JACKO’S STRIPTEASE
MICHAEL Jackson’s co-star in the Thriller video has revealed how the King of Pop stripped naked and passionately kissed her.
Former Playboy model Ola Ray, now 58, appeared in the iconic video as Jackson’s girlfriend and has now claimed she shared a kiss with the singer on set.
7
7
Ray told DailyMailTV: “Michael and I did get intimate on Thriller, yes.“I went to his trailer one day and that's where I had my second kiss with him.
“I kissed him for the first time on the set, I kissed him on the cheek, then he asked me to come into his dressing room one day and I went in there and we sat down and had a conversation and we got really close and that's when he kissed me the second time.
“It was a very passionate kiss and, you know, we also did a little something else, but that's all I'm gonna say.”
“I'll just tell you this much,” she added. “He undressed in front of me, I'm not going to tell you anymore about it - you've got to read my book.”
'PASSIONATE KISS'
Ray, who was a former Playmate of the Month for the June 1980 issue, said even though she didn’t expect something like that to happen, “getting intimate” with Michael Jackson made her feel “really, really good”.
She added that over the two weeks they were together they became “very, very close.”
Ray, who had previously appeared in George Benson’s video Give Me The Night, was thrust into the spotlight in her early 20s due to her featuring in the Thriller video which became a huge hit when it was released in 1983.
The video is still hugely popular with fans and has been viewed more than 597million times on YouTube.
Ray’s comments came on the 10th anniversary of Jackson’s death with his 1983 Thriller album thought to be the best-selling LP of all time with sales of 66million, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
7
While Ray has fond memories of working on the video she claimed that Jackson’s estate still owed her millions of dollars in royalties and she was struggling to get by, living in a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles.
Ray beat off hundreds of hopefuls to feature in the 14-minute video directed by John Landis which took two weeks to film.
She described Jackson as a “sweet” and very nice guy as well as being a “gentle soul”.
After shooting had finished she met Jackson one more time at Westlake Studios a few months later when Quincy Jones was producing his Bad album.
Jackson had told her he couldn’t continue their fling because of a promise he had made to a friend, meaning they were interested in Ray.
The pair talked about the situation and Jackson invited her out to lunch but Ray refused and instead handed him her number and asked him to call her.
She said she got an initial payment of $2,500 (£1,900) for her role in the video but didn’t get another payment for at least two years even though she had signed a lucrative contract.
Ray claims Jackson promised her 2.5 per cent of the royalties from the Thriller video but said that when Jackson died in 2009 her contract was changed and she was “duped” into signing a settlement agreement.
It is reported that up to June 2010 the video earned $92,735,816 in digital video sales and $78.6m in DVD sales.
Ray said that her cut of the money should be $4.2m (£3.3m) but claimed she had been paid less that $200,000 (£157,000) in the 35 years since the video came out.
The making of a Thriller
The 14-minute promo video for Michael Jackson’s song Thriller was directed by John Landis, who was responsible for An American Werewolf in London.
Jackson’s record label Epic initially refused to finance the ambitious project which had a budge of half a million dollars.
On its release on December 2, 1983 the video was a huge success and played regularly on MTV.
It is said to have helped double the sales of Jackson’s album of the same name, and helping it to become the best-selling album of all time.
The Library of Congress has described it as “the most famous music video of all time”.
It was the first music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry, saying it was “culturally, historically or aesthetically”.
MOST READ IN WORLD NEWS
In 2012 was awarded $75,000 in back payments after a court battle, with $20,000 of that going to her legal team.
Ray also said she did not believe the accusations of child abuse that had been made against Jackson in the Leaving Neverland documentary by Wade Robson and James Safechuck.
She told DailyMailTV: “All I can say is that the Michael I know would never do anything like that.”
7
7
7
7
We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at [email protected] or call 0207 782 4368. You can WhatsApp us on 07810 791 502. We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours.