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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.
02:09Music
02:10Music
02:10Music
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.
03:12We're prouder than ever to have you part of the Sony Music family.
03:15The 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.
03:28He 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.
03:43They'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, and for 31 years, I was employed by the Los Angeles Police Department.
04:17In 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, 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.
05:26We 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 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, because you've got to keep the business
07:15going, the tour going, the album sales, everything, and the impact of that.
07:18So 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
07:47allegations 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.
08:01Television 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.
08:41Has 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.
09:50Eventually he had not done it.
09:55And I was like to say, hey, well, when he was dead.
09:59And I was like, oh, you know, I don't know.
10:05I wasn'tëťĽęł and I didn't know it.
10:05But I was like, oh shit, man.
10:16I was like, oh, you know, I don't know.
10:17You're a little bit.
10:18You're a little bit.
10:18Eventually, he came back to America.
10:25We had the information from the victim about Michael's body
10:31and specifically the markings on his body.
10:35So the only way that a child would see that is if Michael was nude,
10:42then our unit prepared a search warrant to search or to view Michael's body.
10:48And this included the genitals.
10:50We explained to him, we 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 that was provided by Jordan Chandler,
11:12it was confirmed.
11:16Help you.
11:18Yeah, 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 because I don't know.
11:32Well, 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 that the catastrophic publicity
11:46will result in the destruction of a billion-dollar empire
11:50and 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 in the company.
12:30And if he's not succeeding,
12:34guess 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,
12:57you can't take them back again.
13:01And so we needed to get him in front of the public
13:03to 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
13:17and lashed out at police and the media.
13:20There have been many disgusting statements
13:23made recently concerning allegations of improper conduct
13:27on 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
13:40before 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
14:32because of who he is and, you know,
14:34the amount of money he has,
14:36and these people wanted $20 million.
14:38As 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.
15:12But the father did, in fact, ask for money
15:17to keep the situation quiet.
15:19So it did hurt the case a little bit.
15:24I 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,
16:14you 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 after a jury acquitted
16:32four 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.
16:54They're treating black people like we're dogs, you know,
16:56like we can't get nowhere.
16:58We have no rights that the white man respects.
17:01Race is tearing America apart.
17:05Now more than ever, minority Americans believe
17:08there are two kinds of justice,
17:10the white kind and the kind they get.
17:17Someone was friends with this African-American attorney
17:21named Johnny Cochran.
17:23And so he suggested that Johnny would be the best person
17:26for Michael's case,
17:29not 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
17:37for Michael Jackson to speak out now?
17:39Well, I think, Katie,
17:40that after months of being barraged
17:42with negative attacks,
17:45it was time.
17:46Everyone who was on Michael's team
17:48knew that having a black face
17:51as the front man for the defense
17:53would bring the black community
17:57to Michael's defense as well.
18:01The king of pop, rock and soul,
18:04Mr. Michael Jackson.
18:08Michael's first public appearance
18:10after his statement about the allegations
18:12was at the NAACP Image Awards,
18:16and that's the National Association
18:18for the Advancement of Colored People.
18:24I was in the audience.
18:26When Michael walked out on that stage,
18:29the 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
18:44at the forefront of the struggle
18:46for equal justice under the law
18:48for all people in our land.
18:50And his speech was based on
18:53being a proud black man
18:55and how, you know,
18:56we have to stick together
18:57against racial inequality
19:00and injustice.
19:03Everyone is presumed to be innocent
19:05and totally innocent
19:06until they are charged with a crime
19:08and then convicted
19:09by a jury of their peers.
19:22It was such a powerful speech.
19:31With all of the stuff
19:33that was happening
19:33to the black community,
19:38it felt like Michael's innocence
19:40was important
19:42and it was what we needed.
19:51Everybody wanted him
19:52to be back on top.
20:05The family of a teenage boy
20:07is dropping its charge
20:08that Michael Jackson
20:09molested the boy.
