Michael Jackson had girlfriends, wanted a normal life, bodyguards claim

Michael Jackson's bodyguards in the last years of his life describe the pop icon as a prisoner of fame who enjoyed going through the fast-food drive-through and just wanted to go to a bar and order a beer like anyone else, according to ABC's Ashley Banfield, who spent three days with the men. (The men were not paid for the interview, Banfield makes sure to say, but they are angling for a book contract.)

The men say that Jackson, acquitted in 2005 of molestation, was not a pedophile -- "Being a father myself and being a man, men know men," guard Bill Whitfield says. "He had desires for women" -- and that, in fact, he dated at least two women, making out with them behind a curtain in the backseat of his car. Well, either that, Whitfield says, "or chewing loud gum."

They described Jackson's three children, Prince, Paris and Blanket as smart and exceedingly well-mannered, and says Jackson hid the "Wacko Jacko" headlines from them as best he could. When Banfield asks whether Jackson considered his own behavior "weird," Whitfield says, "Different. I'd use the world different. Weird, no."

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