PREACH IT! Rumors about Michael Jackson's sexual orientation simply won't die [poll]

"Was he gay? Yes."

That’s the second quote in a week about the sexual identity of Michael Jackson, and it comes from Arnie Klein. You know, Arnie Klein. That guy who was once Jackson’s doctor and who insists he isn’t sure whether he’s the father of two of Jackson’s kids. That guy.

Klein made the statement to TMZ this week, shortly after Klein’s office manager, Jason Pfeiffer, told "Extra" that he’d had a love affair with the singer.

According to Klein, Pfeiffer’s story sounds about right. And now that he’s confirmed it, the good doctor says, he and Pfeiffer have both become the targets of “horrible death threats.” Exactly who might care enough about the sexual identity of a dead pop singer -- albeit, yes, one of the biggest, weirdest pop singers ever -- to threaten Klein, well, that’s not clear. But nonetheless, the two have told TMZ they now both have bodyguards.

Meanwhile, Michael’s dad, Joe Jackson, is of course denying everything. “It’s not true,” Joe told TMZ.

Which brings us to our inevitable, pseudo-scientific poll: Whom do you believe?

-- Leslie Gornstein

Photo: More than 280 items are on display through July 4, 2010, as part of "Michael Jackson: The Official Lifetime Collection," an exhibition at the Tokyo Tower museum in Japan. Credit: Toshifumi Kitamura / AFP / Getty Images. 

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Comments

[Guest]

I am more and more convinced Michael Jackson's fans are scary, rabid lunatics. Death threats and hostile comments to somebody who said something they didn't seem to like? How shameful! It is highly unlikely Michael's nutty fans personally knew him, and yet I see more posts in which opinions are spouted as if they were gospel truth. Let's face it. The only one who knew the truth about himself and anything (or anyone) he did was Michael Jackson, which is where it should stay. Everything else is speculation. Let's just hope he found happiness with any decent adult - male or female - in what seems to have been a tormented existence.

[jan]

Jason just because Michael said I love you more does not mean that you were his boyfriend he said it to a lot of people.

[jan]

A friend posted that MJ was:

mobbed, bullied, defamed, invaded, stalked, lied about, threatened, harassed, abused- emotionally, mentally & physically; most of all disrespected & hurt more than anyone will ever really know.

enough is enough!

[Chris in San Diego]

To: guest- I have to take exception about MJ's fans-surely there are rabid, scary fans out there- but I truly think the majority of his fans, and right-thinking people everywhere, are just sick to death of the media trashing this man and not getting called out on it. None of us knew him, but if we had any integrity at all, we should all know that we should not be discussing this. No ones sexuality should be fodder for media tabloids. You don't have to be a MJ fan to believe that. Michael said he was not gay- why can't people just believe that and leave him alone? I agree, I hope he found happiness with someone that understood him. I think probably that he never did and so gave all his love to his children.
For his kids sake, this subject needs to be dropped.

[Anne]

I do not believe Michael was gay. I believe he was isolated and lonely and weary of the situation.
This creature obviously did not truly love Michael for even if this were true, someone who loved Michael would maintain his silence if any needed to be maintained. This creature, however, is in cahoots with Arnold Klein, someone who liked to claim himself Michael's "friend" when in truth he just liked being associated with the megastar because he's such a loser himself. He was able to secure a cushy little deal for Debbie Rowe when she worked for him and I would be willing to bet anything, he hoped to secure a sweet deal for this fool as well.
Arnold Klein is a low-life that I would guess even Michael could see through, but Klein supplied Michael with drugs, so Michael kept him around.
The next thing I hear about these fools will hopefully be the announcement of their downfalls.

[Christine]

Honestly, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see straight through Pfeiffer. You don't even have to know any of them personally to figure this out. The fact that so many people feel the need to speculate and aren't blessed with intuition or know how to think for themselves is terribly disturbing.

Firstly, if someone is your soul mate, as Pfeiffer claimed he was, you don't "assume" what sexual orientation they are. If you are in fact someone's soul mate, then you must have their absolute trust and therefore should be showing off the photos of the two of you snuggling on movie night on the couch, etc.

Secondly, it doesn't even take a speech analyst to pick up on Pfeiffer's deceitful verbal cues, "ya know", "I mean", "There's a lot of different levels of boyfriends I suppose." "uh", etc.

Thirdly, you can watch any video on YouTube and see how Michael reached out to those he felt he could relate to in the way of the pain he endured, whether they be disfigured, terminally ill and losing their childhood due to that illness, or adults recalling their own tormented childhood. If Pfeiffer had a similar childhood to MJ's, he would hug that person and embrace them with the warmth and caring of a nurturing parent. He told everyone he loved them as well, and said it sincerely.

Fourthly, the whole world could see his sensuality, his passion, that he was an intimate guy. This Pfeiffer only shares what most already know. In contrast to how the headlines read, Pfeiifer does NOT say he was a passionate lover or that he had a sexual relationship...that's what authors took from it to run with it, as usual.

Lastly, my personal impression of Pfeiffer is that he, as many in Michael's life have, mistook his kindness, and that he has in fact deluded himself into believing that Michael cared about him in "that way."

As for Klein, well this also does not require a degree to figure out. The man is ridiculous making ridiculous claim after claim, as you have touched upon here yourself. Considering he is a dermatologist and Michael had vitiligo...do ya think for one second that Michael took his shirt off in a medical office for anything other than treatment or evaluation? @@