Was the allegations against michael jackson ever proven right or wrong ?
Was the allegations against michael jackson ever proven right or wrong ?
Do explain your answers answers much as you can. Like which of the ones were proved right/wrong , how did it come to be .etc.etc.
Nothing proven. Much documentary about it though.
There's a vine/TikTok dude that made a short about it somewhat recently in a shallow and humorous fashion.
Basically, the Jackson dad was an asshole who beat his kids. Michael being the most successful one got the worst of it, as per the documentary. Not sure if his brothers covered him and how often.
He didn't have a childhood, he had beatings, training and concerts.
His soft-spoken voice was beaten into him, only allowed to use his full voice for singing.
His Neverland was built for that which he never had and he tried to give that to other children he felt were like him.
Whether something happened is only known by the the people involved, but odds are that unless Michael himself was molested as a child, it's far more likely that he was deeply traumatized, cried himself to sleep and had recurring night terrors.I'll repeat, only the people involved know what happened and they're not talking.
If he was specifically trying to invite children with bad childhoods then it's not actually too surprising that some of their parents would come after him.
Mac is talking and denying any wrongdoing on Michael's part.https://www.unilad.com/celebrity/macaulay-culkin-michael-jackson-inappropriate-behaviour-712982-20230423
He was acquitted of criminal charges while still alive from NPR. People have tried to sue his estate over alleged inappropriate behavior since his death but nothing made it to court yet. So legally no, he never molested any minors. But the fact that there were multiple allegations is concerning.
Unless there was something to gain.
I saw a clip of an interview on youtube in which he was kinda imotional abot it but i guess that's how people fake it.
Grew up in a town near Neverland ranch in the 90s, he hosted the local little league champions team to a party there. I'm pretty sure a classmate of mine went there once. Only had nice things to say about it, but even then there were jokes and rumors.
On one hand I can see people scapegoating a successful black man, from multiple angles there may also be feelings of betrayal from the black community. On the other hand, I was also up the road from Oprah, and I never heard anything about parties for groups of minors that she hosted.
Where there's smoke there probably fire, but racists and radicals are good at hiding smoke machines.
"Where there's smoke there's fire" is really interesting when the courts operate on the basis of "innocent until proven guilty".
There’s a difference between the courts and a person. If I had to decide if someone or something is safe, I have a much lower standard than “beyond the shadow of a doubt.”
If my Uber driver is slurring and smells like cheap brandy, I’m not getting in the car, but that’s not enough to charge them with a DUI, thankfully.
when the courts operate on the basis of “innocent until proven guilty”.
This is a slogan, a hypothetical that applies to a spherical defendant in a vacuum. In over 90% of all US criminal convictions, the prosecution has no burden of proof.
You lived in Lompoc, Goleta, Solvang, Santa Maria or Santa Barbara.
You remember the giant Santa next to the 101 near Summerland?
I very much do, I was very sad last time I visited SB to see that it was gone, though I feel I hadn't seen it on a few of my previous trips, but now they're building something where it used to be and it clicked that. "didn't there used to be someone else iconic there? Oh yeah, Santa!". Also pea soup Anderson's is closing, and that's.... Meh. As long as the palace survives I'm a happy SB tourist.
I remember people diving off the street lights into the underpasses, and the airport being so flooded that water was piling up behind the fence, the CHAIN LINK fence at the Goleta airport during El nino in the late 90s.
My home town was not known for anything tourist, so that'll narrow the list down a bit.
From what I've read they almost certainly completely wrong. This is a blog site that lays out the timeline and evidence and all the shenanigans. It's pretty horrible reading this. There is zero evidence and all the witnesses contradicted themselves or outright lied. A jury found him not guilty. But it was a cottage industry. It's about greed and media malfeasance and racism and maybe just hatred of freaks.
Nothing ever proven. He was weird, he had issues with boundaries and felt like a child himself. He never hid the fact that he slept in the same bed with these children and thought it’s just a very normal thing (he mentioned it in an interview that was also shown in Leaving Neverland I think). Maybe he did some things with them that he also thought was normal like, you know, children discovering themselves, playing doctor and stuff. Not good at all. But from his perspective kinda innocent games. Just a theory about his intent and no excuse of course. If anything happened anyways.
I was always a big fan of his music and general style and still am but I think it is possible some things happened behind the scenes because he was just a very broken person. And later I felt he had this “too good to be true” vibe to him.
There are also rumors he was gay and that fucked him up even more because he had to hide it (like pretty much everyone back then).
I've also read convincing theories that he was on the spectrum, which could explain a lot of his challenges interacting with people, as well as his obsessive tendencies.
And his perfectionism with regards to his performances
Hmm . Yeah that is possible too i guess
I remember hearing at the time that the family that ended up suing him had been sort of fishing for a celebrity to take their kids for a night so they could sue them?
so like, maybe it really did happen, I remember hearing the sentiment "he's guilty, but he got sued by the wrong family" because that particular family had been acting shady. that was why Jay Leno had to testify? I can't remember
No, man. He made Thriller. Thriller.
lived through it.. way too much damaging info was released for him not to be wacked in the head... things he admitted to.
My memory is fuzzy and Google-fu isn’t finding it, but wasn’t Neverland searched after he passed and they found lewd photos of children in his possession? I swear to god I remember reading something like that maybe a couple years after he passed.
No. He had pornographic magazines of (adult) women. A complete zero evidence incriminating him, see here. But it was a cottage industry to make shit up. It's pretty sad example of media malfeasance / racism / greed / hatred against freaks.
"evidence found at neverland ranch" turns up a lot of results, admittedly, with far too much commentary and speculation describing "must have been used for..." rather than what may actually have been the case.
You shouldn't repeat rumors you heard without any actual evidence at hand to back them up. That's just baseless gossip. It's poison spewing from your mouth to the ears of anyone who hears you.
I can't back it up either, but I remember reading that he had thousands of books of photographic collections and one magazine went through them all and found a couple dozen photos that would been extremely suspicious if that's all he had.