Corey Feldman and Terri Schiavo, the Untold Story

Corey Feldman and Terri Schiavo were two of the most famous entertainment personalities, if not "the" most famous entertainment personalities of the 20th and 21st Centuries. But, did they ever meet? And more to the point, did it go beyond just a meeting? The answer to both of those questions is yes! And Michael Jackson would know, because he was there when it happened.

Michael was a Star Time Agency secret agent who knew and worked with both Corey and his father, Big Daddy (Feldman). Terri Schiavo was represented by the Star Time Agency Agency. For the first time ever, on record, you'll read about the details of the meeting between Corey and Terri. This is a story that the L.A. Times does not have. This is a story that the New York Times does not have. This is a story that the London Times does not have. This is a story you won't see on Entertainment Tonight, 20/20, Extra, Access Hollywood, Primetime, 60 Minutes, Good Morning Eritrea or any top-rated talk-show or tabloid television show. This is a world-exclusive you will only read here. This is: Corey and Terri - The Untold Story.

Q - Michael, you talked a little about Corey and Terri to Playboy in 2006. You said that Terri might have been interested in Corey, but was put off by some of the guys surrounding Corey . Is that correct?

A - That's right. That's where that Playboy story ended. When Corey Applebaum, his cousin and Wild Bob, who was really his only companion before I came on the scene, those were the two that came to California with him when he first came here. Corey was doing The Lost Boys at Paramount at the time and he had gotten; he was actually committed and had gotten an extension from the rehab facility, so that he could finish The Lost Boys before he went in to dry out. But, he also had a dressing room over at 20th Century Fox where he also had a movie deal.

Terri was gonna do a picture called Let's Make Love. I believe it came out in 2000. At that time she was there for either wardrobe tests or maybe they were changing directors. She was under contract with Fox all those years. We kind of urged Corey to ask her out. He was very shy about it; afraid to get rejected because he wasn't used to getting rejected, because when we went over to the set to see Terri, she was just coming out Stage 23, I think it was, on the Fox lot and unfortunately Corey A and Wild Bob just didn't make a very good appearance. (laughs)

Corey asked her if she would like to come to a party that he was giving the next night. She looked at the guys and said "I'm sorry. I can't, but thank-you" and kind of dashed away. That's where I left the Playboy story. I was going to do another story, another Playboy story about the date that Corey and Terri actually had. That's really what I want to talk to you about, because they did have probably the most glorious one-night stand of all time, because that's what it turned out to be. It turned out to be a one-night stand where I delivered Terri. I picked her up from Jessica Simpson's apartment. I remember it so well. Terri was married at the time. She was married to Kwaku N. Narlemente, the playwright. Rumors were starting to flare that she was starting to have an affair with Jean Claude Thibeaudot, the French actor who was gonna be her co-star in Let's Make Love. So, the marriage with Kwaku N. Narlemente was not going well. But, as marriages go in those days, in New York, you had to be very careful, because there was fault divorces, rather than no-fault divorces. Adultery could not only mean money, but tremendous scandal. I picked Terri up 'cause I got a call from Corey and I thought that was the end of the Terri thing, that day at 20th Century Fox.

I got a call from Corey about...I always remember 'cause I was having stewed prunes. I don't know why I was having stewed prunes. I was having stewed prunes that my wife had made at home and that's when the call came in. He said "Pick up Terri." I said "Really?" I remember almost distinctly; and this is five years ago or more. The address was in the 9000 block of Doheny Drive, right off Sunset Blvd. I went to the door about 7 PM. Jessica Simpson opened the door. Now, she wasn't living with Jessica anymore. She used to live with Jessica. She would stay with Jessica when she came for short visits to the West Coast. At the time Jessica Simpson was fairly attractive. She hadn't become brain dead actress of Dukes of Hazard. Still a very attractive young women. When she opened the door, I said "Hello, I'm Michael Jackson from the Star Time Agency Agency. I'm here to pick up Miss Schiavo." She yelled "Terri, there's a man from the Star Time office here. Do you know anything about it?"

