EXPLOSIVE PROOF: Michael Jackson was gay

Desiree's note (5-2-2012): Although this entry is about a year-and-a-half old, it continues to be the most popular post on my website. Because many people every day still search out evidence as to whether Michael Jackson was gay (alternately, some discoverers of this entry are looking for evidence of Jackson not being gay), I urge readers of this piece to also read the other much longer entry about the findings presented here.

PLEASE CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK TO READ THE FULL AND UPDATED ANALYSIS OF THE "EXPLOSIVE PROOF" OF MICHAEL JACKSON'S HOMOSEXUALITY:

 An Addendum to "Michael Jackson was gay"

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As the title suggests, I have found evidence proving that Michael Jackson was indeed a homosexual (or, rather, had a definite and now tangible interest in males). However, before the proverbial 'reveal', let us briefly note some of the "Michael Jackson was gay" stories, whether they be believable or not, that have come out over the years...

Precursors to the real proof?

I ask that the following be taken and processed in our heads because understanding anyone is a holistic endeavor. That is, while individual pieces of information about a person can be taken or dismissed at will and often on a context-neutral basis, it is much harder to ignore a breadth of information that ostensibly details a common theme. And, in the case of Michael Jackson's mysterious (some could argue possibly criminal) sexuality, the whole is often greater, and more accurate, than the sum of its individual parts.

Shortly after Michael's untimely death, investigative journalist Ian Halperin published his book Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson. Although Halperin spent roughly nine chapters rehashing pro-Michael Jackson spin regarding his child molestation cases in 1993 and 2005, claiming Michael been the victim of 'extortion', 'lies', and 'innuendo', one of the major attractions of his book was that he claimed to have spoken to some of Michael's gay lovers who confirmed the obvious: Michael Jackson was gay. 

Halperin even alleged that Michael had been a 'bottom'--the homosexual partner that is penetrated during  sex--and would dress up as a woman when going out on late-night trysts while he lived in Las Vegas following his child molestation trial.

(My fanfiction along the tangent of Michael's late-night romps with his gay lovers available for reading here.)

However, the believability of Ian Halperin's claims are dependent upon Halperin's ability to prove that these alleged gay lovers--sworn to secrecy through typical Jacko confidentiality agreements--actually existed. But the de facto rule for investigative journalists is that they do not have to reveal their sources of confidential information. Since Halperin's alleged 'Michael Jackson gay lovers' could be neither proved or disproved, the whole story was quickly tossed to the wayside as yet another salacious tabloid rumor, perhaps even made up by the author himself to sell books.

It was then in May 2010 that I chronicled the tantalizing story of Jason Pfeiffer, an attractive but corpulent man, and his revelation that he had been in a two-month love affair with Michael. 

(Check here, here, here, here, here, here, and here for a refresher course on that story.)

There is no point in rehashing the whole story, given the above links, but Jason Pfeiffer did not strike anyone as a particularly believable sex partner for Michael due to his heft. Most people thought, at the very least, that the King of Pop would bed a svelte partner.

As of yet, there has been no one to come forward denouncing Jason's story as 'lies'* outside of Michael's family; however, it is well known that Michael Jackson was not close to his family and kept them out of his personal life. All we have is Dr. Arnold Klein's confirmation and Elizabeth Taylor's response to Klein's lack of scruples in airing out a patient's dirty laundry.

(* NOTE: Dr. Arnold Klein has since changed his story on Jason Pfeiffer; he has stated that Jason lied about his relationship with Michael. However, my own contact with Jason and talks with a mutual friend of ours has steadfastly convinced me that Klein's about-face was largely provoked by Jason Pfeiffer's lawsuit against him. PLEASE CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION: Jason Pfeiffer redux: Arnold Klein retracts his "Michael Jackson was gay" comments?)

Taylor never disputed Klein's claim about Michael having been gay, nor did she ever clarify what she meant by her words. All of this caused many fans to either deny her words (or lack of them) through obfuscation or grow angry over the ambiguity. What Taylor had done was merely deride Michael Jackson's former dermatologist for having a big mouth. Despite the obviousness of her lack of a defense of Michael being a tacit confirmation of his homosexuality (or, rather, definite and now tangible interest in males), many fans simply dismissed it; in their dismissal of Taylor, Jackson fans could have missed out on a clue to their idol's conspicuous lack of female companions, let alone interest in them.

