Ok, also, for undead and everyone else going off with the "pedophile" thing.
Jackson was a huge influence in music.
-First music video.. ever.
-Donated/raised MILLIONS of dollars for charities around the world, which is a little more than you guys are cashing in (myself included). He gives a fuck enough about other people besides himself to actually go out there and make sure these people aren't dying during fucking childhood.
-Thriller is the number one album of all time, in the entire world. That's huge. Nobody is going to take that from him.
-Was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame twice. Once again, more than you, or all but a select handful of people in the entire world can say.
-He's had six platinum albums, as in six of his albums sold a million copies, just in the U.S. Thriller by itself has sold a little over 100 million albums. That's a third of the entire U.S. owning Thriller.. the entire album. that's huge.
Now look at all those. And look at his childhood. This kid was a hit as a preteen. He didn't have a childhood, you should know that. Obviously he'd want to experience being a kid, because he never fucking was one. With all his success, I think it's alright for him to diddle a kid or two. Now put yourself in Jackson's position. If you wanna experience a childhood with some kids, and the media takes it, turns it around, and say you're out there diddling the shit out of little boys, obviously something's wrong. Either the suing family just wanted money, or Jackson did touch one kid. But one kid whose dick got slapped around a bit does not constitute the years of hiding he did in the 2000's, nor the shit he got from the population of America every single day, especially as he was the biggest sensation in the entire damn world for about 20 years.
For real, I do not listen to Michael Jackson. I have Thriller and Bad on my ipod, but my mom had gotten it from when she was a kid, listening to his music, and she says herself that MJ was the shit back in the day. So, i mean really, I'm not biasing anything. It's true fact that Michael Jackson is hella tight, and one alleged misstep in his fame does not even come close to offsetting everything that he did that was life-changing for hundreds of millions of people.
TL;DR, shut the fuck up because MJ is bigger than you will ever be.