
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, December 9, 1993                   TAG: 9312090055
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 7   EDITION: METRO 
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN

Actor Richard Gere tells Vanity Fair magazine that his wife, supermodel Cindy Crawford, "has been very vocal about wanting a family . . . and I think if it was something I didn't want to do, she would reluctantly withdraw from this relationship.

"Could I exist without children? Yes, absolutely. Would I love to have kids with Cindy? Yes, I think that would be fabulous. . . . But I married Cindy. I didn't marry some future children I don't even know yet."

\ Michael Jackson's lawyer tells Vanity Fair that the pop star will admit sharing a bed - but nothing more - with the 13-year-old boy whom Jackson is accused of molesting. "He really lives the life of a 12-year-old," Jackson lawyer Bert Fields says in the January issue. "One of the things he has done - the things I did when I was 11 or 12, probably all of us did - was to have sleepovers." Jackson, 35, is undergoing rehab for an addiction to painkillers but will return to the United States to testify in his own defense, Fields says. No criminal charges have been filed, but his young accuser is pursuing a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles while the police investigation continues into charges of child sexual abuse.

by CNB