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Do you think Michael Jackson was guilty?

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InnocentOrGuilty · 12/05/2024 09:48

Of the sexual abuse of boys.
I'm interested in a poll.
G = you think he was definitely guilty
I = you think he was innocent
(Stemming from a debate with DH last night!)

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YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:20

SLIGEACHEIRE · 13/05/2024 21:33

"Jackson's housekeeper".

Just another example of so many people that don't have a clue and will believe any of the lies the media try to portray. She sold her BS stories to the media, she still does. Adrian McManus along with others tried to sue Michael for $16 million and lost, she was ordered to pay Michael $1.5 million for costs and $35,000 for theft. She never paid a penny of it. Her "evidence" was ripped asunder in the 2005 trial. She has said that Michael kissed and fondled Macaulay Culkin, he said it never happened. As well as seeing other incidents, only to admit under cross examination she didn't.

She said Michael's sex life with Lisa Marie Presley was fake. Lisa Marie always maintained they had a perfectly normal, healthy sexual relationship, and even though they divorced they remained close friends up until his death.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MichaelJackson/comments/n9j2zi/story_behind_this_were_they_introduced_as/

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30201778.html

https://vindicatemj.wordpress.com/2019/03/02/what-the-maid-saw-adrian-mcmanus-about-michael-jackson/

Adrian McManus is a proven liar, she was exposed in court several times, and yet she still has the audacity to keep doing it. She has plenty in common with Wade and James in that regard.

How does any of this disprove he raped and abused the little boys who’ve accused him?

I won’t read your anti-child nonce lover website thanks, it’s biased and full of lies

Why do you think Jackson behaved so much like a pedophile if he wasn’t one? And would you let your kids have a sleepover there?

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:20

SLIGEACHEIRE · 13/05/2024 21:33

"Jackson's housekeeper".

Just another example of so many people that don't have a clue and will believe any of the lies the media try to portray. She sold her BS stories to the media, she still does. Adrian McManus along with others tried to sue Michael for $16 million and lost, she was ordered to pay Michael $1.5 million for costs and $35,000 for theft. She never paid a penny of it. Her "evidence" was ripped asunder in the 2005 trial. She has said that Michael kissed and fondled Macaulay Culkin, he said it never happened. As well as seeing other incidents, only to admit under cross examination she didn't.

She said Michael's sex life with Lisa Marie Presley was fake. Lisa Marie always maintained they had a perfectly normal, healthy sexual relationship, and even though they divorced they remained close friends up until his death.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MichaelJackson/comments/n9j2zi/story_behind_this_were_they_introduced_as/

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30201778.html

https://vindicatemj.wordpress.com/2019/03/02/what-the-maid-saw-adrian-mcmanus-about-michael-jackson/

Adrian McManus is a proven liar, she was exposed in court several times, and yet she still has the audacity to keep doing it. She has plenty in common with Wade and James in that regard.

The housekeeper testified the truth in the 2005 trial, later corroborated by Jackson accusers. She got out of there because she didn’t want her son to be the next target but she left on the back of fear and threats

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:23

SLIGEACHEIRE · 13/05/2024 22:10

"And why after the first sexual abuse accusation did the sleepovers keep going on and parents/"victims" paid off?"

Please do tell us who are these parents/"victims" that were paid off? Absolute nonsense.

Michael knew he didn't do anything wrong, I mean in regards to sexually. Of course, it's not a good idea to have them, but in his mind, sleepovers are completely innocent, and he didn't want to let the twisted media perception win out. I remember hearing thathe said, though not first hand, that by not having them, he was being controlled and that he was admitting that bad things happened at them.

https://www.truemichaeljackson.com/issues/accusations-and-trial/sleepovers/

Do you have any links from credible sources please?

