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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.
01:05And 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 mega stardom is not healthy.
01:40People 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.
02:29Here's to the things that we are made on life and the humans are very fruitful.
02:30partner in Michael Jackson. Together, they could make a billion dollars. As NBC's Mike Jensen
02:37reports tonight, teach your kids to sing. It's the kind of contract that takes your breath away.
02:52A projected $1 billion for six Michael Jackson albums, plus feature films, videos, and video
02:59games. Michael, in the 1980s, you had the largest selling album in history with Thriller. Now,
03:07with Dangerous, you've given us the fastest selling album of your career. We're prouder
03:12than ever to have you part of the Sony Music family. The thrilling fact is that the best
03:18is definitely yet to come.
03:23When I joined Sony, Michael Jackson was the biggest star in the world. He was the guy.
03:30I don't know any other way to describe it. I mean, we all lived through it.
03:34The Michael Jackson World Tour is on the road again.
03:40It was incredibly exciting. They're selling out stadiums, making record money. It was the
03:47franchise. I mean, let's be honest.
03:51We are all in the business of succeeding. And when you're working in a company, like Sony
03:57Music, you want a Michael Jackson to succeed.
04:08My name is Rosabelle Smith. And 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
04:29involving 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, because I grew up watching Michael Jackson,
04:46you know, the Jackson 5 cartoons when I was a kid, and 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.
05:05Our role was to find out if Mr. Jackson had committed the crime of sexual molestation against children.
05:15And on the same token, we had to find out if the children, they were telling the truth.
05:27We 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.
05:59He alleged that Michael Jackson fondled him and masturbated him.
06:05He 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.
06:40And 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.
07:05The feeling was trying to contain it.
07:09Obviously, we were thinking of, you know, the immediate impact on the tour,
07:13because you've got to keep the business going, the tour going, the album sales, everything, and the impact of that.
07:19So 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
07:45over an investigation of child abuse allegations involving superstar Michael Jackson.
07:49There's still no comment from Michael Jackson this morning, and Los Angeles police aren't saying much,
07:55but they have confirmed reports of a criminal investigation of the pop superstar.
08:00All hell broke loose.
08:01Television station KNBC in Los Angeles first broke the story last night,
08:06saying that a mother had alleged Jackson abused her 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.
08:41Has Michael Jackson ever molested a child, ever done anything improper with a child?
08:46No, never.
08:47No, 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.
08:58That's right, and I'm tired of it.
09:11I'm tired of it.
09:29Everything was, um, emotional.
09:34Talking to Michael was different because he was different.
09:38Suddenly 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 from these terrible things being said.
09:55So,
09:57Okay.
10:18Eventually, he came back to America.
10:25We had the information from the victim about Michael's body and specifically the markings
10:33on his body.
10:35So the only way that a child would see that is if Michael was nude, then our unit prepared
10:43a search warrant to search or to view Michael's body.
10:48And this included the genitals.
10:50We're straight to him.
10:51We have a search warrant signed by the judge to take pictures of your private parts.
10:59He said, you assholes.
11:02The outcome was that evidence that was provided by Jordan Chander, it was confirmed.
11:16Yeah, we'd like to talk to Michael Jackson.
11:21Does he come back?
11:22I have no comment, sir.
11:24No comment, huh?
11:25I don't necessarily think he's guilty, but I don't necessarily think he's innocent either
11:29because I don't know.
11:32Well, I don't know if he's guilty or not, but I think that he needs to come back and face
11:35the charges.
11:36He's looking pretty guilty right now.
11:42There is real fear tonight that the catastrophic publicity will result in the destruction of
11:48a billion-dollar empire and the ruin of a man.
11:56Sony stock has fallen because investors are very much concerned that the huge investment that
12:02they have in Michael Jackson is, in fact, not going to pay off.
12:07When the allegations surfaced, I read them, watched them on TV like everyone else did, and I felt
12:19that they were extremely unfair.
12:22Michael Jackson was unequivocally the biggest artist in the company.
