“Early February ’93 to when?”
“I think maybe my mom would know, because that was during the Las Vegas trip, where it switched. That was the first trip."
“Okay, so that’s the best of your recollection. I’m going to speak to your mom and your dad later and they can fill me in on some of these details. That’s one of the reasons I have your mom in the next room so if there’s any discrepancies in details, I can get it from her. To the best of your knowledge – recollection – when was Las Vegas? Was it before the summer or after the summer?”
“I believe it was after the summer. After the summer of ’92 but not - - ”
“We’re in ’93.”
“Right. So it was before, like, I believe I had a break in school in February.”
“Okay, well you said that phase two started in February of ’93.”
“Early.”
“Early February of ’93.”
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“You said something about Las Vegas. So you’re saying that something happened physically in Las Vegas? Is that what you’re saying?”
“Yeah, that’s when it started.”
"You started to sleep in his bed? Did you start to sleep in his bed in early February ’93?”
“No.”
“Was there a time frame where - - ”
"Sort of later February."
"So phase two might have been a very short time then?”
“Yeah.”
“Okay, I just wanted to get an idea when there was contact. See, in phase one, there was nothing sexual, right?”
“That’s right, in phase one.”
“In phase two, we’re still talking about nothing sexual but there was contact with him as human beings as opposed to the telephone. I would say, sleeping in bed, I'll call that sexual. Some people might not but I would."
"Right, and I consider that too, and that's where it switched."
"Most people would consider it sexual to sleep in bed with a person. How long was the time frame from the time you first saw him in the flesh, and the time you slept in bed with him?"
"I don't know."
"But it was in February when you started sleeping in the bed with him.”
"Right, right. I’m really not even sure if it was in February, but - - "
“Okay, but phase two then was a short period.”
“Right.”
"Maybe about a month, or less then a month?"
"I don't know."
"Okay, we'll put that in as a question mark. Now what I want to know is in that phase, what kinds of things did you do with him, before you slept in bed with him?"
"Well, we went to his Neverland."
"Who's we?"
"Me, my mother and Kelly, my sister, my half-sister."
"What happened there?"
"Nothing happened. I slept in the guest area with my mother and Kelly, and Michael stayed in his room."
"How long were you at Neverland?"
"I think for a weekend."
“Do you know if it was Friday or Saturday or Sunday? Was it two days or three days?”
“I don’t know.”
"What did you do?"
"We went jet skiing on a small lake he has.”
“What else did you do there?”
“We saw the animals and played video games."
"You did those things with him?"
"Yeah."
"So these activities were with him? What other kind of activities did you do with him?"
"We took golf cart rides."
"With Kelly and your mother?"
"Occasionally, like, half and half. They would go off sometimes."
“Who’s they?”
“My mother and Kelly.”
"How many visits were there to Neverland in that time frame?"
"I don't remember."
"So we’re still in phase two now. Anything else besides the visits to Neverland in phase two?"
"We may have gone to the Century City apartment."
"Who was with you?"
"Michael and I. I can’t remember if my mom (inaudible)."
"Then what happened? Is that the end of phase two? Were there calls during phase two?"
"Yeah."
"Calls lasting three hours?"
"Yeah. Oh yeah, I just remembered. When we were at Neverland we went to Toys-R-Us, when it was closed. My sister and I could get anything we wanted."
"They opened the store for him, is that it?"
"Right."
"How much would you buy?"
"A lot. We got to take along shopping carts and fill them up."
"Do you have any idea what the cost of that was?”
“No.”
“What kinds of things did you get, do you remember?”
“Video games (inaudible).”
“Anything else in phase two?"
"No."
“Going back to phase one. I know you don’t have a record of the times he called you, but if
you could guess offhand the total number of telephone calls in phase one, what would you say it
was? Not only the three-hours calls, but the calls that were shorter as well, what would you
say?”
“I believe ten.”
"Now, let's go into phase three."
“Do you think phase three should be subdivided or would you just like to describe it as how things evolved?”