You are not seriously buying these thought it was innocent” BS? He’d already been charged so clearly knew it wasn’t. Yet he carried on and judging by witness accounts deeply bullied and manipulated parents into letting their children sleep with him, he’d cry if they said no

ChishiyaBat · 14/05/2024 00:25

x2boys · 14/05/2024 00:15

The thing is sick people ,I'm assuming you mean mentally ill?
Often don ,t have e control of their own actions
They are often not in reality
I think it does a disservice to those who have a mental illness to call him sick
Because I think he knew exactly what he was doing .

No I meant sick as in disgusting and vile.

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:25

BennyBee · 13/05/2024 22:23

I might be in a minority but I think he is innocent. You do know that he was tried in an actual court when he was alive and found not guilty? Many of the allegations have come out since he died and they reek of hearse chasing, trying to get what they can out of the estate. The parents who let their sons have sleep overs with MJ suddenly have qualms about it now? But they were fine about it then? Something isn't right there.

But the main reason I think he is innocent is that I simply think he was asexual. He was basically a man-child, frozen in childhood because he never had one and continually trying to create a childhood for himself, with zoos, fairground rides, pet monkeys, and childish sleepovers. So, yeah. I am with the great Dave Chapelle and calling it as a massive moral panic about a man who was one of a kind, a genius that people want to knock off his pedestal. End of.

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So why did he have so much pornography if he was asexual? And why would he act so very much like a pedophile if he wasn’t one?

InnocentOrGuilty · 14/05/2024 00:26

We will never (imho) get a definitive, 100% clear cut answer. Social media of today means that you can 'prove' he was guilty and 'prove' he was innocent and you can find whatever 'facts' fit your belief via the internet.

I think this thread has been on the whole measured and polite, however - it's certainly helped me to make a decision in my own head.

I'm sorry for all posters who experienced child sa.

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YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:27

SLIGEACHEIRE · 13/05/2024 22:38

"MJ regularly slept with children in the same bed as him."

No, he didn't. Yes, sometimes he did end up sleeping in the same bed, but he said it himself in the Martin Bashir documentary, paraphrasing, "you're trying to make it sexual, making it sinister, I don't think that way". More often than not, he slept on the floor while they slept in the bed.

I agree, it wasn't a good idea. I think he was socially stunted, possibly mentally immature and trusted children more than adults. He was obviously eccentric as well, most geniuses are. He had a completely different upbringing and life to 99.9999999% of people.

Jesus the absolutely stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me.

Why was sleeping in beds with children something he absolutely had to do? Why wasn’t spending time with them in the day enough?

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:29

BennyBee · 13/05/2024 22:49

I didn't say that it was because of a 'bad' childhood but that he didn't HAVE a childhood - shot to stardom when he was about 10. I am sure you are very well adjusted but no two experiences are ever alike, and MJs were entirely unique. A creative genius and one of the most famous people on the planet, it has to warp your ability to trust other people. Children are innocent and much easier to trust. I am not saying that he was not odd but I also think the court that found him not guilty when he was alive is more credible than a documentary show after his death. It is beyond cruel to drag his name through the mud when he can't defend himself.

He did have a childhood. He wasn’t born aged 18. He just didn’t have a normal childhood. But that applies to many people, now many do you think slept with little boys in their beds and built a fairground in their garden…but we’re also shrewd businessmen?

I cannot believe people fall for the childlike persona nonsense. It’s a carefully curated mask he created so he could get away with his crimes in plain sight

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:30

BennyBee · 13/05/2024 22:49

I didn't say that it was because of a 'bad' childhood but that he didn't HAVE a childhood - shot to stardom when he was about 10. I am sure you are very well adjusted but no two experiences are ever alike, and MJs were entirely unique. A creative genius and one of the most famous people on the planet, it has to warp your ability to trust other people. Children are innocent and much easier to trust. I am not saying that he was not odd but I also think the court that found him not guilty when he was alive is more credible than a documentary show after his death. It is beyond cruel to drag his name through the mud when he can't defend himself.

O am not saying that he was not odd but I also think the court that found him not guilty when he was alive is more credible than a documentary show after his death.

You need to read up on how America does court cases then

It is beyond cruel to drag his name through the mud when he can't defend himself.