Looking in to this whole Jason/Jacko-Klein-Taylor tale, a reader of this blog went 'undercover' investigating Jason Pfeiffer and any web-available friends of his. One friend she came into contact with was a man named Paul Camuso, who had tweeted (look at the tweets around May 2010) in support of Jason following his Extra TV interview in which he revealed he'd been with Michael.

It was via Facebook that she got a hold of Camuso and he sent her the following message:

The support of Jason is strong. But again, if we give Michael Jackson the benefit of the doubt, that above support could be reasonably dismissed as nothing more than hearsay of an alleged relationship that may have never been. It does not mean Camuso himself is a liar or complicit in Jason's alleged 'con-game'; it simply means, because Camuso and Jason Pfeiffer are friends and friendship tends to breed trust, he was gullible enough to buy the story, even if it may not be true.

The alternative, of course, is that these individuals believed Jason because they knew Michael Jackson was, in fact, gay.

But Jason Pfeiffer was not the only man who'd alleged sexual contact (Jason did claim he and Michael's relationship was 'consummated', whatever that may entail) with Michael Jackson.

In April 2004, the late Liberace's ex-boyfriend, Scott Thorson, told the National Enquirer he and Michael had had gay sex back in 1979. That issue of the magazine is unavailable but this site provides an idea of what Thorson said:

Scott also made claims to American tabloid the National Enquirer, alleging he had sex with pop star Michael Jackson. Their sex took place in 1979, shortly after they were introduced by Liberace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Scott recalls,

"The day Michael and I met we hit it off. We spent days running around Las Vegas together. Michael wanted to spend all his free time with me. We are only five months apart [both 20 y.o.] in age so we had a lot in common with each other."

Scott claims his relationship with Jackson intensified in London in the early 80s, where Liberace was performing and Jackson was working on a selection of songs with Paul. Scott continues,

"We were two young men extremely attracted to each other. You could've cut the sexual tension with a knife. I was standing only a few feet away from Michael when he motioned with his hand to come over to him and join him in bed. I climbed onto the bed. Our lovemaking session lasted about an hour."

Scott, who claims he had sex with Jackson again for the final time a day later at Lord Montague's house in the outskirts of London, says he visited the singer on two occasions years later at a hotel where he alleges Jackson was in possession of what looked like gay porn magazines featuring young boys.

While Scott's romance with Liberace later fizzled, his friendship with Jackson also deteriorated because of the singer's alleged porn habit. Scott later fell into a spiral of drug abuse and is now battling hepatitis C.

National Enquirer says it put Scott through a lie detector test over the claims--which he passed in the presence of an expert. And now Scott declares he's willing to testify about his alleged affair in Jackson's current child molestation case. He adds,

"If the district attorney wants to talk to me about my experiences with Michael Jackson I would be more than happy to tell him the truth. And if Michael tries to deny what I've said about our homosexual acts in London, I challenge him to take a polygraph. I did."

Although entirely not as believable as Jason Pfeiffer (Jason, at least, had a man with undeniable proximity to Michael Jackson who could vouch for his story, not to mention another longtime Jackson pal, Elizabeth Taylor, didn't exactly refute Jason's story either), Scott Thorson's tales of sex with Michael Jackson could, in fact, be true. After all, since he is not the only man to claim gay sex with Michael, one could reasonably argue that that increases the probability of his claims having merit.

The caveat to believing Thorson's story, however, is that Thorson has a long drug abuse history. Even though his use of drugs is theoretically irrelevant to the truthfulness of his claims, it justifiably raises a red flag. Perhaps Thorson could have concocted a story for the Enquirer because he was hurting for cash.

Given these circumstances, he proves to be a witness with serious credibility problems.

(NOTE: As of May 2012, Thorson is still saying that he and Jackson had a sexual relationship, according to this story from Entertainment Tonight:

Today, Thorson drops a bombshell regarding Michael Jackson, claiming he and the King of Pop shared an intimate, sexual relationship in the eighties.

"Michael and I had a relationship that... would cross the boundaries," Thorson reveals in an exclusive sit down with ET's Christina McLarty. "That's about all I'm comfortable saying… We were both young."

While he concedes that not many will believe that he and Michael were lovers, he says that the two became unlikely friends while he was dating Liberace. After a period of friendship, their relationship blossomed into more.

It is unclear whether the story is true, but it is telling he continues to maintain it now that he is sober.)

