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00:17This is my, my inspiration.
00:34What made me hold on, what has saved my life, is children.
00:43Because being a celebrity and then becoming an icon, like an international phenomenon,
00:49you see how vindictive man can be, how cruel, how abusive, how judgmental.
00:58But children represent honesty, just a pure innocence.
01:06And I'm in love with innocence.
01:10That's what I'm in love with.
01:22The number one artist in the world!
01:35That level of megastardom is not healthy.
01:39People are not gods.
01:49Tonight, Jackson is wanted by police of multiple felony counts of child molestation.
01:57The Jackson machine just keeps right on rolling.
02:01The Jackson machine just keeps right on rolling.
02:17The Jackson machine just keeps right on rolling.
02:28Sony Corporation believes it has a profitable partner in Michael Jackson.
02:32Together, they could make a billion dollars.
02:35As NBC's Mike Jensen reports tonight, teach your kids to sing.
02:48It's the kind of contract that takes your breath away.
02:52A projected one billion dollars for six Michael Jackson albums, plus feature films, videos, and video games.
03:01Michael, in the 1980s, you had the largest selling album in history with Thriller.
03:06Now, with Dangerous, you've given us the fastest selling album of your career.
03:11We're prouder than ever to have you part of the Sony Music family.
03:15And the thrilling fact is that the best is definitely yet to come.
03:23When I joined Sony, Michael Jackson was the biggest star in the world.
03:28And he was the guy.
03:30I don't know any other way to describe it.
03:32I mean, we all lived through it.
03:34The Michael Jackson World Tour is on the road again.
03:40It was incredibly exciting.
03:42They're selling out stadiums, making record money.
03:46It was the franchise.
03:47I mean, let's be honest.
03:51We are all in the business of succeeding.
03:54And when you're working in a company like Sony Music, you want a Michael Jackson to succeed.
04:08My name is Rosabelle Smith.
04:10And for 31 years, I was employed by the Los Angeles Police Department.
04:16In 1993, while working juvenile division of the LAPD, I was working the sexually exploited child unit.
04:23I was advised by my supervisor, who was the officer in charge of the unit, that a case had come
04:28in involving a young boy who was 13 years of age and that the perpetrator was Michael Jackson.
04:37I was a little in disbelief that it was Michael Jackson doing this.
04:43Because I grew up watching Michael Jackson, you know, the Jackson 5 cartoons when I was a kid.
04:49And I really enjoyed his music.
04:56But we had a job to do, and that job was to go out and just handle it just like
05:01any other case at that time.
05:26We had to interview the victim.
05:35The victim had actually met Michael Jackson at a restaurant, who was very, very little.
05:42Then years later, that relationship grew, and they began to visit each other.
05:50The victim was alleging that Michael would oftentimes rub his body against his body.
05:58He alleged that Michael Jackson fondled to him and masturbated to him.
06:04He alleged that Michael liked to have his nipples rubbed, squeezed, kissing.
06:14Then that graduated to oral copulation.
06:17They bathed together and to the point where eventually Michael Jackson consumed his semen.
06:32We had heard on the grapevine that there were these allegations circulating.
06:39And it was a shock to everybody.
06:43Yeah, we knew he was hanging with kids, but I saw him hang with the kids, and I saw that
06:48it was completely innocent.
06:51I saw he was playing games with them.
06:53I saw the kids wanting to hang with him.
07:00I really hoped the allegations weren't true.
07:04The feeling was trying to contain it.
07:09Obviously, we were thinking of, you know, the immediate impact on the tour, because you've got to keep the business
07:15going, the tour going, the album sales, everything, and the impact of that.
07:19So it was pretty, it was pretty tense.
07:21We went into crisis mode, both with our team and the PR team.
07:27But ultimately, the story was so huge, it was going to get out, no matter what we did.
07:33There was no stopping it.
07:39In Southern California, the press, police, lawyers, and private investigators are in orbit tonight over an investigation of child abuse
07:46allegations involving superstar Michael Jackson.
07:49There's still no comment from Michael Jackson this morning, and Los Angeles police aren't saying much, but they have confirmed
07:56reports of a criminal investigation of the pop superstar.
08:00All hell broke loose.
08:02Television station KNBC in Los Angeles first broke the story last night, saying that a mother had alleged Jackson abused
08:08her child.
08:09August 17th, the Los Angeles Police Department initiated a criminal investigation of entertainer Michael Jackson.