So are Saville’s victims being cruel?

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:32

SLIGEACHEIRE · 13/05/2024 22:55

James says a lot of things, they're called lies.

https://www.mjstory.co.il/post/twenty-five-lies-in-ln

Just a few examples. Explicitly claiming to have been abused in a building that didn't exist at the time or for several years, is a real doozie.

Im not clicking on your BS.

But you’re wrong about the building / it was built but planning permission hadn’t been sought it was done retrospectively

Also children are not perfect historians, as a CSA survivor I can tell you that memories, times, ages and events middle in the brain of a healthy child and even more so in a traumatised brain.

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:33

BennyBee · 13/05/2024 22:59

Elizabeth Taylor was a very close friend of his, possibly his closest friend. Do you think she ignored his pedo behaviour? No, of course not, because he wasn't a pedo. There is no real evidence, only testimony from people who have lots to gain and no one to contest their version of events - because he is dead.

Anyway, Taylor had her own demons to fight - a ton of failed marriages, a drug addiction, and an eating disorder.

No two people respond to fame in the same way but if you are willing to extend some charity and understanding, you might see that the case against him is very flimsy.

What have his victims got to gain except hate and abuse?

Can you answer the Barry from Asda analogy i posted upthread?

ChishiyaBat · 14/05/2024 00:34

I bet all these people defending his actions wouldn't have let their own children anywhere near him! He was a predator who groomed little boys and the public with his "but i'm just a child myself" bollocks!

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:34

SLIGEACHEIRE · 13/05/2024 23:16

Ya, ya, ya! 🤣 Being cleared of 14 charges, Michael got so lucky. 🤣 10 felony charges and 4 misdemeanor charges, meaning their case was total BS.

People are wrongly "convicted" all the time by tabloid media and muppets on social media, it means nothing.

The courts deal in facts and truth. Trying, to dismiss the judicial process. 🙄

More people get away with crimes than are wrongly convicted

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:37

cultjarteriaky · 14/05/2024 00:00

https://www.verywellmind/

False memories

Amyone familiar

Lots and lots of average people and especially parents have their life destroyed because of false memories

This is not to dismiss anyone who is a true victim but in some cases things did not happen the way it is renemembered.

And in MJ’s case, there were lot$ of pre$$ure for people to remember thing$ in a certain way…

Funny how 8-9 boys all have false memories of the same thing and the same person who was behaving like a pedo actually BEING a pedo.

Strange ey. No one has ever made a false memory about me or anyone I know

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:39

SLIGEACHEIRE · 14/05/2024 00:05

What "legal bother" can they be landed in? They can produce the most BIASED piece of crap(Leaving Neverland), full of lies, and not worry about any legal repercussions. Do you know that the dead have pretty much no legal protection from lies?

Are you going to tell us what the lies are from a credible source?

Also can you answer the Barry from Asda analogy and if you would let your kids have a sleepover with Jackson? And why he had book after book of naked boys? And why he as yes so much like a pedophile?

ChishiyaBat · 14/05/2024 00:43

It's all lies you know @YaMuvva he was just an innocent man who liked the company of children and all those mean little boys told lies to get his money!

SLIGEACHEIRE · 14/05/2024 00:46

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 00:17

Proof it’s been debunked please?

Yes it could only be made after Jackson the Nonce died - which makes him a lucky man quite frankly.

Can you please answer the Barry from Asda analogy I put upthread please?

This thread is clearly full of people with personal issues; I don't know is it jealousy, hatred, racism, confusion, what.

You called Michael a disgusting word. No evidence of it, exonerated by the FBI, hounded by Tom Sneddon, who belonged in the South from a bygone age, tried every dirty tactic to lynch Michael on numerous occasions. The whole State of California tried their best, to prosecute Michael. Michael Jackson was asset rich, but cash poor. Sony? How long have you got? That's a WHOLE other story. Michael was investigated by every institution, police, child services, you name it. There is no evidence, because there is nothing to answer for.