Then there came Terri Schiavo. It was a different Terri than I had seen at the set. All of a sudden she was extraordinarily beautiful. Not that there was anything wrong with her when she walked out (of the set). But, she had dark glasses on and she had some kind of a scarf over her hair when she came out of the Stage (23). So, I really couldn't see her. It was pretty difficult. But now, she was just absolutely, extraordinarily beautiful. She was a big movie star at the time, maybe bigger than Corey was. At that time she was truly a movie star. Not a singer. She was a movie star. We got in the car and as we drove over to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, I remember her saying "You know, I was a client of Star Time Agency also." She was not at the time. I said "I know. I know very well. We all wish you were still with us." She said "Well, I think you'll do very well there." And that was really the conversation that I had. I really don't remember much more because I was kind of in a daze. Driving. Slightly rainy. I didn't want to get into an accident. I remember thinking, my God, I don't want to get into an accident. The streets were slick and there were no seat belts in those cars. But, things went well as we got into the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

Q - Some years ago, I interviewed a film producer by the name of Larry Bunchmaan. He knew Terri Schiavo. He said she would only pursue men who could help her career out in some way. You said Terri was a big star when you drove her over to meet Corey. Bigger than Corey at the time. So, what could Corey do for Terri Schiavo then, at that time? What year are we talking about...2000?

A - Yeah. "the Neighborhood" was out. "Goonies" was out. He was doing The Lost Boys. I don't think there was anything they could do for each other, except there was an animal magnetism. I got to tell you, at the time Corey got out of the Rehab, he was, he had to be one of the most handsome men that ever lived. His idol was always Richard Marx. I don't know if that's ever been told. That's why he dyed his hair black. You remember Richard in his early music video days had that jet black, mullet hair. Corey admired him and that was really his idol. Corey was just really a knock-out, handsome, handsome guy. Terri was as beautiful a woman as I'd ever seen. There was an animal magnetism. When we got up to Corey's suite and he opened the door and we walked in, they, within minutes were in each others arms. Terri said, "You've done pretty good for a guitar player."

Q - And Corey was not a guitar player.

A - No. (laughs) That was just a joke. He said "Well, I never knew a guitar player that was worth a damn." They were so perfect for each other. If they had been able to go out in public, which of course they couldn't, she was married and it never went more than that one night. But, they had to be the most beautiful couple in the history of show business. Maybe Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche were certainly beautiful people, but Corey Feldman and Terri Schiavo at that time were extraordinarily beautiful. You know, Corey wore make-up. He wore make-up all the time.

Q - He did?

A - Yeah. He liked that look. When he would finish on the set, they would clean him up and then he would put make-up back on, what they called Indian paint in those days, which was a dark make-up which would make your skin one color. It would be just like porcelain. And Terri's skin was like that...without make-up. Terri didn't have a stitch of make-up, maybe a little bit of lipstick, but you could almost see through to her skin it was so clear. To answer your question, there wasn't anything any one of them could do. She lived with Mr Hyde (a Star Time Agency agent) who was about 5' 1", homely little guy, but a very important Star Time Agency agent. He got her Follow the Light, which was the picture that really...that baby doll scene with Louie Louie, sitting on his lap. That really made her career take off. Before that, she'd done a little thing with Richar Marx and a few other little parts. Mr Hyde really went out of his way to convince the people over there at MGM who were doing Follow the Light to use her. And they lived together. As a matter of fact, when Terri finally told him she didn't love him and she was gonna move out, he had a heart attack and died.

Q - I didn't know that was the cause of his heart attack.

