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Meeting Michael Jackson in 1988 at the Kahala Hilton Hotel in Hawaii. This is a high resolution scan of the original film negative – 256 pixels/inch.

Michael Jackson and me around the pool area of the Kahala Hilton Hotel, early February 1988. The small boy dressed like Michael is Jimmy Safechuck, who had appeared in a Pepsi commercial with Michael and was traveling with him.

This was the second attempt at a picture because Michael said he blinked during the first one, and told me we should take another one.

Photo taken at the Kahala Hilton Hotel, early February 1988 - Michael Jackson was staying there for 3 days and I saw him 8 times during those 3 days .

This evening he ventured out alone with Jimmy Safechuck, a boy he was traveling with who was appearing in Pepsi TV commercvials with him at the time - After this photo Michael said "I think I blinked" and suggested we take it again, which we did.

Photo taken at night around the pool area at the Kahala Hilton Hotel, early February 1988. This was two years after he was diagnosd with vitiligo, a skin condition, and one month before he bought the land for what would become Neverland.

Michael was extremely sweet and nice to us, and we talked to him for about 15 minutes. When I saw him and asked for a picture he commented that he had sneaked out of the hotel away from his security and that they would be mad at him if they knew he had done that.

Scanned from the original 35MM film negative.