The rumors swirled wildly and fiercely. However nothing was proven in criminal court. He did settle some civil suits. An obsession with young childhood doesn’t have to equate to perverted sexual urges, although it happens so often that worldly people or people with only shallow knowledge of the issues will assume that it does so equate.
I watched the interviews with the jurors on television after that trial.
The ones who appeared on camera were the most decrepit low information cretins I had ever heard outside of the OJ jury.
They were obsessed with Jackson's celebrity, and refused to hear the evidence (by their own admission). Now the news is telling us one of the men who testified that Jackson was "innocent" admits he was paid off, and that Jackson repeatedly raped him.