Michaels Bodyguards geben Interview auf Good Morning America

[Teichlibelle]

Habe schon öfter darüber gelesen, dass Michael Wutausbrüche hatte. Ist eine süße Story.

[Christine3110]

MJs Bodyguards

We apologize for not having more info on the books release date. Most Publishers DO NOT want to publish our book because many of them have published negative books about Mr. Jackson. We are working extremely hard to make this happen and it will happen... we owe it to MJ, his kids and most of all You, his fans. Thank you all for your support, love and blessings, we will not let you down.


Much love, god bless
BJM


Die Jungs haben anscheinend Probleme einen Verleger für ihr Buch zu finden...sehr traurig...
daher können sie keine Angaben über ein evtl. Erscheinungsdatum machen.

[bea0608]

Vielleicht sollen die sich mal bei Aphrodite Jones schlau machen....die weiß ja wie sowas geht. Wenn alle ein positives Buch über MJ ablehnen, selber veröffentlichen. Gibt doch bestimmt Möglichkeiten.

[geli2709]

09.07.2011: Update: Buch von MJs Bodyguards

Am 4. Mai letzten Jahres haben wir über das interessante und unterhaltsame Interview von Michael Jacksons Bodyguards in Bezug auf ihr geplantes Buch, das sie im Übrigen selbst, nicht über einen Verlag, veröffentlichen werden, berichtet. Leider ist es noch immer nicht erschienen, aber gestern haben die MJ Bodyguards folgenden Update gegeben: "Das Buch ist ca. zu 90% fertig gestellt. Leider gab es aufgrund einiger Egos und Hintergedanken ein paar Rückschläge mit diesem Projekt. Aber Ihr könnt uns glauben, dass uns niemand aufhalten wird. Das Buch muss veröffentlicht werden und es wird veröffentlicht werden."
Zur Erinnerung hier nochmals das Q&A der MJ Bodyguards im Rahmen ihres Buchprojekts:
http://www.mj-upbeat.com/MJsFormerBo...OnFacebook.htm

Quellen: jackson.ch, facebook.com, mj-upbeat.com

http://www.jackson.ch/html/news.html

[Ghosti]

Dieses Buch dürfte autentischer und an der Realität näher dran sein, so dass es mit Sicherheit auch lesenswert sein wird. Man darf sicherlich gespannt sein. Es wird eines sein, das ich auch bereit bin, zu kaufen (im Gegensatz zu LT!).

[BlaueBlume]

Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days

http://www.amazon.de/Remember-Time-P...=I51ST2HZFLIZA

[BlaueBlume]

Auf die Twitter gibt es nochmal den Hinweis auf das Erscheinungsdatum -> 3. Juni2014
Bill Whitfield hat ein Foto dazu gestellt: Bodyguards..jpg

[Lena]

Die 2 Bodyguard-Autoren des Buches haben offensichtlich einigen Fan-Club-Vertreter Vorabkopien des Buches gegeben. MKGenie, Präsident von China-Fanclub hat auch schon geäußert, dass er eine hat und es ein intressantes Lesen ist.

Ivy, MJJC bekam auch eine. Hier ihre Kurzzusammenfassung.


I was given an advance copy of the "Remember the Time : Protecting Michael Jackson in his final days" by MJ's bodyguards Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard.

Below is my review and brief summary.

As a MJ fan who has read all the books written about him, I look for unique and interesting books about him. This book delivers on that front. It's not the same old stuff you read a million times before, it's the unique and first hand experiences of Bill and Javon. Just this could be enough reason to get the book.

The book covers December 2006 (when Michael returned to US) to June 2009 (his death). Although Bill and Javon worked for Michael till the day he died, the bulk of the book covers the period between December 2006 to early 2009 when Michael moved to LA. (Bill and Javon did not go to LA but was supposed to join Michael at London). Book talks about Michael's stay at Las Vegas, Virginia, New Jersey and back at Las Vegas.

The book has several heartwarming, funny and interesting and at times unbelievable stories. Michael Jackson the father is always nice to read. His interactions with his children, their love towards each other gives you warm feelings. So stuff like Michael doing laundry, Michael taking his kids to Chuck E. Cheese, fast food drive through events, after hour store visits to toy stores, go kart place, Krispy Kreme to see how donuts are made, Michael giving responsibility talk to Prince about his dog Kenya, Blanket asking for a hippopotamus as a pet after Prince got his dog Kenya and Paris got her cat Katie, Michael giving money and food to homeless people,ordering a large Tinkerbell statue from eBay, asking bodyguards to get(cough steal) a lifesize Spiderman figurines on the lampposts outside Burger King stores, Michael getting stopped by Secret Service as his car with tinted windows drove around White House etc is interesting and fun stories to read. The book also mentions visits by "Friend" and "Flower", two woman from overseas and yes Michael kissing "Friend". I don't want to give much away for the people who might buy the book.

