Frank DiLeo

In a world where women are starting to feel freer about sharing their #MeToo stories, Sheryl Crow says that she was sexually harassed by Michael Jackson’s manager, Frank DiLeo and he vowed to sabotage her career if she didn’t comply with his requests. She told The Independent that the incidents occurred on the 1987 Bad world tour, when she was a backup singer, calling it “a crash course in the music industry.” At the tour’s end in 1989, Crow returned to Los Angeles, where a high-powered attorney she’d hired told her she should have put up with DiLeo’s advances given what he could offer her. “You move to L.A. thinking you’ve done all your homework,” says Crow. “… ‘Okay, this is how the music industry works: a corporation buys so many records. It puts you in the top 10. We take your publishi...