[Hack&Lube]

Michael Jackson was a very frail and weak childish individual, susceptible to bad influences and a poor judge of character in his professional contacts (agents, lawyers, doctors, etc.). They all latched onto him for easy money giving lazy, poor work and bad advice that did him harm over and over again in his adult life.

His doctors and lawyers got him to settle the first case (while still retaining their exhorbitant fees) because it was the easiest way out for him and they didn't think he could mentally survive the long trial. He won his second trial which looks like it did take a toll on him and probably exacerbated the prescription drug problems that killed him in the end.

I can't say either way what the truth about Michael Jackson is. There are so many stories out there by so-called biographers or people with some kind of inside-information and most of it conflicts with other stories. Most of them probably have an element to truth about it but a lot of it is false and the press has constantly published stories about Jackson before realizing they were being decieved. Even after his death, the mainstream press all published stories about how his maid had to pump his stomach many times because of prescription drugs, how he was gay, etc. A few days later the maid comes out to say that she doesn't even know how to pump a stomach and his security guards come out and say that he had a girlfriend. These stories might be true or not, but you can see how all the stories conflict and have been like that his entire life. Most of it is hearsay.

Michael Jackson was raised as a kid through abuse and turned into a workaholic by the age of 8 where he was forced to perform and be perfect on stage all the time. He definetely was a very disturbed person with a childish mind at heart. I can't say either way if he crossed any lines but he definetely loved the company of other children and wanted to make them happy. He did sleep in the same bed as them but I tend to think that in his childish mind, they were platonic sleep-overs. When I look at Neverland, I don't see a shady stranger trying to give out (millions of dollars) worth of candy to kids to get them into his van...I see a disturbed child-minded adult trying to recreate a childhood he think he missed out on trying to spend money making other kids happy who could be the friends he didn't have.

I look at his own children (as bizarre the situation is) and how they are coming out more into the limelight now and what they say about their dad it just doesn't look to me like he was the kind of person that takes that kind of advantage of them or abuses them.