They help me dust, clean the window.”īubbles pointing to a picture of himself with his world famous owner (Getty) When he was later invited to reflect on the ape and his other exotic pets in court in 2005, Jackson even claimed that they helped with the housework, explaining: “They run around, help me clean the room. The pair quickly became close, with Bubbles said to have slept in his owner’s bedroom in a crib, eaten supper at Jackson’s dinner table, chewed popcorn at his side in the ranch’s private cinema and even learned to use the bathroom when he became too mature to wear nappies. Jackson is understood to have first acquired the baby chimp from a biomedical research laboratory in Austin, Texas, in 1983, saving him from life as a test subject to live in luxury at the singer’s apartment home in Encino prior to the move to Neverland.
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Perhaps attempting to capitalise on the popularity of Netflix’s lockdown sensation Tiger King, Kemp’s programme seeks out the lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes and zebras that once made up Jackson’s menagerie.īut it is Bubbles, immortalised as an icon of pop cultural history in a series of sculptures by Jeffrey Koons in 1988, who remains the object of greatest fascination.
The question is addressed in the new documentary Searching for Michael Jackson’s Zoo with Ross Kemp, now streaming on ITV Hub, in which the former EastEnders hardman interviews former keepers and animal trainers about the fate of the star’s former pets in the wake of his death.
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