08:18Every news channel, every hour, the top story was Michael Jackson.
08:23Confidential documents obtained by NBC News quoted the boy's reference to acts of oral sex and masturbation.
08:30The allegations now surfacing are ugly enough to shatter any icon's image.
08:34Kids everywhere are talking about the scandalous accusations, hoping they're not true.
08:40Has Michael Jackson ever molested a child, ever done anything improper with a child?
08:46No, never.
08:47No, never.
08:48No, never.
08:48No, never.
08:48That's crazy.
08:49My son is not guilty.
08:51He need a trial.
08:53These people aren't waiting.
08:54They're trying to, um, trying to, they're trying him.
08:57That's right, and I'm tired of it.
09:07Open the window!
09:09Open the window!
09:10Open the window!
09:11Open the window!
09:12Open the window!
09:13Open the window!
09:14Open the window!
09:14Open the window!
09:23Everything was suddenly bad.
09:29Everything was, um, emotional.
09:34Talking to Michael was different, because he was different.
09:37Suddenly he was no longer the happy Michael that I used to talk to.
09:41He sounded depressed.
09:43I felt like it was over,
09:46like there was no way he could come back
09:47from these terrible things being said.
10:18Eventually, he came back to America.
10:24We had the information from the victim
10:27about Michael's body
10:31and specifically the markings on his body.
10:35So the only way that a child would see that
10:39is if Michael was nude,
10:42then our unit prepared a search warrant
10:44to search or to view Michael's body,
10:48and this included the genitals.
10:50We explained to him,
10:51we have a search warrant signed by the judge
10:54to take pictures of your private parts.
10:59He said, you assholes.
11:02The outcome was that evidence
11:07that was provided by Jordan Chander.
11:12He was confirmed.
11:16Can I help you?
11:17Yeah, we'd like to talk to Michael Jackson.
11:21Has he come back?
11:22No comment, sir.
11:24No comment, huh?
11:25I don't necessarily think he's guilty,
11:27but I don't necessarily think he's innocent either,
11:29because I don't know.
11:31Well, I don't know if he's guilty or not,
11:33but I think that he needs to come back and face the charges.
11:36He's looking pretty guilty right now.
11:42There is real fear tonight
11:44that the catastrophic publicity will result
11:47in the destruction of a billion-dollar empire
11:49and the ruin of a man.
11:56Sony stock has fallen because investors are very much concerned
12:00that the huge investment that they have in Michael Jackson
12:03is, in fact, not going to pay off.
12:07When the allegations surfaced,
12:11I read them, watched them on TV like everyone else did,
12:18and I felt that they were extremely unfair.
12:22Michael Jackson was unequivocally the biggest artist
12:27in the company.
12:30And if he's not succeeding,
12:34guess what?
12:35Jobs get lost.
12:38Is Michael Jackson going to make any statement?
12:41He's got a whole cadre of international cameras there every night.
12:51To that point, Michael had been laying low,
12:54but once the allegations are out there,
12:57you can't take them back again.
13:01And so we needed to get in front of the public
13:03to unequivocally deny these allegations.
13:09Michael Jackson came out of seclusion today
13:11without leaving home.
13:13The pop star angrily rejected accusations
13:15he molested a young boy
13:17and lashed out at police and the media.
13:20There have been many disgusting statements
13:23made recently concerning allegations
13:25of improper conduct on my part.
13:28These statements about me are totally false.
13:31At every opportunity,
13:32the media has dissected and manipulated
13:35these allegations to reach their own conclusions.
13:38I ask all of you to wait and hear the truth
13:41before you label or condemn me.
13:43Don't treat me like a criminal,
13:44because I am innocent.
13:48Jackson's defiant declaration of innocence
13:50comes as the latest counterpoint
13:52in a case that's saturated with rumor, innuendo,
13:56and almost daily revelations about the singer.
13:59Separating fact from fiction can be difficult.
14:16For years I have been working for Michael,
14:18who unfortunately has been the victim of this
14:21and other types of extortion attempts.
14:23The demand for $20 million was made and presented.
14:27It was flatly and consistently refused.
14:30Many people try to extort Michael
14:33because of who he is and, you know,
14:34the amount of money he has,
14:35and these people wanted $20 million.
14:37As far as the victim is concerned,
14:40I did not get anything as far as any, like, money, motivation.
14:46However, the parents were a different story.
