EXCLUSIVE: Jesse James' Former Step Mom: "He Should Donate To A Holocaust Museum"
Posted on Jun 01, 2010 @ 10:59PM - 7 comments
Jesse James is trying to sell off some of his belongings on eBay and most notably a Red Baron replica airplane that was featured in the controversial photo of him giving the Nazi salute. Jesse's former step-mother, Janina James Coan tells RadarOnline.com that she thinks Jesse is "grasping at straws" and "seems to be making things worse."
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"He should donate the Red Baron to a memorial or something," Coan said. "I would think that making a donation to the Holocaust museum would be a smarter move than posting that picture and selling off those items."
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In the eBay listing, Jesse describes the plane as a piece of 'pop culture history' because of the publicity it received "in US, People, In Touch, etc etc etc." Jesse is now exploiting this photograph after telling Nightline, "There's not a racist bone in my body."
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"Maybe he's just going to get rid of all that stuff to try and change his image," Coan continued. "Or maybe he¹s just continuing in his self-destructive way. He should at least donate the money he makes off eBay to a Holocaust museum.
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"Jesse doesn't realize that what he's doing is hurting himself. He doesn¹t have the capacity," Coan explained. "Sandra Bullock is smart to stay out of the spotlight and just hope it blows over so she can move on with her life and her career."
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: Jesse James Had A Cruel Streak Says Former Stepmother
Posted on May 28, 2010 @ 09:55AM - 17 comments
In a shocking and candid new interview, Jesse James' former step-mother is giving RadarOnline.com an exclusive look into the twisted childhood behavior of Jesse James, the man who proclaimed himself "the most hated man in the world" in wake of cheating on his Oscar winning wife, Sandra Bullock.
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"Jesse seems to not realize what his actions will do," Janina Coan told RadarOnline.com. "He has no empathy towards people. He doesn't see that things you say, things you do, will hurt someone. He just doesn't seem to care about that.
EXCLUSIVE: Jesse James Killed Baby Animals When He Was A Teenager -- Step Mom's Shocking Charge
Posted on May 27, 2010 @ 10:57PM - 53 comments
The controversy surrounding Sandra Bullock’s estranged husband Jesse James is not dying down. In fact, it’s getting even more intense.
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Jesse’s comments on his ABC Nightline interview this week ignited a public debate about his cheating and his accusations of being abused by his father Larry. Now his former step mother, Janina James Coan charges that Jesse killed baby animals when he was a teenager and was obsessed with Adolf Hitler.
Despite the fact that a photo surfaced this year of Jesse imitating Hitler with a Nazi salute, the biker-turned-mogul insisted he is not a racist and was simply joking. But Coan says Jesse was interested in Hitler from a young age and exhibited disturbing behavior.
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“When Jesse was about 14 or 15 years old he started killing baby rats by injecting them with alcohol,” his former step-mother told RadarOnline.com exclusively. “He told me it’s what Dr. Mengele would do.”
Josef Mengele was a German SS officer and physician in the concentration camps. He was known as the Angel of Death and performed horrific experiments on Nazi captives.
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“Jesse found it fascinating that Hitler could seduce a whole country,” Coan said. “Then he became obsessed with Hitler’s personality and the SS and he was fascinated with the Nazis. He definitely has an attraction with the power race thing.”
One of Jesse’s mistresses, Michelle “Bombshell” McGee has the letters “WP” tattooed on her legs. Sources say it stands for White Power.
But Jesse, confronted with the racism charge told Nightline: “I don’t have a racist bone in my body.”
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Coan told RadarOnline.com that James’ father Larry used to run an antique business and that James became consumed with collecting Nazi and World War II memorabilia. “We just assumed he was into history,” Coan said. She said that it soon seemed like more than a casual interest.
Coan described when James was growing up his bedroom was filled with Hitler and World War Two items. “Jesse loved the Iron Cross and you can see that he even used a version of it in his business logo,” Coan told RadarOnline.com referring to his West Coast Choppers emblem. “He knew everything about it. He even knew that Hitler had redesigned it for his medals.”
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Jesse’s former step mother said she is coming forward with these charges because James said his father abused him during his childhood. He told Nightline: He beat my ass pretty good a bunch of times. Bike builder, Monster Garage TV star -- all that stuff is a huge smoke screen so people won 't see that I'm a scared, abused kid, a 7-year-old.”
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His sister has reportedly backed up his allegations in general.
But Coan says while she doesn’t know what the sister’s motivation is, she’s simply not recounting things accurately. In fact, Coan told RadarOnline.com that Jesse had an idyllic childhood.
“There was NEVER abuse. Larry never even raised his voice when the kids were being rambunctious,” she said.
“Larry devoted his life to Jesse and when my children came in the picture I’d never seen a man take to two children who weren’t his own like he did.”
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James was 6-years-old when Coan met James’ father when and she eventually married him when James was a teenager. They are now divorced.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jesse James Regularly Used The ‘N’ Word Charges Former Step-Mom
Posted on May 27, 2010 @ 03:50PM - 23 comments
Jesse James claimed in his interview with Nightline that he didn’t have a racist bone in his body, but his former step-mother told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview that Jesse frequently used the ‘N’ word while growing up.
Janina James Coan dropped that bombshell charge on Thursday as she refuted Jesse’s charges that his father Larry abused him during his childhood. She told RadarOnline.com that Jesse is a racist.
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“I heard him use the N word a bunch of times,” Coan told RadarOnline.com. “I don’t know if I’d call Jesse a white supremacist or not but he’s definitely racist.
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“He didn’t like Mexican people either. He always referred to them as wetbacks,” Coan continued.
RadarOnline.com previously reported that James used derogatory terms about gay people. In an email obtained exclusively by RadarOnline.com, James called two former employees “f***ots”.
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Since news broke of James’ infidelities in his marriage with Bullock, the baby they had planned on adopting together will now be adopted solely by Bullock. Baby Louis Bardo Bullock was adopted from New Orleans and is African American.
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Coan was involved with Jesse’s dad from the time that Jesse was six years old. They married when Jesse was in high school and later divorced.
She wanted it known that she was coming forward to defend Larry and was not taking money from any news organization because she was so upset about Jesse’s charges against his dad. She also questioned the motives of Jesse’s sister, who backed up Jesse’s story. Coan made it very clear that she was an eyewitness to the events she described.
