A
body full of medication, a doctor convicted guilty, and a confused man
racially, sexually, and personally, all center around the known phenomenon of
Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson was a visionary who artistically produced
music and performance, which still affects the industry today. The biggest pop
star to ever live who was dubbed the name “King of Pop” was found dead on June
25, 2009. Panic and horror filled the
world as his fans found out their king was dead. Due to the multiple trials and
conspirators on the character of Michael Jackson, a span of conspiracy theories
have been created. Was Michael Jackson a part of child abuse? Was he
purposefully killed by his doctor, siblings, or fans? Is he still alive and
living by an alias? Let’s examine Michael Jackson, the person of interest, and
decide once and for all what happened to the King of Pop himself.
Michael
Jackson was a child-like personality who acted out of sensitivity. During the
time of his accusations, his attorney, Thomas Mesereau, said, “I am haunted by certain
late-night phone calls I received from Michael...Childlike, kindhearted and
terrified” (“True Michael Jackson” 1).
Due to his childlike self, Michael Jackson often had children running
around with him; this ended up getting him in trouble in the future. His house,
which was named Neverland, was full of attractions for kids. He had animals of
wild types, rides, and a movie theatre to name a few. His reasoning for having
a house which was so childish was because he never got to experience a true
childhood growing up. Jackson, in an interview with the famous Oprah Winfrey,
explains, “Disneyland, amusement parks, arcade games — I adore all that stuff
because when I was little, it was always work, work, work” (“True Michael
Jackson” 1). Michael Jackson believed
there was magic in everything. His favorite character was that of Peter Pan,
which hints the name of his famous abode. Michael Jackson claimed to be able to
relate to Peter Pan. When he became a father for the first time,
his friend Yannick Allain exclaimed, “all I could remember noticing was the
look on Michael's face. The look of absolute pride. I had never seen him
looking calm and yet so confident and happy without saying a word” (“True
Michael Jackson” 1).
Michael
Jackson was a funny man who enjoyed pranks on the people around him.
Michael
Lee Bush, Jackson’s designer, once elaborated, “What most people do not know
about Jackson is that he was a joker - a playful prankster who loved to laugh
and often teased those closest to him most" (“True Michael Jackson”
1). Michael Jackson enjoyed to laugh,
and he believed laughing was good for the soul. People often came into contact
with this child-like, sensitive, joking man, and were surprised by how loving
he was. He always wanted to save and help others, and he believed it to be his
mission on earth. His passion for helping others was directed for lonely
people, sick people, and children. He loved dying children well by giving them
hope. He would invite them to his house or go see them in the hospital. He
claimed to see miracles through this when he proclaimed, “With just a little
love and a little caring, I have seen kids totally turn around. Where you can't
find any cancer at all anymore in their body” (“True Michael Jackson” 1). Some
people could even say that this is what drove Michael Jackson as a person: to
save the ill children and provide fun moments of magic in their childhood.
Kellie Parker sums up these character traits of Jackson by saying, “Michael was
magic, pure and simple. He was a man who believed in the goodness of mankind
and embodied pure unconditional love for the world” (True Michael Jackson” 1).
Other than those who were against him in trial, whether speaking truth or false
accusations, he was always called an intensely loved man who intensely loved others.
Considering
the character of Michael Jackson, there are several different conspiracy
theories surrounding him as an individual and icon. The first conspiracy
evolves around court trials for the accusations made by people claiming Jackson
showed inappropriate behavior toward minors.
Gavin Arvizo claimed he was inappropriately interacted with as a child
by
Michael
Jackson ( “A Short History of the Michael Jackson Child Molestation Case” 1).
