Michael Jackson, homeless and drifting — and still in default on a $23 million loan against his Neverland Ranch — spent the last three months living in Franklin Lakes, N.J., in a family’s private home, trying to be normal.
Sources — not anyone from the actual family — have confirmed for me that Jackson showed up on the doorstep of Dominick and Connie Cascio in mid-August and stayed until the day he left for Los Angeles and Jesse Jackson’s birthday party around Nov. 7.
Jackson had been spotted on Halloween day at a costume shop in Wyckoff, N.J. That was the tip-off that a new weird chapter in Jackson’s soap opera was being written. But the visit got little buzz and the news mostly faded before it left the confines of the Garden State.
Jackson has had a long association with the Cascios. He met Dominick in the mid-'80s when the latter worked for the Helmsley Palace Hotel. Jackson immediately became fast friends with the Cascios, staying in their home and adopting them as his surrogate family.
Frank Cascio, now known as Frank Tyson, the eldest of five children, worked for Jackson starting when he was 18. Tyson was one of five unnamed co-conspirators in the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s failed prosecution of Jackson in 2005. In fact, it was Tyson’s meticulous record-keeping that probably saved Jackson from the state’s conspiracy charges.
Since the end of the trial in June 2005, Jackson and the Cascios have had little contact, sources say. In December 2005, Jackson had Prince Abdullah of Bahrain fly over members of the family to help him celebrate Christmas. The Prince is now suing Jackson in London’s High Court for $7 million plus damages.
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中文翻译 见12楼 感谢 maryruan 提供翻译
MJ在新泽西一户人家住了三个月
2007年11月19日 福克斯新闻
罗格 弗里德曼
居无定所、四处漂流的迈克尔杰克逊 —— 而且还拖欠着有关Neverland的2300万美金贷款,最近居住在新泽西Franklin Lakes市的一个私人宅邸,试图过正常的生活。
不是家族成员的线人向我证实,MJ 8月中旬的时候出现在多米尼克卡西欧与康妮卡西欧家的门口,一直住到11月7日左右才离开前往洛杉矶参加杰西杰克逊的生日派对。
MJ在万圣节前夜出现在新泽西的一家服装店。。。(译者:省去N个字,是RF自己的胡说八道)
MJ与卡家交往已久,在80年代中期他遇到了多米尼克卡西欧,后者当时供职于赫尔姆斯利大饭店,MJ与卡家很快就成了至交好友,住在卡家,并视其为第二家庭。
弗兰克 卡西欧,也就是弗兰克 泰森,是卡家五个孩子的老大,18岁起就为MJ工作,他也是2005 MJ胜诉的指控当中的未具名同谋之一(译者:应该指绑架欧文一家)。事实上,正是因为泰森的严密监视记录才使得MJ从阴谋罪的指控中脱身。