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A while back, I posted “Defending Michael” by Tom Mesereau, the lead attorney in Michael Jackson’s 2005 trial, which gave a very intimate glimpse into his work defending Michael Jackson on child molestation charges, and into who Michael was as a person. It clarified the fact that Michael was certainly innocent of the horrendous claims being made against him.

Now, Deborah Kunesh of ‘Reflections On The Dance” website, has garnered an exclusive interview with Tom Mesereau, some of which I include here. I encourage you to read the entire interview on her site and to pass this information along to anyone you know who is yet ‘undecided’ about Michael’s innocence of these charges.

Supporters outside the courtroom, rejoicing at justice being served

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DK: Deborah Kunesh
TM: Tom Mesereau

DK: When I interviewed Aphrodite Jones, she mentioned that the prosecution had called witnesses, had called friends and people that were close to Michael, and that he had a hard time with some of that, with some of what they said?

TM:  It was a dreadful experience.  It was painful, it was horrifying, he couldn’t believe that he was listening to some of the statements that were made.  He couldn’t believe anybody would accuse him of harming children.  He couldn’t believe that they would ever accuse him of masterminding a conspiracy to falsely imprison a family, to abduct children, to extort.  These are things that Michael was not capable of even imagining and to formally charge him with this and then to call witnesses who clearly were not telling the truth, to try and build a case against him, was frightening and very disheartening for him.

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DK: Is there anything specific that you want to share about Michael, about who he was?  What you would like the public to know about Michael and about the trial?

TM:  Michael Jackson was one of the nicest, kindest people I’ve ever met.  He really wanted to do more than just be a musical genius.  He wanted to heal and change the world through love, through kindness, through art and through music and I do believe the world’s a better place because he was with us.

He was very gentle, very kind.  There was, I sort of describe it as a universal Michael and Michael the individual.  There was the universalist Michael who wanted to change the globe.  Wanted to see the entire world focus on children and he felt that if children were properly loved and cared for that we would significantly reduce the violence in the world, significantly reduce the meanness in the world, significantly reduce poverty, and all of the world’s most important problems.  He felt that the way to do that was to focus on the world’s children.  So that’s the universalist Michael who thought he could heal the world through music, through love, through humanitarian measures.  He was one of the greatest humanitarians in world history.  He actually is in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the largest donors to children’s causes, which the media doesn’t like to focus on.

There also is the individual Michael, who I dealt with, who was a person, and he loved to see a child smile.  He built Neverland to see children happy.  He was one of the wealthiest men in the world.  He could have spent all of that money selfishly.  Instead he had a zoo, he had an amusement park, a theatre, he had statues devoted to the world’s children.  If you looked at the artwork in his house, a lot of it centered on children and seeing them happy and respecting them for who they were.  Their race, their religion, what part of the world they were from, what kind of native traditions they had.  This was someone who as a person, loved to see a child smile.  Loved to see a child from the inner city who was growing up in poverty and violence come to Neverland and look at a giraffe and smile and look at an elephant and smile.  Get some free ice cream and just be happy.  It just meant a lot to Michael  because he was a very good person.  But unfortunately when you’re that much of a genius, and you’re that wealthy, all of the sharks are going to come forward, and when you combine with that a certain level of naivety, a person who just didn’t want to be wrapped up in money matters all of the time or legal matters.  He wanted to do creative things, he wanted to do humanitarian things.  That makes him even more of a target for frivolous lawsuits and frivolous claims.

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Divine Connection

Tom Mesereau and his client Michael Jackson

What many do not realize is that while this trial was going on, attorney Tom Mesereau was also dealing with very real and deep personal pain. While getting ready for trial, Mesereau found out that his sister was diagnosed with terminal cancer. After being released from the hospital, she came home to find a bouquet of flowers larger than her front door with a poem tucked inside, written by Michael himself. Despite his loss after his sister passed, Mesereau went forward into trial to defend Michael’s innocence

I wanted to share this story because it speaks so highly of 2 very special human beings and their character.  Tom Mesereau, who wholeheartedly believed in Michael’s innocence and worked diligently, even through his own personal pain and loss, to vindicate someone he knew was innocent, and Michael Jackson, despite the pain he was going through of being falsely accused of disgusting acts and of having his caring, giving nature turned against him by a family whom he had helped and who the family themselves admitted that Michael’s love and care had helped heal their son of cancer, continued to be the kind, caring, generous, sweet person that he always was, reaching out to others in their pain despite the personal pain he was going through.  God definitely brought these two extraordinary individuals together.  -Deborah Kunesh

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