20:11Larry Carroll tells us
20:12the civil suit is now over.
20:19We wish to jointly announce
20:22a mutual resolution
20:23of this lawsuit.
20:25This boy wanted to get on
20:27with his life.
20:29When that case was settled,
20:33and I believe that the payout
20:35for that settlement was
20:37$20 million
20:39or maybe a little more
20:40over $20 million,
20:40the family accepted
20:43the settlement.
20:44The resolution of this case
20:46is in no way
20:48an admission of guilt
20:50by Michael Jackson.
20:51Being a megastar
20:52like he was,
20:54he had the advantage
20:57with money,
20:58with attorneys,
20:59with really coming out
21:01and doing pretty much
21:02whatever he wanted
21:02in order to defend himself.
21:06So that was pretty much
21:07the end of our case.
21:10I felt bad
21:11because
21:13Rosie and I,
21:14we were certain
21:14that we had a good case.
21:17But
21:18when the victim
21:19doesn't want to testify,
21:21there is a
21:22say that says,
21:24no victim,
21:24no crime.
21:27nothing that we can do.
21:36Read all about it!
21:38Hollywood sex scandals!
21:41Heidi's little black book,
21:42The Hollywood Hooker
21:44and Heidi Gate.
21:46Lonnie Anderson says
21:48Bert's a dud in bed.
21:50Uh-oh.
21:52In this billion-dollar business,
21:54there's only one story
21:55that's guaranteed.
21:57A big name in trouble.
21:58That's the best news of all.
22:00But of course,
22:01the one that's grabbing
22:03the headlines right now
22:04are the allegations
22:05about
22:06Michael Jackson,
22:08the biggest superstar
22:09in the world.
22:10Michael Jackson
22:11is our window
22:12into the new news business.
22:13And the magazine shows,
22:15talk shows,
22:16news chats
22:17that feed off
22:17tabloid truth.
22:19Michael Jackson
22:21violator
22:21or victim.
22:23What do you think
22:24about Michael?
22:25Well,
22:26I think it's true.
22:28He settled for all that money?
22:29I don't know.
22:29He settled for all
22:30that amount of money.
22:31I think something's up
22:32when he settles
22:32for over $10 million
22:33to shut someone up.
22:36Anyway,
22:36it's a shame
22:37because I think
22:37Michael's been dragged
22:37through the model lives.
22:38You know,
22:39he's a,
22:39I don't know
22:40if he's a victim
22:40or if he did it or not,
22:42but like,
22:43he's lost that
22:44wholesome image forever,
22:45you know?
22:49The allegations
22:50really changed
22:51how the public,
22:52I think,
22:53thought of him.
22:55And Michael
22:56had to kind of
22:57rehabilitate
22:58that image.
23:04People had been
23:05obsessed with
23:06Michael's sexuality
23:07his whole life.
23:10And his managers
23:11thought it would be cool
23:13if the press
23:14found out
23:15that Michael
23:16had a girlfriend.
23:28Michael and Lisa
23:29started dating
23:30soon after
23:31the allegations
23:32had been settled.
23:42He knew that
23:43marrying Elvis Presley's
23:44daughter
23:45would be
23:46headlines everywhere.
23:47Everyone would be
23:48talking about that
23:49and they'd no longer
23:51talk about
23:51this horrible
23:52time in his life.
23:54With this ring,
23:55I do it.
23:56This ring,
23:56right?
23:57You've heard
23:58the talk for weeks.
23:59It's surprising
23:59and it's apparently true.
24:01The daughter of Elvis
24:02Presley confirms
24:03today she is now
24:04married to Michael
24:05Jackson.
24:06Let's go to
24:06Vince Dimitri
24:07in New York.
24:08Vince.
24:09John,
24:09hopefully you can
24:10see behind me
24:11the throngs of
24:12stargazers right
24:13behind me.
