I had been planning to make more post about the so-called documentary, Square One, and why it’s full of holes, inconsistencies and blatant misinformation. But I never got around to doing it due to lack of time and motivation. I did, however, start a short one late last year and finally got round to finishing it.
After the bizarre introduction of Josephine Zohny, who supposedly knew a great deal of Jordan Chandler’s intimate thoughts during his alleged education at a New York University, and a few dubious claims about the FBI files (amongst other things), the documentary moves on to Anthony Pellicano and the recorded conversation between Evan Chandler and Jordan’s stepfather, David Schwartz.
I was surprised when I heard the name Anthony Pellicano being used in what I presumed was going to be a very one-sided pro-Jackson documentary. But I thought, hey, perhaps my preconceived notion was going to be at least partially wrong, and this documentary was going highlight that Jackson hired a very dubious individual.
But a good 20+ minutes in, neither Danny Wu nor Charles Thompson have a bad word to say about Anthony Pellicano. As far as they are concerned, he not only extracted a confession from Jordan Chandler that Jackson did not abuse him (even though the self-described surveillance expert didn’t record this), but successfully presented a telephone conversation between Evan and Jordan’s stepfather which proved Jackson was being extorted.
To the untrained ear, the audiotape does in fact sound very damning, with Evan Chandler making statements such as:
"I will get everything I want, and they will be totally — they will be destroyed forever" and "This man is gonna be humiliated beyond belief. You’ll not believe it. He will not believe what’s going to happen to him."
What isn’t mentioned throughout Square One is that the audiotape you hear was recorded by Jordan’s stepfather David Schwartz, at the request of Pellicano himself. The “extortion” tape is part of a conversation that contained over 35,000 words and lasted several hours. What Pellicano released to CBS News was nothing more than a 60 second or so recording that he had stitched together from a very lengthy and heated conversation where Evan is furious with both Jackson and Jordan’s mother, June.
Initially, CBS News made no mention of where the audiotape came from, or that it had been recorded in July, a whole month before any police investigation into Jackson. That was pointed out by the LA Times, which forced CBS news on August 31 1993, to admit their explosive story of “extortion” was in fact false and nowhere on the tape is money ever mentioned.
While Danny Wu appears predominantly clueless throughout his own film, he does put a lot of emphasis on Charles Thompson being an “award-winning” investigative journalist who not only had in-depth knowledge of Jackson, but even helped to uncover a paedophile ring in his home county.
But it certainly appears that in-depth “knowledge” is very selective. Charles Thompson and Danny Wu present Anthony Pellicano as an impeccable private investigator who uncovered the “truth”. They don’t discuss his history, or what type of guy he was. In reality, he’s not a very pleasant man. He described himself as a detective to the stars, essentially a sin eater who made problems for the rich and famous disappear.
Furthermore, Charles Thomson makes no mention that Anthony Pellicano only finished a 30 month stint in a federal prison for illegal possession of explosives, firearms and homemade grenades in spring 2019.
Even more incredibly, Charles Thomson makes no mention that during that 30 month prison stint Anthony Pellicano went on to say:
"I quit because I found out some truths … He did something far worse to young boys than molest them.”
Whether or not Anthony Pellicano knew that Jackson was doing far worse than sexually abusing young boys is debatable. But the fact that none of this is mentioned by a filmmaker and a “award-winning” journalist is laughable.
The hypocrisy is that Square One makes a massive point that one of the main documentary subjects and Jackson critic, Victor Gutierrez, was sentenced to 61 days in jail and ordered to pay a $46,000 fine for spreading slanderous stories against former Miss universe, Cecilia Bolocco in his native chile, though Danny Wu doesn’t mention it was a suspended jail sentence, and Gutierrez never served any time behind bars, unlike Anthony Pellicano.
Conclusion
You only have to spend five minutes on YouTube to find the video by CBS News openly admitting that there was no extortion attempt, and that Anthony Pellicano released nothing more than a highly edited conspiracy style audiotape to make Evan look bad.
Furthermore, as any reasonably intelligent person would know extortion is a crime. No matter how much Jackson’s camp, including Anthony Pellicano, screamed about it, there was simply no evidence to support their claims.
Shortly before the multi-million dollar settlement in January 1994, one of the lead prosecutors confirmed:
“We’ve declined to file today criminal charges of attempted extortion,” said Michael J. Montagna, a deputy Los Angeles County district attorney who heads that office’s organized crime unit. “The evidence does not show that any crime has been committed.”
So, a documentary that was intended to reveal the real “truth” about Jackson being extorted in 1993 presented a very distorted and misleading version from the start. Either Charles Thomson and Danny Wu are unbelievably stupid and didn’t research their own material, before inserting it into an amateurish documentary, or their intention was always to deceive viewers.
Then again, it’s not really a surprise, as I’ve already documented numerous false claims within Square One, including the regurgitation of Mary Fisher’s story that Jordan Chandler was drugged with sodium amytal and had months of memories falsely sexualised in the space of one hour by a dentist, of all people.
MJ Not Innocent 