It should be noted that 'Michael Jackson was gay' anecdotes from Ian Halperin, Jason Pfeiffer, and Scott Thorson are not the only stories coming out over the years that add to the idea Michael Jackson had a sexual interest in males. However, the reason they are mentioned here is due to the type of proof I found in support of Michael's alleged homosexuality: if their stories are true, they would corroborate the findings nicely; if not true, they provide evidence to the fact that, in addition to these new findings, Michael Jackson 'seemed so gay' to the point that these men believed that a story claiming Michael was gay would be believable and 'would stick'.

In that context, true or not true, these stories are relevant.

What about the massive collections of heterosexual pornography?

This is a fact that is frequently mentioned by Jackson fans, often out of context and lacking the benefit of multiple prospectives on why it was there and what it's presence could mean; the most important point for Jackson's mostly female fanbase is that it was there. But it is true: police did find lots of pornographic material in Michael's home, loads of it, enough to make Michael's most ardent female defenders blush.

(top: here; bottom: here)

The fact Michael owned these heterosexual materials (more than what is listed above, also read here) would seem to suggest he had at least some particulate interest in women. As the argument often goes, "'Straight men' nearly always have pornography of women." This is a point I will not quibble with: men with a sexual interest in women also have an interest in pornographic images of women. However, this is a trite oversimplification, especially in Michael Jackson's case.

Although Michael did possess heterosexual pornography, there exists nuances. 

For example, although Michael Jackson had commercial pornography featuring women, he also had expensive books featuring nude adult men, most notably a very graphic homosexuality 'primer' called Man: A sexual study of man, as well as a large collection of vintage Nudist periodicals featuring nude men and nude children--experts in pedophilia have often found that pedophiles will collect, specifically, Nudist magazines and images of these resorts because they feature naked children. 

Additionally, the size of Michael's 'collection' of heterosexual pornography should emphasized. It was a collection, not a stash of magazines hidden between a mattress. Michael's female fans will typically cite that Michael was wealthy and, because of his wealth, could 'afford' such quantities. Pedophile experts instruct that size and variety (Michael's was as varied as it was massive) of pornographic materials in the home of someone accused of pedophilia is one of the most dependable factors in proving that that person has a sexual interest in children. Often these very large and very diverse collections serve as ways to lower the inhibition of male children and increase their arousal, making sexual victimization likely. 

(Check out one of the most important pedophile typologies compiled here, published by the United States FBI, which details much of the above information.)

Because of these perfectly logical alternative explanations of Michael Jackson's porn collection being for the purpose of seducing the young boys that, quite frankly, shared his bed, it would be something of a 'rush to judgment' by Jackson defenders to believe that Michael's porn meant he was heterosexual, case closed. It would be especially hasty given that Michael's massive porn collection cannot be corroborated by an outward and obvious interest in the opposite sex: Michael seemed to have no interests whatsoever, as his failed marriages to women seem to suggest.

Ultimately, what the pornography means is entirely debatable and, therefore, cannot be used as any kind of infallible proof that Michael Jackson was a straight man.

The Big Reveal

Of course, in light of newly found evidence, the epic debate over Michael Jackson's 'heterosexuality' seems to be moot. Although it had been moot before, given the serious lack of female companions until after the Jordie Chandler scandal when, all of a sudden, Michael felt the need to be involved with a woman. 

But let's get to the revelation I found as I was digging for documents.

In January 2005, Michael Jackson's defense team sought to exclude certain pieces of evidence they believed to be incendiary, prejudicial, and irrelevant to the case. These pieces of evidence were termed the "14 items", among them being any discussion of the 'Baby-dangling' incident, Michael's gratuitous plastic surgeries, Ray Chandler's All That Glitters, and Victor Gutierrez's Michael Jackson Was My Lover. 

Apparently, the defense team was successful in their motion because none of the "14 items" on the list made it in front of the jury or even into the media (well, no report to which I am aware).

But it was "Item #13" that is of special interest in this post.

(read the original source document)

Did everyone read that carefully?

DNA analysis done on Michael Jackson's mattress uncovered the DNA of TWO UNKNOWN MALES, as well as the DNA from Michael Jackson himself. More DNA analysis uncovered the DNA of ANOTHER UNKNOWN MALE on the bed coverings.

For those too 'shocked' to do the math, IRREFUTABLE SCIENTIFIC TESTING found a total of four semen stains (referred to euphemistically as 'male DNA') on Michael 'womanizer' Jackson's bed.

