In an interview with The Guardian, Russell Crowe claims that Jackson consistently prank-called him "for two or three f---ing years," after Jackson discovered the fake name Crowe used to check into hotels. The anecdote raises two very important questions that, sadly, remain unanswered in the article: 1. [...] here's what Crowe does reveal about his strange relationship with the late singer - whom he never actually met in person: It didn't matter where I was. Crowe previously brought up the bizarre prank calls in a 2013 interview with The Sun.