As someone who's been to his house, I can tell you just by the layout of the place, he's still just a big kid in a man's body....definitely "issues".
For the record, I was at Neverland Ranch running the webcast for his father's birthday party a few years ago (a friend of mine is good friends with Joe) not to "enlighten" myself ;)
The man has his own amusement park, movie free standing theater, zoo, train (that winds around his estate) and an underground tunnel system to get back and forth between the various places. It looks like the dreamworld of a child...
While I could nor wou8ld ever excuse a lot of what he has done, I can sympathize on some levels. Imagine growing up in such a large spotlight and NEVER knowing whta privacy is. The man can't even take his kids to a park (except the one he had built on his estate). I can't imagine what it would be like to be that popular, yet that lonely. He could discover the cure for cancer tomorrow and would still be called "Wacko Jacko".
Anyways, I had a great time there and no this post wouldn't be covered in the non-disclosure contract presented to all of us when we reached the guard post in front of his place...since no one ever collected our copies ;)))
I wonder if he'd mind leasing his place out for a webmaster event? ;)))))
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