12:30And if he's not succeeding, guess what?
12:36Jobs 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, you can't take them back again.
13:01And so we needed to get him in front of the public to unequivocally deny these allegations.
13:09Michael Jackson came out of seclusion today without leaving home.
13:13The pop star angrily rejected accusations he molested a young boy and lashed out at police
13:18and the media.
13:19There have been many disgusting statements made recently concerning allegations of improper
13:26conduct on my part.
13:28These statements about me are totally false.
13:31At every opportunity, the media has dissected and manipulated these allegations to reach their
13:36own conclusions.
13:38I ask all of you to wait and hear the truth before you label or condemn me.
13:43Don't treat me like a criminal because I am innocent.
13:48Jackson's defiant declaration of innocence comes as the latest counterpoint in a case that's
13:53saturated with rumor, innuendo, and almost daily revelations about the singer.
13:59Separating fact from fiction can be difficult.
14:16For years, I have been working for Michael, who unfortunately has been the victim of this and other types of
14:22extortion attempts.
14:30Many people try to extort Michael because of who he is and, you know, the amount of money he has,
14:36and these people wanted $20 million.
14:37As far as the victim is concerned, I 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, said today that the boy's father had negotiated with Jackson for a $20
14:56million movie deal.
14:57The father is a prominent Beverly Hills dentist and 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 to 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 someone like Michael Jackson with such vigor, and it's obvious what
15:30they want.
15:31And it seems obvious to me that he is innocent.
15:33Now that there's a lot of people in this business that try and take advantage of people, and, you know,
15:38I'm sure that it will all work out, and I'm sure that he's innocent, you know, but only God knows
15:44the truth, you know.
15:48More and more, people started to question the allegations.
15:53So the management team started capitalizing on that momentum.
15:59The main strategy was to endear Michael to the black community and to get the black community back on Michael's
16:10side, because once the black community is behind you, you got it, because, you know, we're a big group.
16:17And race relations at that time, it was a hotbed.
16:28Parts of Los Angeles erupted in unrest after a jury acquitted four white Los Angeles police officers over the videotape
16:36beating of Rodney King, a black motorist.
16:50What happened with Rodney King, it doesn't make no sense to me.
16:54They're treating black people like we're dogs, you know, like we can't get nowhere.
16:58We have no rights that the white man respects.
17:01Race is tearing America apart.
17:06Now more than ever, minority Americans believe there are two kinds of justice, the white kind and the kind they
17:13get.
17:17Someone was friends with this African-American attorney named Johnny Cochran.
17:23And so he suggested that Johnny would be the best person for for Michael's case, not only because he's black,
17:31but also because he was brilliant.
17:34Mr. Cochran, let me start with you.
17:36Why do you think it was important for Michael Jackson to speak out now?
17:38Well, I think, Katie, that after months of being barraged with negative attacks, it was time.
17:46Everyone who was on Michael's team knew that having a black face as the front man for the defense would
17:54bring the black community to 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 was at the NAACP Image Awards.
18:16And that's the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
18:24I was in the audience.
18:26When Michael walked out on that stage, the 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 for equal justice under the law for all
18:49people in our land.
18:50And his speech was based on being a proud black man and how, you know, we have to stick together
18:57against racial inequality and injustice.
19:03Everyone is presumed to be innocent and totally innocent until they are charged with a crime and then convicted by
19:09a jury of their peers.
19:21It was such a powerful speech.
19:24It was such a powerful speech.
19:38It felt like Michael's innocence was important and 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, and I believe that the payout for that settlement was $20 million or maybe a
20:39little more over $20 million, the 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, he had the advantage with money, with attorneys, with really coming out and doing
21:01pretty much whatever he wanted in 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.
21:16But when the victim doesn't want to testify, there is a say that says, no victim, no crime.
21:27So, nothing that we can do.
21:36Read all about it!
21:38Hollywood sex scandals!
21:40Heidi's little black book, The Hollywood Hooker and Heidi Gate.