14:49The Hollywood Reporter, an entertainment trade paper,
14:52said today that the boy's father had negotiated with Jackson
14:55for a $20 million movie deal.
14:57The father is a prominent Beverly Hills dentist
15:00and part-time screenwriter.
15:02CBS News has obtained a taped phone conversation.
15:05The voice is reportedly the father of the 13-year-old boy.
15:09If I go through with this, I win big time.
15:11I will get everything I want.
15:13The father did, in fact, ask for money
15:17to keep the situation quiet.
15:19So it did hurt the case a little bit.
15:23I think it's pathetic that somebody would go after
15:26someone like Michael Jackson with such vigor,
15:29and it's obvious what they want.
15:31And it seems obvious to me that he is innocent.
15:33You know, that there's a lot of people in this business
15:35that try and take advantage of people.
15:37And, you know, I'm sure that it will all work out,
15:41and I'm sure that he's innocent, you know,
15:42but only God knows the truth, you know.
15:48More and more, people started to question the allegations.
15:54So the management team started capitalizing on that momentum.
15:59The main strategy was to endear Michael to the black community,
16:08and to get the black community back on Michael's side.
16:11Because once the black community is behind you,
16:13you got it, because, you know, we're a big group.
16:17And race relations at that time, it was a hotbed.
16:27Parts of Los Angeles erupted in unrest
16:30after a jury acquitted four white Los Angeles police officers
16:35over the videotape beating of Rodney King, a black motorist.
16:50What happened with Rodney King, it doesn't make no sense to me.
16:53They're treating black people like we're dogs, you know,
16:56like we can't get nowhere.
16:57We have no rights that the white man respects.
17:01Race is tearing America apart.
17:05Now more than ever, minority Americans believe there are two kinds of justice,
17:10the white kind and the kind they get.
17:16Someone was friends with this African American attorney named Johnny Cochran.
17:23And so he suggested that Johnny would be the best person for Michael's case,
17:29not only because he's black, but also because he was brilliant.
17:33Mr. Cochran, let me start with you.
17:36Why do you think it was important for Michael Jackson to speak out now?
17:39Well, I think, Katie, that after months of being barraged with negative attacks,
17:45it was time.
17:45Everyone who was on Michael's team knew that having a black face
17:51as the front man for the defense would bring the black community
17:58to Michael's defense as well.
18:01The king of pop, rock and soul, Mr. Michael Jackson.
18:08Michael's first public appearance after his statement about the allegations
18:12was at the NAACP Image Awards,
18:16and that's the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
18:24I was in the audience, but Michael walked out on that stage
18:30the house went crazy.
18:34Everyone was in support of Michael.
18:36No one wanted to believe these allegations.
18:41For decades, the NAACP had stood at the forefront of the struggle
18:46for equal justice under the law for all people in our land.
18:50And his speech was based on being a proud black man
18:55and how, you know, we have to stick together against racial inequality
19:00and injustice.
19:03Everyone is presumed to be innocent and totally innocent
19:06until they are charged with a crime
19:08and then convicted by a jury of their peers.
19:22It was such a powerful speech.
19:31With all of the stuff that was happening to the black community,
19:38it felt like Michael's innocence was important.
19:42And it was what we needed.
19:51Everybody wanted him to be back on top.
20:05The family of a teenage boy is dropping its charge that Michael Jackson molested the boy.
20:11Larry Carroll tells us the civil suit is now over.
20:19We wish to jointly announce a mutual resolution of this lawsuit.
20:25This boy wanted to get on with his life.
20:29When that case was settled,
20:32and I believe that the payout for that settlement was
20:3720 million or maybe a little more over 20 million dollars,
20:41the family accepted the settlement.
20:44The resolution of this case is in no way an admission of guilt by Michael Jackson.
20:51Being a megastar like he was,
20:54he had the advantage with money, with attorneys,
20:59with really coming out and doing pretty much whatever he wanted
21:02in order to defend himself.
21:06So that was pretty much the end of our case.
21:10I felt bad because Rosie and I, we were certain that we had a good case.
21:18But when the victim doesn't want to testify,
21:21there is a say that says, no victim, no crime.
21:28So nothing that we could do.
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21:46Lonnie Anderson says Bert's a dud in bed.
21:50Uh-oh.
21:52In this billion dollar business, there's only one story that's guaranteed.
21:57A big name in trouble. That's the best news of all.
