Tim Patterson
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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The Trial: USA · He Was So Interesting To The Hilfigers, The Trumps, The Winfreys · 1 May 2025
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The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that really wasn't a secret at all has finally been revealed to the world.
What's going on, Marge? How you doing? Thank you.
We met back in the early 70s. I was living on one side of town in Mount Vernon, New York. And it was the south side of town. That was kind of where, you know, it was the ghetto housing projects like. And Sean lived on the north side of town. And that was the suburbs. You know, that was where everybody really wanted to be. So I remember the school I was in. It was a bad school.
You know, kids were bad. And I used to come home, beat up some time. Or I used to have a letter coming home from the principal giving to my mother. I couldn't go to school for the next few days, you know. So it was starting to become something my mom really didn't want me to be in.
And her and my dad got together and they figured out how to get us out of the south side and move us to the north side. But in the interim of that, you know, we would check out a lot of apartments, stuff my mom really didn't like. But then it was this one house that we drove up to and it was on the north side of town. I can remember like yesterday, brand new house.
Trees, birds, you know, not used to what you're seeing on the south side. And we end up stopping in front of the house. And I was surprised that this is where we were going. And this lady comes out. The lady's just like gorgeous. I thought it was Diana Ross.
Hmm.
happened to be Sean's mom. She comes out, she greets us, brings us in the house, starts showing us around, and I'm just blown away because the house is brand new. We walked into it, and it had a paint, a fresh paint smell. It had a new smell. It didn't have what we're used to walking into in the apartments on the south side.
You walk into a building on the south side, you're gonna get something foul that you smell. It's just something that sticks with you. It's not gonna be cute. too clean. But at this house, it smelled new, and I was not used to that.
This was 1972, so that would make me five years old. So anyway, my parents and Sean's mom, they're walking around, and I'm kind of just hanging out, checking out the outside and stuff. And Sean's mom, she recognizes that and says, well, hold on, let me go get Sean. And I had no idea there was a kid involved. She said, let me go get Sean.
And she went upstairs and this kid comes downstairs and he looked like little Rodney Allen Ripley. I mean, he looked like royalty. He was just a real different looking kid. He stuck out. He didn't have no nappy hair. He didn't have no messed up clothes on. You know, he was really something special. You could tell this guy wasn't a normal kid. At least I could tell.
If I was five or six, he was either three or four. Yeah.
Okay, so that picture there says a lot. And I really want to put context into a lot of the things that are being said now. You know, you got to kind of get to know a person's beginnings. You kind of got to get to know their firsts before you can really put a guilty sign on. You have to kind of know where they came from. And that's what I really want to specify and go into detail about.
And at the same time, I do not want to condone and I don't condone any of the things that he's been accused of. But Sean is special to me. We were big brother, little brother type of moves. And There's no way I can sit back and allow this to happen without giving context to his life and to his story. Sean was born a really good kid, really good kid, gifted kid.
When you talk about having everything he needed, he was just ahead of his time from day one. Going back to your question, that picture, that picture was random picture, random day. My dad was really into taking pictures. So he would catch us at any time of the day and say, hey, pose like this, pose like that. That's my dad posing us. And we stand there, he took the picture.
And if you notice in the picture, there's a big difference in our clothing. There's a big difference in, you know, our getup. Sean's wearing jewelry. He's got on white shoes. What is he like? Could be five, six years old in that picture, if that. He's got on dark socks. He's got on a bucket hat already.
Very stylish. The type of clothes you'd see a grown-up wearing, you know, he was wearing. Then on the other hand, you see my clothes, it was nervous.
Yeah, so when we moved into the house, it was a win-win for everyone. Sean gets another boy in the house now in similar age. My mom and Sean's moms, who were friends. And then on top of it all, you had a man of the house in the home. It was my dad. So he was able to do the things with me and Sean that dads do while he could.
So yeah, he was really instrumental in our lives, as was Sean's mom instrumental in my life.
Like you said, Sean never had a chance to experience a dad in the household. And at that time in his life, besides his grandfather, my dad was probably in proximity to closest man in his life.
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