.

Gayle recalls both beds in disarray when she'd go to clean MJ's bedroom—Finaldi insists Wade always slept on lower bed and upper one was always made (this contracts Wade & James in multiple ways).

She said often MJ would sleep on bathroom sofa & w/ sleeping bags for groups.

Gayle concludes her deposition by explaining "it is not fair that he was being sued and he was not here to defend himself."

In summary...

Gayle believes MJ was innocent, never saw anything abnormal in any of the years she worked there & disputed tabloid gossip.

A Finaldi Flop.