“I don’t really know because - - can we fill that question in later?”
“Sure.”
"Phase three began, I would say, when we were on the trip to Las Vegas. We stayed at the Mirage Hotel."
“On a trip, and to the best of your recollection that was when?”
“I can’t really remember. I think late February or so.”
“Okay, that was after the trip to Neverland, after the Toys-R-Us. In Century City, did anything special happen?”
“No, not that I can remember. We just played video games.”
“He had the video games there?”
“When you say we, who was we?”
“My mother, Kelly and I.”
[Sort break].
"What happened in Las Vegas?"
"My mom and Kelly shared a room. Michael had his own room. It was a big suite."
“Was Kelly in the same room with you?”
“No, with my mom, and I had my own room.”
"You had your room, Kelly and your Mom had a room, and Michael had a room."
"That's right."
“Was it connected or in separate places? Was it one big suite?”
“It was a big suite, yeah.”
“Go ahead”
“Let’s see, one night - - “
“How long were you there?”
“I don’t know, maybe a week.”
“What happened that night?”
“After my mom and Kelly went to sleep, we went to watch the movie The Exorcist. We were in his room, in his bed. And when it was over I was scared, and he said, why don't you just stay in here. And I did and nothing happened."
"When you say you stayed in the room - - "
"Stayed in the same bed."
“Slept in the same bed?”
“That’s right.”
"When you slept in the same bed was there any physical contact?"
"No."
"Was it a big bed?"
"Yeah, I think so."
“So there was no physical contact. What were your thoughts when he said let's sleep in the same bed?"
"Well, I was scared, and I didn't think anything was going to happen."
“You were scared of him or scared of the movie?”
“The movie. So I said, ‘Okay, that’s fine.” It was like a regular slumber party.”
“Okay, is there anything else to say about that event?”
“Just simply that we talked about how they got the idea for The Exorcist. So the next morning, I was with my mom alone and - - ”
"Did your mother know that you had slept in bed with him?"
"Well, I’m getting to that. I said, ‘I slept with Michael in the same bed last night,’ and she said, ‘Well, just don't do it again’."
"Did she speak to Michael at all?"
"Well, I'll get to that. So when I told Michael the news of the fact that she said don't do that again - don’t sleep in the same bed - we were alone, Michael and I, and he burst out in tears and said, 'She can't set up barricades like that,' and 'Nothing could happen, it's just a simple slumber
party type thing,' and 'There's nothing wrong with it’.”
“He said, nothing will happen, there’s nothing wrong with it, and it’s like a slumber party?”
“Right. And so, he came - - I don't remember if I was crying or not but he decided that he had to confront my mom with his feelings about what she said. What he told me he said, ‘There's nothing wrong with it, you should allow it because it's simple and fun and you shouldn't set up barricades.’ And he got my mom feeling so guilty that she just broke down in tears and decided that, okay, I believe you. And Michael somehow got her to agree that there would be no further questions asked. And so from that point on I was in his bed till the end of our relationship."
"So, are you saying from then on you were in his bed - - are you talking about the Las Vegas trip, or from then on all the time?"
"All the time."
"You said to the best of your recollection the Las Vegas trip was one week. How many times did you sleep in his bed?"
"I’d say maybe two or three."
"Okay, was there any physical contact?"
"No."
"Was there any undressing in front of you?"
"No."
"Did you undress in front of him?"
"No."
"Okay, alright that’s Las Vegas. Are we finished with Las Vegas? Is there anything else to say about Las Vegas?"
“No, that’s it.”
“Okay, bring me to the next step then.”
"Well, when we got back to L.A. our friendship was a lot more close than when we had left, and so we saw each other more. And we quite frequently went up to his ranch."
"And each time you were there you would sleep in bed with him?"
"Yeah. And my mom and Kelly would stay in that same guest place."
"And how far was that guest place from the room you slept in?"
"It was far, it was quite a lot. Know where the bathrooms are? From here to the bathrooms."