24:13We are just outside
24:14of the world-famous
24:16Trump Tower
24:16where Donald Trump
24:18tells us,
24:18yes, indeed,
24:19that Lisa Marie
24:20Presley and her
24:21new beau,
24:21Michael Jackson,
24:22are holed up here
24:23on the top floor.
24:24Well, I'm very,
24:25very happy for them.
24:26I think it's great.
24:27They're very happy
24:30and I think
24:31everybody's happy.
24:31They're great people.
24:36I first met
24:38Michael in 1988.
24:41Michael was on tour
24:43in Germany at that time
24:44and so they called me
24:46and said that Michael
24:46is a big fan of mine
24:48and he would love
24:48to meet me.
24:50And we hit it up
24:53and it got to know
24:54the whole family.
24:57I also knew
24:58Lisa Marie Presley
25:00because I spent
25:01lots of time
25:02in Los Angeles.
25:04So I knew them
25:05separately
25:06and then later
25:07Lisa came to me
25:08one day and said,
25:09look,
25:10Michael is hitting on me
25:12and he actually
25:13wants to marry me.
25:14What do you think?
25:14Should I do that?
25:15So I said,
25:16go for it.
25:18For him,
25:18it was also
25:19he liked Lisa
25:20because she was
25:21the daughter
25:21of the king.
25:23He was also a king,
25:25king of pop.
25:34This is a big deal.
25:36We had never seen him
25:37get romantic
25:38with a woman
25:39like this,
25:40ever.
25:42I'm very happy
25:43to be here
25:44and just think,
25:46nobody thought
25:47this would last.
25:57It did work
25:58in the way
25:59that Michael
25:59wanted it to work
26:00in that
26:01everyone was
26:02talking about it.
26:04But at the same time,
26:06the public
26:07wasn't really
26:08buying it.
26:09It's all cover up.
26:10It's all cover up
26:10from the little child
26:11thing.
26:12That's what I think
26:12it is.
26:13It's about it.
26:14You don't think
26:14it's true love?
26:15No.
26:16I think it's a sham.
26:18A heterosexual marriage
26:19would certainly
26:20take some of the heat
26:20off being accused
26:22of being a
26:23homosexual pedophile.
26:28But Michael and Lisa
26:29were only together
26:30for around 18 months.
26:35It's Splitsville
26:36for Graceland
26:37and Neverland.
26:38Many of you
26:39may find this
26:39hard to believe,
26:40but Lisa Marie Presley
26:41and Michael Jackson
26:42are getting a divorce.
26:44So, Tony,
26:45it looks like
26:45the gloved one
26:46is no longer
26:47the loved one.
26:49Oh,
26:49such 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
26:58hard to watch.
27:00He was trying
27:01to maintain
27:02his position
27:03as, like,
27:03the biggest
27:04superstar
27:05in the world
27:06and it wasn't
27:07quite working.
27:10This is a man
27:11who changed
27:12the music industry.
27:15He is a musical genius.
27:18And people don't think
27:20of him in that
27:20sense anymore.
27:21They think of him
27:22as a freak.
27:24Is there any way
27:25that he can lift himself
27:26out of this trough
27:27that he has largely
27:27dug for himself?
27:28one of the worst
27:58and he can be
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.
36:57And that's what happened.
37:06I think having children gave them 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.
37:55One, two, three, surprise!
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.
38:29Can 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 are 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.
39:52You never thought it would work before, when you live all your love and you give him 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, hands 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.
41:04And things were going over budget.
41:08We 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.
41:18And he wasn't even showing up for things.
41:23A record company is there to make money.
41:26They 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 you, this was the most expensive record
41:37we've ever 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.
42:08And I opened it up and it happened to be full of Demerol, which 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 on?
42:24And I was like, oh, okay.
42:26Never 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.
42:43Right.
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.
43:01It frightened me.
43:02There was too much conflict going on with him.
43:04And 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.
43:32And that ain't invincible.
43:34The flop of invincible, along with a general downturn in sales, means that Sony's share price had suffered of late.
