Lanre Bakare

Well, it was absolutely an explosive case at the time.

Jordan Chandler was a boy that was 12 years old and had accompanied Michael Jackson on his Dangerous World tour, particularly on the Asian leg of the tour.

He was always by Michael's side.

Michael made no secret of it.

He was in many photographs.

Jordan Chandler, as a 12, 13-year-old, would come to Neverland to stay.

Jackson would go and stay at Chandler's house.

There was a real trust that Jordan Chandler's family put into Jackson, and they would have sleepovers.

They spent, I believe, 30 consecutive nights sleeping over together.

A lot of people would

raise their eyebrows at that, knowing what we know now.

But Jackson, you know, this was not a rich family.

You know, imagine the biggest star in the world shows up at your door.

Your logic might take a backseat for a minute if you're a little dazzled.

So Jackson allegedly played on families that were not particularly well-adjusted.

He knew the people that he could maybe, like, bend the rules with, hence the sleepovers.

That lines up with a lot of what, you know, the grooming playbook typically is.

And Jordan Chandler did come forward to the LAPD in late 1993.

And as part of the questioning, the LAPD asked Jordan Chandler to draw by hand Jackson's genitalia.

It's well known that Jack Tiff had