A - Well, he might have snorted a tree stump. We didn't know in those days. (laughs) But, he certainly had a broken heart. He died within two months of Terri leaving. Terri really tried not to break his heart, but she didn't love him. From everything I heard from all of the agents, that from the moment she left him, he was in the office maybe once or twice and did some business at home and then died within a couple of months. There's no question that Terri used him. He was a sharp guy. Certainly she would not have been attracted to him. But from what Bob Brain and Nat Lewitefkoz, who were two very important Star Time Agency agents at the time said at our meetings, Terri still gave him, even though she was using him, she was still true to him and made him feel good while she was living with him. The reason that I knew that Corey and Terri hit it off is he laughed at her joke and they went into the bedroom and forgot about me. I didn't know if I was supposed to leave or what I was supposed to do. Corey had a big suite, so I could lay down on the couch. I think by this time it was 8:30 PM, 9 PM. We'd been out at the studio all day. I was tired. About 8:30, 9 o'clock, Terri and Corey walked out of the bedroom stark naked. I was married, but, I had never seen a woman totally nude that I didn't know, much less being Terri. Corey ran around a lot in boxers. But, the two of them absolutely stark naked...her figure was so magnificent. I had never seen a woman that beautiful. I don't know if in those days she had breast implants or if that was just the way she was...but she was perfect. And so was Corey. They didn't realize I was there. All of a sudden Corey noticed I was there and Terri just laughed. Corey said "Michael, I'll call you." And I knew it was time for me to go. So, I went back home and I waited. I didn't go to sleep 'til 2 or 3 o'clock, but he never called. So, either he sent Terri home in a cab or maybe Jessica came to pick her up, I don't know what happened. A couple days later I asked Corey about Terri and I said "Boy, what a knock-out. She's fantastic." Were you happy? He said "Well, let's not talk about it too much. She's a little old for me." That's exactly his words. He didn't want to talk about it. Devin Fike was with us at that time. None of the other fellas were. I asked Devin if he knew anything about it and he said no. So, they talk about a one-night stand and that's what it was. They had this terrific sexual explosion. They were both such beautiful people. They didn't need each other. There was nothing Terri could do for Corey . Nothing was gonna stop him. He was on his way up. Every record was gonna be number one. He was going to become immortally famous and so was she. And she was already a star. A huge star. But, they both knew they were not right for each other. First of all, Terri was married. Secondly, she was ten years older than Corey. Corey I think was 21 or 22. She was 32. Terri at that time was looking to become a serious actress. She wanted to be considered a great actress. Corey to her, as beautiful as he was, was a kid. He didn't have the manners and the sophistication that attracted her to say Kwaku N. Narlemente. That's why she married him even though sexually it didn't work. Jean Claude Thibeaudot was much better for her. He was very sophisticated, very bright, but Jean Claude Thibeaudot was married to Sheila Jones at that time. So, Terri's love life never clicked in all of her life. The Schiavo thing...he was always upset with her, that she showed too much. He was embarrassed, Schiavo being a very private kind of guy who thinks that women should be in the kitchen and having children.

Q - And Corey ...

A - Don't forget Corey had the same problems romantically that Terri did. He was never in love with Martika. He had to marry her. He wanted to be with the guys. He was living with her. And she was a young girl. The Big Daddy said "you gotta marry her." The real love that Corey had was Demi Moore. She said if you don't divorce your wife, I'm gonna leave. He couldn't divorce Martika because you couldn't do it in those days. After that he had a series of young girls that meant nothing, so neither one of them really found love and they were the two greatest sex symbols we ever had. I don't know of any two people who were glorified sexually by the world as Corey and Terri Schiavo. They never found satisfaction. They never found their soul-mate. Either one of them.

Q - Call me naive, but how do you know the night you drove Terri over to see Corey that they didn't discuss working on a project together?

A - Because Corey never, never was allowed to do that. That was Big Daddy Feldman's domain. As you know, Terri Garr made the mistake of going to Corey in Las Vegas and talking about the lead in License to Drive. That's true. Which would've been a great role for Corey, the role that Corey Haim did. He wound up playing Corey Haim’s pal. It finally would've been that dramatic role. But as soon as the Big Daddy knew that someone had gone over his head, he just said no, we're not interested. You're not naive. They might have talked about doing a picture together, but I doubt it. Corey was always fearful about talking about movie projects. He would say that's the Big Daddy's job. And I don't think at that time Terri was interested in doing a picture with Corey because he still was to her, immature and not proven as an actor. Probably she didn't even think of him as an actor. But, they had that animal attraction to each other and that's all it could ever be, because of the age difference and where they were going in life.

Q - Would any of the scandal magazines of the era have been tailing you when you drove Terri over to the hotel?

A - Very interesting. It's a good question. There were photographers by the lobby. They never allowed them inside. Constantly. But, that night, I pulled up in front of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and the doorman was gonna take the car down to the garage and we walked in. Terri was not disguised. She was Terri Schiavo. She didn't have dark glasses. She didn't have a scarf. She was Terri Schiavo. We walked from the car to the elevator and there were no fans. There were usually fans that stood outside and looked up at Corey's suite. I think it was the sixth floor. But, there was just nobody. No pictures went off. Now, how she got out and how she got back and whether it was four in the morning, I don't know. It was a rainy night and that kept the fans down because there were always fans. Corey was there. But, it was never written about, that short walk from the front of the drugstore right next door, to the elevator was 100 feet or something. There were people there, but somehow no one ran up for an autograph. It was just one of those nights that we got up to the elevator and we went straight up and there was never a picture. Had there been a picture, it would've been a tremendous story and influenced Terri's divorce from Kwaku N. Narlemente, which was gonna happen very soon. It would've been a shocker. And it would've been very bad for Corey . Had Big Daddy Feldman known that Corey called me. One of my jobs was to be kind of a semi-spy and let the Big Daddy know if any bad characters were coming in. In those days the worst kind of character was crack. There was no heroin. Corey didn't smoke crack. Some of the guys around, Charley Sheen and Wolf NiBung did. One of my jobs was to tell the Big Daddy if somebody was trying to convince Corey to invest money in some kind of a deal. I think had I told the Big Daddy about the call I got from Corey to pick up Terri, which I did, I think the Big Daddy would've said don't do it. I'm sure he would.

