Dan Reed talks about Wade and Brandi's relationship in this podcast, starting about 31 minutes in. Basically he says he asked Joy about it, according to her it was just kids innocently hanging out, Wade would get dropped off at her house for a few ours here and there. Was not a 24/7 intense romance where she could reasonably claim to always know where he was and what he was doing.
https://player.fm/series/reality-life-with-kate-casey/ep-154-director-of-leaving-neverland
I recommend Margaret Maldonado's book Jackson Family Values: Memories of Madness (Amazon). She was the common-law wife of Jermaine and is the mother of two of his sons.
Based on the book, I'd diagnose Jermaine with narcissistic personality disorder. He's grandiose, impulsive, immature, lacks empathy, and he cheated on his wives and Maldonado, the common-law-wife, coming and going. He was unable to manage his money for one second, and routinely burned through whatever he had when he was supposed to provide for Maldonado and their boys. He seemed to be convinced that he should rightfully be as big a star as MJ. Etc. etc.
Word to the Badd was apparently triggered when Jermaine thought that MJ lured away the producers of his record to go work on Dangerous with MJ instead. He may have been right about that - I wouldn't put it past MJ. If he did though, it seems to have been to spite Jermaine, since MJ eventually produced Dangerous with other people.
This was a bit of a pattern with MJ. More than one of his siblings have accused him of thwarting the success of their records. Rebbie commented about her comeback album (1997, I believe) something to the effect of "the only mistake I made was to release it on Michael's label". She didn't elaborate, but the implication was that MJ's production company didn't promote the record and deliberately let it die. That seems incredibly petty of MJ, as if he was in competition with Rebbie Jackson in chart success or something.
Margart Maldonado: [url=https://www.amazon.com/Jackson-Family-Values-Memories-Madness/dp/0787105228]Jackson Family Values: Memories of Madness[/url] (Amazon)
(Maldonado is Jermaine Jackson's ex-common law wife, the mother of two of his sons, and she was a producer on the Jacksons tv-series in the early 1990s.)
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Tour_(The_Jacksons_tour)]Victory Tour (The Jacksons tour)[/url] (Wikipedia)
Note the financial arrangements and how Joe and the brothers basically screwed over everyone else involved, how MJ was close to not talking to his brothers at all and traveling with young boys instead, how Jackie Jackson was not performing because his wife had allegedly driven a car over his foot because he was cheating with Paula Abdul (the tour choreographer), and how the whole thing ended when MJ announced from the stage that this was the last Jacksons concert, effectively canceling the European leg to the surprise of everyone. The brothers didn't perform together again until 2001, at the 30th anniversary of MJs career.
On this subject, and also describing the dinamics that u/survivor_warrior is exposing, I think a great piece of research is this book about fake news and the political sphere in the internet, written by two argentinian researchers currently working in the US: Ernesto Calvo & Natalia Agurete (2020) <em>Fake news, trolls y otros encantos: Cómo funcionan (para bien y para mal) las redes sociales.</em> Translation: Fake News, Trolls and other Charms: how social media works (for better and for worse). It's in spanish, but I'm sure if you make a search of their names in google scholar you'll find their papers in english. I think it's important to point out (as they have researched) that many of these political exchanges can often be orchestrated/directed by powerful groups who have the resources to build/hire "troll farms", for example. In my country we have an infamous history in regards to that.
If anyone wants to lean more about this situation in Rio's favelas, I'm going to reccomend the movie City of God, it can be watched at Amazon Prime
This is ten years old. Does anyone know what ended up happening? The last thing I could find is from 2013:
> And now LifeGem is incubating a lock of hair from Michael Jackson. “We’d like to make three small diamonds out of it, and offer them to his three children,” Herro says.
Of course he was a sharp dynamic adult he was always brokering deals, making connections, manipulating children and their parents. https://www.iheart.com/content/2018-02-07-quincy-jones-michael-jackson-was-greedy-and-stole-other-peoples-music/
I understand. It's the problem of how digital plataforms mold the construction of "meaningfulness", that often leads to people only having access to opinions/information that confirm their biases. A private/public sphere with particular regulations and limitations. That's problematic specially in the political sphere. The book I recommended in other post (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Ernesto-Calvo-ebook/dp/B086HQKSX4&ved=2ahUKEwiKpaeSjoXrAhXdILkGHSdVAUQQFjAJegQIChAB&usg=AOvVaw1ALVL5rLHIdXO6j7DZ0s7n) is a useful research on the subject.