22:00But of course, the one that's grabbing the headlines right now
22:04are the allegations about Michael Jackson, the biggest superstar in the world.
22:10Michael Jackson is our window into the new news business.
22:13And the magazine shows, talk shows, news chats that feed off tabloid truth.
22:19Michael Jackson, violator or victim?
22:23What do you think about Michael?
22:24Well, I think it's true.
22:28He settled for all that money?
22:29He settled for all that amount of money.
22:31I think something's up when he settles for over $10 million to shut someone up.
22:35I don't know, it's a shame because I think Michael's been dragged through the mallet a lot.
22:38You know, he's a...
22:39I don't know if he's a victim or if he did it or not, but like,
22:43he's lost that wholesome image forever, you know?
22:49The allegations really changed how the public, I think, thought of him.
22:55And Michael had to kind of rehabilitate that image.
23:04People had been obsessed with Michael's sexuality his whole life.
23:10And his managers thought it would be cool if the press found out that Michael had a girlfriend.
23:27Michael and Lisa started dating soon after the allegations had been settled.
23:42He knew that marrying Elvis Presley's daughter would be headlines everywhere.
23:47Everyone would be talking about that and they'd no longer talk about this horrible time in his life.
23:54With this ring, I do it.
23:56With this ring, I do it.
23:57You've heard the talk for weeks. It's surprising and it's apparently true.
24:01The daughter of Elvis Presley confirms today she is now married to Michael Jackson.
24:05Let's go to Vince Dimitri in New York.
24:08Vince.
24:09John, hopefully you can see behind me the throngs of stargazers right behind me.
24:13We are just outside of the world-famous Trump Tower where Donald Trump tells us,
24:18yes indeed, that Lisa Marie Presley and her new beau Michael Jackson are holed up here on the top floor.
24:24Well, I'm very, very happy for them. I think it's great.
24:27They're very happy and I think everybody's happy. They're great people.
24:36I first met Michael in 1988.
24:41Michael was on tour in Germany at that time.
24:44And so they called me and said that Michael is a big fan of mine and he would love to
24:48meet me.
24:50And we hit it up.
24:53And it got to know the whole family.
24:57I also knew Lisa Marie Presley because I spent lots of time in Los Angeles.
25:04So I knew them separately.
25:07And then later, Lisa came to me one day and said, look, Michael is hitting on me and he actually
25:13wants to marry me.
25:14What do you think? Should I do that?
25:15So I said, go for it.
25:17For him it was also, he liked Lisa because she was the daughter of the king.
25:23So he was also a king, king of pop.
25:25Yeah.
25:34This is a big deal.
25:36We had never seen him get romantic with a woman like this ever.
25:41I'm very happy to be here.
25:44And just think, nobody thought this would last.
25:57It did work in the way that Michael wanted it to work, in that everyone was talking about it.
26:04But at the same time, the public wasn't really buying it.
26:09It's all a cover up.
26:10It's all a cover up from the little child thing.
26:12That's what I think it is.
26:13It's about it.
26:14You don't think it's true love?
26:15No.
26:16I think it's a sham.
26:17A heterosexual marriage would certainly take some of the heat off being accused of being a homosexual pedophile.
26:27But Michael and Lisa were only together for around 18 months.
26:35It's Blitzville for Graceland and Neverland.
26:38Many of you may find this hard to believe, but Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson are getting a divorce.
26:44So, Tony, it looks like the gloved one is no longer the loved one.
26:49Oh, such a sad story.
26:51Sorry to hear that.
26:52Sorry to see that.
26:53What a shock.
26:53What a surprise.
26:57It was kind of hard to watch.
27:00He was trying to maintain his position as, like, the biggest superstar in the world.
27:06And it wasn't quite working.
27:10This is a man who changed the music industry.
27:15He is a musical genius.
27:18And people don't think of him in that sense anymore.
27:21They think of him as a freak.
27:24Is there any way that he can lift himself out of this trough that he has largely dug for himself?
27:34ACHAL MUSIC
27:34ACHAL MUSIC
27:58When he was working on the history album, Michael called me and said,
28:02look, I want to use some of your paintings for the artwork.
28:08That was the painting that he really liked.
28:13And then spontaneously he wrote this poem directly on the picture.
28:19With such confusion, don't it make you want to scream?
28:24You try to cope with every lie.
28:27You scrutinize somebody, please have mercy.
