Free Jacko, His Rise and Fall: The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson by Darwin Porter

If I recall, Jackie,
or maybe it was Jermaine, just laughed
Michael off. Except for Michael, I
never knew one Jackson brother from
the other."

    The Jackson children
    It appears that Jermaine, from the
age of 15 or 16, seduced far more girls
and women than even his promiscuous
brother, Jackie. "Jackie would have his
pick of the girls," Elton Jenkins, who
once worked for Motown in Los
Angeles, claimed. "He'd pick out the
most beautiful and bring her back to
his hotel room. But Jermaine would
top him. On any given night, he'd line up at least three girls - one for midnight, one for one o'clock, and one for two o'clock."
    Since Michael often shared a room with Jermaine, he would watch his
older brother in action. Jermaine may have been deliberately showing off his
sexual prowess to his younger brother. "I think it was part of that sibling rivalry Gordy was always talking about," Jenkins said. "Jermaine might have been
trying to show Michael that although his kid brother was the star on stage, in
the boudoir, Jermaine was the king."
    Adele Ferguson, a secretary who lived in Tampa at the time, claimed that
Jermaine was the greatest lover she'd ever experienced "before or since. He
must have read the Kama Sutra from cover to cover. In one night he taught me
sexual positions I'd never heard of. Until Jermaine, my boyfriends had been
the missionary position types. While Jermaine and I were going at it, I just
knew that Michael, with his saucer-wide eyes, was taking in all the action. In
some ways, it made it more exciting for me to know that we were educating
the kid about how to do it. After that night with Jermaine, my husband never
really satisfied me. What a lover Jermaine was!"
    Jermaine and Michael joined their other brothers on April 18, 1971 to
appear on Diana! a TV special featuring Diana Ross. The highlight of the show was when Michael, only 12 years old at the
time, came out to do his impression of Frank Sinatra
in a tuxedo with a raincoat slung over his shoulder.
Like Blue Eyes himself, Michael wore the characteristic Sinatra brown fedora, tilted at a rakish angle.
Michael parodied "It Was a Very Good Year."

    Carol Channing
    After the song, Diana, a vision in a metallic
silver lame gown, and Michael presented a skit in
which he played her lover who was leaving her.
    In a hotel suite, Sinatra watched the skit in
disgust. One of his henchmen reported that the singer
was so outraged by Michael's imitation, that he took
a bottle of bourbon and tossed it at the TV screen. "If
I ever catch up with that little fag, I'll break his legs,"
Sinatra shouted. "No, not that! I'll hire two guys
from Jersey to do it for me."
    In addition to their career bursting into full
bloom, the Jackson brothers experienced another
milestone in 1971. They moved into a mansion at
4641 Hayvenhurst in affluent Encino, California, a property Joe had purchased for a quarter of a million dollars. Their Encino neighbors included such
celebrities as Mike Connors, Dick Van Dyke, Dennis Weaver, and, Michael's
favorite, "Soul Sister" Aretha Franklin.
    On beautifully landscaped two-acre grounds, studded with orange and
lemon trees, the estate contained six bedrooms, which meant that the Jackson
siblings would have to double up.
    Katherine herself made the room assignments, saving the master bedroom
for Joe and herself. Michael's younger brother, Randy, became Michael's
new roommate. La Toya and Janet shared a room, as did Marlon and Jermaine,
and so it went. "For me, it would become an Alcatraz instead of a real home,"
La Toya was quoted as saying later in life when she fled Encino.
    In the beginning, Michael was enchanted with the property, which included an Olympic-size swimming pool. He would live for years at Encino until
there were too many eyes spying on his increasingly secret private life.
    "I once delivered some demos to the Jackson family," Motown's Elton
Jenkins claimed. "I must have arrived after a