Ivana Trump, the mother of Donald Trump’s children, claims Michael Jackson is innocent of the child molestation claims made against him.
In her 2017 book, Raising Trump, Ivana reveals that the only person she ever trusted around her kids was the King of Pop himself – Michael Jackson.
People.com reports: The singer, who lived in Trump Tower at the time, was a close friend of the entire Trump family, Ivana explained.
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“He’d stop by and chat with Donald and me for twenty minutes, and then he’d go up to the kids’ floor to hang out with them for hours and hours,” she said. “They’d watch MTV, play Mario Brothers or Tetris, and build Trump Tower in Legos.”
“Michael was a 30-year-old kid. He could relate to Ivanka and the boys better than to us,” she added.
Ivana said she or the children’s nannies were always in the room during the playdates — but that she “never believed the accusations that he molested those kids” anyway.
In June 2005, Jackson was acquitted of child molestation charges following a highly publicized, four-month trial. But the accusations would dog him for the rest of his life — and even beyond his death in 2009.
“My read on him was asexual,” Ivana said. “He was a child himself in a man’s body, tender, sweet and gentle … there’s no way he could have hurt anyone.”
Ivana also recalls how Jackson, at the peak of his fame, went to see young Ivanka perform in The Nutcracker.
“Michael told me that she looked like an angel that night,” Ivana recalls.
