Throughout Michael's entire life, he had many special women whom he always cherished and love.

Here are a compilation of quotes coming from Michael about the women in his life.



                                        Debbie Rowe

"Debbie and I love each other for all the reasons you will never see on stage or in pictures. I fell for the beautiful, unpretentious, giving person that she is, and she fell for me, just being me."
OK Magazine Interview April 1997

"Debbie is a very strong and caring woman. She’s a wonderful mother!"
OK Magazine Interview April 1997

"I heard she's doing good, she's fine. Paris is strong like Debbie."
TV  Guide 2002

                  Diana Ross               

Michael's secret love? "A girl who's going to grow up to be just like Diana Ross,
''a very foxy lady.''
Teen Now-Super Secrets of the Jackson 5ive

“You’re not pretty until you start looking like Diana!” he would tease LaToya and Janet."
Katherine and Jermaine confirms this.

Ebony: Any Black ladies in your life? Michael: "Sure, but you wouldn't take me seriously." Ebony: Try me.
Michael: "It's Diana Ross. I love her." Ebony: Do you mean as a "big sister?"
Michael: "No, that's not what I mean. See, I told you that you wouldn't take me seriously."
Ebony: You're not saying you'd like to marry Diana Ross, are you? Michael: "Oh yeah, I'm saying that."
 Ebony  Magazine 1984 

RO/CLASS: Are you and Diana Ross still extremely close?

Jackson: Always. She’s my best friend. I love her.
Focus Magazine. February 1984

 "You wouldn’t think a big star like Diana would take the time to teach a kid to paint, to give him an education in art, but she did and I loved her for it. I still do. I’m crazy about her. She was my mother, my lover, and my sister all combined in one amazing person."
 Michael Autobiography Moonwalker 1988

"She’s such a beautiful, talented woman. Doing this movie together was very special for me. I love her very much. I have always loved her very much."
 Michael Autobiography Moonwalker 1988

"[Tatum and I] developed into a real close relationship. I fell in love with her (and she with me) and we were very close for a long time. Eventually the relationship transcended into a good friendship. We still talk now and then, and I guess you’d have to sayshe was my first love – after Diana"
Michael Autobiography Moonwalker 1988

“Dedicated With Love to Diana Ross”
Remember The Time Dedication 1992

“Michael, you got to see Diana again.”
 MJ: (Inaudible?) I love her dearly.”
WMA 1996, A reporter asked Michael about Diana. (After the show)

"Like Diana Ross, you was there and now again you are here, Im crazy about you"
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame awards, 1997

"You are truly Supreme. Glad to be with you again. I love you, Michael
Michael's note on the album cover of Eaten Alive CD reprint

“Diana Ross, I loved you during the early years and I love you even more today. I love you.”
Special Thanks on Michael’s Number Ones Album, 2004

"One of my favorite people in the whole entire world, Miss Diana Ross. She's been such a special friend to me and has taught me so many incredible important things and um. Im just so honored that she came here.."
American Music Awards 1984


                                    Elizabeth Taylor

I keep looking at the photo he gave me of himself which says,“To my true love Elizabeth, I love you forever.”
Twitter, June 25th

“Without you, Elizabeth, my life would be less than full… Less than complete… Less than all there is. This music is dedicated to you… The words and music belong to you… My love has been always and will forever belong to you. I love you, Elizabeth.”
Michael Jackson (dedicating his album “Blood on the Dance Floor” to Elizabeth Taylor)  1997

"Elizabeth knew many of the things I went through growing up in the spotlight. I can say a few words or just sigh sometimes, and she knows what I’m feeling. It was wonderful to find someone who understood me so well. I pray for her, and I want her to share the joy of my son’s birth for many years to come."
OK Magazine Interview April 1997

"I love Elizabeth Taylor. I’m inspired by her bravery. She has been through so much and she is a survivor. That lady has been through a lot and she’s walked out of it on two feet. I identify with her very strongly because of our experiences as child stars. When we first started talking on the phone, she told me she felt as if she had known me for years. I felt the same way."
Moonwalk, 1988

I asked Michael Jackson if the whole procedure had gotten out of hand or was too much for him. He was his usual shy, soft spoken self, but said, “I would do anything for Elizabeth. I truly love her. We’re so much alike, you know.”
Toranto Star, 1981

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I’m crazy about her.
Oprah Interview 1993

Michael attends a gala to celebrate Elizabeth Taylor’s 65th birthday in Los Angeles . For the occasion he performs a song that he just recorded in Montreux called Elizabeth I Love You and gets a standing ovation by the galaxy of stars attending the event.
Michael performs “Elizbeth I Love You,” Elizabeth’s 65th birthday 1997

