Author Disputes Thorson’s Sex With Michael Jackson Claim

Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com spoke with Alex Thorliefson, the writer of Scott Thorson’s memoir ‘Behind the Candelabra’, which was released in the late ’80s and is now out of print. Thorliefson tells Friedman that Thorson never made the sensational claim that he had sexual relations with Michael Jackson when writing the book, only stating they were close friends. “Scott knew Michael for a number of years starting in 1979,” Thorliefson explained. “In the book, he speaks of Michael and Janet coming to Liberace’s house in Vegas to swim. They couldn’t use a hotel public pool. Scott’s friendship with Michael was in London while Liberace was appearing at the Palladium. They saw each other every day for a period of time after that. In the book, there is no reference to anything other than a close friendship. Were they lovers? That I could not say. He said there was a lot of touchy-feely, a lot of sexual innuendo, whenever he was with Michael.” Read more.