Yes, it was inappropriate on his part, and I'm not denying it, but he may have also seen it as social constructs, like how people question a man who's in crèche working. Why's he doing that? There has to be something wrong.

But I think in years to come Michael will be viewed as a pinnacle of injustice.

ChishiyaBat · 14/05/2024 00:59

"But I think in years to come Michael will be viewed as a pinnacle of injustice."
😂😂😂😂 are you for real @SLIGEACHEIRE ?
I think the opposite, I think most people will still think he's a filthy nonce in 10, 20, 50 years time, same as they do now and did when he was alive!

SLIGEACHEIRE · 14/05/2024 01:06

SLIGEACHEIRE · 14/05/2024 00:46

This thread is clearly full of people with personal issues; I don't know is it jealousy, hatred, racism, confusion, what.

You called Michael a disgusting word. No evidence of it, exonerated by the FBI, hounded by Tom Sneddon, who belonged in the South from a bygone age, tried every dirty tactic to lynch Michael on numerous occasions. The whole State of California tried their best, to prosecute Michael. Michael Jackson was asset rich, but cash poor. Sony? How long have you got? That's a WHOLE other story. Michael was investigated by every institution, police, child services, you name it. There is no evidence, because there is nothing to answer for.

Yes, it was inappropriate on his part, and I'm not denying it, but he may have also seen it as social constructs, like how people question a man who's in crèche working. Why's he doing that? There has to be something wrong.

But I think in years to come Michael will be viewed as a pinnacle of injustice.

Oh sorry. The art books? A library that contained 10's of thousands of books, books many fans sent him, and he never ever even seen. But this, THIS, is your smoking gun? Not his internet history, which revealed he was a normal straight man, the most disturbing thing was he sometimes searched mature women. The horror!
Anyone want to talk about Tom Sneddon who would try anything to try and lunch Michael? Like changing the dates of the alleged abuse when it was clear it couldn't have occurred on said date. Or how he tried to get Gavin Arviso to handle a piece of state evidence to get his finger prints on a heterosexual adult magazine.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MichaelJackson/comments/b61dxv/about_tom_sneddon_falsifying_fingerprint_evidence/

Rot in hell, "D.S."

If you're guilty, why would you antagonise a ¢### like Tom?

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YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 01:10

SLIGEACHEIRE · 14/05/2024 00:46

This thread is clearly full of people with personal issues; I don't know is it jealousy, hatred, racism, confusion, what.

You called Michael a disgusting word. No evidence of it, exonerated by the FBI, hounded by Tom Sneddon, who belonged in the South from a bygone age, tried every dirty tactic to lynch Michael on numerous occasions. The whole State of California tried their best, to prosecute Michael. Michael Jackson was asset rich, but cash poor. Sony? How long have you got? That's a WHOLE other story. Michael was investigated by every institution, police, child services, you name it. There is no evidence, because there is nothing to answer for.

Yes, it was inappropriate on his part, and I'm not denying it, but he may have also seen it as social constructs, like how people question a man who's in crèche working. Why's he doing that? There has to be something wrong.

But I think in years to come Michael will be viewed as a pinnacle of injustice.

We don’t hate. We just know a pedophile when we see one.

YOU are the hater. The anger of all those little abused boys because you’d rather swallow nonsense about a lost childhood than accept your creepy little hero is a nonce. Do you know attitudes like yours enable pedophilia and contribute to the silence of victims. Does that make you feel good?

There’s in TONNES of evidence. Including compelling victim testimony, witness testimony, forensic evidence and heaps of sexual pictures do little boys. He was accused by 8 or 9 people, openly slept in beds with little boys.

Would you let your kid sleep with him?
Can you answer the Barry from Asda analogy?
And even if you thought there was no sexual activity going on, you can’t doubt that he trafficked little boys in that he befriended them (just the pretty ones!) made them adore him, walked around holding their hands, sitting them on his crotch, and traded them in for a younger model when he no longer had an interest. Even you can’t escape that fact. What do you think of that behaviour?

