A former maid for Michael Jackson has told jurors that he regularly shared his bed with Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin and another boy ? whom she once discovered showering with the pop star.

The housekeeper, whose son testified on Monday that Jackson fondled him three times, offered a rare glimpse into life at Jackson?s Neverland Valley Ranch, telling of his sleepovers with boys.

While cleaning Jackson?s bedroom, she noticed that Culkin, a regular visitor to Neverland when he was 8 or 9, typically slept in the entertainer?s bed, she said. Culkin has denied that Jackson molested him and is not expected to testify at the abuse trial. The maid, who worked for Jackson between 1986 and 1991.

?I came in and at first I thought they were playing in the bathtub or Jacuzzi and I didn?t see them. ... I walked in and they were in the shower,? she said, adding that two pairs of underwear lay on the floor nearby. She said she could see two figures, Jackson and the boy, in the steamed-up shower and recognized the underwear from doing the singer?s laundry.

?Mr. Jackson?s, I knew, was white, and the little boy?s, I knew, were coloured, they were little green underwear, like neon green,? said the maid, who with her son reached a civil settlement with Jackson in the mid-1990s. She also said that on several occasions she felt uncomfortable about the way Jackson was interacting with her son, but conceded on cross-examination by defence attorney Tom Mesereau that she never saw the entertainer molest him or anyone else.

In cross-examining the mother and her son, Mesereau focused on the legal settlement that reportedly netted them $ 2 million and an interview she gave to the tabloid news program ?Hard Copy? for $ 20,000. The man, now a youth counsellor, appeared muddled as he struggled to recall previous statements he gave to authorities, frequently responding ?I don?t remember? to Mesereau?s questions.