Former Lawyer for Jackson Accuser Speaks

Jan. 29 -- Michael Jackson encouraged the boy who later accused him of molestation into appearing in a British documentary with the suggestion of a movie career, a former lawyer for the boy's family tells ABCNEWS' Primetime.

Jackson brought the boy to his Neverland ranch and "gave him some inducements about things that might happen if he did a good job on camera … like he might have a movie career," William Dickerman told Primetime's Cynthia McFadden. The interview took place before a judge issued a gag order in the case earlier this month.

In the documentary, Jackson is seen holding hands with the 12-year-old, who also rests his head on Jackson's shoulder. The boy tells the interviewer he and his brother had spent a night in the singer's bedroom, and Jackson says he slept on the floor.

Dickerman and others told Primetime that at the time the documentary was shot, according to the boy, both Jackson and the boy were telling the truth: There had never been anything sexual in their relationship.

But according to a source familiar with the boy's allegations, the boy says that after the cameras were turned off later that same day, Jackson showed him pictures of naked women and cuddled him. The boy told no one.

No Stranger to Controversy

Dickerman said the boy, who was befriended by Jackson when the youngster was critically ill with cancer, was brought to Neverland expressly to do the interview. He hadn't been there for months.

"I suppose he was trying to clean up his image, put a young boy in front of the camera who says, 'Yeah everything is OK, he doesn't sleep with me, there is nothing torrid happening in bed,' " he said.

When the program aired last February, the boy's mother contacted him, Dickerman said — not because she had any suspicions about child molestation, but because she felt the documentary's producers hadn't treated her son fairly.

"He had been on camera, there had been no consent given," said Dickerman. "And when she found out about it, she was absolutely livid and she would never have given her consent."