Book mentions Michael's staff, business people, family and friends as well. Some of them are mentioned negatively (most of Michael's business associates including Bain, Feldman, Cross and Sony, as well as some of his family members such as Randy Jackson), some of them mentioned positively (such as Miko Brando and Cascios) and some just neutral.

Knowing that how some people would be interested in above, I'll provide brief details below:

Raymone Bain : generally mentioned negatively for not paying bodyguards salaries while she was paying herself and others, renting a luxury apartment for herself with what looks like MJ's money, Michael thinking he had an office in DC while Bain was working out of her home and such.

Jacksons: Bodyguards mention that Michael did not want to see his family - his orders. The only person he would see and could come unannounced was Katherine. He refused to see other family members when they came and required them to make appointments. Michael refused to see Joe once, refused to see Randy, Rebbie and Jackie (when they got in by following the chef), refused to see Randy (when he smashed his car to the gate) and only agreed to see his brothers (Jackie, Tito, Jermaine) in the security trailer after making sure Randy wasn't with them and didn't want to see Janet. Bodyguards impressions about Jacksons are mostly positive to neutral with the exception of Randy (see below) and Jermaine who they said always had an angle or some sort of deal he was working on.

Randy crashing the gate: Details of the event is provided in the book. It turns out the gate crashing event happened on Elizabeth Taylor's 75th birthday. Her people had reached out to Michael and he would attend her birthday as a surprise to her. Michael spent 2 weeks preparing to that day. Before they were supposed to leave for Taylor's birthday, bodyguards take the car to fill it with gas. When the bodyguard returns, Randy follows the car, crashes the closing gate, forces his way into the property. Bodyguards rush to the car with their guns out and see Randy with a woman passenger. Randy tells them "Get that gun out my face before I call the press.” and screaming and cursing “Michael owe me money! I want my ****in’ money! I ain’t ****in’ moving ’til I get my ****in’ money! ”. They tell Michael that Randy is there and what he's saying, he tells the bodyguard to get rid of him. But they can't make him leave so Michael decides he won't go to Elizabeth's birthday and goes to bed. Randy refused to leave and stayed at the driveway for hours. Bodyguards had to call Joe Jackson. When Joe came Randy told him he would call the press to tell them he was there for his money. Joe eventually convinced Randy to leave.

Sony: Mottola is mentioned as devil and Michael mentioned not really wanting to work with Sony and on Thriller 25. There's a story about Michael breaking Sony headphones. They say he didn't work on Thriller 25 with enthusiasm and did everything the last minute. Bodyguards also state that Michael eventually was paid $12 Million for the sales of Thriller 25. (Sony initially planned to take the money from Thriller 25 sales and apply it to pay MJ's debt on Sony/ATV catalog. Apparently Tohme got them to pay the $12 Million to Michael so that he could use that money as a down payment for the Las Vegas house he wanted to buy).

One of the sad thing to read that there wasn't many friends or visitors that would visit Michael. They mention nanny Grace telling them some people wouldn't take or return MJ's calls after the 2005 trial. Book mentions Miko Brando, Eddie Griffin (comedian), Chris Tucker, Jesse Jackson and Cascios as people who visited Michael and/or Michael met with. He talked with Nelson Mandela on the phone several times. Eddie Griffin mentioned as a regular visitor, Miko Brando brought his kids to play with Michael's kids, Chris Tucker and Michael went to movies together and Eddie Cascio visited Michael in Vegas and Cascio house was the only place Michael would feel safe to stay without bodyguards in front of the door. Brad Buxer visited to work on music with Michael. (unidentified) choreographers were also coming to work with him regularly as well as a Chinese film professor from USC.

The second half of the book mentions financial troubles. Although they don't blame Michael for such troubles, it's not a pretty picture. Staff not being paid, not having a house to stay, friends/business associates paying for hotels for a while and when they stop hotels were asking them leave and even locking them out. It's obvious there was some frustration on the bodyguards part in regards to not being paid. Like I said they don't blame Michael for it but the finances isn't a pretty picture.

Conrad Murray is briefly mentioned as a doctor that made a housecall when the kids were sick and occasionally came to check up on them. Only a few visits, at day time and for a short amount of time. They mention Michael's insomnia, how sometimes he would have a good day's sleep and sometimes wont. How sometimes he would be up all night and the night security would watch him move around the house - his room, studio/dance room, kitchen and such. There's almost no drug talk. Just once going to a doctor middle of the night for pain and just one time his behavior didn't seem normal / seemed like under the influence of something. That's all. No doctors, no nightly visits and no propofol - given that Michael seemed to be not sleeping most of the time.

