I have no sexual molestation scars. I know many who do, however. I would wager most here know someone who was molested. It’s a huge problem, in case you didn’t know.
I’ve been around celebs since I was a child. I live in Southern California. My company serves a number of them. There just people. I’ve seen them drunk, seen them act stupid/do stupid things, smell bad, etc. It’s a big show and fame happens ONLY in the fan.
I don’t have the same ga-ga perspective as most, I guess.
He was a probable child-rapist in my estimation. I don’t give a damn about his record sales, FRiend.
I wonder who will be given custody of his kids? Didn’t their “mother” give up all rights to them? For money?
There are a lot of other interesting sidelights on this thread -- people have made lists of other artists they consider major, they have commented on the political fallout from media using the death to deflect attention from Congress' commie antics, they have mentioned nostalgia for the activities they were doing when the MJ albums came out, etc. Lots of good conversations to be had without even remotely being "ga-ga". I just posted a bunch of stuff about opera and male tenors in that realm.
Be calm and know that no one thinks child molestation should be excused, or even that Jackson should have been acquitted if he was guilty. We're mostly just here because of the music, and the best of it came out when he was 20 to 25, before the children thing became public knowledge.