[Jordie is describing the distance from the interview room to the bathrooms in the building in
which Dr. Gardner’s office is located.]
“That’s like a block away. It’s the equivalent of a city block.”
“No, it’s smaller than that.”
“Half a block away?”
“I can’t really remember, but that’s about right.”
“Okay, I would say that’s a few hundred feet.”
“Well, I don’t know, you should ask my mom.”
"It was in the same house?"
"No."
"It was in a different house?"
"Yeah. It was like a guest complex and they stayed in that room."
"So it was a different building?"
"But Michael and I stayed in his room, which was in the main house."
"So here we are in Neverland, and then what's the next step?"
"Well, I slept in his bed there, and then each week we would go back up and it would kind of progress sleeping in bed, and I think one night we were sleeping in the bed, I think it was at Neverland, and he just leaned over and hugged me or something."
"Okay, lets call that the end of phase two. Let’s call phase three sleeping in the same bed and nothing else. Alright?”
“Yeah.”
“We’ll call phase four: it was more physical contact."
"This is where it starts."
"Where the physical contact started? When would you say that started to the best of your recollection?”
“When like what time?"
“What month? I mean Las Vegas, you said, was in early February sometime.”
“Las Vegas was more like later February.”
“Okay, late February. When was the first hug?”
“I don’t know.”
“Do you have any idea?”
“No.”
“Was it before the summer of ’93?”
"I would think early May, middle May [1993]."
"Somewhere in May ’93; that was the first hug? And that was while you were in bed?"
"Yes."
"Where were you at the time? Where was the bed - physical location?”
“Do you want me to describe what his room looked like?
"No, I’m wondering where the bed was. Were you at Neverland or were you in some city?”
“Oh, this was in Neverland. I think it may have been somewhere else but I’m almost positive it was Neverland.”
“Okay, and what happened then?”
"He hugged me and I thought nothing of it. I said, okay, whatever. And that was it and he continued that for a small amount of time."
"How long would the hug last?"
"A quick hug and that was it."
"And this was while in bed?"
"Yeah, and fully clothed."
"And did you say anything?"
"I don’t remember, I think he said 'I love you, good night,' or something. I don't know."
"Did you push him away?"
"No. I just – I don't think I hugged him back. I just said, 'I love you, good night.'
"He said 'I love you'?"
"I think so, I don't know."
"When you say ‘I love you,’ it can be said in many different ways. You understand, someone can say ‘I love you’ and their really saying I’m in love, and sometimes you can say ‘I love you’ as a friendly gesture without romantic feelings. What kind of a way did you say that? Were you saying it with romantic feelings or - - ?"
"Just friends."
“Just friendly. It wasn’t a romantic love?”
“No.”
"Okay, go ahead."
"So after that hugging thing - - "
"Are you describing now a beginning of a pattern of hugging?"
"Yes, like every time he would graduate to a new sexual act, we'd continue that and graduate some more."
"Okay, what was the next step? So are you saying there was a lot of hugging, a lot of attempts to hug?"
"Yeah."
"Did this happen in bed or under other circumstances?"
"You know, I mean it was just a regular hug that if anybody saw it they wouldn't think anything of it."
“He did it in public situations?”
“Yeah, like a goodbye kind of hug.”
"Did you ever feel in those hugs that he was sexually aroused? You didn’t ever feel he had an erection or anything like that?"
"No."
"Okay, the next step."
"I think he kissed me on the cheek, or something."
"When did that occur?"
"I don’t know, around the same time."
"Around the same time, so you’re talking about May – we’re still in May of ‘93. He kissed you on the cheek, under what circumstances? Were you in bed? Were you standing up? What were the circumstances?"
"I think we were in bed."
"What kind of kiss was it?"
"Just a peck on the cheek. I think it was a goodnight peck on the cheek."
"And then what happened?"
"And so he continued that as well as the hugging and then graduated to kissing me on the lips."
"When did that occur as far as you know?"
"I don't know."
"Was it before the summer?"
"Yeah."
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