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In the summer of 1993, Evan Chandler accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing Chandler's 13-year-old son, Jordan. The relationship between Jackson and Evan had begun in May 1992; Chandler initially welcomed and encouraged the friendship, and bragged about his connection to a celebrity.〔Fischer, p. 217〕 The friendship became well known as the tabloid media reported that Jackson became a member of the Chandler family. In June 1993, Chandler confronted his ex-wife June, who had custody of Jordan, with suspicions that their son had been in an inappropriate relationship with Jackson but June dismissed his worries.〔Fischer, p. 218〕〔Fischer, p.219〕 According to several sources, Chandler threatened to go public with the evidence he claimed he had on Jackson,〔 who asked his lawyer Bert Fields to intervene.〔 Chandler's lawyer, Barry K. Rothman, called psychiatrist Mathis Abrams and reported a hypothetical situation of sexual molestation mirroring what his son had alleged. Without meeting Jordan, Abrams then sent Rothman a letter on July 15 stating there was "reasonable suspicion" of sexual abuse and if it had been a real case, he would be required by law to contact the Los Angeles County Department of Children's Services (DCS).〔Fischer, p. 220〕 On August 4, Chandler and Jordan met with Jackson and Anthony Pellicano, Jackson's private investigator, and Chandler read out Abrams' letter. He then opened negotiations to resolve the issue with a financial settlement.〔Fischer, p. 221〕〔 On August 16, three days after Chandler and Rothman had rejected a $350,000 offer from Jackson's camp, June's attorney notified Rothman that he would be filing papers next morning to force Chandler to return Jordan to allow him to go on the Asian leg of Jackson's Dangerous World Tour. On the day Jackson began the third leg of his tour, news of the allegations broke to the public and received worldwide media attention. Jackson ultimately cancelled the remainder of the tour due to health problems arising from the scandal. In January 1994 Jackson reached a financial settlement with the Chandlers to resolve the matter and in September a criminal investigation was closed due to lack of evidence. Five months after Jackson's death, Evan Chandler killed himself on November 5, 2009, in his apartment in Jersey City, New Jersey. ==Friendship, tape recording, allegations and negotiations== By the summer of 1993, it was revealed that Jackson had children sleep over in his bed with him at his Neverland ranch, a fact which came under much media scrutiny when child sexual abuse allegations were brought against him. Jackson became firm friends with Jordan Chandler and his family after a meeting in May 1992, as he was a fan of Jackson.〔Campbell, pp. 47–50〕 Their friendship became so close that the ''National Enquirer'' ran a featured story with the title "Michael's New Adopted Family", which implied that Jackson had "stolen" the boy from his estranged father, Evan Chandler, a dentist, who was admittedly jealous over Jackson's influence on his son.〔Taraborrelli, pp. 464–471〕 According to celebrity biographer, J. Randy Taraborrelli, Chandler asked, "Look, are you having sex with my son?" and after Jackson denied doing so, Chandler's opinion of Jackson changed.〔 Jackson invited Jordan, his stepsister and his mother to visit Neverland on the weekends and they would also take trips to Las Vegas and Florida.〔 These weekend trips began to interfere with Jordan's scheduled visits with his father, with Jordan preferring to visit Neverland.〔 In May 1993, when Jackson and Jordan stayed with Chandler, he urged Jackson to spend more time with his son at his house and even suggested that Jackson build an addition onto the house so that Jackson could stay there.〔 After the zoning department told Chandler it could not be done, he suggested that Jackson just build him a new home.〔 That same month, Jordan and June flew with Jackson to Monaco for the ''World Music Awards''.〔〔Campbell, p.50〕 According to June's lawyer, Michael Freeman, “Evan began to get jealous of the involvement and felt left out.”〔 Upon their return, Chandler was pleased with a five-day visit from Jackson, during which Jackson slept in a room with Jordan and his stepbrother.〔 Chandler claimed this was when his suspicions of sexual misconduct by Jackson began, although he admitted that Jackson and Jordan always had their clothes on when he saw them in bed together and has never claimed to have witnessed any sexual misconduct between the two.〔Fischer, pp.217-218〕 On July 2, 1993, in a private telephone conversation, Chandler was tape-recorded as saying, In the same conversation, when asked how this would affect his son, Chandler replied, The recorded conversation was a critical aspect of Jackson's defense against the upcoming allegation made against him. He and his supporters argue that he was the victim of a jealous father whose only goal was to extort money from the singer.