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Why did Michael fire Bob Jones?

After seeing what Bob Jones did in partnership with Stacy, getting rid of him was a good thing to do.

Also, where was he when Schaffel and the others were doing all that stealing and dirty dealing. As someone that had been working for Michael for such a long time, it seems like he would have been somewhere around to at least let Michael know what was going down behind his back.

Where was he while he was still getting paid for doing nothing?
 
tupacavelli4life said:
I don't get this universal trust and distrust of people we don't know. I don't know if Bob Jones was an evil man. I don't blindly believe everything that Michael Jackson says either. I'm a lifelong fan of Michael's since 1970, so please don't come at me with i'm starting ish stuff. I want to know why Bob was fired as well. I come to this site to seek answers when the news is slow. All this "Michael wouldn't do this, he's not like that..." My question is how do u know he wouldn't? We don't know what these people do or think behind closed doors. Therefore we shouldn't be so quick to blindly believe everything. Now back to my original point. I just heard what happened in the aftermath of his firing. I just don't know what led to the firing. Could it be some of the people working for Michael at the time spread some false info to Jackson that led him to fire Jones? You have to look at the same unscrupelous people that were working for MJ at the time to fully understand. I say this because Jones was hired originally by Berry Gordy decades ago to do press for Motown artists and he later began to work exclusively for Jackson. So he has a history of good work. Where did it go wrong? I have a theory.
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I have no idea why I am looking at this thread all these years later during my lunch hour, but thank you for this response. People like to act like MJ was some kind of saint, he was a human being capable of anything a human being could do, good or bad. The fact is, we, the fans didn't know these people and what their intentions were, that is speculation. I came here to get answers regarding why BJ was fired in the manner he was given that he had been with MJ since the 70s.
 
sisterrhon said:
I have no idea why I am looking at this thread all these years later during my lunch hour, but thank you for this response. People like to act like MJ was some kind of saint, he was a human being capable of anything a human being could do, good or bad. The fact is, we, the fans didn't know these people and what their intentions were, that is speculation. I came here to get answers regarding why BJ was fired in the manner he was given that he had been with MJ since the 70s.
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Let's be real. If it was the 80s or the 90s, okay. We could debate him firing DiLeo and Branca.

But in the middle of the trial? Cut MJ some slack. The whole situation was out of control. Bob Jones was fired in the middle of the most chaotic era of his life. He was fighting for his life and lost control of his own life, weird things were going on left and right.

Then there was the book, full of PR fluff just meant to hurt Michael and his family. And then he didn't know anything about the book
 
If an employee reacts to being fired by writing a book about you full of made-up stories (and Bob Jones admitted in court that they were made-up) about you being a child molester, then that employee most definitely deserved to be fired and he never deserved to have the job in the first place. He should have been fired long before that, because who needs that kind of person in their life?
 
So what this person says (Bob Jones drugging MJ) is to me also a believable reason that MJ fired him after rehab:



lulilollipop
• 10 maanden geleden

but the deal was for me and Elizabeth Taylor’s security man to to look after him, Liz wanted Jackson totally away from his people to give him a chance of recovering. Things started getting very confused when his people flew over on the tenth day and wanted to take him to another house. Liz’s bodyguard didn’t want them to take him and started talking about hiding Jackson in a cupboard when they arrived. It was farcical trying to hide him from his own people, in the end I was told they were taking over.
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This is really interesting to me nowadays, because not even Elizabeth Taylor wanted him around his own team.
It lines up with what Janet and Jermaine kinda said. Janet about the people controlling him, Jermaine said something in his book about Bob Jones and drugging Michael.
 
Victorious said:
So what this person says (Bob Jones drugging MJ) is to me also a believable reason that MJ fired him after rehab:



lulilollipop
• 10 maanden geleden


This is really interesting to me nowadays, because not even Elizabeth Taylor wanted him around his own team.
It lines up with what Janet and Jermaine kinda said. Janet about the people controlling him, Jermaine said something in his book about Bob Jones and drugging Michael.
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I would never defend Bob Jones, but Jermaine never said in his book that he was drugging Michael. This is what he said:

"At the hotel, we didn’t immediately see Elizabeth because the first person we met was Michael’s publicist Bob Jones, whom we’d known since our Motown days and that first trip to Australia. He had joined Michael when he went solo. My problem with Bob was that, rightly or wrongly, I felt he formed part of the barrier to our direct communication with Michael. Hollywood entourages spend their days standing in front of the artist—often without the artist knowing—but I was damned if that shield would be used against us after we’d traveled halfway around the world to support our brother, who knew we were arriving that day. When Bob explained that “Now is not a good time . . . Michael is sleeping,” I lost patience and the conversation turned into a dispute.
Eventually I’d had enough. “Bob, get out of my way . . . you don’t tell us when we do or do not see our own brother,” I said.
“I’m just doing my job, Jermaine.” He stepped to one side.
Sure enough, Bob’s blocking tactic was false. We knocked at Michael’s door and walked in. He was happy to see us, even if we were a little surprised by what confronted us: he was sitting with an intravenous drip leading from a bag above his head into his wrist.
“What’s going on?” said Jackie, forever protective. He wandered over to the bag, no doubt to confirm that it was saline.
Michael explained that he’d collapsed before his concert had begun in Singapore; the show had been canceled. The doctor, who was also in the hotel room, told us he was suffering from “dehydration”; Michael was still struggling and they were worried about his blood circulation and . ."

The family likes to pretend that Michael's people were blocking them from seeing him against Michael's will, but we all know that Michael was the one who told his people not to let them in, because they were always trying to get him to do things he didn't want to do, like touring, or in this case the "Jackson Family Honors" show. This is what Margaret (Jermaine's ex-wife) said in her book:

"Meanwhile, Jermaine, Katherine, and Joseph flew to Taiwan where Michael was now touring. To all the world, the gesture was to show support for Michael. What the press didn’t know was that in his pocket Jermaine had a letter of intent for the “Jackson Family Honors” show, which he was determined to get Michael to sign. He finally succeeded, but Katherine was furious that Jermaine and Joseph hounded Michael into signing it at a time when Michael was under a doctor’s care for exhaustion and being fed intravenously."
 
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