Friend Tries to Unravel Jacko's Complex Sexuality

Lisa Marie said King of Pop was 'hot stuff in bed', into role-playing

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 30, 2009 11:24 AM CDT

(Newser) – When he was accused of sexual abuse in 1993, Michael Jackson’s complex sexuality changed forever. The "virgin" superstar that Tatum O'Neal once described as "so shy he hardly says two words" now had police bearing down on Neverland, and sent maids scurrying to hide pictures of undressed young boys and the women's perfume he wore. “This guy is nuts, isn’t he?” one muttered. So his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley the next year was shocking and suspect. But “I am convinced this marriage was not a sham,” writes Jackson friend J. Randy Taraborreli in an extensive look at the King of Pop's sexuality for the Daily Mail.

Presley told a friend that Jackson was "hot stuff in bed," but Jackson refused to stop spending time with children—a refuge from the childhood he claimed was stolen by a philandering father and brothers who continually booked the Jackson Five into strip clubs. Jackson's overwhelming need to immediately have his own children with Presley eventually broke up the marriage, and sent him into the arms of surrogate mother and eventual wife Debbie Rowe.

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Pop star Michael Jackson and his wife Lisa Marie Presley wave to photographers as they visit the Versailles castle near Paris in this Sept. 5, 1994 file photo. (AP Photo/file/Laurent Rebours, File)

In this Thursday, Sept. 8, 1994 file picture, Michael Jackson kisses his wife Lisa Marie Presley during the 11th Annual MTV Music Awards at New York's Radio City Music Hall. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

In this Thursday, Sept. 8, 1994 file picture, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson acknowledge applause after coming out onstage to open the 11th Annual MTV Video Music Awards. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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Michael liked her to wear jewelry in bed. They were into role-playing games. - Anonymous friend on the Jackson-Presley marriage

How can any girl have a relationship with him? When we're together, he's so shy he hardly says two words. I know he's a virgin. I wonder if he's afraid to have sex. He doesn't seem very interested. - Tatum O'Neal, on Michael Jackson

One of my favourite pastimes is being with children. When I'm tired or bored, children revive me. - Michael Jackson

I love Lisa. Why won't people believe that? Why won't people let me be happy? - Michael Jackson

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Friend Tries to Unravel Jacko's Complex Sexuality