Hi I am a MJ fan from way back....
Here is the piece about Chandler that was in my local Jersey City, NJ paper today...
King of Pop's accuser found on bed in his waterfront apt.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
By RON ZEITLINGER
DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR
The father of the 13-year-old boy who accused pop legend Michael Jackson of molesting him in the early 1990s was found dead in his Jersey City home earlier this month - an apparent suicide - authorities said yesterday.
A Jersey City police spokesman said that Evan Chandler, 65, was found dead on his bed in Liberty Towers, a luxury condominium building at 33 Hudson St., on Nov. 5.
Chandler had a single gunshot wound to his head and the gun was still in his hand when cops arrived, police spokesman Stan H. Eason said.
Police were sent to check on the former Beverly Hills dentist when they received a call from a Bayonne doctor who was concerned because Chandler had missed an appointment, police reports said. The doctor, from Colanta Hematology, told police that Chandler had been extremely ill, reports said.
A doctor who answered the phone at the Broadway office yesterday declined to comment.
In the early 1990s, Chandler reported the King of Pop, who died this past June 25, to authorities in both Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, Calif., accusing Jackson of molesting his son Jordan, who was 13 at the time.
The Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office launched a probe and convened a grand jury to look into the sexual abuse charges. Meanwhile, Chandler and his son filed a civil lawsuit against Jackson. The case did not go to trial because the boy received a settlement of more than $20 million, according to published reports.
Evan Chandler and Jordan Chandler made news in Hudson County in 2005 when Jordan, 26 at the time, accused his father of hitting him in the head with a 12.5-pound weight and also spraying him in the face with a chemical irritant.
Evan Chandler was charged with assault and weapons charges, but those charges were later dropped.
On its Web site, the New York Post reported that Chandler was an aspiring screenwriter and had undergone several cosmetic procedures that had made him virtually unrecognizable.
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