Michael Jackson Lover Details Trysts with Singer, Swears He Wasn"t Asexual

Shana Mangatal has a lot to say about Michael Jackson.

And she swears it all comes from first-hand experience.

The 46-year old has penned a book titled “Michael and Me: The Untold Story of Michael Jackson’s Secret Romance” in which she attempts to end certain rumors about the artist’s private life.

Specifically, Mangatal says she knew Jackson intimately.

She claims she slept with him on numerous occasions and that the iconic singer was very strongly into women.

There has been chatter over the years, of course, regarding Jackson’s sexuality and whether he was actually attracted to the opposite gender.

Mangatal says she met MJ in 1988, shared her first kiss with him at the age of 26 and slept with him several times in the summer of 1996.

She also kept diaries of their experiences together.

“After he passed away, it was really difficult for me to look at his pictures, watch his music videos or even listen to his music, so I definitely couldn’t read those diaries, until about, I’d say, a year or two ago, when I finally got the strength to do it,” Mangatal says .

Jackson, of course, died in 2009 at the age of 50 from “acute propofol intoxication.”

Mangatal says her intent in publishing this book and including with it excerpts from her diary is so the public can think a “little bit differently about Michael and have a different perspective on him.”

For example?

“Anyone that I talk to, most of them believe that he was asexual, and I tell them no,” Mangatal explains.

“All you have to do is spend five minutes with him, and you know instantly that he was not asexual.

“He was quite the opposite, because he was extremely flirtatious – he was always flirting with me, at least. He could flip any conversation into something flirty.

“From the very first day that I met him [as a fan] at the afterparty for his concert in New York, he was flirting with me… And from then on, I knew that there was more to him than meets the eye, because it was clear that he loved the ladies.

“And he couldn’t hide it. Even if he tried to be child-like and innocent, he had that manly, macho thing in him that made him the flirtatious, sexy guy in real life.”

Jackson was also accused through the years of molestation.

Multiple lawsuits were brought against the singer that alleged he slept in the same bed as little children and touched them inappropriately.

Mangatal scoffs at this notion.

“When you were with Michael, and you saw him with kids, you saw the relationship, and it was just so pure and innocent,” she says.

“It was really a wonderful thing to see, because … he became like a kid when he was with them. He was like a peer to them. So it was never like he was this adult preying on the children.

“He was literally one of them. He loved playing what they loved to do, which was play video games, watch cartoons, talk about girls even.”

This is the second time Mangatal has spoken out against accusations that Jackson was a child molester.

She told Radar Online that numerous parents wanted their children to spend all this time with the legendary artist and he did not want to disappoint anybody.

“His problem was that he couldn’t say no to anybody – especially kids,” she said this spring.

“He was just so sweet and kind. He could never say no and when he finally did, parents would become upset.”

Shana Mangatal now works as an actress and talent manager.

Her book went on sale yesterday.

Along with these personal tidbit, she also writes that Jackson was a master in marketing.

When it came to his professional life, for example, Mangatal says Jackson was the person who came up with his nickname, the King of Pop.

He insisted that others refer to him that way at awards shows or on MTV for a very specific reason: branding.

Here is how Amazon describes her MJ-themed memoir:

During her seven years working for Michael’s personal manager during the prolific period of the 1990s, Shana witnessed the scandals and the lawsuits, the release of groundbreaking albums and the subsequent world tours, the making of big-budget short films, and the addictions.

It was through this business relationship that their trust and love for each other grew. Shana kept a meticulous diary throughout it all. Her story is rich with every little detail.

Will you purchase it?

Michael Jackson would have been 58 years old yesterday.

Omar Mateen Gay Lover Speaks Out: He Wanted Revenge!

Miguel, a man who claims to be Orlando mass shooter Omar Mateen’s former lover, said in a new interview that he was out for revenge.

In an interview with Univision Noticias on Tuesday, he spoke about Mateen’s alleged secret life and their “friends with benefits” relationship.

Miguel and Omar supposedly hooked up for two months.

He said that the 29-year-old Omar Mateen was gay “100 percent” and that his wife, Noor Salman, knew about his sexuality to boot.

“I’ve cried like you have no idea,” Miguel said of his reaction after hearing about the Orlando shooting that left dozens dead and injured.

“But the thing that makes me want to tell the truth,” he adds, “is that he didn’t do it for terrorism. In my opinion, he did it for revenge.”

The man, who wore a disguise for the interview, claims he met Mateen last fall after they exchanged messages on the gay dating app Grindr.

Regardless of whether he sent lewd photos to men online, he described the gunman as a “very sweet guy” who was “looking for love.”

“He adored Latinos, gay Latinos, with brown skin, but he felt rejected,” Miguel continued, lamenting his former love’s dark path.

