Corey Feldman's 1993 pedophile-naming interview was just found at the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office
Former child star Corey Feldman has been telling everyone who will listen that he and dozens of other child actors were sexually abused by a ring of pedophiles in the 1980s, and in late October, one of those people he told was recently fired Today host Matt Lauer. When Lauer asked why he was talking to him and not the police, Feldman said that in 1993, he was interviewed in California by Santa Barbara detectives about his friend Michael Jackson (who he said never molested him), and "I sat there and I gave them the names. They're on record. They have all of this information." The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office said it had no record of Feldman naming names, until Wednesday.
"Following the recent inquiries into the sheriff's office interview of Mr. Feldman in 1993, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office conducted an additional review for any stored items remaining from the Michael Jackson investigation," the department said. "In a container which included the original reports from the (Jackson) investigation, the sheriff's office located some detective working copies of audio recordings made during the investigation. A copy of Mr. Feldman's interview was located. The recording is being turned over to the Los Angeles Police Department."
After talking to Lauer, Feldman did name two names — telling Megyn Kelly that he was abused by former child talent manager and convicted sex offender Marty Weiss, and Mehmet Oz about former costar Cloyd Jon Grissom, a convicted child molester and fugitive. On the Dr. Oz show, Feldman called in a report to the LAPD, which took a statement and, on Nov. 9, dismissed the case because the statute of limitations had expired. "It's not clear whether Santa Barbara's belated discovery of a 24-year-old audio recording of detectives' interview of Feldman will change anything," USA Today notes, but it certainly adds heft to Feldman's allegations.
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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
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