Michael Jackson

Weren't his children adopted?

All his children have the same Mother who is white. Allegedly they are his biological children by AI.

There were rumours which both parties at the time refuted that Mark Lester was in fact their Father.

Let’s face it, whether we like his music or not, Michael Jackson was weird. This must have been connected to his disfunctional childhood, plus the fact he was so wealthy he could afford to live out his fantasies.

I understood that they aren't biologically his children.
Saying that though, one of my exes is half caste (his preferred term before anyone pounces) and his daughter has long, straight, blonde hair, pale skin and green eyes.

A white and a coloured person can produce the same in children. One of each colour.
Jackson's two boys are darker than their sister so it's not impossible for him to be father of all three.

MJ was an oddball but the case against him is debateable.

I haven't watched the documentary and have no intentions of doing so.

I keep thinking of how his children are suffering at the moment, I only hope they are getting love and support within the "Jackson Clan" which appears not to have been afforded to MJ.

What mainly amazes me about him is why anyone is interested in him. He’s absurd and ridiculous. I can only laugh incredulously when I see him. What is the matter with people’s taste if he is any sort of star?

As for the gossip, we have no way of knowing whether any of it is true or not.

But you must remember Michael Jackson was FULL black not mixed race his biological children would have some colour in them even if it was just olive or tanned skins His children especially the first two were completely white with straight hair The last one who he seemed to like to dangle over balconies did have darker hair but no black features at all Michael bleached his skin to get the mixed race look

Having watched the documentaries on these last two evenings I now see him as almost equal to Jimmy Saville he was a preditor who groomed small children for his pleasure whilst playing the benovalent playful manchild who loved all children It s pretty obvious he badly damaged the two men who featured in the docu and the other two children one with a medical condition whose cases were thrown out of court and probably MacCauly Culkin too who has lived a very messed up life although he denied anything took place as did the other boys which they would, as they loved him and would have done anything for him

Heaven only knows what horrors have gone on.

I never liked him or his music. Strange isn't it that he had such adulation.

I loved his music back in the early days. I have watched most of the two documentaries over the last two nights and have been horrified at what he did to those children. We watched the previous one done some years before his death and I felt he was very misunderstood - now I just think he was a very sick perverted person possibly damaged by his own upbringing but that is no excuse. The boys mothers seem to have been very naive and no doubt taken in by all his wealth and fame.

It is very sad for his children to hear all this about their father.

I'm amazed that there are people on here who don't feel that Michael Jackson was an amazing artist, both musically and in dance.

Apparently one of the 2 accusers, when staying with him, said when they woke up during the night he was huddled in a corner crying. I feel his childhood led to a very unhappy person, who may have remained emotionally a child in an adult body..

I watched part of the documentary. What on earth were the parents of those boys thinking?

He could have fathered children without ever having to have physical contact with the mother.

Paedophiles, whether famous, like Michael Jackson and Jimmy Saville or your everyday neighbourhood variety, are very careful and clever in who they target, checking out not just the child but the whole family set up. Most of his targets came from unsophisticated families, not on the bread line, but not far above and he love bombed the whole family and dazzled them with his wealth.

I find it difficult to believe the parents could have been so unaware, but I think they were. Frankly I wouldn't have let my children anywhere near a man like him, like Saville, he always struck me as being a very peculiar and unsavoury person.

I'm amazed that there are people on here who don't feel that Michael Jackson was an amazing artist, both musically and in dance

As for his music, when he died and they kept playing his music on the radio, I recognised none of it and none of it stayed in my mind. I could say the same as the above about Beethoven or Mozart, but I realise that one person's amazing music is another persons noise.

Sorry, but watching these documentaries it seems very possible that people are lying. I’ve been watching the body language and I’m not in the least convinced.

I didn't know what to make of it to be honest.

Anja having worked with abuse survivors for ten plus years I disagree I don’t think they were lying I think they were so overpowered and groomed by this rich playmate that they would have done anything for him The parents were also groomed and completely under his influence One father committed suicide the whole families were broken
There was nothing at all to indicate they would have jepodised their birth famïlies and their new families to lie about something that happened all those years back and to open up all their wounds

There were always rumours floating around about Michael Jackson, even I knew about them and I have zilch interest in pop music.

It was no different, from the way rumours floated around about Jimmy Saville, and while rumours are neither facts nor evidence. The persistence of them around both men and the knowledge that Michael Jackson had reached legal agreements with the at least 2 boys over their relationships with him, does add corroboration to what is coming out now.

Why did he pay vast sums of money for silence

I’m not very well educated nor I think very worldly wise, but both js and mj always looked guilty as charged back in the day to me.
I was lucky I had very sensible upbringing I think.

A court found him not guilty .these men spoke FOR him not against him in that case. Money is the only reason they are back in the spotlight
.Michael Jackson was without doubt one of the most talented artists of his time and beyond .His "odd" appearance in his later years is attributed to him trying to wipe his fathers features from his face ...the father who physically and mentally abused him and used him as a cash cow. He was a sad ,damaged boy and man ..but he's not here to answer the allegations so we shouldn't judge what we cant possibly know .

I've watched most of this just bit more to see.

I wouldn't say the two men came from 'unsophisticated families' they seemed pretty well spoken.

I believe MJ is indeed a paedophile and treated them exactly as they mentioned.

MJ I've come to the conclusion was a very skilful manipulator. He had a penchant for little boys, but needed a cover to help him achieve his end. He built up a persona of the boy in the man's body. He loved to play, he liked childish things eating popcorn, watching cartoons.....having sleepovers. The vulnerable public along with the boys parents were taken in.

If you take Jimmy Savile he used the same MO. In his case became a fund raiser, help sick children, run marathons, raise much needed cash for hospitals. While all the time he was abusing kids behind closed doors.

I thought it quite relevant when these cases came up against JS, Rolf Harris and Jim Davidson.

JS and RH both supposedly pillars of the community. RH helped his local neighbourhood loved animals etc. Both putting on a front. When it came to Jim Davidson, he never pretended to be anything other than what he was, a rampant womaniser, but he proved he was no paedophile and the case was dropped.

Sadly we must never assume because someone is famous, they are beyond reproach

If those two men were making it up, they were pretty convincing. One of them showed diamond rings Jackson had bought him. If he was after money, maybe he would have sold those by now.

I am in tears watching these men in this film and the state they are in! How could anyone disbelieve them? My heart goes out to them.

I totally agree it’s a very cynical soul who thinks they are not telling the truth