28:31Because I just can't take it.
28:39If you listen to the lyrics and the songs and the overall vibe of the tracks on History,
28:45they're very aggressive.
28:47They're very defensive.
28:49Beat me, hate me, you can never break me, will me, thrill me, you can never kill me.
28:55Even the screen video is very dark for Michael.
29:02And then for the history album promo, Michael chose a dictator-esque image.
29:08He's got these military troops marching behind him and a godlike aura.
29:16That's what he wanted to push out there, still on top, still, you know, the biggest pop superstar in the
29:22history of music.
29:25Tower Bridge was raised this afternoon to allow a 30-foot statue of rock star Michael Jackson to pass along
29:31the Thames on a barge.
29:35I think it's brilliant.
29:37It's just the best thing that's happened on the River Thames.
29:39He's a mega star, yeah?
29:40They called him the king of pop, so we can afford to do this.
29:42Why not?
29:45For the history tour, Michael decided to focus on his fan base abroad.
29:51And his popularity continued over in Europe, in the UK, Asia, versus the US,
29:58where it was kind of slipping a little bit because of the allegations and all the media circuits around that.
30:13It's like a dream come true.
30:16I touched him.
30:17I'm not going to win my hand.
30:24I remember this one time I was with Michael in Budapest.
30:29And the hotel was surrounded, under siege by thousands of young people.
30:40And what he did, he threw the curtain a little bit, and then he had this club one.
30:46And people screeched.
30:47It was like an explosion down there, yeah?
30:54He was laughing.
30:55He said, oh my God, look.
30:56Do you hear?
30:57Do you hear?
31:04I think there's a deep desire to look up for people that are bigger than life, yeah?
31:09As role models or as somebody you can worship.
31:12I mean, I think that's what mankind needs.
31:15But I think the danger is, when everybody worships you, is that you start to believe it, in a way
31:24that you start to worship yourself.
31:25And I think that's very dangerous.
31:27I love you, Michael.
31:28Can I have a hug, please?
31:30Sure.
31:30Please may I hug you?
31:31Okay.
31:32I'll hug you, okay?
31:33I love you.
31:35I love you.
31:35But he was enjoying that.
31:37He liked to have that effect on people.
31:40I love you.
31:41Michael.
31:42Michael.
31:43Sorry.
31:44I'm the leader.
31:45Germany loves you, Michael.
31:46I love Germany.
31:47Oh, I love Germany.
31:48I love you.
32:03You really run into the die hard fan.
32:06It's unbelievable.
32:08It's like a religious experience.
32:12you're like their god some people will say that I don't worship but I don't think it's
32:21anything bad it's just so beautiful they are my life
32:50okay
32:51okay okay okay okay okay of course stay in that corner okay stay in that corner okay
32:58stay in that corner okay okay step back please
33:04where's your camera where's your camera okay yes yes please please thank you very much
33:12it's kind of nice yeah come on okay please
33:19Coco is he okay when I met Michael I saw that he was addicted to fame
33:31I was a well-known rabbi and Michael and I had become friends
33:38Michael really needed to be loved and he he chose to be loved in really in an unhealthy way which
33:45was
33:46through superstardom and the devotion of fans
33:50I said to him you've made the mistake of substituting love for this this this cheap forgery called attention
34:07attention and attention is never a good substitute for love it's never real
34:12this attention became an addiction because he interpreted his love and it became a monster
34:27I felt that one of my principal objectives was to tether him back to humility
34:37and uh so our conversations became kind of therapy
34:46he wanted every word recorded for posterity we recorded it on these two flimsy uh dicta machines
34:55you know that they're they're on these tiny little tapes
35:00honestly when somebody walks up to you and says I love you so much
35:04it makes my heart feel so good like you can never get tired of it
35:16but is it also that the fans show you love based on your performance rather than you
35:33it's not intimate I guess
35:41he needed something to live for and as he explained it to me he always wanted to be around kids
35:49he loved
35:49the innocence of a child he loved the creativity of a child because for him the adult world was people
35:56wanting money from him and people wanting to know him for all the wrong reasons
36:09at that time in his life I think that Michael wanted to be a father
36:21because kids as long as you give them unconditional love they really give it back they are mirror
36:26reflections of the love that we give them and he was going to give them the greatest love and they
36:30didn't and and that's what happened
36:32someone said
37:00the
37:06I think having children gave him a renewed sense of purpose, a renewed sense of energy
37:13and direction.