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.
21:58That's the best news of all.
22:00But of course, the one that's grabbing the headlines right now are the allegations about Michael Jackson, the biggest superstar
22:09in 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?
22:25Well, I think it's true.
22:28He settled for all that money?
22:29I don't know.
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.
22:36It's a shame because I think Michael's been dragged through the mallet a lot.
22:38You know, he's a, I 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.
23:28Michael and Lisa started dating soon after the allegations had been settled.
23:41He knew that marrying Elvis Presley's daughter would be headlines everywhere.
23:47Everyone would be talking about that.
23:49And they'd no longer talk about this horrible time in his life.
23:57You've heard the talk for weeks.
23:59It's surprising and it's apparently true.
24:01The daughter of Elvis Presley confirms today she is now married to Michael Jackson.
24:06Let'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, yes, indeed,
24:19that 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.
24:26I think it's great.
24:28They're very happy.
24:29And I think everybody's happy.
24:32They'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
24:49meet
24:49me.
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.
25:06And then later, Lisa came to me one day and said, look, Michael is hitting on me and he
25:13actually wants to marry me.
25:14What do you think?
25:14Should I do that?
25:15So I said, go for it.
25:18For 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.
25:34This is a big deal.
25:36We had never seen him get romantic with a woman like this ever.
25:42I'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
26:02it.
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.
26:13And that'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
26:22a homosexual pedophile.
26:28But Michael and Lisa were only together for around 18 months.
26:35It's Splitsville for Graceland and Neverland.
26:38Many of you may find this hard to believe, but Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson are
26:43getting 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, and it
27:07wasn'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?
27:32Let's get in.
27:34Let's leave.
27:38Yes.
27:48Go on.
27:49Run!
27:56Get in.
27:57I'm getting in.
27:58I'm getting in.
27:58When he was working on the history album, Michael called me and said,
28:03look, 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, scrutinize somebody,
28:29please have mercy, because 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, they're very defensive.
28:55Even the scream video is very dark for Michael.
29:02Then for the history album promo, Michael chose a dictator-esque image.
29:09He'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,
29:19still, you know, the biggest pop superstar in the history of music.
29:25Tower Bridge was raised this afternoon to allow a 30-foot statue of rock star Michael Jackson
29:30to pass along the Thames on a barge.
29:35I think it's brilliant.
29:36It's just the best thing that's happened on the River Thames.
29:39He's a megastar, yeah? They call him the king of pop,
29:41so if he can afford to do this, why 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,
29:57versus the US, where it was kind of slipping a little bit
30:00because of the allegations and all the media circuits around that.
30:24I remember this one time I was with Michael in Budapest.
30:30And 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 a sklyab one.
30:46And people screeched. It was like an explosion down there.
30:54He was laughing. He said, oh my God, look. Did you hear? Do 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,
31:22is that you start to believe it in a way that you start to worship yourself.
31:26And I think that's very dangerous.
31:35But he was enjoying that. He liked to have that effect on people.
31:45Germany loves you, Michael.
31:46I love Germany.
31:47Oh, Michael, I 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.
32:16Some people will say it's idol worship.
32:20But I don't think it's anything bad.
32:26It's just so beautiful.
32:30They are my life.
32:53Stay in that corner.
32:55Stay in that corner.
32:56Stay in that corner.
32:59Michael.
33:00Michael.
33:01Welcome.
33:02Okay.
33:03Step back.
33:04Please.
33:05Michael.
33:06I won't call you.
33:06Where's your camera?
33:07Okay.
33:08Yes, yes.
33:09Please.
33:10Yes, yes, yes.
33:10Please.
33:11Michael, please.
33:13Please.
33:13He called me.
33:14Come on.
33:15Yes, yeah, come on.
33:16Okay, please.
33:20Coco.
33:20You see a game?
33:21Okay.
33:22When I met Michael, I saw that he was addicted to fame.
33:32I was a well-known rabbi, and Michael and I had become friends.