〔 In October 1994, Mary A. Fischer of ''GQ'' magazine reported it was Evan Chandler who initially accused Jackson of molesting his son, before he demanded a screenwriting deal from Jackson instead of going to the police.〔p. 266〕 According to Taraborrelli, Chandler was forced to admit the controversial sedative sodium amytal was used when he extracted a tooth from Jordan in early August.〔Taraborrelli, p. 485–486〕 On May 3, 1994, KCBS-TV news reported that Chandler claimed the drug was used for tooth extraction and that the allegations came out while Jordan was under the influence of the drug.〔 Mark Torbiner, the dental anesthesiologist who administered the drug, told ''GQ'' if sodium amytal was used, "it was for dental purposes."〔 Sodium amytal is a barbiturate that puts people in a hypnotic state when injected intravenously. Studies done in 1952 debunked the drug as a truth serum and demonstrated it enabled false memories to be easily implanted.〔 Dr. Phillip Resnick, a noted Cleveland psychiatrist〔Fischer, p.216〕 said it was "a psychiatric medication" and "People will say things under sodium amytal that are blatantly untrue."〔 In mid-May 1994 in Napa County, California, Gary Ramona won his lawsuit against his daughter's therapist and the psychiatrist who had given her sodium amytal.〔〔Smolowe, Jill; Willwerth, James. ("Dubious Memories" ). ''Time''. 1994-05-23.〕 The psychiatrist claimed the drug helped Ramona's daughter remember specific details of sexual molestation by Ramona, but a court brief written by Martin Orne, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist who pioneered research of hypnosis and sodium amytal, stated that the drug is "not useful in ascertaining 'truth' . . . The patient becomes sensitive and receptive to suggestions due to the context and to the comments of the interviewers."〔 This was the first successful legal challenge to the “repressed memory phenomenon".〔 Dr. Kenneth Gottlieb, a San Francisco psychiatrist said, “It’s absolutely a psychiatric drug...I would never want to use a drug that tampers with a person’s unconscious unless there was no other drug available. And I would not use it without resuscitating equipment, in case of allergic reaction, and only with an M.D. anesthesiologist present.”〔 According to Dr. John Yagiela, coordinator of the anesthesia and pain control department of UCLA’s school of dentistry, “It’s unusual for it to be used (pulling a tooth )" and "better, safer alternatives are available."〔 According to Diane Dimond of ''Hard Copy'', Torbiner's records show that Robinul and Vistarol was administered instead of sodium amytal.〔Dimond, Diane. ''Be Careful Who You Love''. pp. 61–62〕 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was investigating Torbiner's administration of drugs in house calls, where he mostly gave patients morphine and Demerol.〔 His credentials with the Board of Dental Examiners indicated that he was restricted by law to administering drugs solely for dental-related procedures, but he had not adhered to those restrictions.〔Fischer, p.265〕 For instance, he had given general anesthetic to Barry Rothman during hair-transplant procedures.〔 Torbiner had introduced Chandler and Rothman in 1991, when Rothman needed dental work.〔 Over the next couple of months both parties engaged in unsuccessful (out of court) financial negotiations, with Chandler and his legal team asking for $20 million, or the issue would be taken to criminal court.〔Campbell, p.53〕 Jackson declined the offer, saying, "No way in Hell". A few weeks later, Jackson's legal team gave a counter-offer to the value of $1 million, which was declined by Chandler.〔 Pellicano said he made the offers he said in an attempt to catch the Chandler's negotiating and tape recorded one of the telephone calls to Rothman to demonstrate this.〔(Jackson Aides Go Back on the Offensive, LA Times, September 02, 1993 )〕 The father then lowered his request to $15 million; Jackson rejected this and lowered his original counter-offer to $350,000. With both sides unable to reach an agreement, Chandler decided he would take it to court.〔〔(Nightmare in Neverland by Maureen Orth. January 1994, Vanity Fair )〕 Chandler then took his son to see a psychiatrist called Dr. Mathis Abrams, and during the three-hour session with the doctor, Jordan Chandler said he had had a sexual relationship with Jackson that went on for several months, and which included incidents of kissing, masturbation and oral sex. He then repeated these allegations to police and gave a detailed description of what he alleged was Jackson's penis.〔〔Taraborrelli, p. 496–498〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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