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Video Message to Mandy Porter

Date range confirmed in Chris Cadman’s “Michael Jackson the Maestro” (“In 1996”); this will be updated with more sources if more information comes to light.

 

Michael Jackson, video message transcript

Mandy. Mandy Porter. I hope you're feeling better. I miss you and love you and tell all your friends who worked on the dance performance, that was brilliant. Tell them I loved it very much and enjoyed it very much. May you have the best of joy and peace and good health in the future and forever. Love always, M.J.

 

Carole Christine Nowicki, mother of Amanda Lynn Swafford aka Amanda/Mandy Porter, Letter of provenance for signed letter to Amanda Porter from Michael Jackson (July 31, 2009) (eBay listing mirror) (archived eBay listing mirror)

The first time we met Michael Jackson was after he had seen Amanda Porter on Good Morning Los Angeles in 1986. Amanda had come to Los Angeles to be made the 1st Poster Child from the Midwest for R.P. International. Michael was watching T.V. at Neverland Ranch and saw Amanda being interviewed for The Wonder of Sight Night hosted by Stevie Wonder. Amanda was asked by the interviewer, “You are meeting Stevie Wonder, Julio Iglesias, and you will be escorted by Charleston Heston and presented by Ricardo Montalban, but is there really someone you would like to meet?” Without hesitation, Amanda said, “Michael Jackson”.

After the interview, we returned to our room at the Holiday Inn in Woodland Hills, California. There came a knock on the door and I answered it. It was Michael Jackson with gifts in his hand for Amanda.

Amanda and Michael were friends for 23 years, up to the time of his death. Michael called her Mandy and she called him M.J… Amanda was also in the promotional book for Elizabeth Taylor’s Passion Perfume, hers being the 1st letter.

When the allegations came out against Michael, my family was asked to appear on the Geraldo Rivera Show from the Jackson camp. Amanda, my son Riley, and I, Carole Nowicki, appeared and defended Michael.

Michael’s kindness and devotion to Amanda continued throughout the years even exchanging gifts to each other when they had children. He will be sadly missed by us as we were lucky to know Michael the person and Michael the entertainer.

Date: July 31, 2009

Sincerely,

Carole Christine Nowicki