33:38Michael really needed to be loved, and he chose to be loved really in an unhealthy way,
33:45which was through super stardom and the devotion of fans.
33:57I said to him, you've made the mistake of substituting love for this cheap forgery called attention.
34:07And attention is never a good substitute for love.
34:09It'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 so our conversations became kind of therapy.
34:46He wanted every word recorded for posterity.
34:51We recorded it on these two flimsy dicta machines, you know, on these tiny little tapes.
35:00Honestly, when somebody walks up to you and says, I love you so much, it makes my heart feel so
35:06good.
35:07Like, 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?
35:27Well, I feel that love, but it's from a distance.
35:33It's not intimate, I guess.
35:41He needed something to live for.
35:44And as he explained it to me, he always wanted to be around kids.
35:49He loved the innocence of a child.
35:51He loved the creativity of a child.
35:54Because for him, the adult world was people wanting money from him and people wanting to know him for all
36:00the 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.
36:26They are mirror reflections of the love that we give them.
36:28And he was going to give them the greatest love, and they didn't.
36:30And that's what happened.
36:42And that's what happened.
36:52And that's what happened.
37:06I think having children gave him a renewed sense of purpose, a renewed sense of energy and direction.
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 best dad.
38:09I'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.
38:29Can we do one where we are just pointing the camera at us?
38:33His life was now about the children.
38:36That was his priority.
38:41And he was getting more and more absolutely clear about his future.
38:47He was saying, Dieter, 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, but new people coming.
39:01Other music is coming.
39:03And 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.
39:15It's over.
39:16Give it to Armin, come 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.
39:32We are.
39:32We are.
39:33We are.
39:34We're.
39:39We are.
39:49Going forward.
39:52It's no way.
39:53You never thought it would work before.
39:55when you live for your love
39:57and you give him your
39:59you can know
40:01Sony was pushing him
40:02to continue his career
40:05they were trying to get him
40:07to finish this album
40:09Invincible
40:09it wasn't my business
40:11but you know
40:11screw the album
40:13we have to
40:14make your life healthy again
40:17so there was a war
40:19for the soul of Michael Jackson
40:25Sony Music
40:26was one of the biggest labels
40:28in the world
40:29hands down
40:31and with Michael
40:33well that's a lot of money
40:34changing hands
40:36so
40:37yes
40:38it's cutthroat
40:41but Sony Music
40:42was no more cutthroat
40:43than any other label
40:48Michael's relationship
40:49was a contentious one
40:51with his record label
40:52I was there to help
40:57facilitate
40:58a record
40:59he was putting out
41:00called Invincible
41:01which was his
41:02official last studio record
41:04with Sony
41:04and
41:06things were going over budget
41:07we had rented out
41:09the entire floor
41:10at the Plaza
41:11Hotel
41:12in New York
41:13and for anybody
41:14who doesn't know that
41:15that is extremely
41:16expensive
41:17crazy
41:17and
41:18he wasn't even showing up
41:19for things
41:23a record company
41:24is there to make money
41:25they are an investment
41:27firm in a way
41:27who has invested in you
41:29to produce something
41:32when we got the phone call
41:34that this was
41:34you know
41:35how dare
41:36this was the most expensive
41:37record we've ever made
41:38you know
41:39and I'm like
41:39oh okay
41:40I'm like
41:40how much
41:4130 million
41:42so it was kind of
41:44it was a problem
41:47but everybody was
41:48really trying to get
41:49him
41:50in tow
41:51so we could make
41:53a deadline
