express- IT was an American road trip like no other, with travelling companions like no others. Cooped up together for 500 miles were three of the world’s biggest and most charismatic stars – Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando and Michael Jackson. The trio are said to have embarked on their journey to flee New York in a hire car the day after the 9/11 terror attack.
Fearing a follow-up attack, the trio first sought refuge in New Jersey, according to one of Jackson’s former personal assistants.
From there they undertook a 500-mile odyssey across America – with Brando and Jackson behind the wheel and stopping only to fuel up on Burger King and KFC takeaways – until they finally reached a mystery destination in the state of Ohio.
The remarkable tale, told to this month’s Vanity Fair magazine, is set to become the stuff of Hollywood legend – or possibly even part of a film script.
The US magazine says that Hollywood actors Brando and Taylor were in the Big Apple to watch Jackson perform at Madison Square Garden on September 10.
The following day, after hearing that the Twin Towers had collapsed, Jackson “hollered down the hallway of his hotel” for everyone in his entourage, including Brando, to leave immediately.
However, Jackson and Brando had trouble leaving the hotel garage “because fans kept banging on the car windows, following them down the street, screaming”.
Taylor, meanwhile, was said to be staying nearby at another hotel.
The former employee of Jackson reveals that he “led his entourage to a temporary safe haven” in New Jersey before the three superstars took to the open road.
“They got as far as Ohio – all three of them in a car they drove themselves!” he recalls in the magazine.
Rotund Brando, the star of On The Waterfront and The Godfather, apparently annoyed the others by demanding stops at every KFC and Burger King en route.
Another version of the story reports that Jackson attempted to get Taylor out of New York, but she was unable to fly out.
Former teen heart-throb and actor Corey Feldman, a friend of Jackson, who also was at the Madison Square Garden show, tells the magazine: “I remember Michael was trying to get Elizabeth out. He was at first looking for a private jet.”
I don't even know how to respond to this. It's quite possibly the greatest story I've ever heard. Just picturing the three of them in a car pulling up to a Burger King drive-thru is so classic. I can't stop laughing about it. And then the part about the screaming fans following them down the street, banging on the windows is so unbelievable. Didn't they know what was going on? I want to see a movie made about this story so bad. Like what was the conversation like? I can't believe any of them even knew how to drive a car. Poor Corey Feldman, though. I guess he really found out where he stood on MJ's pecking order after he was left to fend for himself in Manhattan.
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