New York: King of Pop Michael Jackson was a ladies man and a womaniser, according to his three security guards, Mike Garcia, Bill Whitfield and Javon ‘BJ’ Beard.

The late pop legend was dogged by rumours regarding his sexuality throughout the latter part of his life, but according to his trusted security team Mike Garcia, Bill Whitfield and Javon ‘BJ’ Beard he was a heterosexual guy with normal desires. “Being a man, men know men, and we were around him long enough to know he was a man,” Whitfield said. “He had desires of women like we do. He had lovers. In the cars that we had, we had a curtain that covered the back seat. You couldn’t see in the back seat. They talked back there; they didn’t do nothing out of bounds. You could hear the kissing,” said Garcia.
The Thriller hitmaker who died on June 25 last year from a drug overdose, was accused of sexually abusing children.The three men, often referred to the singer’s “inner circle” during their appearance on TV show Good Morning America also praised him for being a great father to his three children, Prince Michael, 13, Paris, 11, and eight-year-old Prince Michael II.
“The kids were constantly saying, ‘I love you, daddy.’ They were like four buddies,” Garcia said. According to the security men he was very protective of his kids and would make them remove magazines carrying news about him when the family went out in public.
“I’d be ahead of him, because I know he’s coming this way, and I’m looking at magazine racks that may have something about him on them and I’ll turn it around. Sometimes he’d see them, and you would actually see him take them and turn them around so the kids didn’t see them,” Whitfield said.      —PTI