Crime Beat: Has Jacko Got a Hard on for Hell?

By Jimmy Lee Shreeve Apr 14, 2005, 12:24 GMT

As the evidence mounts against Michael Jackson, it looks likely he will be convicted for child molestation. On top of that, he's got massive money problems due to the ongoing litigation. Every last cent of his wealth is being gulped down by the legal vultures.

So how is he holding up?

Not well, according to Oscars host Chris Rock. He recently told British magazine Uncut that he believes Jackson has no chance of being found innocent and will commit suicide rather go to prison.

The Head of State star said: "I think Michael's going to kill himself. I don't think he's going to go to trial and then walk out the courtroom. But I don't believe Michael Jackson is going to let himself go to jail. He's going to take one of those little pills, and that's going to be it."

Jackson is currently on trial for ten felony charges of child molestation, administering an intoxicating agent, and conspiracy involving allegations of child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion in Santa Maria, California.

The question is, has Jackson got the guts to end it all? Although some say suicide is the coward's way out, it wouldn't be easy to put a pistol to your head and blow your brains out like cult writer Hunter S. Thompson did recently. Most people would opt for the slammer rather than pull the trigger. But then Jackson might be picturing a whole cell full of tattooed, muscled-up and ugly guys queuing up to use him as a substitute girlfriend, or as a straight-down-the-line boyfriend, depending on individual inclination.

It would be a pretty scary mental picture. Which is why it could be just a matter of time before the news wires are screaming: "Jackson in suicide shock." His fans of course believe he is innocent. But most thinking people are 99.9% convinced he's handled the ham of minors and got away with it up until now by paying them off.

Despite the charges against him, Jackson still has this "Peter Pan" facade. Like he's not really capable of being an out-and-out scumrat. And it has to be said, you can't help thinking maybe he's one of the world's innocents. But, the truth is, there has been too many allegations to the contrary.

A couple of years back it was reported he paid $150,000 to an African voodoo doctor, who promised him that David Geffen and Steven Spielberg and the twenty three other people on Jackson's hate list, some of whom he'd worked with for years, would soon die.

The voodoo man, who apparently had forty two cows ritually sacrificed for the ceremony, later assured an observer at the scene that Geffen, who headed the list, would die within the week. It was also said that Jackson had already undergone a ritual cleansing bath in sheep's blood, for which he paid six figures to another voodoo practitioner.

If these allegation were true, they just show that Jackson was too cowardly to confront his enemies directly. His Peter Pan-like fantasy mind believed that maybe it really was possible to burn someone out with voodoo. No one would know and his enemies would meet a swift and nasty demise.

As it turns out, it looks like Jackson has got a hard on for hell and will pop himself. All we need to speculate on is how he will do it - with pills, a pistol blast, or with a touch of Hollywood flair.