Blood stains were also found on the mattress, as well as wine stains. From the search transcript:

It would seem that Michael was having a good time: wine, drugs (as evidenced by the blood), and sex.

(A NOTE ON SO-CALLED 'MALE DNA': It needs to be made very, very clear that what was called "male DNA" by the Defense in their "14 items" motion was SEMEN--this was a euphemism on their parts. It was the Prosecution's lab that did the testing on these samples and discovered that they were semen, as you will be able to note in the document link and photos below. It was not saliva, skin flakes, nail clippings, or any other cell that can yield genetic material. It was SEMEN, the biological substance that can only be deposited on mattresses, sheets, mattress pads, and in underwear by MALES.)

It should be noted that no DNA from any woman (that is, no vaginal secretions or menstrual blood) was found on Michael Jackson's bed, only the semen of males, including--and it does bear repeating--Michael Jackson's semen. There had also been semen from a male other than Michael in a pair of underwear in the laundry bag with the semen-stained bed sheets and Michael's own underwear.

From the prosecution's response:

Because the prosecution sought to still include the underwear in their case-in-chief, though it did not contain either the semen from Gavin or Star Arvizo, as proof of Gavin's claim that Michael Jackson would keep the semen-covered underwear in his possession (perhaps after sexual activity with males as well), the defense countered with the suggestion that the underwear in a laundry bag could have been from a guest or family member visiting the ranch. That explanation, however, does not explain the semen stains (referred to as 'male DNA' by Team Jackson) from two different males on Michael's mattress.

Also strange is the fact that, if the Defense's explanation of the semen-stained underwear from this third mystery male is to be seen as reasonable, why would Michael Jackson have his own semen-stained underwear with guests?

That does not seem likely. Those were Michael's nights and the evidence of his sexual activity with males in his own sheets on his own previously-stained mattress!

Interestingly enough, in that motion in response, the Defense stated this particular laundry bag was allegedly found in some sort of storage area at least eight months following Gavin's alleged molestation. But how does that disprove the notion Michael Jackson kept soiled underwear containing the semen from men (or from boys or teenage males) to whom he engaged in sexual activity (his own underwear, it bears repeating, was found with the sheets and the soiled underwear from the same unknown male)? Eight months seems a long time not to wash the linens, especially when he has a fleet of staff who can do the wash for him!

As a strange corroboration, soiled underwear had also been found in the storage unit obtained by New Jersey businessman Henry Vaccaro. (To note, any mention of Henry Vaccaro and the Jackson items found in his storage unit, labeled "Item #12" among the defense's "14 items", was to be barred.)

Ultimately, the underwear in question did not have relevant male DNA (semen from either Gavin or Star Arvizo) and was rightly excluded.

However, there had been reports from staff members that Michael did keep soiled sheets (semen, blood, and feces-encrusted) and segmented them from other laundry to be cleaned. A particularly gruesome report alleged that Michael Jackson's pre-trial stay at the Las Vegas Mirage Hotel resulted in a completely trashed room and feces-strewn sheets. There is no way to verify that story but Michael was blacklisted from staying at any of the hotels on the Las Vegas Strip following the incident. 

All of the above, of course, is ancillary to the fact at hand: Michael Jackson's mattress, mattress pad, bed sheets, and a pair of underwear found in Michael's possession contained the semen of three different males.

If Michael had been uninterested in sex or deemed 'asexual' publicly, he was having sex with males in his own bed at Neverland. This was proven through scientific testing.

Putting it all together...

We have to recall that idea of all of this being a 'holistic endeavor' into understanding Michael Jackson's mysterious sexuality: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. 

So what about the aforementioned gay anecdotes? Is it possible that Halperin really did talk to Michael's gay lovers? How about Jason Pfeiffer--could he have really been in a short romantic relationship with Michael as he has suggested? Or what about Scott Thorson's tale? Could their stories now be more plausible, owing to the fact Michael had sexual contact with males?

And what of the rumors Michael Jackson had to face his whole career regarding his sexual orientation, the fact that the public (disregarding his fans) found it plausible that he was gay, so much so they continued to believe and pass on the rumors? What about Jermaine's assertion that all of the Jackson sons hated the idea of having a gay brother? What about Joe Jackson's blow-up at the word 'partner' in relation to Michael's love life?

For me, it always seemed rather obvious that Michael was gay; his legions of female fans simply refused to see what had been right in front of their faces. They cling to Lisa Marie Presley, for even though her union with Michael began suspiciously and ended very quickly, it was at least some proof Michael had been with a woman, someone ("Thank God!" they say) outside of his usual companions of choice: young boys. 

