COMMENT: _____________________________________________ The boy, Jimmy Safechuck, had appeared in a Pepsi commercial with Michael and was traveling with him. He was sexually abused by Michael Jackson between 1988 and 1992 according to the documentary LEAVING NEVERLAND. The sexual abuse began in early June of 1988 in a Paris hotel room, about 4 months after this photograph was taken. ______________________________________________

Shot #2 of 2 - Michael told me he blinked during the taking of the first photo and suggested we take another - this one's better. The first photo is here: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-light/210434760">www.flickr.com/photos/alan-light/210434760</a>

Michael Jackson was staying at the same hotel I was at for 3 days, The Kahala Hilton in Honolulu Hawaii, in late February 1988. Michael was in Hawaii to make a personal appearance at a Pepsi bottler's convention.

This time in Michael's life (he was 29 years old) was four years after his scalp was severely burned in a mishap during filming of a Pepsi commercial, two years after he was diagnosed with vitiligo, a skin condition, and one month before he bought land in Santa Barbara, CA, for what would become Neverland.

Scanned from the original 35MM film negative.

High resolution negative san - 256 pixels/inch.