37:14That's cute.
37:21It's a great shot.
37:23It is.
37:23It is.
37:27It's okay.
37:34I want to be successful at being a great father.
37:40I want them to say we felt completely loved and he was like incredible.
37:48That's my biggest dream, one day for Princeton Parish, just to say to somebody, he was the
37:53best dad.
37:54One, two, three, surprise!
38:02Happy birthday to you.
38:06Happy birthday to you.
38:10I've been working with Michael for four years by the time he had his children.
38:18When Princeton Parish came along, I saw a different person.
38:29How can we do one where we are just pointing the camera at us?
38:33His life was now about the children.
38:37That was his priority.
38:40And he was getting more and more absolutely clear about his future.
38:47He was saying, Dida, I did everything I could do in my life for the music.
38:54And I think I did it well and everybody made a lot of money.
38:58But new people coming, other music is coming.
39:02And he had the feeling he will never be successful like he was.
39:08And he was fine with it.
39:10Michael said he didn't want to be a trained monkey forever.
39:14It's over.
39:15It's over.
39:16We'll give it to Ahmed.
39:17Come on, let's do it.
39:21But when you start not to do what this, he called the system, wants, then you're in trouble.
39:31Let's make it sweet.
39:52You never thought it would work before, when you live all your love and you give them your all, you
39:59can all.
40:01Sony was pushing him to continue his career.
40:05They were trying to get him to finish this album, Invincible.
40:10It wasn't my business, but you know, screw the album.
40:13We have to make your life healthy again.
40:17So there was a war for the soul of Michael Jackson.
40:25Sony Music was one of the biggest labels in the world.
40:29Hands Down.
40:31And with Michael, well, that's a lot of money changing hands.
40:37So, yes, it's cutthroat.
40:41But Sony Music was no more cutthroat than any other label.
40:48Michael's relationship was a contentious one with his record label.
40:56I was there to help facilitate a record he was putting out called Invincible, which was his official last studio
41:04record with Sony.
41:05And things were going over budget.
41:07We had rented out the entire floor at the Plaza Hotel in New York.
41:13And for anybody who doesn't know that, that is extremely expensive, crazy.
41:17And he wasn't even showing up for things.
41:23A record company is there to make money.
41:25They are an investment firm, in a way, who has invested in you to produce something.
41:32When we got the phone call that this was, you know, how dare, this was the most expensive record we've
41:38ever made.
41:38You know, and I'm like, oh, okay.
41:40I'm like, how much?
41:4130 million.
41:42I'm like, oosh.
41:43So it was kind of, it was a problem.
41:47But everybody was really trying to get him in tow so we could make a deadline for album release.
41:58There's one time where I was asked to pick up a package at a house that apparently was being sold
42:04and is empty.
42:05And in the mailbox was this package and I opened it up and it happened to be full of Demerol,
42:12which is a prescription pain medication.
42:16But a lot of it.
42:17It was, it was an unknown thing that you don't ask.
42:21I said, what's going, and I was like, oh, okay, never mind.
42:29But then he would go to the studio as long as he had his magical pills.
42:35But it was all so confusing at the same time.
42:38It wasn't, I'm not there to look at someone and unwrap the package.
42:41I'm there to get records done, right?
42:46There were so many people who were reliant on him to be the golden goose that lays eggs again.
42:55But he knew that path was corrosive.
43:00It, it frightened me.
43:02There was too much conflict going on with him.
43:04And I, I, I sensed and I saw that I was losing my influence.
43:08And I told him, I'm not going to watch you drive your life off a cliff and clap.
43:28Invincible has sold two million copies in six months and that ain't invincible.
43:34The flop of invincible along with a general downturn in sales means that Sony share price has suffered of late.
43:47The flop of invincible along with the
44:10He was not happy at all with this, so he knew he had to fight to come out of this
44:17situation.
44:23From my vantage point, he got a tremendous amount of support from Sony Music.
44:33But you have to understand, they're artists. They're all narcissists.
44:36They can't help themselves, okay? If their record's not selling, it's someone's fault.
44:43You know, if their tour's not doing well, it's someone's fault.
44:48Someone is always to blame.
44:56Michael Jackson is the architect of his own destiny.
45:00Like every single human being, whether you're special or not,
45:04you are the creator of the reality you live in.