41:53for album release
41:58there's one time
41:59where I was asked
42:00to pick up a package
42:01at a house
42:02that apparently
42:03was being sold
42:04and is empty
42:05and in the mailbox
42:06was this package
42:08and I opened it up
42:09and it happened to be
42:10full of Demerol
42:11which is
42:12a prescription
42:13pain
42:14medication
42:16but a lot of it
42:17it was
42:18it was an unknown
42:19thing that you don't ask
42:21I said
42:22what's going
42:23and I was like
42:24oh okay
42:26never mind
42:29but then he would go
42:30to the studio
42:32as long as he had
42:33his magical pills
42:35but it was also
42:36confusing at the same time
42:37it wasn't
42:38I'm not there to
42:39look at someone
42:40and unwrap the package
42:41I'm there to get
42:42records done
42:43right
42:46there were so many people
42:47who were reliant on him
42:49to be the golden goose
42:51that lays eggs again
42:55but he knew
42:56that path
42:57was corrosive
43:00it frightened me
43:02there was too much
43:03conflict going on
43:04with him
43:04and I sensed
43:06and I saw
43:07that I was losing
43:07my influence
43:08and I told him
43:09I'm not going to watch
43:10you drive
43:10your life
43:12off a cliff
43:12and clap
43:28invincible has sold
43:29two million copies
43:30in six months
43:31and that ain't invincible
43:33the flop of invincible
43:35along with a general
43:36downturn in sales
43:37means that Sony's share price
43:39has suffered of late
43:44Michael told me
43:45you know what
43:46I can't do this anymore
43:52Michael was done
43:54with the music
43:55and with touring
43:57and all of this
44:08but Sony was not
44:11happy at all
44:12with this
44:13so he knew
44:15he has to fight
44:16to come out
44:17of this situation
44:23from my vantage point
44:26he got a tremendous
44:29amount of support
44:30from Sony Music
44:33but you have to understand
44:34they're artists
44:35they're all narcissists
44:36they can't help themselves
44:38okay
44:39if their record's not selling
44:41it's someone's fault
44:43you know
44:44if their tour's not doing well
44:45it's someone's fault
44:48someone is always to blame
44:56Michael Jackson
44:57is the architect
44:58of his own destiny
44:59like every single human being
45:02whether you're special or not
45:04you are the creator
45:05of the reality you live in
45:10I remember
45:11we were required
45:12to go to New York City
45:13and then he's whisked off
45:15to Al Sharpton's church
45:18I personally think
45:20he was jacked up
45:20on something
45:24throughout the years
45:26black artists
45:29have been taken advantage of
45:30completely
45:31and
45:33it's Sony
45:34Tommy Mottola
45:35Tommy Mottola
45:36is the president
45:37of the record division
45:39he is a mean
45:40he's a racist
45:42and he's very
45:44very
45:45very
45:46devilish
45:50you know
45:51this just
45:51it just exploded
45:52right there
45:53Sony's statement
45:54reads
45:55we were deeply offended
45:56by the outrageous comments
45:57Mr. Jackson made
45:58Mr. Jackson
45:59has committed
46:00a serious abuse of power
46:02that comes with celebrity
46:28he told me
46:30you need to help me
46:31it's over
46:34he asked me to terminate
46:36all his contracts
46:37with his lawyers
46:39with his team
46:40with everybody
46:42and
46:43he did want that
46:45I take over
46:46everything
46:51ladies and gentlemen
46:52my name is Michael Jackson
46:55and rather than writing you a letter
46:57have found this format
46:58to be most efficient
46:59for what I wish to communicate
47:03Peter Weisner from Germany
47:05and myself
47:05have entered into an agreement
47:07in exclusive long-term partnership
47:09he gave me
47:10the power of attorney
47:11I will personally sign agreements
47:14or legally authorize my partners
47:16to sign on my behalf
47:19but
47:20and he told me
47:21the old team
47:22they will be after you
47:25they called once
47:27and told me
47:28you take
47:29our golden cow
47:31and
47:32you have to stop this
47:33and
47:37but I was on Michael's side
47:38of course
