One-way ticket to Brazil for Jackson accuser

Travel consultant Cynthia Montgomery told Michael Jackson’s child abuse trial that she was asked to arrange a one-way trip to Brazil for Jackson’s accuser and his family, but the journey was abruptly cancelled.

Jackson is accused of molesting the 13-year-old boy in February or March 2003, giving him alcohol and conspiring to hold his family captive to get them to rebut the Martin Bashir TV documentary Living With Michael Jackson.

The boy was seen in the program with Jackson, who told an interviewer he let children sleep in his bed but it was non-sexual.

Montgomery’s testimony was offered to support a prosecution claim that Jackson was planning to kidnap the accuser and his family and send them to Brazil for an indefinite period in the aftermath of the damaging documentary, which aired on February 6, 2003.

Prosecutors also called Hamid Moslehi, Jackson’s videographer from 1996 until he was dismissed on February 21, 2003.

Moslehi said he met the boy and his family three times, beginning in 2000 when he made a video of Jackson and the boy at Neverland. He said he also made a video of the boy’s brother at the estate, and the third time was the taping of the family’s so-called rebuttal video on February 19, 2003, at his Los Angeles home.

In his account of his contact with Jackson’s inner circle, Moslehi said he came to understand that Dieter Wiesner and Ronald Konitzer, who are named as unindicted co-conspirators, had become Jackson’s managers.

He said that when he shot the rebuttal video and other footage to be used in a TV show on Jackson’s behalf, they promised him a percentage of net profits. He said he received no profits and was not paid for his work.

Mesereau asked him at one point whether he knew that Wiesner and Konitzer had stolen close to 1 million from Jackson. The question drew a prosecution objection and the judge did not allow a direct answer. But when Mesereau repeated it without the dollar figure, the witness answered no.

Moslehi was expected to return to the stand today.