King of Pop offers praise for Princess Diana, Adolf Hitler in new book 'The Michael Jackson Tapes' Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen

She was my type for sure and I don’t like most girls,” Jackson told Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in the explosive new book, “The Michael Jackson Tapes,” which hits stores Friday. “It takes a very special mold to make me happy and she was one of them.”

It’s just one of several revelations Jackson shared with former friend Rabbi Boteach during 30-plus hours of conversations, which Boteach claims were made with Jackson’s permission. The bizarre and wide-ranging discussions cover everything from Jackson’s love for his children to Adolf Hitler.

“Hitler was a genius orator,” the pop star tells the Rabbi during one of his characteristically strange moments. “To make that many people turn and change and hate, he had to be a showman and he was.”

When Boteach inquires whether Jackson thinks he could have helped change the German dictator who was responsible for one of the worst atrocities of modern time, Jackson replies, “Absolutely. You have to help them, give them therapy, teach them that somewhere, something in their life went wrong.”


Among the other odd love revelations Jackson makes are his claims that Cindy Crawford flirted with him, and that he considered dating his longtime friend Elizabeth Taylor, but feared they would be labeled “the odd couple."

The “Thriller” star also says that he thought Madonna was “in love with me” but jealous of his success. “We had nothing in common,” Jackson says. “She is not sexy at all.”

Boteach, 42, who is based at Oxford University, recorded the conversations between 1999 and 2001. He appears Friday on “Dateline” in an interview with Meredith Viera where, Boteach discusses his relationship with Jackson and the conversations.

Perhaps it is no longer surprising that the tapes reveal a man who, in spite of his vast success and undisputed talent, was lonely and yearned for a way to overcome his insecurities around people, reports NBC.

“Anybody else would probably be dead by now, or a junkie, with what I've been through, Shmuley,” Jackson tells Boteach, according to NBC.

At one point, Boteach asks Jackson if he feels God gave him a certain healing power. The “Beat It” singer replies, “Yes …and I've seen children just shower all over me with love. They want to just touch me and hug me…and mothers pick their babies and put them into my arms. ‘Touch my baby, and hold them, touch my baby, touch my baby.’”

There’s also a chilling revelation on the tapes, where Jackson expresses his fear of aging, saying “I don’t want to grow old." Jackson died of a drug related heart attack that was later ruled a homicide and is still under investigation on June 25.

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