From the Files, April 4, 2005: Santa Maria- In a bid to convince jurors that Michael Jackson sexually molested Macaulay Culkin and screened X-rated movies for other boys visiting Neverland Ranch, prosecutors are expected to soon call as a government witness a Los Angeles man who has described himself as the “master authority” on Internet porn and who, until last year, ran a hardcore web site stocked with video and photos depicting “nudity and heterosexual, bi-sexual, homosexual, and transsexual situations.”
For a trial already saturated with images from the pages of “Barely Legal,” “Hustler,” and other titles in the singer’s periodicals collection, the testimony of Phillip Lemarque promises to further cement the case’s pervy pedigree.
Along with his wife Stella Marcroft, Lemarque worked at Neverland for a brief period in the early 90s (the couple says their Jackson employment, which ended around late-1991, lasted two years, while other accounts put their tenure at 10 months). It was during that time, Lemarque has told investigators, that he witnessed Jackson act inappropriately with Culkin and other boys.