Look on the bright side though; I've recieved some of the funniest text messages ever this morning.

If there is a Heaven and Hell I hope Mr Jackson doesn't suffer with heat rash.

exactly I've had some crackers.. have a look on the thread in the sin bin aswell.

every cloud ....

Oh well if he's a pop icon let's all quietly respect him.
And then we can arrange Gary Glitters state funeral.
Open your eyes, his being a pop icon gave him the opportunity to do the things he did.

He sleep on the bed, not on the floor!
Sha mon Mothef**kers.

Was he ever convicted?
Did the mother of the son who accused him have previous with regard to blackmailing celebs?
Would I as a father ever accept a payoff to stop someone who abused my child getting his just desserts?
And if you think Gary Glitter (The pop star that was actually convicted btw, not super,super start that Jacko was who wasn't convicted of anything) is a fair comparison then you are deluded!

True, but lets look at it another way.

If I as a 52 yr old man was to deck my garden out in childrens toys and rides and then invite kids into my house to spend weekends with me and then tell everyone I had slept with small boys, but only in an innocent way and I am in fact a child at heart, I doubt I would be free for long and would be banged up at HM pleasure in a segregated section of it. This would happen even if I was telling the truth.

This pervert got away with it because of who he was and how much money he had, stop being a bloody idiot.

AUP?

Just one question!!!
If you have kids would you accept any amount of money in the world as a payoff if someone had supposedly tarnished them in the way that Michael Jackson was accused of?

If your answer is yes then you would be worse than the accused if they were guilty of the crime!!!

Also funny how this claim came after the Bashir documentary.

15 million was hell of a payoff though wasnt it

Any guy admitting sleeping with young boys isn't exactly a good role model

His music was ok. But the above.....agree wholeheartedly.

Since when did you become the judge and the jury, he was aquitted of any crimes. period. Unfortunately mud sticks and there will always be people who will point the finger of guilt, history is full of such cases.
He was never my cup of tea as a person, his personality was a little strange to say the least although i believe, this was largely to do with his upbringing as a child , his father by all acounts, should shoulder much of the blame for that.
At the end of the day he was an incredible musical and dance talent, probably the best by far of his generation and beyond, but with obviouse insecurities.

Shouldn't that be white bread

Also am I correct in remebering that the procecusion had so little proof that they wanted to use the Bashir inteview as some kind of evidence and which one of his accusers was proved to have a history of wrongly accusing celebs for blackmailing purposes again btw?