Overall I liked the book and I recommend purchase. It's interesting and definitely unique. I enjoyed all the little stories about Michael very much and financials wasn't a pretty picture as I said before. I can't say I liked that part. Book is written in an every day language. It feels like you are sitting with Bill and Javon and they are recapping their day to you. So that's interesting too. I guess it's possible that some fans might have a trouble with this book if they feel overly protective of Michael's privacy. Yes the book mentions Michael's everyday life, stuff that wasn't known before hence private but I thought they were nicely balanced. I personally like positive stories about Michael and/or stories that show him as a normal person. But like I said it's possible that some might think this is an invasion of privacy.

Finally some quotes:

"Michael Jackson had an effect on people. It’s hard to describe. Once he let people in, they started feeling possessive of him. Like, He’s mine! People didn't do it on purpose; he brought it out of them because he was bigger than life. He’s calling them personally, giving them leeway to dictate certain stuff, and they start to feel like, Okay, he trusts me. They see how vulnerable and hurt he is. They see all these other people trying to use him and take advantage of him. So they start to think, If I’m the one in control, I’ll make sure he’s okay.

So once he lets someone in, pretty soon they’re starting to speak on his behalf, as opposed to letting him make his own decisions. They know if they do it, they won’t get that much flak, because they know Mr. Jackson doesn't question things. They start to feel like they’re in control, but to keep that control, they've got to manipulate everybody else that’s trying to get at Mr. Jackson. So they’re spreading lies about this person or telling Mr. Jackson not to trust that person."

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"It wasn't necessarily that those other people were bad people. There was just a force that dictated a lot of this madness. But the way it was around Mr. Jackson, nobody trusting anybody, so much money and power in play, it just sucked you into all this drama. "

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" People look at what happened to Mr. Jackson and they want to blame somebody. “It was Dr. Murray.” “It was Tohme Tohme.” “It was his family.” Nah. That wasn’t it. It wasn't any one person. It was everything."

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"As we drove back to the house, everyone was being real quiet in the backseat. Then Blanket looked up at his daddy and said, “Daddy, can we go back to the other house? Can we go back to Neverland?” Mr. Jackson shook his head and said, “No. We can’t ever go back there. That place has been contaminated by evil.”

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One time, we were driving and Blanket started to say something, and Mr. Jackson kinda shushed him. The kids kept giggling and Mr. Jackson kept going, “Shhh! No, I didn’t! No, I didn’t!”
Blanket said, “Yes, you did, Daddy. You said that Bill looked like—”
“Shhh! ”
So now I was curious. I said, “Bill looks like what?”
I looked in the rearview mirror. Blanket and Mr. Jackson were both staring at each other like, Who’s gonna tell him?
Blanket looked at me and said, “Bill, Daddy says you look like the Thing!”
“The Thing? What’s the Thing?”
“You know,” Blanket said, “the guy from the Fantastic Four! Daddy said you look like the Thing from the Fantastic Four.”
And I was like, Wow. Okay. The brother’s got jokes. Then Blanket said, “And Javon looks like Frozone from The Incredibles!”
We all had a good laugh about it.

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Michael to Bill

“I just want my kids to have a better life than me,” he said. “I never want them to go through what I had to go through. How would you guys feel if your kids asked you for something and you had to send someone out to get it? I appreciate what you guys do for my kids, but I’m their father. I should be the one doing those things, but I can’t just get in the car and go. There are so many things I can’t do for them because those people out there won’t let me. You have no idea how that feels. You really don’t. I just wanna live my life with my kids.”

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Ps: the name of "Friend" is mentioned towards the end of the book and the name reminds you of a certain person. However the physical description of "Friend" doesn't fit with the person known to fans. So it looks like they are two different people with the same name.

[cyplone]

naja möchte ich mal anzweifeln. woher soll ein bodyguard so viel hintergrundwissen haben?

[Lena]

Ich weiß nicht, aber das sie jetzt über so viel Hintergrundinformationen berichten finde ich jetzt mal gar nicht (aus der Zusammenfassung entnehmend). Es ist ja mehr ein Bericht über Interaktionen mit Michael und den Kindern in der Zeit wo sie für ihn dirket arbeiteten 2007 bis Anfang 2009 und das sie den Überblick hatten wer kam und ging und wo er hin ging denke ich mal schon.
Zudem war ja wohl Bill so eine Art persönlicher Assistent, die Rolle die in LA dann Michael Amir übernahm, offensichtlich sollten sie ja auch mit nach London (ob es so stimmt weiß ich natürlich nicht).


Hier noch ein funny Story:

Michael goes to Walmart incognito when he was staying in Virginia. They get suspicious as his face was covered, cops were called and people were curious who that person is. Bodyguards say "It's Prince" to the cops and people around and they leave. Michael asks them what happened when they are in the car and they say we told that you were Prince. Michael laughs and say “No wonder they left us alone.”

