The Cascios trying to extort MJ's Estate with new allegation

I knew Joanna personally. I say knew because we have not been friends for years now. Contrary to what she would like some to believe, she and Michael did not have a relationship. She (along with a group of others) followed him around the world for years. He was always very kind and went out of his way to acknowledge those fans in that particular group. He always said it was nice seeing familiar faces.

At one point the entire group went to Neverland. I don't want to get in to the specifics of how it happened but I will say it was not Michael who invited everyone. Michael was out of town the two days the group stayed there. The person who invited us was someone who worked for Michael at the time and was his friend.

The first day everyone was just in awe and still trying to get their heads around the fact that they were actually at Neverland. The second day, people's true colors started to show. We were told there were rooms of the main house that were off limits to us- the children's rooms, Michael's bedroom, an office, one room upstairs, and another down.

Things got out of hand on the second night. A lot of things happened. Some of the people who worked for Michael joined us outside in the pool. These very same people who were supposed to be working for Michael and who claimed to be his friends were actually making fun of him. They told us things about his personal life that they had no business telling, they laughed about his inexperience with women, etc. My heart was breaking with every word they spoke. There were three of us who didn't want to be around everything that was going on and so we decided to go back to the guest house we were staying in.

We were woke up by someone banging on the door at 7 in the morning telling us we had to leave immediately because Michael was on his way back. We all went back to our hotel and that's when the group who had stayed in the pool told us everything that went down the night before.

People were having sex with each other in the pool (staff members and friends of Michael's and members of our group), people went in to Michael's room and the children's rooms, and people even slept in Michael's bed. Joanna was one of those people. Personally, I was shocked and disgusted by everything they told me. I would never in a million years behave the way they did and I was glad I went to bed early that night.

Several months passed and I received a call from Michael. He told me that Joanna had been giving interviews saying they had some sort of relationship. I wasn't even aware and by that time Joanna and I had stopped talking. I don't want to say that he was angry in the conversation, I think disappointed and hurt would be more accurate.

During that conversation he asked me several times, "Why would she do this?" And finally, I told him everything that had happened at Neverland. He was shocked. I named names because I thought it was important for him to know how his "friends" behaved when he was out of town.

We talked for a while and I really felt bad for even going to Neverland. He said, "If people ask, I have no problem opening my home, but I don't like people who lie and sneak around." I knew he wasn't directing it towards me personally, but there was so much pain in his voice.

Months passed after that phone call and I didn't hear anything else from him. Then one day someone called me and asked me to hold for Michael. In that conversation he told me he figured out who put Joanna up to the interviews and it was the same person who had invited us all to Neverland. The same person who had sex with multiple women the second night we were there. The same person who, to this day, tells people he and Michael were extremely close. Michael told me that this person admitted everything to him. He even admitted that when Joanna sold her story to various tabloids/entertainment shows he split that money with her. It was an emotional conversation and in that conversation Michael told me that that was the reason he couldn't trust anyone.

That was my last conversation with Michael. I tried calling him about six months later but his number was disconnected and I didn't have any way to get in touch with him.

The reason I am writing this is because I feel that the lies have gone on for too long. Everyone in our group has pictures like Joanna's, however, we haven't plastered them all over the Internet and made our relationships/interactions with Michael more than what they were. This is not an attack on Joanna in any way. I just want the truth to be out there.