The tabloid Star magazine reports that musician Michael Jackson has declined its challenge to submit to a lie detector “test” regarding his sex life. Excerpt:
SCANDAL-plagued superstar Michael Jackson has turned up his deteriorating nose at Star magazine’s $1 MILLION offer to take a lie-detector test that would clarify his relationships with children.
And his refusal to accept Star’s challenge has child-welfare experts now blasting the pop oddity as a coward.
“This is typical Michael Jackson, not to want to take a lie-detector test, because in my opinion he has been lying for many years,” declares psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman — who recently lodged a formal complaint with Child Protection Services in Santa Barbara, Calif., over Jackson’s relationship with his three children.
“It was a golden opportunity if he had nothing to hide, but obviously he’s not that brave.”
Famed lawyer Gloria Allred — who is also demanding a probe by child welfare authorities — agrees. “It would be potentially very good for him if he passed (a lie detector test),” she says. “But the flipside is that if he didn’t, then there could be more bad PR.
Psychiatrist Carole Lieberman and lawyer Gloria Allred should know better than to put stock in lie detector “testing.” Mr. Jackson’s rejection of Star’s challenge, if it is indicative of anything, merely demonstrates that he has the good sense not to entrust his reputation to such charlatanry.