“He felt used by them.”

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“There were moments in the Pulse nightclub that made him feel really bad. Guys used him. That really affected him.”

“I believe this crazy horrible thing … that was revenge.”

Revenge for what specifically? We’re getting to that:

According to Miguel, Mateen was angry after one of his alleged partners revealed that he was HIV-positive after they had sex.

“He was terrified that he was infected,” Miguel said.

“I asked him, ‘Did you do a test?’ Yes. He went to the pharmacy and did the test. … It came out negative, but it doesn’t come out right away.”

“It takes four, five months. When I asked him what he was going to do now, his answer was ‘I’m going to make them pay for what they did.’”

The shooting at Pulse, a popular gay nightclub, was officially the deadliest in Untied States history; Mateen was gunned down by police.

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Michael Jackson: Former Lover Reveals Truth About Pop Star"s Sordid Past

Six years after his death, an ally of Michael Jackson’s wants his real story told.

Shana Mangatal is an actress and talent manager who claims she and Jackson had an on-off relationship for several years before his June 2009 death.

The Los Angeles resident recently spoke to Radar Online about the Michael Jackson she knew behind closed doors, and how the public’s perception of him was hugely inaccurate.

Now, Mangatal is writing a tell-all, Michael and Me: The Untold Story Of Michael Jackson’s Secret Romance (Chicago Press Review, August 2016), and in it she reveals that no one was more shocked by the sexual abuse claims than Jackson himself.

Mangatal told Radar that the King of Pop never wanted to disappoint his fans, and had a very difficult time saying no.

Some fans, Mangatal recalled, “wanted their kids to be with Michael.”

“His problem was that he couldn’t say no to anybody – especially kids. He was just so sweet and kind. He could never say no and when he finally did, parents would become upset.”

When Jackson was first accused of molesting children in 1993, he and Mangatal were filming a short called Is This Scary? about a community who turns on a man they deemed a “weirdo” who looks different and “loves kids.

The “normal” residents accused the man of scaring their children.  When the weirdo asked the children themselves if he appeared frightening, the parents attempted to speak on their behalf.

“Son, do I scare you?” the weird asked a boy, who answered “no.”

But the boy’s father interjects.  

“Yes, yes you do scare him.”

Mangatal said that it was a strange coincidence that production for the film was happening at the same time as the lawsuit.

“He was just devastated – he couldn’t go on,” she told Radar.

“He couldn’t finish filming and we had to cut it short because he couldn’t believe it.”

Mangatal believes that Jackson wanted to make the short so that parents would see the damage they were causing.

“That was his way of saying it’s the parents who were forcing this kid to say that he did something to him, and that’s what Michael said to me as well,” she explained.

“He would always go back to that video in our conversations.” 

Six Brutally Honest Valentines For Your Would-Be Lover

Happy Valentine"s Day, the most romantic day EVER!!!

Or not. Behold, a half dozen hilarious valentines that convey brutal honestly, rather than the idealistic passion we dream of.

Feel the February 14 magic, slash settling.

1. Options

I love you a lot, but there are also a lot fewer options than there used to be.

2. Hassle

Sure, being with you is a hassle. But going back into the dating game is a bigger hassle.

3. Commitment

I will stay with you forever … because it would just crush the kids otherwise.

4. Faithful

One partner is all you need when that woman or man is special enough. It’s also really hard to juggle more than one of them.

5. Unity

Being with you is great, if only because being alone is even scarier.

6. Strength

Together we will be stronger than we could ever be apart. Financially at least.

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Kody Brown: Cheating on Sister Wives with New Lover?!

Kody Brown doesn’t seem to be satisfied with four women and 18 kids, according to a new tabloid report. There must ALWAYS be more.

According to insiders, the TLC reality star may have strayed from his polygamist marriage just weeks after welcoming his 18th child.

The latest cover of Life & Style reveals that there is a Sister Wives secret lover out there, one who is ready to tell all about the Browns.

Why would Kody need yet another woman? And how many more secrets can be exposed about the Browns at this stage of the game?

It’s not clear at all, but the Brown wives have been at loggerheads with each other for years, particularly Janelle Brown and Meri Brown.

Both have admitted as much, and separately, Christine Brown has been on the outs with Kody Brown and Robyn Brown for an eternity.

Kody was actively pursuing and courting Robyn Brown the entire time Christine was pregnant with her sixth child, Truely, back in 2010.

That can’t go over well.

Nor can it be easy when the polygamist patriarch married a divorced mom of three just one month after little Truely entered the world.

Christine, naturally, would be jealous and harbor major resentment toward Robyn. Being a polygamist brings about these new dynamics.