43:44Michael told me, you know what, I can't do this anymore.
43:52Michael was done with the music and with touring and all of this.
44:08But Sony was not happy at all with this.
44:13So he knew he has to fight to come out of this situation.
44:23From my vantage point, he got a tremendous amount of support from Sony Music.
44:33But you have to understand, they're artists.
44:35They're all narcissists.
44:37They can't help themselves.
44:39OK, 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, you are the creator of the reality you live in.
45:10I remember we were required to go to New York City and then he's whisked off to Al Sharpton's church.
45:19I 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.
45:41He's a racist.
45:43And he's very, very, very devilish.
45:46The devilish.
45:50You know, this just, it just exploded right there.
45:54Sony's statement reads, we 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.
46:55And 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.
48:46I 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.
49:03I 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.
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 out and show me.
50:13Oh, come on, just show me.
50:14Come on.
50:15Just show me.
50:16Show me what you do.
50:17Teach me.
50:18Okay.
50:21Oh, boy, you're putting me on the spot now.
50:23Come on.
50:24Now people are discovering something about me.
50:26I'm really shy.
50:26I'm embarrassed.
50:27Okay, you're shy.
50:28Just get up and show me.
50:31Okay.
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.
51:12He took blanket, but they had him really fast under his arm.
51:36In the next morning, I came out of my room and I saw all over the newspaper.
51:43That was not a nice, not a nice picture.
51:47But, of course, Martin Bashir.
51:49He was there.
51:51I love you.
51:53Here he is.
51:54Here's the bottle.
51:56Wait, wait.
51:57Here's the bottle.
51:58It's okay.
51:59Just get this off.
52:00Oh, please don't try.
52:01Blanket.
52:01Blanket.
52:02Okay, okay.
52:03Here we go.
52:04Abu.
52:04Abu.
52:07Yes.
52:08Abu.
52:09Blanket.
52:10Blanket.
52:12I love you.
52:13Blanket.
52:13Yes.
52:14Yes.
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.
52:25Stupid.
52:26And 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 and they were chanting they wanted to see my child.
52:34So I was kind enough to let them see.
52:37So I was kind enough to let them see.
52:38I was doing something out of innocence.
52:46When living with Michael Jackson airs 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, for Michael Jackson it must be a nervous wait.
53:03I didn't want that we watched the documentary until I knew what happened.
53:09But Michael, of course, he wanted to see it.
53:13We watched it on TV together.
53:20Eight months ago, I put a proposal to Michael Jackson.
53:25Show me the real man, but show me everything.
53:28Make nothing off limits.
53:30He thought about it and then he said, yes, come to Neverland.
53:36We began a journey together across continents, through his past and rapidly into the disturbing reality of his life today.
53:46In the documentary was this young boy, Gavin 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, they've stayed in your
54:05bedroom.
54:07Well, very few.
54:08But, you know, some have, and they say, is that really appropriate for a man, a grown man, to be
54:16doing 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?
54:26The 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 around or my son's
54:43friends 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 or 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 that 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.
55:35I mean, this isn't made up.
55:35This isn't fabricated.
55:36What kind of loony would A, do it, and B, go on national TV and admit it?
55:42Michael, cross lines that clearly are uncrossable.
55:46Sharing 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.
55:56I was terrible.
55:57You can't sleep with strangers' kids.
56:00Now, as much as I love Michael Jackson, I'm having a hard time defending him right now.
56:03I believe that 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.
56:51Michael 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.
57:01In a state 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, what you guys talked about?
57:18He said that he was going to be masturbated.
57:22Keep going, Kim.
57:22I said no.
57:25He started masturbating me.
57:27Okay.
57:31We had lost the opportunity 10 years earlier.
57:36And we were determined that that not happened again.
57:38Get out of that place.
57:41I'm not sure.
57:49Go get out of this room.
57:50Go get out of this room.
57:54Go get out.
57:56Go get out of that room.
58:01Go get out of that room.
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