The culture of victim blaming is so toxic to me. That you can have people say they were sexually assaulted by a man but because they're 1) male and 2) you're a fan of the singer you can just overlook it. Oh the victim is lying. He's lying about being sexually assaulted. It's really something.
So the 30 odd million or whatever it was he gave away to stop the trial in the 90s that's just a non issue to you? That didn't happen? That is the actions of an innocent man? Get out of here. The guy was a freak with mental health problems but that doesn't excuse him being a scum bag. Save your ”the media!"
So, you just ignored the 'bunch of children not being paid off' bit.
*Sigh*. Okay, tell me, this victim blamer who has actually read the court documents that are full of obvious lies, what is so convincing about the stories.
Can you tell me why the Father of the boy in 1993 was theorising what MJ's penis looked like?
Can you tell me why, instead of going to police, he was caught on tape saying -
Chandler is the Father.
Chandler: Michael Jackson's
16 career, Dave. This man is gonna be humiliated
17 beyond belief. You'll not believe it. He will not
18 believe what's going to happen to him.
19 MR. SCHWARTZ: Yeah.
20 MR. CHANDLER: Beyond his worst
21 nightmares. [tape irregularity] not sell one more
22 record.
and
5 MR. CHANDLER: There are other people
6 involved that are waiting for my phone call that
7 are intentionally going to be in certain
8 positions —
9 MR. SCHWARTZ: Yeah.
10 MR. CHANDLER: — [tape irregularity].
11 I paid them to do it. They're doing their job. I
12 gotta just go ahead and follow through on the time
13 zone.
14 MR. SCHWARTZ: Um-hmm.
15 MR. CHANDLER: I mean the time set out.
16 Everything is going according to a certain plan
17 that isn't just mine. There's other people
18 involved —
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As usual, people can't debate. 'Get out of here'. What a brilliant defence. You don't know a single thing about the cases, whereas I do. Your source is the media, whereas mine is court documents.
You're showing extreme ignorance. The settlement didn't stop a criminal trial in the 90's. It stopped a civil one. 97% of civil cases are settled out of court. The law encourages people to do so.
The family were able to testify at any time they wanted. The case was even left open. Instead, they chose to write a book and sell stories to the media. When asked to testify they refused. When Michael Jackson subpoenaed the boy's Uncle to testify, he shit himself.
Nor was it for $30 million. Again, believing the media.
Why were the family so scared of a criminal trial? Bizarrely, Michael Jackson wanted the criminal trial to go before the civil one. Whereas the family wanted the opposite. Here they are shitting themselves over a trial that would put a criminal behind bars:
Lawyer Larry Feldman: The only thing we gotta do is keep the criminal behind us. I don't
w ant them going first."
Larry had said it before, but it hadn't registered in Evan's brain till now.
Father: You mean if they indict, the criminal case automatically goes before us?
Lawyer: "Yeah."
Father: "Jesus Christ!"
Lawyer: "Right! So we don't want that."
Also, MJ could of 'paid the family off' before anything became public. The family wanted money from the start.
Had Michael paid the twenty milhon dollars demanded of him 1 0
August, rather than the following January, he might have spent the next ten
years as the world's most famous entertainer, instead of the world's most
infamous child molester.
also:
Fields and Pelicano (MJ's team) already knew Evan was willing to negotiate. Why
not pay him off and nip the nightmare in the bud while you've got the
opportunity?
and
Not only do you avoid a civil suit, but also, more
important, you buy your way around the authorities by removing their star
witness. Ten, twenty, thirty million? Moneys no object. The deal could be
fait accompli within hours
And who can forget. The moment the Father saw Michael Jackson for the first time after his son had supposedly told him MJ had molested him. They met, as Evan wanted to demand money from MJ.
Evan then walked over to Michael and embraced the star with a big, happy to-see-you
hug, patting him on the back like an old friend
Also
Investigated for ten years.
Police broke the law.
Hundreds of people interviewed.
Strip searched.
Police flying around the planet desperately trying to find victims.
and yet not a single piece of evidence was ever found.