45:10I remember we were required to go to New York City,
45:13and then he's whisked off to Al Sharpton's church.
45:18I personally think he was jacked up on something.
45:25Throughout the years, black artists have been taken advantage of.
45:31Completely.
45:32And it's Sony Tommy Mottola.
45:36Tommy Mottola is the president of the record division.
45:39He is a mean, he's a racist, and he's very, very, very devilish.
45:50You know, this just, it just exploded right there.
45:53Sony's statement reads,
45:55we were deeply offended by the outrageous comments Mr. Jackson made.
45:59Mr. Jackson has committed a serious abuse of power that comes with celebrity.
46:29He told me today, you need to help me.
46:32It's over.
46:34He asked me to terminate all his contracts with his lawyers, with his team, with everybody.
46:42And he did want that I take over everything.
46:51Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Michael Jackson.
46:54And rather than writing you a letter, I've found this format to be most efficient for what I wish to
47:00communicate.
47:03Peter Weisner from Germany and myself have entered into an agreement, an exclusive long-term partnership.
47:09He gave me the power of attorney.
47:11I will personally sign agreements or legally authorize my partners to sign on my behalf.
47:19But, and he told me today, the old team, they will be after you.
47:25They called once and told me, you take our golden cow and you have to stop this.
47:36And, but I was on Michael's side, of course, and I did what he warned.
47:42I remember these words from Michael to me, I put my life and my future in your hand.
48:06When it comes to distributing cookies, we get to see children's real personality.
48:14I want the dog.
48:15Here, come here.
48:16I want the dog.
48:18Prince, over here, before I grind you into hamburg.
48:21I want the dog.
48:24No!
48:24You want the cookie?
48:25Then you behave.
48:28I want the dog.
48:31Here.
48:32Okay, here.
48:33Here's the cookie.
48:35Perez, you want some of this?
48:37By that time, I wasn't involved in his life.
48:41Perez, you're going to say thank you.
48:43Turn around.
48:45Perez, you want that?
48:46I received a phone call from a producer that worked with Martin Bashir.
48:57Martin Bashir wants to interview Michael Jackson.
49:00Okay, you're getting the big one.
49:02I got off the phone and I went to Michael and said, first of all, your life, it's not ready
49:07to be open to the public.
49:10Stay a billion miles away from this guy.
49:15But Michael was an insecure person who is going to look for the validation of the public.
49:22He wanted to talk about his whole life, his career, that people really understand him.
49:33So Martin Bashir followed Michael for eight months.
49:42How do you write a song?
49:45How do you write a song?
49:46When I wrote Billie Jean, I was riding in my car down Ventura Boulevard.
49:52All I said to myself beforehand, I want to write a song with a great bass hook.
49:57You know.
50:01Where did that come from?
50:04From above.
50:05The dance as well?
50:06Yeah, same thing.
50:07How do you do it?
50:09Can you show me how you do it?
50:10Oh, boy.
50:11Come on, just get up and show me.
50:13I'm shy.
50:13Oh, come on, just show me.
50:14Come on.
50:14Just show me.
50:15Just show me.
50:16Show me what you do.
50:17Teach me.
50:18Okay.
50:21Oh, boy.
50:21You're putting me on the spot now.
50:23Come on.
50:24Now people are discovering something about me.
50:26I'm really shy.
50:27I'm embarrassed.
50:27Okay, you're shy.
50:28Just get up and show me.
50:29Oh, okay.
50:35Michael opened the door for everything.
50:47Michael had just had another child.
50:54We was in the room together and Michael heard the screaming from the fans.
51:02It was a beautiful feeling.
51:09And Michael was so excited and I was behind him.
51:11He took blanket.
51:14But they had him really fast under his arm.
51:36In the next morning, I came out of my room.
51:39And I saw all over the newspaper.
51:43It was not a nice, not a nice picture.
51:47But, of course, Martin Bashir.
51:49He was there.
51:51I love you.
51:52Here he is.
51:53But I love you.
51:54Here's the bottle.
51:56Wait, wait.
51:56Ah!
51:57Here's the bottle.
51:58It's okay.
51:59Just get this off.
52:00Oh, please don't try.
52:01Break it.
52:01Break it away.
52:02Okay, okay.
52:03Here we go.
52:04Abu!
52:04Abu!
52:05Abu!
52:05Abu!
52:05Abu!
52:07Abu!
52:09Blanket!
52:09Blanket!