Or role-playing – her Wendy to his Peter. In the hallway of her house, a large Michael Jackson portrait was inscribed “To my True Love Elizabeth. I’ll love you Forever, Michael”.
Michael and Elizabeth Taylor speak about friendship in Talk magazine,1999

“She’s a warm, cuddly blanket that I love to snuggle up to and cover myself with. I confide in her and trust her. In my business you can’t trust anyone.”
 Michael and Elizabeth Taylor speak about friendship in Talk magazine,1999

“Because you don’t know who’s your friend. Because you’re so popular; and there’s many people around you. You’re isolated, too. Becoming successful means that you become a prisoner. You can’t go out and do normal things. People are always looking.
 Michael and Elizabeth Taylor speak about friendship in Talk magazine,1999

“But Elizabeth is also like a mother – and more than that. She’s a friend. She’s Mother Teresa, Princess Diana, the queen of England, and Wendy.”
Michael and Elizabeth Taylor speak about their  in Talk magazine, 1999

TV Guide: Who are your closest friends?
Michael: Elizabeth [Taylor], for sure. We go to the movies every Thursday.
TV Guide: You go to a regular theater?
Michael: I want to go to the Warner Bros. Studio, and she refuses. She says, “No, I’m getting you out.” So we go right into this area – which I can’t say – and walk right in. And it’s usually empty, because [most] people are working at the time. [The theater employees] go, “Wow, come on in,” and we never really pay. And we’re the ones who can afford it. [Laughs]
“The Once and Future King” TV Guide Interview, December 1999

SB: What is it about Elizabeth Taylor that is so endearing to you? She is like your closest friend for many years. What is it about her, in the context of these childlike qualities?
MJ: We are both from the same place…
Conversations With Rabbi Schmuley, 2000/2001

[Elizabeth Taylor and I] we’re like brother and sister, mother and son, lovers… it’s a potpourri…it’s something special. We go through this whining thing on the phone… “I need you….” “Oh, I need you, too.” We can talk about anything. She’s been my most loyal friend. She says she adores me and would do anything for me. She says Hollywood has to write a movie for the two of us. We just have to do something together.
Conversations With Rabbi Schmuley, 2000/2001

TVG: Who else do you spend time with?
MJ: Elizabeth [Taylor], Brando, Gregory Peck, these are very close friends of mine. Either they’re much older than me or much younger.
TV Guide Interview 2001

Rivera: Do you want to mention the names of the true blue?

Jackson: Faithful, you wouldn’t know them.

Rivera: Elizabeth Taylor.

Jackson: She is very loyal. I was just at her house. We have wonderful talks on the phone at night, several times a week sometimes.
Geraldo Riviera Interview, January 19 2005

                                           Tatum Oneal

[Tatum and I] developed into a real close relationship. I fell in love with her (and she with me) and we were very close for a long time. Eventually the relationship transcended into a good friendship. We still talk now and then, and I guess you’d have to sayshe was my first love – after Diana
Moonwalk, 1988

When I held Tatum’s hand it was just magic, better than anything, kisisng her, anything. Her, Ryan O’Neal and myself went to this club and were watching a band and underneath a table she was holding my hand I was was melting. It was magical. There was fireworks going on. It was all I needed But that means nothing to kids today. She grew up too fast. She wasn’t into innocence, and I love that.
Rabbi Schmuley's book, conversations in 2000/2001

“My first girlfriend who I really loved a lot”.
Living With Michael Jackson,  2003

                                      Princess Diana

"Lady Diana, um, in real truth, was one of the sweetest people I’ve ever known, because, um, we could relate to each other, we shared something in common, with the press. I don’t think they hounded anyone more than her and myself. And we had a relationship, a very good relationship, where we would call each other, er, late at night, for me, er, and we would, you know, just talk about… just like cry on each other’s shoulders, how hard and difficult and how mean the tabloids can be. And how they lie and twist stories around. Um, but she came to…"
Private Home Movies, April 2003

"She was just a wonderful, warm, compassionate, er, person… very caring, very caring. It was real. It wasn’t a publicity… stunt. It was real"

Private Home Movies, April 2003

"She really cared. I’m the same way. If feel the same way that she does about children and the future of our children and the future of the world"
Private Home Movies, April 2003

Sb: What if you found a woman you was soft, who was incredibly soft?
MJ: Like a Mother Teresa or a Lady Diana or… That would be great. That would be perfect.
Schmuley Tapes, 2000/2001

MJ: A woman I really liked and respected was Princess Diana.
SB: Why?
MJ: Because she was classy and sincerely cared about people and children and the plight of what was going on in the world. She didn’t do it for show. I like the way she made her kids wait in line to get on a ride for something.
SB: Can we say that there was an ever so innocent slight romantic attraction? Or do you not want to say that? Do you just want to say that you thought she was a very special? She was a feminine kind of woman?
MJ: Very feminine and classy. She was my type for sure, and I don’t like most girls. There are very few I like who fit the mold. It takes a very special mold to make me happy and she was on of them. For sure.
Schmuley Tapes, 2000/2001

                                      
                                  Brooke Shields

Oprah: Have you ever been in love?

