Evan Chandler wanted Michael to help negotiate script-writing deals for him, to which Michael would not agree to (source). (His father even admits this in his brother’s book.) Evan was also over $60,000k in debt at the time the allegations began.
Evan Chandler did not contact the police when he says he suspected his son had been abused. First he hired a lawyer, and set up a meeting with Michael to exact the terms of his extortion attempt for $20 million dollars, to which Michael would not comply (if he had paid then nobody would ever have known about any of this - again he admits this in his own brother’s book). Only after that failed extortion attempt did Chandler take custody of his son and only because of that court order did he then take his son to a psychiatrist who contacted the police. He had the psychiatrist report the abuse because if Evan did Michael could have sued him for falsely accusing him. You know how we know this? Once again: he admits this in his own brother’s book.
Jordan Chandler maintained for quite some time that Michael never touched him in an inappropriate way, it was only when his father got custody of him that this changed, and it was only because of a court order in which he had to return Jordan to his mother that Evan took his son to that psychiatrist, this was done in order to prevent Jordan from returning to his mother.
In fact, there’s a taped phonecall of Evan Chandler threatening to take Michael for everything he owned, that was taped on July 8th, Jordan was drugged to confess to the psychiatrist over a month later on August 17th. Up until that point Jordan had been denying it. In that phonecall he says he already has the “nastiest son of a bitch” lawyer he could find - a man he hired before his son has even said he was molested. He says he wants to make this as public as possible to get everything he wanted from Michael - before his son even said he was molested. He admits on the tape he has no idea if his son has been molested and what happens to his son is “irrelevant” to him.
That phonecall was taped by Jordan’s step father David Schwartz, when Evan realized he’d been taped he beat David Schwartz up and David sued him, in his lawsuit Schwartz said he never believed Jordan had been molested. This physical altercation is interesting because on the occasion where he met Michael in the lawyer’s office after the supposed abuse; he reached in to give Michael a big hug. As someone with a history of violent outbursts, I’m sure this is a normal reaction to your son’s abuser.
Jordan Chandler only admitted abuse by Michael after being allegedly drugged by his father with a drug known to elicit responses based simply on suggestion, and to cause false memory syndrome, which is why testimony under that drug is inadmissible in a court of law. It’s a coincidence in his brother’s book that Evan admits that he never wanted them to go to a criminal court, and that under this drug Jordan was able to speak of Michael the same way his father Evan had spoken of him a few months earlier in that taped phonecall. Maybe the drug gave him psychic powers.
An arrest warrant was issued for a full body search of Michael in order to match it up with a description given by Jordan Chandler. In it Jordan, who was Jewish, alleged Michael was circumcised, Michael was not circumcised. On the basis that there was no match, Michael was not arrested, and then it was the Chandler’s own lawyers who wanted those photographs barred from the civil trial. Sources ->
http://i.imgur.com/CPlMT.jpg http://articles.latimes.com/1994-01-05/local/me-8514_1_michael-jackson
2 separate grand juries in 1994 went through all the evidence, interviewed 400 people, including 30 children, and failed to bring any charges against him.
DCFS investigated and could find nothing against him.
From the beginning this had only been a civil lawsuit against Michael, the Chandler’s fired their first lawyer when she said they wanted to take Michael to criminal court. Michael asked for the criminal trial (i.e he wanted to face prison) be allowed before the civil one, but the judge refused.
Michael was never arrested in this case and never charged with a crime. Yet the settlement between both parties did not preclude the Chandlers’ from testifying at a criminal trial. They had every opportunity to do that, had they so desired.
Instead of taking Michael to criminal court, they would claim crazy fans forced them to not testify; this fear of crazy fans seemed to completely vanish when immediately after Michael's insurance settled, Ray Chandler admits within days, he began shopping a book about the allegations that Evan had written. Within days.
Michael did not want to settle with the Chandlers. Quite the contrary; he wanted to go to court. But against his protests and the advice of his attorneys, his insurance carrier negotiated and paid a settlement with the Chandlers after they retracted their claims of molestation—a fact that is documented in trial transcripts from the 2005 case. This happened over 7 months after Evan had initially demanded money from Michael in private. If Michael had wanted to pay him off he had 2-3 months of privacy to do so, and then another 4 months of the whole world knowing it had happened to do so - 4 months wherein he had to cancel a world tour, where Pepsi dropped him, Addams Family dropped him, where he developed a drug addiction to cope which lead to a month long stay in rehab, which involved having to strip naked and have his body searched, having Neverland searched, his mother’s house search, his condos searched, a hotel room he stayed in searched, the offices of his manager’s searched, his medical records subpoenaed and so on. All this could’ve been avoided if Michael had paid out with his own money 7 months earlier. -->
http://www.sbscpublicaccess.org/docs/ctdocs/032205mjmemospprtobj.pdf
After this ordeal Jordan Chandler then emancipated himself from his parents. (and I’m sure people will be relieved to know that after the supposed abuse Evan Chandler claimed in his brother’s book that Jordan was miraculously fine and didn’t need any therapy from it, also as they told National Enquirer when they sold stories about him in the 90s, he was also "completely heterosexual".)
Because this meant Evan would no longer access to that money, he again tried suing Michael Jackson for $60 million dollars; the case was thrown out of court after 4 years. In that same time period he refused to take Michael to court for molesting his son, but he was willing to go to court to get more money out of him. He also demanded Michael give him a record deal so he could release an album he’d composed of songs about Michael that he’d named after himself, EVANstory. I know that’s where my mind would be at, if my son had been molested and then he’d divorced himself from me. He claimed in this lawsuit the allegations had invaded his private life, I’m sure the natural reaction to that is to want to sing and dance about it (again in his own audio tape he says he wanted it to be as public as possible).
In 2004 Jordan Chandler told FBI investigators that he would refuse to testify “against” Michael Jackson and threatened the prosecution with legal action should they attempt to force him to do so. Think about that: he was willing to go to court in order not to have to testify against Michael (in his original psychiatrist interview he said the only thing he was afraid of was being cross examined, he is now on the record twice as saying the one thing he didn't want was to testify). They did not, neither did the prosecution subpoena his father or his uncle, both of whom claimed intimate knowledge of his molestation.
On the other hand, Michael did in fact subpoena the uncle who claimed knowledge of the molestation in a book he’d written in time for the trial. It was Michael who demanded Ray turn up to court with any of the proof he claimed he had. Ray refused and one of his responses was that he did not in fact have any knowledge of any molestation, so his book was essentially fiction. Think about the audacity of that: it was the supposed abuser demanding the relative who claimed proof to show up in a court, think about how fearless you have to be do that.
Less than one month after MJ was acquitted in the trial, Evan Chandler tried to kill his son, and his son took out a restraining order against him and took him to court. It seems Jordan was willing to testify against a real abuser when it mattered.
There are witnesses who have heard Jordan admit he was never molested. After Michael died his father then shot himself in the head. Nobody attended his funeral, not any family, nor any friends. He was not a well liked man, was manic depressive, with a history of physical abuse, not just against his son, but his wives and his wives husbands.
