Friday, June 26, 2009
National Skyline Michael Jackson: Well-Read, According to His Attorney, Bob Sanger
Posted by Steve Haruch on Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:18 AM
My colleague in Los Angeles, Randall Roberts, has an interesting interview with Bob Sanger, who was Michael Jackson's attorney. In it, Sanger repeatedly evokes Jackson's kindess, adding that the King of Pop was very well-read:
He loved to read. He had over 10,000 books at his house. And I know that because - and I hate to keep referring to the case, because I don't want the case - the case should not define him. But one of the things that we learned - the DA went through his entire library and found, for instance, a German art book from 1930-something. And it turned out that the guy who was the artist behind the book had been prosecuted by the Nazis. Nobody knew that, but then the cops get up there and say, 'We found this book with pictures of nude people in it.' But it was art, with a lot of text. It was art. And they found some other things, a briefcase that didn't belong to him that had some Playboys in it or something. But they went through the guy's entire house, 10,000 books. And it caused us to do the same thing, and look at it.
Vote here for best Band of the Week
Slideshows
Top Commenters
Comments (0)