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"Michael Jackson&amp;#039;s former tour guitarist Jennifer Batten has denied recent claims from Kiss frontman Gene Simmons that the singer abused children. The musician told Sawf News that Simmons&amp;#039;s suggestion that a friend had quit Jackson&amp;#039;s tour after &amp;quot;seeing boys coming out of the hotel rooms&amp;quot; was untrue. Batten said: &amp;quot;Number one, there&amp;#039;s no truth to it. Number two, I would guess that it was somebody who got fired. Somebody who was embarrassed that they got fired and so they made up a story.&amp;quot; She added that no musicians had left a Jackson tour after it had started and that only two were fired &amp;quot;like a week before we took out on the road&amp;quot;. Of media reports on Jackson after his death last June, she added: &amp;quot;They were respectful for about two or three hours and then they turned it into a tabloid festival... It&amp;#039;s all about money now, not about truth. People can be very cold.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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