Jackson showed us porn, says boy

Sarah Getty|Metro11 April 2012
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The younger brother of Michael Jackson's teenage accuser claimed yesterday that the singer showed them pornographic websites on their first visit to his Neverland ranch - then warned them not to tell anyone.

Star Arvizo, now 14, told jurors at the singer's child abuse trial that he and brother Gavin looked at the Internet and then watched The Simpsons.

Asked what was on the websites, Star said: 'Females.' Asked whether they were dressed, he said: 'No.'

'Michael told us to tell no one what we did, not to tell our parents what we did,' he added.

He claimed that, while looking at an image of a woman's breasts, Jackson once joked: 'Got milk?'

Later, Jackson whispered to his sleeping son, Prince Michael, and said: 'You're missing some *****' - using a vulgar term for the female anatomy.

Star recalled the first time he and Gavin spent the night in Jackson's bedroom.

He said they shared a bed with Jackson's children Prince Michael and Paris while the singer slept on the floor.

Star told a pre-trial hearing last year that he twice saw Jackson abuse his brother as they lay on the singer's bed.

Earlier, the jury heard a tape on which the boys' mother, Janet Arvizo, said she felt her children were safe in the 46-year-old's company. The tape was made by a private investigator working for the Jackson team ten days after Martin Bashir's exposÈ of the singer was screened in the US.

On the tape, Gavin, then 13, and his family heaped praise on the singer, describing him as a father figure who took them in after years of abuse by their own father.

'We had been neglected, rejected, spat on, doors closed,' Mrs Arvizo said.

'Michael took us from the line and pulled us up to the front and said, "You matter to me". He never left us behind.'

Gavin's sister Davellin, 18, broke down in tears when cross-examined by Jackson's lawyer about the family's shifting relationship with the singer.

Thomas Mesereau confronted her with conflicting statements and her apparent inability to remember key facts, suggesting she was coached by the prosecution.

Jackson denies child abuse and false imprisonment. The trial, in Santa Barbara, California, continues.

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