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(Photo: AP/Pool, Reuters)
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Adrian McManus, who worked as a maid for Jackson between 1990 and 1994, testified that she saw the pop star kiss actor Macaulay Culkin on the cheek while his hand was on Culkin's bottom. McManus described a similar scene with two other boys and third incident involving a boy who settled with Jackson in 1994, the same boy security guard Ralph Chacon testified about.
In the latter incident, she said, Jackson and the boy were changing their shirts when Jackson kissed the boy on his cheek and mouth and put his hand on his groin area.
But McManus also testified that when subpoenaed in the lawsuit that resulted in the 1994 settlement she did not tell attorneys that she had seen Jackson touching the boy.
Jackson attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. confronted her repeatedly with statements from her deposition in that case, and each time she said she could not recall until he showed them to her.
"Do you know how many times you lied under oath in the ... deposition?" asked Mesereau.
"The whole time," she said. "I believe I didn't tell the truth."
She said she was afraid of Jackson because he had threatened to report her to her superiors if she ever did anything he didn't like. She also said she needed the job.
Mesereau also pointed out that McManus and her husband were found in a lawsuit to have defrauded three children of more than $30,500 from their estate and that in the Jackson lawsuit she was assessed $30,000 for stealing a sketch of Elvis Presley that Jackson had drawn and selling it to a tabloid. McManus insisted that she found the sketch in the trash and didn't consider its worth.
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