MJ's Xmas bonus for his now-grown past!

Hmmph... During the holidays and since the new year began Mikey has lost a major legal battle for lack of interest on his part, his employees have gone without pay (holiday or otherwise), his menagerie has reportedly been ill and possibly starving (his vet's even suing him!), he's been served with charges of child abduction and lying to authorities, his parents and sibs have probably lost their home and the survivors of a hurricane named Katrina have yet to hear their benefit single. While all of this was happening there were tales of Mikey being in a drug and alcohol-induced haze, abusing lycra in public and freshening up the Maybelline in the lady's room. In other words: clueless and unaffected as always. Well, today Roger Friedman's column details the happy Christmas Mikey spent in Bahrain with his three most special-ist "surrogate" families: the Schleiters from Germany, the Bhattis from Norway, and the Cascios of New Jersey. Each of these families includes a now-grown young man Mikey spent quality time with as young boys. The Schleiter kid liked dressing up like Mikey when Mikey took a shine to him; the Bhatti boy was a 12 year-old Mikey imitator who has lived with him for long periods and who Mikey claimed was his "natural son" (is there such an animal? See pic) and we all know the oldest Cascio boy, Frank, who has spent a lot of time with Mikey since his boyhood and who has "worked" for him for years (he was also one of the infamous un-indicted co-conspirators we heard so much about during the molestation trial). Anyway, Mikey plied these families with gifts and treated them to the high life in Bahrain, presumably on Prince Mo'money's dime: sweet. Read about the comfort and joy here.