Didn’t it turn out MJ wasn’t actually a sex pest 🤔 ?
I think he was never a sex pest, but was just absolutely fucking crazy.
It actually seems like he was having platonic, stunted mind sleepovers with children, literally to live out a childhood he desperately wanted.
Is that appropriate? Probably not.
Is it a crime? Apparently also no.
Not taking sides, but he cleared out a grocery store and paid people to pretend they were random shoppers just so he could have that normal experience.
I really don’t know and haven’t followed any of it very closely. But his music is top shelf.
I would like to think that he wasn’t, but it’s undeniable that either way it was creepy what he was doing.
It made sense to me when someone said everything he did was because he was basically robbed of childhood and made to perform for a living since he was like 7
That’s what my dad said.
Where’s the proof? Last I heard there were thre same accusations by the same person who has been proven to be a liar. The actual abused kids in Hollywood say he wasn’t a pedo, so it’s hard for me to believe that one kid with his scammer mom.
I feel like this entire thread forgot about the closet…
Those claims are incredibly misleading. It’s all in the court cases submitted as evidence, the pornography he had was not CP was not illegal to own. The sole reference in the article you linked isn’t even online anymore, and other instances claiming this are tabloid sites like Daily Mail, etc.
I remember seeing the video of it when it originally came out and it was some weird shit. His bodyguard said it wasn’t a closet and was instead a panic room. They had people that would parachute into the ranch and security would tell him to hide in there. He put things in there that brought him comfort and uhh… whatever else.
Big if true. Thought that last few sentences threw me off, when the prosecutor states factually that the material was used for grooming, where did she get that info?
In any case, he’s got such a mysterious story, since kids life Corey Feldman and McCauley who actually were abused by many, say that MJ was not an abuser. Yet he’s got a closet with child porn, so I don’t know what’s going on with the guy
He always struck me as a troubled dude that was shaped by being a child star. It was like his escape hatch was to revert back to a child-like state and thus his closest friends… were mostly children. I was pretty split on that whole thing because I was such a fan as a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s. Insanely disgusted by it, but also saddened because he was a product of a toxic environment that we’ve seen time and time again is not a good place for children.
It’s been a long time since I’ve researched anything on MJ, but I vaguely remember reading that they found the fingerprints of both MJ and some kid on porn mags that he had. Showing porn to kids is one of the main methods of grooming that child predators use, though I don’t recall if they were adult magazines or CP magazines - not that either option would be good, really.
Edit: So after looking at this article on the fingerprints and this one on the CP they found, the story is a bit more complicated than that.
Do keep in mind that this blog is obviously very biased in favor of MJ, trying to downplay the fact that he kept magazines with nude photos of children, and speculating about what “real grooming” would look like and why MJs actions supposedly don’t match what the author personally thinks a real attempt at grooming should be like.
If anyone wants to abide by the interpretations of this blog specifically be my guest, but I sure as hell still wouldn’t let my kids near MJ.
Yeah, this is some ironically white washed history. Dude was NOT a good man. Was that due to his abuse as a child? Maybe, but that doesn’t matter once you become an adult and have to be responsible for your own actions.
I’m so confused. I came to comments for clarification and just found the same as always: a mish mash of conflicting unsubstantiated accounts. To this day I don’t know what is true about all this
Edit: okay a quick search came up with Wikipedia article talking about FBI investigations into all this. According to the FBI, which confiscated hard drives and did multiple investigations, MJ was never found to have searched for or have possession of CP. idk how much we trust them in general, but that’s what they said
I’d believe that either way, honestly. I wouldn’t be surprised if he rarely used computers.
I thought the assistant had said that Michael Jackson had already died. I completely missed the “other option”.
I like this interpretation better