47:39and I did what
47:40he warned
47:42I remember these words
47:44from Michael to me
47:45I put my life
47:47and my future
47:48in your hand
48:10when it comes to distributing cookies
48:12we get to see
48:13children's real personality
48:15here come here
48:17Prince
48:18over here
48:19before I grind you
48:21into hamburg
48:23no
48:24you want the cookie
48:25then you behave
48:31here
48:31okay here
48:33here's the cookie
48:34Paris you want some of this
48:37by that time
48:38I wasn't involved
48:39in his life
48:40Paris you didn't say
48:41thank you
48:43sit around
48:44Paris you want that
48:46I received a phone call
48:49from
48:52a producer
48:55that worked with
48:56Martin Bashir
48:56Martin Bashir wants to
48:58interview Michael Jackson
49:02I got off the phone
49:04and I went to Michael
49:05and said
49:05first of all
49:06your life
49:07it's not ready to be open
49:07to the public
49:10stay a billion miles away
49:12from this guy
49:15but
49:15Michael was
49:16an insecure person
49:17who
49:18is going to look
49:18for the validation
49:19of the public
49:23he wanted
49:24to talk about
49:25his whole life
49:26his career
49:28that
49:29people
49:29really
49:30understand him
49:33so
49:34Martin Bashir
49:35followed Michael
49:35for eight months
49:42how do you write
49:44a song
49:45how do you write
49:46a song
49:46when I wrote
49:47Billie Jean
49:47I was writing
49:49in my car
49:50down Ventura
49:51Boulevard
49:52all I said
49:53to myself
49:53beforehand
49:54I want to write
49:54a song
49:55with a great
49:55bass hook
49:57you know
50:01you know
50:01where did that
50:02come from
50:04from above
50:05the dance as well
50:06yeah same thing
50:07how do you do it
50:09can you show me
50:09how you do it
50:10oh boy
50:11come on
50:12just get out
50:12I'm shy
50:13oh come on
50:13just show me
50:14just show me
50:15just show me
50:16show me what you do
50:17teach me
50:18okay
50:19oh boy
50:21you're putting me
50:22on the spot now
50:23come on
50:23now people are
50:25discovering something
50:25about me I'm really
50:26shy I'm embarrassed
50:27okay you're shy
50:28just get up
50:29and show me
50:29um okay
50:35Michael opened
50:36the door
50:36for everything
50:47Michael had
50:48just had
50:48another child
50:54we was in the room
50:55together
50:56and
50:58Michael
50:59heard the screaming
51:01from the fans
51:02it was a beautiful feeling
51:09and Michael was so excited
51:10I was behind him
51:11he took blanket
51:14but they had him
51:15really fast
51:16just under his arm
51:36in the next morning
51:37I came out of my room
51:39and I saw all over the newspaper
51:43that was not a nice
51:45not a nice picture
51:47but of course
51:48Martin Bashir
51:49he was there
51:51I love you
51:52here he is
51:54here's the bottle
51:55wait wait
51:56ah
51:57here's the bottle
51:58it's okay
51:59just get this off
52:00oh please don't try
52:01blanket
52:01blanket
52:02blanket
52:02okay okay
52:03here we go
52:04Abu
52:04Abu
52:05Abu
52:07yes
52:08Abu
52:08blanket
52:09blanket
52:10blanket
52:11blanket
52:12blanket
52:12blanket
52:12I love you
52:13blanket
52:13yes
52:14yes
52:14yes
52:16have you been hearing
52:17about what people
52:18have been saying
52:19that's totally ignorant
52:20I would never do that
52:21to my children
52:22or any child
52:23try to kill them
52:24come on
52:24stupid
52:25and why would I put a scarf
52:26over the baby's face
52:27if I was trying to
52:28throw them off the balcony
52:29we were waving to thousands
52:31of fans down below
52:32and they were chanting
52:33they want to see my child
52:34so I was kind enough
52:35to let them see
52:37I was doing something
52:38out of innocence
52:45when living with Michael Jackson
52:47as this evening
52:48these streets are going to be deserted
52:50fans and critics alike
52:52are saying they're going to be staying in to watch the program
52:55with his reputation in America
52:57very much at stake
52:58for Michael Jackson
53:00it must be a nervous wait
53:03I didn't want that
53:04we watched the documentary