Michael: Yeah.

Oprah: With Brooke Shields?

Michael: Yes, and another girl.
Oprah Interview, 1993

Oprah: What kind of woman makes you…in the video we’re going to see later, we premier the world video, there’s a line where you talk about being quenched. So what kind of person does that for you?

Michael: [Sings] Quench my desire … Well Brooke, I’ve always liked her…
Oprah Interview, 1993

“She is the most sincere, understanding and interesting girl I’ve ever known,” Michael has said of Brooke. “We talk on the phone for hours without getting bored.”
McCall’s May 1984

Another love was Brooke Shields. We were romantically serious for a while. There have been a lot of wonderful women in my life, women whose names wouldn’t mean anything to the readers of this book, and it would be unfair to discuss them because they are not celebrities and are unaccustomed to having their names in print. I value my privacy and therefore I respect theirs as well.
 Moonwalk 1988

"Now Brooke Shields, she was one of the loves of my life. We dated a lot. Her pictures were all over my walls and mirrors. I was at the Academy Awards with Diana Ross and she just came up to me and said, “Hi, I’m Brooke Shields. Are you going to the after pary?” I said, “Yeah,” and I just melted. I was about twenty three… during Off The Wall. I thought, “Does, she know[that photographs of her are] all over my room?” And we went on the dance floor. And man we exchanged numbers and I was up all night, spinning around in my room, just so happy. She was classy. We had one encounter when she got real intimate and I chickened out. And I shouldn’t have."
Conversations With Rabbi Schmuley, 2000/1

"I love people like Brooke who are talented but work so hard. Brooke is a nice girl but she’s not Elizabeth Taylor. That’s the kind of lady I want to be seen with."
Conversations With Rabbi Schmuley, 2000/1

Brett: Any posters in your bedroom as kid and of who?

MJ: Yeah, Brooke Shields. Everywhere. My sisters would get jealous and tear them off the wall.

Brett: Really? (both laughing) Brooke Shields? Okay
Brett Ratner interviewing Michael, 2003

                                  
                         Michael's perfect woman

 "I want someone who is a lot like me, who has the same interests and who wants to help. The ones who are classy and quiet and not into all the sex and all the craziness because I am not into that. I do not understand alot of the things that go on in relationships and I do not know if I ever will. Mean things and vulgar things with their bodies. I do not understand it and it has hurt my past relationships."
Shmuley Tapes, 2000/2001

Have you ever found girls who like practical jokes that you like? Have you ever found a woman who collects comics?
MJ: It is a rarity. If I find one I will go nuts. Especially, if she has those qualities and is beautiful inside. It would be a home run for me.
MJ: I think sexy comes from the heart in the way you present yourself.
SB: Have you ever found women who are a bit more modest to be more attractive for that reason?
MJ: Yeah. I don’t like women who are always saying, “My nails need to be done. I have to do my toes. I need a manicure.” I hate all that. I lke it when girls are a little bit more tomboyish. If they wrestle, climb a tree….. I love that. It is sexier to me. I like class, though. Class is everything.
Shmuley Tapes, 2000/2001

                       The Deepest Form of Love

GOLD GIRL: What do you think is the deepest form of love someone can feel? And have you felt it?

MICHAEL JACKSON: Wow, I think that's really a matter of opinion. Have I felt the deepest form of love? I don't know what would be the deepest... {long pause} and interesting question... {repeats question a few times}. I love my children very, very much, and I always look in their eyes and tell them that - I think that's the most important thing.
 Gold Magazine 2002

  Katherine Jackson on Michael finding True    Love and Happiness

MORGAN: Did you ever hope that he would find true love?

JACKSON: You know, I always thought about that, but Michael seemed happy. So I wasn't too worried about it. He found a lot of joy in his children and in his -- some of his nephews and nieces that he would -- he was very close to.

MORGAN: Was Michael happy in the end, do you think?

JACKSON: I felt he was happy. I could never -- and I always talked to the girl that was the kids' nanny, Grace. She always said -- I always said, is Michael happy because they were accusing him of all these things? And she would always say Michael had good times. We had good times together. Me and the kids and Michael, we would play.

Michael liked to run and play on the beach or whatever. And she assured me that, you know --

MORGAN: Despite everything, he managed to have a lot of happy times.

JACKSON: Uh-huh.