“Traumatic”: Rashida Jones Just Casually Revealed That She Was Bitten By Michael Jackson’s Pet Chimpanzee Bubbles As A Kid After She “Slapped” It For Stealing Her Hairband

Not only did she go to the same school as the likes of Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Rashida was surrounded by iconic celebrities at home thanks to her dad’s profession. 

In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Rashida revealed that she was “very close” with Frank Sinatra’s granddaughters, and that her godfather Sidney Poitier’s daughters are basically like her “sisters.”

If you didn’t know, Bahamian American actor Sidney was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and the first Black person to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. 

Quincy also worked incredibly closely with Michael Jackson at the height of his career, and even produced his infamous 1982 album Thriller.

Michael, who died in 2009, famously bought the primate from a Texas research facility in the ‘80s, and would often travel with him. 

In 1987, Bubbles joined Michael when he met with the mayor of Osaka, Japan, Yasushi Oshima, on his Bad world tour. 

Bubbles lived at Michael’s Neverland Ranch, slept in a crib in the star’s bedroom, and was even trained to use the toilet. 

“Everybody else had left the room, and I was, like: ‘Give it back!’ He was playing with it and wouldn’t give it back to me. So I opened the cage, and he came out,” she remembered. “Then he started running around the room and throwing books. A bit of a nightmare, now that I think about it.”

“I went up to him and was, like: ‘No! No!’ — because I’d seen Michael say ‘No!’ to him. And I slapped him on the head, just a light, little slap. And he took my hand like a sandwich and bit into it,” Rashida concluded. “Traumatic. [Bubbles] is 40 and he lives in Florida now, I think. He’s retired.”

In 2003, Michael revealed that he had been forced to relocate Bubbles after he started to get aggressive. 

The chimp, now 41, has been kept at the Center for Great Apes in Florida since 2004.

"I remember we went to the set of the video, in Griffith Park. We were reading the storyboards, and right when we got to the part where he turns around and he’s a werewolf, Michael walked into the trailer with those crazy yellow eyes," she said. "Very scary! It changed everything for my dad."

“I remember watching the Grammys at home, and he won every single Grammy,” Rashida added. “I had so many ‘Thriller’ T-shirts and memorabilia. I don’t think I have any of that anymore. That’s really sad.”