52:11Blanket!
52:12I love you!
52:13Blanket!
52:13Yes!
52:14Yes!
52:16Have you been hearing about what people have been saying?
52:19That's totally ignorant.
52:20I would never do that to my children or any child.
52:23Try to kill them?
52:24Come on.
52:24Stupid.
52:25And why would I put a scarf over the baby's face if I was trying to throw them off the
52:29balcony?
52:30We were waiting to thousands of fans down below.
52:32And they were chanting they wanted to see my child.
52:34Wow.
52:34So I was kind enough to let them see.
52:37I was doing something out of innocence.
52:45When living with Michael Jackson as this evening, these streets are going to be deserted.
52:51Fans and critics alike are saying they're going to be staying in to watch the program.
52:55With his reputation in America very much at stake.
52:58For Michael Jackson, it must be a nervous wait.
53:03I didn't want to watch the documentary until I knew what happened.
53:09But Michael, of course, he wanted to see it.
53:12We watched it on TV together.
53:20Eight months ago, I put a proposal to Michael Jackson.
53:24Show me the real man, but show me everything.
53:28Make nothing off limits.
53:30Make nothing off limits.
53:30He thought about it.
53:31And then he said, yes, come to Neverland.
53:36We began a journey together across continents, through his past and rapidly into the disturbing
53:43reality of his life today.
53:46In the documentary was this young boy, Kevin Avizo, and he was taking care of him.
53:57When people hear that children from other families have come and they've stayed in your house,
54:04they've stayed in your bedroom.
54:07Well, very few.
54:08But, you know, some have.
54:10And they say, is that really appropriate for a man, a grown man, to be doing that?
54:17How do you respond to that?
54:18I feel sorry for them because that's judging someone who wants to really help people.
54:23Why can't you share your bed?
54:25The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.
54:30When I saw this, I got a very bad feeling.
54:35When you're talking about children, if I said, well, I've invited some of my daughter's friends
54:42around or my son's friends around and they're going to sleep in the bed with me tonight.
54:45That's fine.
54:46What do you think their parents would say?
54:47If they're wacky, they would say, you can't.
54:50I suppose the problem for many people is what happened in 1993.
54:54Or what didn't happen.
54:56What didn't happen.
55:01One bombshell after another about his bizarre behavior in a new British documentary.
55:07Jackson admits he still has sleepovers with young boys.
55:12I felt shock, absolute shock.
55:20Have you lost all touch with reality?
55:23That you don't even know how people are going to react to that?
55:30He said he slept in a bed with children that are not his own.
55:34I mean, this isn't made up.
55:35This isn't fabricated.
55:37What kind of loony would A, do it and B, go on national TV and admit it?
55:43Michael crossed lines that clearly are uncrossable.
55:47Sharing a bed with a child that's not yours, even if it's not sexual, it's still insanity.
55:52We got the reaction from all over, of course.
55:56It was terrible.
55:57You can't sleep with strangers' kids.
56:00And as much as I love Michael Jackson, I'm having a hard time defending him right now.
56:03I believe the child welfare services should interview every child that has been at Neverland with Mr. Jackson in his
56:11bedroom or anywhere else in the home without the presence of their parents.
56:14Find out what's going on.
56:16He couldn't talk.
56:18And he was sitting on his bed, crying.
56:21What's ahead for Michael Jackson?
56:23What do you think's ahead after this?
56:24Oh, a real bumpy road.
56:26I don't think he'll recover from this one.
56:29That documentary led directly or indirectly to Michael Jackson's death.
56:34There's absolutely no question about it.
56:36That was the beginning of the end.
56:50Michael Jackson wasn't the ordinary pedophile.
56:55He had the means to be able to do things that no one else I had ever prosecuted could do.
57:01An estate that was 2,800 acres and a huge house with multiple locks.
57:07A staff that just ignored what was going on.
57:10That was unique to Michael Jackson.
57:13Gavin, can you tell us what your conversations were, what you guys talked about?
57:18He said that he would show me masturbate.
57:22Keep talking.
57:22What?
57:23I said no.
57:25He started masturbating me.
57:28Okay.
57:31We had lost the opportunity 10 years earlier.
57:35And we were determined that that not happened again.
57:43Everyone.
57:43Yeah.
58:06I had we started that into a real work.
58:07I hope guys.
58:07Oh, course.
58:07Oh, why?
58:08You