Jackson trial: Defense gets nanny mixed up with Nancy Grace

Michael Jackson’s nephew Taj Jackson was on the witness stand Thursday afternoon when a defense attorney inquired about Grace Rawaramba, the onetime nanny for the pop star’s three children who was eventually fired.

Was Rawaramba truthful, asked Kathryn Cahan, an attorney representing AEG Live, a defendant in the Jackson family’s wrongful-death suit.

Yes, she was, Taj Jackson said.

Cahan then handed him a piece of paper, saying it might help refresh his memory.

Taj Jackson read it, looked at Cahan and announced, “That’s Nancy Grace,� as in the HLN network’s prosecutor-turned-host.

He didn’t need to do any explaining. The courtroom erupted in laughter.

Cahan had given Taj Jackson a copy of a Dec. 11, 2011, post he had written.

Jackson’s post was a shot at reporter Roger Friedman. “Please don’t pay this reporter-gossiper any attention,� Jackson wrote. “He has been nothing by anti-Jackson since day one and has made a career off of it. However, like the sneaky snake he is, he wiggles around the truth and smothers it with convincing lies. I saw him do this to my uncle while he was still alive. �

The two-paragraph post ends with Jackson’s comparing Friedman to other reporters who followed his uncle’s life and the allegations of child molestation. “Sorry … but there are a couple of people who truly disgust me. And to me, he belongs in the same category as Grace, (Diane) Dimond and (Martin) Bashir,� the post read.

Grace? That would be Nancy Grace.

The other Grace -- that would be Grace Rawaramba -- is expected to testify soon.

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