However, if he’s cheating on ALL FOUR, that would take it to a new level entirely, and then there’s this tidbit from the celebrity magazine:

Allegedly, tensions have boiled over into physical abuse, as the Brown women have now added violence to their laundry list of secrets.

Without naming names, a source divulged that one of the Browns was punched in the stomach by one of the Sister Wives co-stars.

This comes on the heels of talk of Kody being dumped by three Sister Wives, Meri Brown, Janelle Brown, and Christine Brown, in January.

Take all this with a grain of salt, of course.

Just because you repeat a rumor over and other again doesn’t mean they are really planning to leave him. Still, things don’t look great.

Kody married Robyn Brown to adopt her kids and then just had a new one with her, so she’s likely in it for the foreseeable future.

The rest of them could potentially revolt – perhaps the Meri Brown catfish scandal was a harbinger of things to come – at any time.

Stay tuned to find out of this is pure tabloid conjecture or whether the long-reported internal crumbling of the Brown empire is real.

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Leah Messer SHADES Unnamed Lover, Hears it From Twitter

Troubled Teen Mom 2 star Leah Messer took a telling, passive-aggressive SHOT on Twitter that quickly caused an uproar among fans.

As she gears up for her court date with Corey Simms, she spoke someone who was creating issues, and she’s not happy with them:

“You can’t run from the issues YOU created…. #JustSaying.”

Leah didn’t name her first ex-husband Corey Simms, with whom she is battling for custody of her six-year-old daughters, in the Tweet.

It’s possible, though unlikely, that she was directing it at her second ex-husband Jeremy Calvert, with whom she’s been on better terms.

She’s also dating T.R. Dues – and was even rumored to be cheating on T.R. Dues with Jeremy Calvert – so there’s yet another possibility.

The most logical target for that Leah’s latest salvo seems like Simms, however, and regardless, people on Twitter weren’t impressed.

Considering all she’s done in the last several years, fans felt Messer’s comment was ironic at best … and brazenly hypocritical at worst.

“Says the serial cheater, who can’t parent her kids with out been high on pills,” wrote one fan, taking the Teen Mom 2 star to task.

Added another: “You cried that your husband left you for no reason because you can’t admit that you cheated on him multiple times.”

Others were even more harsh: “You’re such a hypocrite. You went to REHAB for drugs but you told everyone it was therapy for anxiety.”

If you watch Teen Mom 2 online, you know that Leah has been accused of cheating on Jeremy with her former boyfriend, Robbie Kidd.

Then, she admitted hooking up with Simms one time in his truck while her ex-hubby was married to his current wife, Miranda Patterson.

Frequent drug rumors haven’t helped her reputation, either.

Simms and Calvert have both spoken out about her addiction issues, and Messer recently lost primary custody of her kids with Corey.

She’s been fighting him hard in court, but it looks like she has a ways to go in terms of repairing her image in the court of public opinion.

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Sister Wives Catfish Scandal: "Lover" Pens Tell-All

Meri Brown’s sticky wicket of an affair is getting worse.

The Sister Wives star and Kody Brown’s ex-wife was involved in a catfish debacle, where she thought she was falling in love with a man on the interwebs.

In reality it was Oklahoma whack job Jackie Overton, who has just announced plans to write a 200-page book about the relationship, aptly titled Almost Meri’ed.

According to Radar Online, Overton bills the tell-all as a “love story,” filled with “photos, more text snippets and lots of things” that she’s never “told anyone about the affair.”

The $ 6 book, which Overton says will be published before Christmas, “is funny in some parts: it’s very humbling” and promises a “huge twist and surprise ending.”

When they first met, Overton pretended to be a man named “Sam” and managed to make Meri fall for her.

There are recordings of Meri telling “Sam” that he was “kinder and sweeter” than Kody.

A source told In Touch that news of the book “could be really embarrassing for her.”

Could be?

“They could have had phone sex!” the source said. “It’s so scary for her that the book is being written,”

“This is just humiliating for Meri to be so intimate with someone who’s really, for all intents and purposes, a very scary woman from Oklahoma.”

Meri admitted to the affair on a TLC special, citing her daughter leaving for college and estrangement from Kody as the reasons for seeking out a relationship.

“Meri just wants to move past this already, but she may be paying the price for her actions for a long time to come,” the source added.

When the scandal unfolded, Meri released a statement to In Touch: 

“During an emotional and vulnerable time earlier this year, I began speaking with someone online who turned out not to be who they said they were.

“I never met this person and I regret being drawn into the situation, but I hope because of it I can help others who find themselves in similar circumstances.

“Throughout this whole ordeal, my family has supported and stood by me.I am grateful to them for their love and strength through this difficult time.”