Michael Jackson's spiritual advisor Firpo Carr on Friday called the claims made by an author in an upcoming Vanity Fair article "false."

"Regarding Michael Jackson on drugs, first of all, we all know that there was the Pepsi incident. His hair caught on fire. He took painkillers for that. Like so many other people, yes, there was a challenge getting off those painkillers," said Carr at a news conference held at the Jackson family compound in Encino, California.

"The problem is not having been addicted to drugs, the problem is getting off of drugs," he stressed.

Supporters and family members said they could say little due to a gag order in the Jackson molestation case, but Jermaine Jackson has already called the article "slanderous."

The author of the article in Vanity Fair, Maureen Orthhas, raised more allegations about Michael Jackson seducing boys by giving them soda cans filled with wine.

In next month's edition of the magazine, the article's author cites an old interview with one of Jackson's former business advisors.

"The young man who made the allegations said he was given wine in soda pop cans," said Orth. "White wine was called 'Jesus Juice' and red wine was 'Jesus Blood.' Allegedly, Michael said 'if Jesus drank it, it ought to be good.'"

Orth added that Jackson allegedly showed the boy and his brother pornography on the Internet and it was just another incident in what Orth claims is Jackson's history of abuse with other boys.

"In 1998, in Japan, Jackson allegedly gave another 13-year-old boy cans of white wine. The boy's father had just announced a big business deal with Jackson, and Jackson took the boy to an amusement park in Japan and the boy came back sick and the deal went sour," Orth said.

Orth said she feels the road ahead could be a tough one for Jackson. "It's a strong case here and I think we'll go through kind of a horrible circus of a trial," she said.

According to Orth, the current charges are strikingly similar to the 1993 case that Jackson settled out of court.

Orth also said that Jackson has had serious drug and alcohol problems, including addiction to Demerol and Morphine and he has even gone through detox.

Jackson, booked last November and freed on a 3-million-dollar bail, has pleaded innocent to nine accounts of child molestation and offering wines to children.

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