'Michael Jackson, Jesus juice and teenage boys' - by ex-adviser

Michael Jackson has abused drugs and alcohol and given teenage boys wine, which he calls “Jesus juice”, a former business adviser claimed in a magazine today.

The King of Pop was said to have checked into rehab clinics in London and South Korea after aides feared for his life.

The embattled star, who has been charged with child sex abuse, frequently swigged wine from pop cans to hide his drinking, according to Vanity Fair.

One of his stints in rehab came only after the intervention of friend Elizabeth Taylor, the magazine said.

According to the report, the boy at the centre of the latest allegations against Jackson said the pop star gave him wine in Coke cans.

Jackson, 45, has denied plying the teenage cancer sufferer with wine before molesting him at the Neverland Ranch in California.

Jackson’s former business adviser Myung-Ho Lee told the magazine that Jackson checked into rehab in London after becoming addicted to Demerol and morphine.

The visit to the clinic was in 1993 when he was accused of abusing a different teenager.

According to the report, a doctor told a Jackson adviser: “Either the drugs are going to kill him or he’s going to die by flying out of a window because he thinks he can fly.

“You better get someone here he’ll listen to.”

Staff then called Elizabeth Taylor who convinced him to check into the London clinic.

Lee recounted an incident in the 1990s when he had to pick the star up off the floor of an aeroplane, after landing in Frankfurt, Germany.

Lee said he told Jackson’s security staff: “You can’t get drunk like that on white wine.”

The reply came: “It’s not only wine, but that he takes pills with it,” he said.

A few years later Jackson went into rehab in Seoul.

“I met with the doctor on a regular basis,” Lee said.

“We were getting Michael off what he was addicted to, Demerol and morphine.

“His problem is a sleep disorder. He’s up, up to 48 hours at a time, and then crashes.”

Jackson’s current accuser reportedly told authorities that the pop star gave him wine in Coke cans last February on a Florida flight.

Lee recalled a different incident in 1998 where Jackson got a 13-year-old boy drunk during a visit to an amusement park.

The incident supposedly destroyed a deal which would have seen Jackson open theme parks and toy stores in Japan because the boy he gave the wine to was the son of one of his new Japanese partners.

“…the boy came back sick. Security informed me that he appeared drunk and his father was very upset,” Lee said.

Last year, Lee sued Jackson for £6.6m (€9.6m) he said the singer owed him. The suit was settled out of court.

Vanity Fair goes on to report that Jackson’s accuser has provided authorities with drawings of the star’s genitalia.

The report also quotes lawyers and relatives of the accuser.

Jackson’s spokesman was not immediately available to comment on the article.

Jackson’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, said he was unable to comment due to a court gagging order, banning parties from discussing the case in public.

Told of the allegations he laughed and told USA Today: “God, I wish I could comment, but I can’t.”

In a separate development a judge has ordered Grammy nominee R Kelly, who is awaiting trial on child pornography charges, to stay away from Jackson at the awards show in Los Angeles on February 8.

Chicago-based Kelly has produced two songs for Jackson – the 1995 hit You Are Not Alone and last year’s One More Chance.

But Jackson is not nominated and is not expected to attend.

Meanwhile, the father of the boy accusing Jackson of sex abuse has been denied access to his son by a court in California.

The father requested visiting rights after several recent reports that the boy was gravely ill.

He previously pleaded no contest to child cruelty and the boy’s mother filed for divorce.