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Seems to me it's the only option. The only question is what percentages people apportion to each category. He was clearly a musical talent/genius but he had some issues later in life. When I think of his legacy I have both positive and negative thoughts at the same time. It's kind of conflicting, and sad because I had great respect and admiration for him until the pedo stuff started coming up over and over.butcher boy said:
Who knows, he certainly was an easy target if someone wanted to take advantage of him for financial gain.
Yeah I don't think he ####ed any kids. I think that due to having a messed up childhood and other factors, he had no idea that his being around kids the way he was would be considered inappropriate.
This is how I feel. I don't care how talented or great of a performer he was. The way he was off stage supersedes all that. He was a major POS.
Im not convinced he abused children either. He seemed asexual to me. Very easy to make an accusation against a very rich man and cash in because he just wants the problem to go away. Plus the media loves to play up a scandal without a shred of evidence and assassinate someones character just to sell a few more copies of their supermarket rag
Yeah. There's absolutely no other instances of people making up allegations against rich people to try to get a payday. What a novel concept.
Word is that he spent $35 million to cover up molestations of at least 24 boys.....
And you don't think it's odd that parents continued to let their children hang out with him? Just sayin.
Did the parents of the alleged molested kids allow the kid to continue to hang out with him after they found out?
Not that I am aware of but the man definitely had an unusual attraction to children, especially boys. The allegations may not have been enough to prove anything but he did admit to having sleepovers where he slept with the boys that came to visit.
MJ basically didn't have a childhood. Grew up under the crushing pressure of being a mega-star dominated and micro managed by a violent and abusive father.
I don't know if the same ones continued. But I know that parents continued to let their children hang out with him after allegations began. My point is, doesn't it seem a little odd that parents would let their children hang out with him, after allegations against him had already been levied? It's not like he molested 24 boys AND THEN allegations came out. There was one here. And then one there. And then another one over here. It just doesn't pass the smell test. Do I know for absolute positive that he didn't? Of course not. It just seems much more like people wanting money than anything to me.
I assume this happens because the parents were much like you...didnt believe the allegations without proof.
Right, because most parents ignore their kid telling them they are being molested by a man who totally looks and acts like a child molester.
