What did Michael Jackson think of the women in his life?
The singer was convinced that Madonna was madly in love with him, but claimed that his ideal female prototype was Lady Di
Three months after the unexpected death of Michael Jackson, there are still many family members, friends and people around him who want to reveal what the king of pop really was like. A friend of the singer, the American rabbi Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, has just published a book, The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Discovers His Soul in an Intimate Conversation, in which he gathers thirty hours of conversation with Michael Jackson, which were recorded between 2000 and 2001 and in which the artist reveals his fear of aging, his obsession with surgery and how loneliness led him to approach children, the only ones who treated him as a person and not as a star.
However, one of the most relevant chapters in the book covers Michael Jackson's thoughts about the women in his life, including Brooke Shields, Elizabeth Taylor and Madonna. “Brooke Shields was one of the great loves of my life. I wish she had loved me as much as I loved her, ”she confesses about the one who was André Agassi's wife until 1999. Regarding Madonna, the Thriller interpreter and the blonde ambition became very good friends in the early 90's, so much so that they came together to the 1991 Oscars gala and all kinds of speculation began to arise. However, Michael and Madonna herself admitted that they were just great friends, although Jackson was convinced that Madonna was madly in love with her and was jealous of her success. Jackson, on the other hand, was never attracted to Madonna because he did not consider her "anything sexy." “I think she was genuinely very in love with me, but I wasn't with her. He did a lot of completely absurd things. I always knew we had nothing in common, "he confesses. The King of Pop assures that one of the big problems he had with women, including Madonna, was that they envied his fame:" They admire you and you know that you are incredible and wonderful because they are jealous ... They would love to be in your skin. Madonna is one of them. I hate saying this on tape, ”Michael said.
Regarding her great friend Elisabeth Taylor, she confesses that she considered the possibility of dating the actress, but that she feared reprisals from the press due to the 27 years of age that separated them. "I know that if we had gone out together, the press would have been so bad and disgusting that they would have called us 'the strange couple'. It would have become a circus and that's what hurts me about this whole story." But what Jackson was very clear about was who his platonic love was: Diana of Wales. "She was very special, very feminine and very classy. She was my ideal of a woman, without a doubt, even more so considering that I don't like most of the girls."