Michael geht zu Walmart inkognito, als er in Virginia verweilte. Sie wurden misstrauisch, als sein Gesicht bedeckt war, Bullen wurden gerufen und die Leute waren neugierig, wer diese Person ist. Bodyguards sagten zu den Polizisten "Es ist Prince", und die Polzisten und die Menschen drumherum gingen. Michael fragt was passiert war als sie im Auto waren und sie sagten wir haben gesagt, dass Du Prince bist. Michael lacht und sagte "Kein Wunder, dass sie uns in Ruhe gelassen haben."


Eddie Griffin als ein Freund mit dem Michael in ständigem Kontakt war ist jezt für mich ein ganz neuer Name. Musste erstmal googlen wer das ist.

[cori79]

Na ja die Bodyguards waren 24 h für Michael da und haben ihn immer begleitet, ob er zum Anwalt musste, zum Arzt, zu meetings, seine Kinder wohin mussten etc.mit grace zusammen Menschen, die täglich an seiner Seite waren, viel mitbekommen haben.'Michael war auch nur ein Mensch mit Gefühlen und Emotionen und hin und wieder wird er sich vor ihnen auch Luft verschafft haben und auch mal was erzählt haben. Nur ich denke, in der Zeit wo sie angestellt waren, gab es sicher eine verschwiegenheitsklausel im Vertrag.
Was mich wundert ist, das Randy so schlecht weg kommt. Er war ja vor dem Prozess Michaels rechte Hand und hat sich um die suche eines Anwaltes gekümmert und die Sache mit meserau eingeleitet und auch nach dem Prozess war er mit Michael in einem Haus in Beverly hills, bevor Michael dann nach Bahrain gegangen ist.
Traurig finde ich das verhalten vieler prominente nach seinem Prozess.
Als sei er Schmutz für sie, der ihren Ruf beschädigen könnte.
Das hat ihn sicher auch sehr erschüttert.
Ich weiß nicht ob man immer gleich ein Buch schreiben muss. Ein längeres iv, wo sie ihre stories erzählen wäre doch auch okay.

[Lena]

Was mich wundert ist, das Randy so schlecht weg kommt. .

Als das wundert mich nun überhaupt nicht. Sein ganzes Verhalten, ob vor oder nach Michaels Tod, einfach nur schäbig.

http://www.mjackson.net/forum/showthread.php?15477-Randy-Jackson-und-seine-Versuche-Gewalt-%FCber-Michael-s-Gesch%E4fte-zu-erhalten

[Brigitte 58]

ich denke mal die BG werden erst mal nachgefragt haben müssen, was sie denn von sich geben dürfen.
und randy... ich weiß nicht, ob es sich lohnt, sich über ihn gedanken zu machen und ob die geschichten rund um ihn, wirklich der wahrheit entsprechen. einiges wurde schon damals von bain im namen Michaels dementiert.

[Lena]

Meinst Du das Statement: Michael glaubt nicht, dass Randy ihm etwas gestohlen hat

Hmm hört sich jetzt nicht so nach sehr überzeugendem Dementi an.

Und das Randy aus geschäftlichen Gründen MJs Tor in Las Vegas rammte und versuchte gewaltsam Zutritt zu gelangen wurde sogar von dessen Freundin bestätigt.

Und jetzt zu lesen, dass Michael deswegen nicht zu E. Taylors 75. Geburtstag konnte, schon traurig.

[Brigitte 58]

Lena,
wir waren beide nicht dabei, ich weiß nicht, was ich von randy halten soll. aber kein grund zur beunruhigung, leute , die Michael geschadet haben, oder immer noch schaden, mag ich auch nicht.
und was thayna von sich gegeben hat, oder nicht, weiß ich auch nicht wirklich.
kennst du auch die geschichte mit Tina Turner? ist auch son ding,

10.03.2012, 21:04

stimmt Lena, ich hätte es besser benennen sollen.
sie hat in ihrer pressemitteilung geschrieben:
Mr. Jackson does not believe that his brother, Randy Jackson, has stolen monies from him, nor does he believe that Randy, or any of his family members, would ever steal from him. Reports regarding the same were untrue and malicious.
Herr Jackson glaubt nicht, dass ihm sein Bruder Randy Jackson Gelder entwendet haben soll, und er glaubt auch nicht, dass Randy oder andere Familienmitglieder ihn jemals bestehlen würden. Berichte, in denen dies behauptet wird sind falsch und bösartig.

he he, das thema hatten wir beide schon einmal, siehe hier http://www.mjackson.net/forum/archiv...p/t-15477.html