Is it true that before filming the Brazil version of his They Don Care About Us video, Michael paid drug dealers in the area so he could use the shanty town for the set of his video?
No, this is not true. What actually happened was that Michael and Spike Lee (the director of the video) wanted to film this version of the video in the shany town of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Skylight company, who took care of production arrangments for this video, found a way to apease the criminal classes in the area by hiring 60 residents of the shanty town to help with security and to be paid as regular employees. No drug dealers were paid money by Michael to use the area for his video as the rumors stated.
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