A police search of Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch estate in November 2003 uncovered a cache of disturbing, violent photographs allegedly used by the pop star in an effort to sexually entice young boys, Radar Online reported on Monday.
“Michael Jackson had truly perverse sexual appetites, and the twisted photos tell a sadistic side of him that nobody really knew,” a source familiar with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department report from the police raid told the website.
“In their report, authorities described photos of children bleeding, in pain and tormented,” Radar Online said. One such photo depicted a girl who resembled murdered child-pageant contestant JonBenet Ramsey “with a noose around her neck,” according to one source in the report.
“There is one particularly sick photo of a child holding what appears to be a dead goose bludgeoned to death!” the Hollywood gossip cited quoted someone it described as “an insider familiar with the report.”
“He also had disgusting and downright shocking images of child torture, adult and child nudity, female bondage and sadomasochism,” a source said.
“A lot of this stuff was used to desensitize the children,” Ron Zonen, a prosecutor in Jackson’s 2005 sex-crimes case, told Radar. Jackson was acquitted of those charges in June of that year.
Jackson died four years later at his Neverland Ranch of an overdose of the prescription medication propofol.
• Ken Shepherd can be reached at kshepherd@washingtontimes.com.
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