The Copasetic Lounge

Bubbles is a chimpanzee Jackson rescued the three-year-old chimp from a cancer research clinic in Texas in 1985. Despite the pair enjoying a close relationship, many media sources mocked the friendship. The public thought of Jackson as a bizarre eccentric, obsessed with recapturing his childhood, and he was subsequently dubbed “Wacko Jacko”.   Here’s some of their highlight moments together:

• Bubbles sat in for the recording sessions of the Bad album and escorted Jackson for the filming of the “Bad” music video.
• During the Bad world tour, he and the singer shared a two-bedroom hotel suite in Tokyo.
• At a party to celebrate and promote Bad, Bubbles reportedly “worked the room” and was “the life of the party”.
• At Neverland, he slept in a crib at the corner of Jackson’s bedroom. Bubbles was allowed to use Jackson’s private toilet, although the chimp sometimes wore a diaper.
• Jackson and Bubbles accompanied each other on outings and talked together.
• The singer later taught the chimp how to moonwalk.
• Bubbles, who had an agent, was also rumoured to have his own bodyguard.
• Jackson’s maids stated that they were not impressed with the behaviour of the various chimps Jackson had kept over the years. One housekeeper told of how she had to clean up the droppings of one of the chimps, after it hurled its feces at the bedroom wall. Another maid described a chimp called Max tearing off his diaper before crawling into Jackson’s bed.
• When Jackson’s longtime friend Elizabeth Taylor went to an opening of a clinic, she was accompanied by the singer and Bubbles. Jackson and the ape wore matching military uniforms. On another occasion, Jackson and his friend went to Taylor’s house for tea. The actress didn’t mind the fact that the singer had brought a chimpanzee. Taylor’s eighth wedding was held at Neverland Ranch. The media reported that Bubbles would be the ring bearer. The story was untrue but was an idea that some newspapers found too delightful not to report.
• After MJ’s death, animal trainer Dunn, speaking to the News of the World, stated that the 26 year old chimp would miss the singer. “Bubbles definitely missed him when they parted and will miss him now. Chimpanzees are intelligent. They remember people and stuff. Bubbles and Michael were close friends and playmates. The last time Michael visited, Bubbles definitely recognised and remembered him.” He revealed that Jackson thought of Bubbles as his first child. Dunn added that he hoped Jackson’s children would keep in touch with their “stepbrother”, following their father’s death.

That’s all and well, but did Bubbles the chimp kill the King of Pop Pedophiles?  It’s awful suspicious that the primate was no where to be found that day at Neverland or since.  But the crackerjack reporters at CNN managed to track him down.  Turns out he’s in a chimp retirement home for retired star apes.  Here is these thrilling interrogation of the suspect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KpcJPYJKo4