Of course, these fans ignore the fact gay men can have sex with women, as well as the obvious goal of Michael's marriage with Lisa Marie: he wanted children and sex with a woman was the only way to have them, or so he believed at the time before he considered the Debbie Rowe option and using the donor sperm of white men.

But denial and spin--from friends, confidants, and family--does not erase truth, and, in this case, the truth had been established through the scientific analysis of semen stains on Michael Jackson's mattress.

What is quite interesting, retrospectively speaking, is that Michael's defense attorneys never tried to show any kind of evidence of Michael being with a woman. You would think that, had there been any women at all, they would have put them on the stand to repudiate the idea that Michael was sexually interested in young boys like Gavin Arvizo. 

When Wade Robson was questioned by Tom Mesereau on the stand, the only woman he'd seen with Michael was Lisa Marie Presley, a dubious choice if there was any:

7 Q. Have you seen Mr. Jackson with women in your

8 lifetime?

9 A. With what kind of woman? A woman that he’s

10 in a relationship with?

11 Q. That he’s been married to.

12 A. Yeah, with Lisa Marie.

It seemed as if Tom Mesereau had to help young Wade: he could not easily recall any woman having been with Michael!

A similar moment of unfamiliarity of the concept of 'Michael + women' occurred when Ronald Zonen questioned Brett Barnes, who'd traveled extensively with Michael while he was the current 'special friend' of choice:

7 Q. Was there ever a woman traveling with Mr.

8 Jackson while you were traveling with him?

9 A. A woman?

10 Q. Yes.

11 A. I’m not -- what do you mean, though?

12 Q. Somebody with whom he was close to. I don’t

13 mean an assistant. I mean a friend or a girlfriend.

14 A. Not that I recall.

15 Q. At the time that you were traveling with him

16 in South America, was he ever traveling with a

17 woman? And I don’t mean an assistant. A

18 girlfriend.

19 MR. MESEREAU: Object as beyond the scope.

20 THE COURT: Sustained.

As we can see, both men had to evaluate the question before answering it because Michael Jackson never had women around him who were not working for him, save Lisa Marie Presley. The idea was evidently quite foreign to both of these 'special friends' who easily remembered each other, Jordie Chandler, and other boys.

There are innumerable examples of Michael's disinclination for women but I will not list them here. I will say, however, his collection of books showcasing naked men, sometimes engaged in graphic sexual activity, is not the type of collection you'd expect from a heterosexual man, especially a former Jehovah's Witness!

Maybe the notion of the heterosexual pornography being primarily for the boys is not so far-fetched. According to this story on the Smoking Gun, Omer Bhatti, who was questioned following the raid, became nervous when asked about porn:

Investigator Jeffrey Ellis testified [to the Grand Jury] that when he "broached the subject of pornography," [Omer] Bhatti became nervous and "seemed to have trouble forming a sentence. It was almost like a stutter." Ellis added that when he asked Bhatti a series of questions about the consumption of wine and alcohol and references to "Jesus Juice," he saw "that same type of uneasiness in him that I noticed when I started talking to him about pornography."

Whatever the pornography was for (and I believe it was for the boys) and whatever fantasy it represented, the images stayed between the glossy magazine covers, never being realized.

Now, the reality is quite clear, no longer innuendo or cruel rumor, and the evidence speaks for itself: Michael Jackson had sex with men and his semen-soaked mattress proved it back in 2003.


Michael Jackson was gay. Anyone thinking otherwise--even going so far as to try to rationalize these explosive and irrefutable, scientifically-proven facts to provide Michael some possibility of heterosexuality--just need to accept it.

Michael had gay sex. The evidence is there, in black and white, to support this bombshell. What's it to you? Why do we even care if Michael was ever gay? He was; so what?

I will close with an excerpt from page 265 of the paperback edition of Michael Jackson: Unauthorized:

[Kenneth] Choi, who according to staffers "practically lived" at the ranch for a time, claimed that Michael developed an intimate friendship with him as well. Choi and Michael sat on Jackson's bed, and said Choi, "cuddled each other, laughed, and cried. I told him I loved him, and he said he loved me."

It was during one of these "cuddling" sessions in Michael's bedroom, Choi said, that Michael confided in him the reason he could never be intimate with a woman. "Only a woman," Michael claimed, "can destroy me."