Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson & Marlon Brando roadtripped in rental car after 9/11, eating KFC
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The last, strange decade of Elizabeth’s life began with one of the most cataclysmic events in American history, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Michael Jackson was in New York, where he’d just given two concerts, on the 7th and 10th of September, at Madison Square Garden, to which he had brought two of his closest friends and idols: Marlon Brando and Elizabeth. His original idea had been for them to sit onstage like two great Easter Island figureheads flanking the show, but instead they sat in the audience. All three found themselves trapped in the city after the Twin Towers fell. Michael had gotten a call from friends in Saudi Arabia who warned that America was under attack. He hollered down the hallway of his hotel for everyone in his entourage, and for Brando, to leave immediately. Elizabeth was staying at another hotel, the St. Regis, a few blocks away.
Now here’s where the story gets complicated. . . .
In one version, these three towering icons of American pop culture planned their escape, afraid that they would be the next target. Michael and Brando had trouble leaving their hotel garage because fans kept banging on the car windows, following them down the street, screaming. Unable to fly, they drove out of the city.
The actor Corey Feldman, whom Michael had befriended when Feldman was a child star, remembers that he and Michael had quarreled the previous night at Michael’s show, in Elizabeth’s dressing room backstage at Madison Square Garden. “Elizabeth hadn’t arrived yet, and then 9/11 happened. But I remember that [the next day] Michael was trying to get Elizabeth out! He was at first looking for a private jet,” Feldman recalls. “He wanted permission to fly out—but everything was surreal. I didn’t go with him.”
A former employee of Michael Jackson’s says that Michael, like General Washington, led his entourage to a temporary safe haven in New Jersey, before the three superstars took to the open road. “They actually got as far as Ohio—all three of them, in a car they drove themselves!” he recalls.
Brando allegedly annoyed his traveling companions by insisting on stopping at nearly every KFC and Burger King they passed along the highway. One can only imagine the shock their appearance caused at gas stations and rest stops across America.
But one of Elizabeth’s close friends and assistants, who asks to remain anonymous, insists that Elizabeth did not flee New York with her two companions. “Elizabeth stayed behind,” he insists, “where she went to a church to pray, and she went to an armory where people were who couldn’t get home or who’d stayed behind to look for the missing. She also went down to Ground Zero, where she met with first responders. Eventually, the airports opened and she flew home.”
She may well have done some of those things, though no reports surfaced in the media of sightings of Elizabeth Taylor ministering to the frightened and wounded or showing up at Ground Zero.
But it was during and after the crisis that Elizabeth’s relationship with Michael—whom she already adored—deepened.
(This article was adapted from “Elizabeth Taylor’s Closing Act,” by Sam Kashner, published in the June 2011 issue of Vanity Fair.)
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Liz Taylor, Michael Jackson e Marlon Brando fuggirono l'11/9 su un auto a noleggio
Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson e Marlon Brando fuggirono l'11/9 dopo gli attacchi a New York City in una macchina a noleggio, guidata per 500 miglia in un rifugio in Ohio, solo adesso viene rivelato.
Di Martin Evans
Tre delle più grandi star del mondo, intrapresero un lungo viaggio su strada dopo aver assistito al crollo delle Twin Towers.
Guidarono più di 500 miglia attraversando l'America, fermandosi solo per mangiare al fast food, e nessuno sembrò aver riconosciuto delle grandi star in mezzo a loro.
Alla fine il gruppo arrivò in un luogo segreto in Ohio, dove credevano che sarebbero stati al sicuro dagli attacchi terroristici.
Jackson e Brando si alternarono alla guida della modesta auto noleggiata, ma la star del "Padrino" infastid' parecchio la co-star, insistendo nel fermarsi in molti ristoranti, tra cui il KFC e il Burger King lungo il percorso.
Il viaggio sarebbe avvenuto dopo che Jackson ha invitato gli altri due a New York per i suoi concerti del 7 e 10 settembre al Madison Square Garden.
Tuttavia, nel periodo immediatamente successivo l'atrocità del terrorismo di Al Qaeda in cui volavano due aerei contro il World Trade Center, i voli negli Stati Uniti furono bloccati, così il trio ricorse alla strada per il ritorno verso la costa occidentale.
Dettagli dell'affascinante ma bizzarro viaggio su strada sono stati rivelati da uno degli ex-assistenti personali di Jackson, in un'intervista alla rivista Vanity Fair.
telegraph.co.uk
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