But I think in years to come Michael will be viewed as a pinnacle of injustice.

I agree because he was a child sex abuser who got away with it. Injustice indeed

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 01:15

SLIGEACHEIRE · 14/05/2024 01:06

Oh sorry. The art books? A library that contained 10's of thousands of books, books many fans sent him, and he never ever even seen. But this, THIS, is your smoking gun? Not his internet history, which revealed he was a normal straight man, the most disturbing thing was he sometimes searched mature women. The horror!
Anyone want to talk about Tom Sneddon who would try anything to try and lunch Michael? Like changing the dates of the alleged abuse when it was clear it couldn't have occurred on said date. Or how he tried to get Gavin Arviso to handle a piece of state evidence to get his finger prints on a heterosexual adult magazine.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MichaelJackson/comments/b61dxv/about_tom_sneddon_falsifying_fingerprint_evidence/

Rot in hell, "D.S."

If you're guilty, why would you antagonise a ¢### like Tom?

Suuuurre the man accused of child sex abuse who had the ‘art’ books full of naked boys - they were gifts he’d never seen how convenient 🤣🤣tell me, why would fans send a man who they MIST have thought was wrongly accused of child molestation, books of pictures of naked boys? How did the fans get them into Jackson’s locker?

Are you talking about Tom Sneddon the prosecutor whose job it was to try and convict Michael? Are you now saying your little nonce friend should not have had a fair trial?! You have no evidence or your accusations of Tom Sneddon, except from your request half wit pedo apologist friends.

Ill ask again - and you won’t answer because your answer will show your cognitive dissonance - can you answer the Barry from Asda analogy, would you let your kid sleep over at Jackson’s (no problem if he’s not a pedophile so you have no reason to say no) and why would someone whose not a pedophile act so very much like a pedophile?

SLIGEACHEIRE · 14/05/2024 01:20

ChishiyaBat · 14/05/2024 00:43

It's all lies you know @YaMuvva he was just an innocent man who liked the company of children and all those mean little boys told lies to get his money!

It's neverending the BS that people will type. I see right through people like you.

The Chandlers back in 1993 didn't get Michael's money. His insurance company paid out. You're just exposing yourself as, iiiii, well, honest people can fill in the blanks.

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Michael-Jackson-settle-out-of-court-in-1993-What-was-the-deep-down-reason-Was-he-forced-advised-or-not?topans=314917690

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SLIGEACHEIRE · 14/05/2024 01:29

I want to edit the message again to make the YouTube link clear, but can't. It should be alright.

SLIGEACHEIRE · 14/05/2024 01:32

YaMuvva · 14/05/2024 01:15

Suuuurre the man accused of child sex abuse who had the ‘art’ books full of naked boys - they were gifts he’d never seen how convenient 🤣🤣tell me, why would fans send a man who they MIST have thought was wrongly accused of child molestation, books of pictures of naked boys? How did the fans get them into Jackson’s locker?

Are you talking about Tom Sneddon the prosecutor whose job it was to try and convict Michael? Are you now saying your little nonce friend should not have had a fair trial?! You have no evidence or your accusations of Tom Sneddon, except from your request half wit pedo apologist friends.

Ill ask again - and you won’t answer because your answer will show your cognitive dissonance - can you answer the Barry from Asda analogy, would you let your kid sleep over at Jackson’s (no problem if he’s not a pedophile so you have no reason to say no) and why would someone whose not a pedophile act so very much like a pedophile?

You're not worth my time, or anyone else's who's interested in justice, and the truth. But you keep doing you, and whatever that is.

SLIGEACHEIRE · 14/05/2024 01:45

SLIGEACHEIRE · 14/05/2024 01:32

You're not worth my time, or anyone else's who's interested in justice, and the truth. But you keep doing you, and whatever that is.

Right back at you. I hope you can sort out whatever major malfunction is wrong with you. You seem irredeemable though. Some would say, unfortunately. Meh!

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