Is there any truth to Maureen Orths recent article about the Michael Jackson case?
Vanity Fair magazine recently acknowledged that the bulk of information from Maureen Orth’s article on Michael Jackson came from former Jackson chief financial officer Myung-Ho Lee. Lee told Orth that Jackson had once given a Japanese boy alcohol in a soda can to get him drunk. Orth used this story to show a pattern of behaviour on Jackson’s part, as he is accused of giving his alleged victim wine in a soda can. Shortly after the article was written, however, the boy Orth had written about came forward. In an interview with NBC’s Mike Taibbi, Richard Matsuura said the allegations in Orth’s article were “completely false” and that Jackson had never acted inappropriately around him. The boy’s father also said the information in the Vanity Fair magazine article was untrue. Orth admitted that she had never actually spoken with Matsuura but said she stood by her source. Myung-Ho Lee, who provided Orth with most of her information, also stood by his story, which begs the question: how much o
