Leif Garret claims in his new book “Idol Truth” that Michael Jackson asked him to teach him how to masturbate. When the incident happened, Leif was 17 years old and Michael was 20. Leif was the bigger star at the time, he was an actor and singer and was popular for his songs “Surfin’ USA”, “Runaround Sue” and “I was made for dancin’. Michael’s first famous album as a solo singer “Off The Wall” was not released yet.

The two of them met while they were both on tour and became close friends.

The incident between them happened in Feburuary 1979 in a hotel bar in Switzerland. According to Leif, Michael approached him one night, asking “Can you tell me how to masturbate?” Leif chose not to teach Michael and gave him a key to his room instead, where he directed him to his stash of “naughty” magazines for inspiration.

“Leif makes no judgement about what went down and explaines in his book admitting that as Jackson is not around to defend himself he will make no assumptions on Michael’s true intentions” – Paul Cashmere

Why is this story important?

Of course, it isn’t pedophilia or child molestation when a 20-year-old asks a young dude who is three years younger than himself, to tell him how to masturbate. I think it’s pretty common that 17-year-olds date young overage people between 18-20. I don’t think that’s a problem at all. However, Michael didn’t approach Leif in a normal way, asking him out or something similar to that. I think it’s pretty unusual that a grown man asks anyone to tell him how to masturbate, that could technially be considered harassment. In fact, I’m pretty sure that MJ knew how to do that. Leif’s story is interesting for another reason.

Just a few months later, Michael Jackson became friends with 13-year-old Terry George and sexually harassed the child over the telephone by masturbating, so that Terry could hear it. He also asked Terry if he masturbates.

You can read Terry’s story here:

Other accusers like Jimmy Safechuck (10), Jordan Chandler (13) and Gavin Arvizo (13) have also stated that Michael Jackson started to molest them by wanting to teach them how to masturbate and later convinced the children that it was their idea. That is why Leif’s story is an important piece of the puzzle. You could still consider Leif a young friend of Michael, because he was underage.

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