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When Michael Jackson went through his child molestation trial in 2005, it was the Rev. Jesse Jackson who stepped in to pray with and counsel the troubled star. Early morning phone calls helped Michael Jackson stay on track. The reverend told the Associated Press, the counseling helped the family to "stay focused. This is a difficulty for all involved, the accuser and the accused. ... He will survive this."

Jane Fonda met Michael Jackson while shooting the film "On Golden Pond," when she says he lived with her for a week. "I am stunned," she wrote on her Twitter following his death. "My friend, Michael Jackson is dead."

Michael Jackson reportedly adopted the chimp Bubbles from a cancer research clinic in Texas. Bubbles was present in the studio during the recording of the "Bad" album and lived with Jackson at Neverland Ranch, where he allegedly slept in a crib in the corner of Jackson''s bedroom. When Jackson''s son, Prince Michael II, was born, Bubbles was moved to an animal sanctuary over fears he might harm Prince

The day Michael Jackson died, Cher told Larry King on his CNN cable channel show that as a teenager he was "an adorable boy" and they had been close. He was often a guest on her primetime show "Cher."

Early in her career, Houston sang backup for Jackson''s older brother Jermaine. Decades later she helped toast younger brother Michael at the "Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special," where she helped open the show alongside Usher and Mya, singing a rendition of Jackson''s hit song "Wanna Be Startin'' Somethin'' " from "Thriller."

"Michael is the best friend you could ever have," Emmanuel Lewis told People in 1984. "He''s gentle, not rough like other guys. I can count on him any time, and he can count on me." Michael Jackson brought Lewis to that year''s Grammys ceremony. The magazine wrote that in spite of their 12-year age difference, "Lewis'' mix of savvy and innocence [made] him a well-suited companion for Jackson. If Michael has qualities like E.T., as director Steven Spielberg has suggested, then Emmanuel is his Elliott, the boy who shares E.T.''s fantastic world."

Macauley Culkin and Michael Jackson were more than 20 years apart in age, but found a common bond over their tough childhoods growing up in the spotlight. When Jackson was later accused of child molestation, Culkin came to his defense. The “Home Alone” star later took the stand in 2005 and told jurors he slept in the same bed with Jackson many times between age 9 and 14, always maintaining that nothing sexual ever happened between them.

Andy Warhol''s name is synonymous with the Pop Art movement in America. Like other Pop artists, he often chose to use objects appropriated from popular culture as imagery for fine art. These were often photographs, which were then reproduced onto a canvas through a silkscreen process by assistants. Warhol then retouched them. As he put it, "I sort of half paint them just to give it a style." The choice of Warhol as Jackson''s portraitist for the cover of Time was appropriate, given the artist''s fascination with heroes of popular culture.

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