Just as Dan spliced and edited recordings of the Hawaii tape and Geragos' press conference to remove context and create an alternate reality, similar deceit occurred in 2005 with media broadcasts of "voicemail" by two men seeking millions from MJ, with a shared attorney.
GMA Hype: "MJ like you've never heard before!"
First off, a clip implying MJ would guilt-beg associates for his demands: "please, please, please never let me down. I really like you, I love you."
They omitted 80% of the call—MJ was discussing charity & business collaborations.
Next up, a no-context clip in which MJ appears to demand Schaffel give him 7 million dollars ASAP.
They omitted 80% of the message—MJ spoke of a big multi-million dollar project & saw something he wanted to get. The money he speaks of was part of MJ's own associated accounts.
Then GMA runs a clip of MJ asking Marc for cash ("fries"): "It's big money overseas." No context, suggests an offshore scheme.
They omitted 83% of the call—MJ was speaking of enhancing a tape and getting the film to Europe to make it global. Schaffel managed the funds for WMCIG.
Grand finale, enter Dieter's clip heard round the world: "The Jews do it on purpose!"
Wait a minute! The extended clip quietly released by Dieter many years later is entirely different: "SO MANY PEOPLE when they see talent...THEY suck them like leeches...THEY do it on purpose."
The altered GMA clip was mass-promoted to condemn MJ as anti-Semite for more than 15 years. A 2019 headline reads: "MJ was a vile anti-Semite who branded Jews leeches."
In Dieter's 300-page book, this call is described very endearingly and presented totally differently than GMA.
The impact of that altered GMA clip was severe. Advocacy groups & ADL were outraged. He lost fans, too.
The edits weren't incidental:
"They suck...they're like leeches."
"The Jews do it on purpose."
VS.
"So many people...They suck them like leeches."
"They do it on purpose."
These same manipulation tactics were used with the faxes and recordings in LN. Correspondence was chopped off, rearranged and omitted to eliminate context and invent a new narrative that paints innocuous exchanges as sinister.
Like making MJ seem fixated on James in Hawaii tape.
"How do we know the extended Dieter clip isn't the fake one?!" -Guilters, probably.
The fact that the same supposed audio has been released in 2 strikingly different arrangements by the same person is the real story.
(The 2005 version was in promotion of a $64,000,000 lawsuit.)
This type of manipulated content—used as an emotional or financial ploy—is inexcusable, whether done by an editor or the owner.
Marc & Dieter knew what GMA aired, and did nothing to correct the record.
Wade & James knew what LN presented, and did nothing to correct the record.
Marc & Dieter had more than 30 recorded voicemails of MJ.
GMA was only interested using the most sensational bits of them all, which they happily obliged. To create controversy more than 80% of each clip was removed and spliced as needed.
Nobody batted an eye—no accountability.
"But what about the media airing edited clips of Evan Chandler?!" -Guilters, probably.
We have a complete transcript of the call. The aired portions are highlighted. The surrounding context is in line with the depiction. The transcript actually paints Evan in much worse light.
This has always been the guilter dilemma. Every "explosive claim" crumbles under any amount of scrutiny.
Fabricated materials, witnesses who collected $20k-$100k per story and/or sought millions from MJ, hoax documents and media manipulation to construct their fictional reality.
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10 hours of "sworn testimony 🤡" but King played only a moment's worth for estate.
Flashback to 2005 when King told the media he had 100s of damning, frantic messages from MJ then circulated several seconds worth, unverified and misleading, to the media.
The way King & Geragos are attempting to reframe the story as if it is the estate seeking to bury it. It has always been THEIR side presenting in private—to solicit millions.
Big brain idea? They could had just uploaded the 10 hours raw to YouTube. But where's the money in that?
Others who told hours of "horrific abuse" stories on video:
Daniel Kapon, who sold his tapes to the tabloids but had never met MJ.
Joseph Bartucci Jr., who claimed kidnapping & abuse while MJ was across the country.
Canada teen Dimond pursued for months only to admit the hoax.
Epstein's 95-page black book was published in full 5 years ago. MJ's "contact" in it was really Sam Gen, an attorney for a very short-term adviser to MJ.
But in new DOJ release you'd believe this was MJ's direct details within it.
One-upped by White House Press Secretary tweeting a 2003 pic of MJ, Ross, their kids and Clinton at a well-known event—no connection to Epstein at all.
Now with the children as "redacted individuals" and a byline implying it could be because they are victims of Epstein. Really?
"We redact the faces of victims and/or minors" has the same absurd energy as the Comedy Central skit from Nathan For You...Where a singular billboard housed the faces of "popcorn sharers and theater masturbators"—one or the other, let the public guess which one each might be. 🤦
Let's see how well this excerpt from Wade's first public announcement of his now 12-year running civil suit against the estate & MJ companies has aged.
(Spoiler: Not very well at all.)
Lauer asks: "Why didn't you go to the lawyers and do this quietly?"
Wade doesn't tell him that he did exactly that initially, but it didn't work: "They are filing the petition to file a civil suit today, in court. They feel very good about this all being done confidentially..."
Wade: "I've lived in silence & denial for 22 years & I can't spend another moment in that."
Wade was 22 in May 2005 where he had the most opportune chance to "speak my truths" in a criminal court of law. Where he credibly underwent 11 rounds of intense examination by both sides.
Defense has replied to the "Jane Doe" related motion for a protective order. That motion was filed in August as an effort to prevent the defense from deposing her mom and obtaining records relating to Susan's previously self-withdrawn abuse claims.
The underlying justification Susan and her mom used to fight a depo (and record requests) was that her mom was aging and unwell.
Note the hypocrisy in Finaldi's support of this motion, when his firm pursued multiple complete non-parties since 2016 regardless of health condition.
The defense calls the statements used in her motion "attempts to deflect attention from her deficient evidence...they are false."
Further, they argue her supporting materials are inadmissible and ineffective due to "hearsay, lack foundation and are not properly authenticated."
🤣 It's Finaldi's signature as the attorney representing Jane Doe's mom to contest the estate's subpoena and depositions.
Finaldi was also the one responsible for sprinkling Jane Doe's allegations into the mix again via many filings and exhibits since 2017, despite irrelevance.
What ever happened to Vince's early retirement? Finaldi told Dan for LN2 that this was the reason he had to replace his entire law firm with Carpenter's. He'd never lie!
All while acting like the estate's requests are somehow more unreasonable than Finaldi's own for many years.
Let's recall some of the conduct Finaldi made against non-parties that he had pursued for years to depose.
This included the Chandlers calling Finaldi's conduct "persistent harassment" and attempts of invading their privacy.
Telling the media he wouldn't stop searching Jordan.
It was not the estate, but Wade and James' attorneys who continued trying to slip unvetted claims by Susan ("Jane Doe") through exhibits and TV specials even 8 years after that case was self-dismissed.
The estate's issuance of subpoenas & depos of her family is a result of that.
I suspect Susan was unaware that her bizarre claims were still seeping into the narrative of Wade and James, in an effort to bolster their so-called evidence. Claims that were so poorly drafted and copy/pasted in 2016 that Finaldi even referred to her as a "him" in the complaint.
The irony isn't lost how Marion is challenging the subpoenas due to poor health, discomfort and lack of any actual knowledge of Susan's claims.
Flashback the countless parties Wade's attorneys pursued for years to depose, despite being complete non-parties and in poor health.