"Over his 18-year career, Bashir, a British journalist, had interviewed numerous high-profile celebrities, including Princess Diana. He spent five years trying to score an interview with Michael Jackson.
“Michael adored Princess Diana ... and when Bashir knocked on my door to ask me to introduce Michael to him, he showed me a crumpled letter he carried in his wallet — a thank-you letter from Princess Diana,” says Michael’s friend Uri Geller, who introduced MJ to Bashir and calls it “my devastating mistake”,
Michael granted approval to Bashir, who at the time was working for ITV, the UK’s biggest network, to visit him at Neverland, as well as at his posh suite in Las Vegas."