In courtesy of @MJonTheBrain, an article from September 1993. This is a very interesting tidbit. First of all, I am pretty sure Evan and Ray Chandler fed this story. They kept feeding tabloids throughout the whole 1993/94 case. 
The way how you know it's them feeding it when they do, that it contains information only they could know about and variations of the same story then also pop up in their book in 2004.
I first saw a mention of Evan bugging Jordan's room in Ray Chandler's 2004 book All That Glitters. However, there the claim is that when Evan on July 16, 1993 tried to get Jordan "confirm" Evan's suspicion about the supposed abuse...
... at one point he tried to trick him by telling him he bugged his room, so he knows everything already and Jordan might as well "confess". To which Jordan remained unimpressed.
According to the book, Evan "lied to" Jordan about having bugged his room. But I always felt there was something more to that whole bugging story.
Knowing the how desperate Evan was to have something on MJ that he could use to blackmail him, it isn't far fetched that he really did bug Jordan's room. In his phone conversation with D. Schwartz on July 8, Evan also rants about supposed evidence in the form of "tape recordings"
However, no incriminating tapes ever showed up. Instead Evan/Ray say in their book that Evan just lied about bugging Jordan's room.
This early report from 1993 (in the first post of this thread above) however tells another version of this story. It tells that Evan really did bug Jordan's room, only he "burnt it" afterwards. This seems to be the original version of their bugging story.
Now, ask yourself, if it makes sense that he would burn it if it contained incriminating evidence against MJ? To get such evidence was the whole point of bugging the room.
The only reason he would destroy it if it didn't produce the evidence Evan wanted - or maybe even, to the contrary, it produced exculpatory evidence as it would have showed MJ did nothing inappropriate with Jordan while sleeping in the same room.
The fact that Jordan himself "remained unimpressed" when Evan claimed to him that he bugged his room and he "knows everything" would also point to the fact that nothing inappropriate ever happened.
Jordan only "confessed" (supposedly - I actually question the version of their story that Jordan "confessed" anything at all on July 16) when maniac Evan aggressively threatened him with bringing MJ down if Jordan didn't say what he wanted him to say.
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