Gavin Arvizo said he was too scared to speak up as a child with Michael
interfering with his thought process, and due to a desire for money or justice,
he brought this allegation to the legal courts in the year two-thousand and
three (“True Michael Jackson” 1). The prosecutors against Jackson stated this
as follows:
“The
mere fact of forty-five-year-old Jackson’s three-year-long interest in the
adolescent Gavin is corroborating in itself; it would strike a reasonable
person as grossly abnormal. So is the way that interest manifested itself:
endless telephone conversations with the youngster, inappropriate and relatively
public touching, kissing, licking and cuddling of him; expensive gifts,
cross-country flights, the relocation of the family from their modest quarters
in Los Angeles, his efforts to have them take up residence in Brazil.” (“The
2005 Arvizo Allegations (Summary Version).”).
Though
this conspiracy could be false, especially due to the fact that he was legally
pronounced innocent, many people still see evidence and believe this theory is
true. In fact, when surveyed, sixty-eight percent of people in the Houston Area
believed Michael Jackson to have taken part in child molestation/ abuse. He was
not convicted of guilt for child molestation, but he was proven of having child
pornography in his house ( “A Short History of the Michael Jackson Child Molestation
Case” 1).
The
second conspiracy theory is one which attacks many famous celebrities. If the
“King of Rock-and-Roll”, Elvis Presley, is said to still be alive and living
under an alias, it is not a far off for some conspiracists to claim the same
for Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop”. People claim that Michael Jackson is
still alive and walking on this earth. Paris Jackson, Michael
Jackson’s
daughter posted a picture on Instagram, and one of her followers exclaimed, “Is
that
Michael
in the back???” ( “Paris
Jackson Imagines World Where Father Michael Jackson Is Still Alive in Edited
Family Photo” 1). This
direct quote led to a frenzy of more curious conspiracists believing Jackson to
still be alive. The issue with this conspiracy is that his family mourned and
still mourns over his death. They gave speeches at his funeral and post to this
day about their beloved family member. Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris
Jackson, posted about how different and beautiful her life would be if her late
father were still alive ( “Paris
Jackson Imagines World Where Father Michael Jackson Is Still Alive in Edited
Family Photo” 1). If Michael Jackson were still alive, how
could his family effortlessly hide this and “fake” mourn all these years? To
prove this conspiracy false, a staggering eighty-five percent of students and
adults from the League City area whom were polled believe that Michael Jackson
is dead.
The
last conspiracy theory centers around the possibility of Michael Jackson being
murdered purposefully by a drug overdose of the anesthesia named propofol (
“Michael Jackson Doctor Conrad Murray Released From Prison” 1). Michael
Jackson’s doctor during the time of his death was Conrad Murray who was given
jail time for supposedly assisting the death of Michael Jackson. Other doctors
who have examined this conspiracy claim his method of giving anesthesia was
unorthodox and dangerous ( “Michael Jackson Doctor Conrad Murray Released From
Prison” 1). Rebbie Jackson proved the family’s beliefs of Michael being
purposefully murdered when she exclaimed,“I'm just so happy it's over with.
Nothing will bring him back, but I'm happy [Dr. Murray] was found guilty.”
(“The Jackson Family Comments on Dr. Conrad Murray's Conviction in Michael
Jackson's Death.”). Did Conrad Murray purposefully kill him though? He claims
not to, and the reality in which he was only sentenced four years of jail time
proves that Conrad Murray was not convicted for purposeful murder but for
unskilled doctoring ethics. To help this claim, over half of the people
surveyed, specifically seventy-three percent, agree that Michael Jackson was
not purposefully murdered my Murray.
Each
of these conspiracies are different yet linked through the life of the most
famous Michael Jackson. By looking at the court's’ rulings on each of the cases
mentioned above, as well as the survey poll percentages, two of the three
conspiracies mentioned are true to some degree, but people have twisted the
words some to make them not fully true. Michael Jackson was not purposefully
murdered; his doctor was just poor at his job. He was not a man of molestation,
though some of his character says otherwise. And lastly, he is not still alive.
The evidence of his daughter’s instagram post proves this false ( “Paris Jackson Imagines World
Where Father Michael Jackson Is Still Alive in Edited Family Photo” 1).
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