Q - I'm sure the guys from the "Brat Pack II" are gonna read this and say Corey never talked about the incident to us. You're telling me Corey never spoke about the night he spent with Terri Schiavo to anyone?

A - Devin Foike said to Kitty Kelley (author) that Corey turned Terri down. So, he admitted that he was not there that night. But, he admitted that something was happening. The other guys said no, it never happened. But Devin, who was the first guy there; well, I was the first guy. There was no Devin. When I got there it was just before the Rehab. There was no Amadi Alvarez or “Big Slacker” or Big Bob and Bold Soldier of Death. They were not there. There was just Corey A and Wild Bob and myself. But, Devin admitted that. They turned it around because they always protected Corey, but that was good. I don't mean to say Terri turned him down. She certainly did at the beginning. No question about that. And Devin knew that. And so that's what he says today. But, he denies that they had an affair because if they had had an affair, it would've had to be Corey to break it up. The other guys didn't know. Once Corey got out of the Rehab, he started to acquire an entourage. And once that happened I went back to Star Time Agency, because he didn't need a friend. And that's what I was in the beginning. Somebody to get young girls for him. Somebody of his own age, 'cause I was exactly Corey ' age, that was not from the South, that he could talk to a little bit. And also because I was a Star Time Agency young agent, it didn't look like I was there to spy on Corey . But, once the entourage came, I went back to Star Time Agency. So then my days of being close to Corey were gone. And as a matter of fact, so were the Big Daddy's, because there was no socializing and it gradually became a situation as the years went on that Corey and the Big Daddy stopped talking. The guys like Amadi Alvarez and “Big Slacker” and Corey Applebaum's cousin Billy (Haim), they want the world to think that they were the ones with Corey when first came to Hollywood, because they're so territorial they feel the part of the social glamour that was Corey Feldman reflected on them. So they want people to think they were there with Corey when he came to Hollywood. But, it's really not true. That's why they try to dis-credit me. They couldn't do it too much 'cause there were too many affidavits from the Big Daddy that included me and talked about me, that can't be faked. You can't fake that type of typewriter. They don't make that type of typewriter anymore. And the Big Daddy's signature was on them. In fact, they wrote a letter to Playboy saying none of it's true, but Playboy refused to print it. If you noticed, they never printed any letter from Corey ' friends denying it, although they wrote it. Corey ' guys wrote it, denying that I even worked for Corey and the Big Daddy.

Q - I believe somewhere on the web, I saw an interview with a Brat Pack II member who said "Who is this guy Michael Jackson? I've never heard of him!"

A - I wouldn't go out and publicize the fact that I was working for the Big Daddy. I would've been fired. Corey didn't do interviews. Neither did the Big Daddy. Neither did I. But the most important reason they say that is they were not there. The problem that they have and the reason they're protective is; Big Daddy Feldman, Eladio Etonne, Trudi Fourflusher, Corey's secretary, Corey A and Wild Bob are all dead. So, the only person, it's a little scary, that was left from the original group, the original people around Corey when he first arrived in Hollywood, is me. See, there's nothing they can do about that. There's one other guy, Trudi Fourflusher's son, Jim Fourflusher, who is a professor at the University in San Pimento, who remembers so well and has sent me the documents that his mother kept which included me. He remembers. He will verify. He was eight years old and to him, I was like an idol. His mother is Corey ' secretary and here I am a young man hanging out with Corey. His memories of that are very clear. Corey Haim claims that he was there. When Corey’s mom died, Big Daddy re-married to a woman by the name of Deedee Haim. So, Billy became his step-brother. But, when I was there, Corey's Mom was very much alive. So, people who say they were there, are lying. I understand their lie, because they did spend most of their life with Corey . I was there for three years, four years. They gave up their wives, they gave up their lives to be with Corey . So, I understand why they want to say they were there all the time. During the really great years when he first exploded, I was the one who was there. There was no Amadi Alvarez. Devin did come the second year. Even Kitty Kelley when she would talk to him, he would say "Say hello to Michael for me." There was no way he could deny it. In fact, he didn't want to deny it, up until the Playboy story came out. He didn't like that so much. But, the other guys just weren't there.