The piece continues: “A former employee of Michael Jackson’s says that Michael, like General Washington, led his entourage to a temporary safe haven in New Jersey, before the three superstars took to the open road.
Unable to fly, they drove out of the city.”įormer child star Corey Feldman told Kashner that he had gotten into an argument with his friend, Jackson, the night before, and that on Sept 11 the pop megastar was “trying to get Elizabeth out! He was looking for a private jet”. Michael and Brando had trouble leaving their hotel garage because fans kept banging on the car windows, following them down the street, screaming. In one version, these three towering icons of American pop culture planned their escape, afraid that they would be the next target. And, according to Sam Kashner’s Vanity Fair piece ‘Elizabeth Taylor’s Closing Act’, Jackson “hollered down the hallway of his hotel for everyone in his entourage, and for Brando, to leave immediately ” Taylor was staying in a nearby hotel.įrom the Vanity Fair piece: “Now here’s where the story gets complicated. The morning after the final Jackson concert, the Twin Towers fell.
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All cheer in the room vanished, replaced first by startled quiet, followed shortly by anger and a hail of boos.”ĭuring a series of tributes, “Michael sat like a Roman emperor in a lit booth near the side of the stage and air-kissed the performers,” The Post relayed.
“It was a harangue that might merely have seemed inappropriately timed if it were audible. Michael Jackson, he gravely intoned, is one of the few souls out there trying to help.” “When the actor finally spoke, he delivered a grumpy, half-comprehensible lecture about the ‘hundreds, if not thousands of children’ being starved and hacked to death in some foreign land. A lot of very famous people in Jackson’s orbit were around for the star-studded events, including Whitney Houston, Eminem, Yoko Ono, Liza Minnelli, and yes, Taylor and Brando.įive minutes into the first concert “the darkened stage was lit to reveal Marlon Brando, sitting in silence on a leather chair, wearing dark glasses and a suit and fiddling with his watch, apparently oblivious to some 20,000 fans,” The Washington Post reported at the time. Here’s what we do know: Michael Jackson played at the Madison Square Garden on Sept 7 and 10, 2011, for 30th-anniversary concerts. Whether this 9/11 escape road trip actually happened has been the subject of rumour and debate ever since Vanity Fair published the account in 2011. Michael Jackson - arguably the most famous black musician of all time - will be played by white British actor Joseph Fiennes, for some reason.
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This reported account will be depicted in an upcoming Sky Arts movie called Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon. So Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando pile into a car and get the heck out of there, stopping at fast food joints as they trek across the country.
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