53:05until I
53:06know what happened
53:09but Michael
53:10of course
53:11he want to see it
53:12we watched it
53:14on TV
53:15together
53:20eight months ago
53:22I put a proposal
53:23to Michael Jackson
53:25show me the real man
53:26but show me everything
53:28make nothing off limits
53:29he thought about it
53:31and then he said
53:32yes
53:33come to Neverland
53:36we began a journey together
53:38across continents
53:39through his past
53:41and rapidly into the disturbing reality
53:44of his life today
53:45in the documentary
53:48was this young boy
53:51giving aviso
53:55and he was taking care of him
53:57when people hear that
53:59children from other families
54:02have come
54:03and they've stayed in your house
54:04they've stayed in your bedroom
54:07well very few
54:08but you know
54:09some have
54:10and they say
54:12is that really appropriate
54:14for a man
54:15a grown man
54:16to be doing that
54:16how do you respond to that
54:18I feel sorry for them
54:19because that's judging someone
54:21who wants to really help people
54:23well can't you share your bed
54:26the most loving thing to do
54:27is to share your bed with someone
54:30when I saw this
54:32I got a very bad feeling
54:35when you're talking about children
54:37if I
54:38said well
54:39I've invited some of my daughter's friends around
54:42or my son's friends around
54:43and 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
54:48they would say
54:49you can't
54:50I suppose the problem
54:51for many people
54:52is what happened in 1993
54:54or what didn't happen
54:56what didn't happen
55:01one bombshell after another
55:04about his bizarre behavior
55:05in a new British documentary
55:07Jackson admits
55:08he still has sleepovers with young boys
55:12I felt
55:17shock
55:18absolute shock
55:20have you lost all touch with reality
55:23that you don't even know
55:25how people are going to
55:27react to that
55:30he said
55:31he slept in a bed
55:33with children that are not his own
55:34I mean this isn't made up
55:35this isn't fabricated
55:36what kind of loony
55:37would A. do it
55:39and B. go on national TV
55:40and admit it
55:42Michael
55:43cross lines
55:44that clearly
55:45are uncrossable
55:46sharing a bed
55:47with a child
55:48that's not yours
55:48even if it's not sexual
55:49it's still
55:51insanity
55:52we got the reaction
55:54from all over
55:55of course
55:56it was children
55:57you can't sleep
55:58with strangers
55:59kids
56:00and as much as I love
56:01Michael Jackson
56:02I'm having a hard time
56:03defending him right now
56:04I believe the child welfare services
56:06should interview every child
56:07that has been at Neverland
56:09with Mr. Jackson
56:10in his bedroom
56:11or anywhere else in the home
56:12without the presence
56:13of their parents
56:14find out what's going on
56:15he couldn't talk
56:17and he was sitting
56:19on his bed
56:19crying
56:21what's ahead for Michael Jackson
56:23what do you think's ahead after this
56:24a real bumpy road
56:26I don't think he'll recover
56:27from this one
56:28that documentary
56:30led
56:31directly or indirectly
56:33to Michael Jackson's death
56:34there's absolutely
56:35no question about it
56:36that was the beginning
56:37of the end
56:51Michael Jackson
56:52wasn't the ordinary pedophile
56:55he had the means
56:56to be able to do things
56:57that no one else
56:58I had ever prosecuted
56:59could do
57:01in a state
57:03that was 2,800 acres
57:04and a huge house
57:05with multiple locks
57:06a staff
57:08that just ignored
57:09what was going on
57:10that was unique
57:10to Michael Jackson
57:13Gavin
57:13can you tell us
57:14what your conversations
57:15what you guys
57:16talked about
57:18he said that
57:19he was going to be
57:20masturbating
57:21keep going
57:22I said no
57:25he started
57:26masturbating
57:27okay
57:31we had lost
57:32the opportunity
57:3310 years earlier
57:36and we were determined
57:37that that not happen again
57:38we're going to be
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