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Oh I mean, look into his relationship with Diana Ross - he was absolutely a victim of her, and lived at her house for several years as a teenager back when Sable Starr was getting gang raped as a middle schooler. So yeah he had a fucked up childhood.

Still, he most likely committed those crimes, as Paris Jackson has talked with the victims and learned about the case, and it changed her mind entirely. I believe she did not change her mind lightly and there is evidence she was able to see that can't be released to the public.

No, not that I know of

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1n7hgnv/paris_jackson_attempts_to_clarify_her_views_of/

She thinks he's guilty.

Eta comment by user in that thread:

So before Leaving Neverland, Paris was a staunch defender of her dad's innocence publicly, since then she hasn't defended him against the allegations, not even once. She has also covered up her tattoos of him. She has done almost no press for anything MJ related besides one appearance introducing MJ the musical at an awards show where she looks really uncomfortable, like she's going to cry.

On his birthday one year she responded to angry fans demanding she post about him by saying that just because she doesn't post about him doesn't mean she doesn't love him because he didn't even like birthdays, and that fans should donate to causes he cares about. She mentions animals and the environment, but notably not children, despite that being the thing MJ cared about most, supposedly.

Omer Bhatti is a Norwegian man who met Michael Jackson as a child while he was on tour. Like many of the children who became close friends with Michael Jackson he was male, light skinned, and a few years pre-pubescent. Like many of those children he also dressed like MJ, did his hair and makeup like MJ, stayed with him in the same bed with no one else present, and learned how to dance from him.

Unlike most of the children that became friends with Michael Jackson, Omer remained friends with him when he went through puberty and continued to be close with him until his passing. He was a sort of cousin/older brother figure to Paris and the two are still close. He was present at Neverland during the second police raid, where law enforcement noted that he looked kind of stunned like he'd been caught or something.

After MJ's death, Omer would cite him as a mentor, father figure, and his greatest inspiration. After Leaving Neverland he stopped doing so. Since then he has posted some cryptic things. He once posted a picture of himself as a child with a caption talking about "secrets" that he holds. Last mother's day he did a tribute to his mom where every single picture had Michael Jackson lazily cropped out, and Paris liked it. Based on his social media presence he doesn't seem to have any sort of clear income stream yet he lives an extremely comfortable life.

Paris is choosing her very words carefully because she obviously still loves her father for all his flaws, but she has very clearly had a strong change of heart in the last few years.

I obviously don't know for sure [if he is getting money in exchange for silence], but that is what I believe based on the circumstances. The estate recently publicized the fact that they secretly paid 5 previously unknown victims in 2020, so there's a precedent of secret payouts. Couple that with everything I said and it's definitely my best and strongest guess that he's being paid off. Reddit also shadow banned all my comments that mentioned him for a couple hours, so that could be something.

Also, here's a quote from the MJ estate's FAQ:

"[T]he fans can’t – and won’t ever – know what the Estate has done behind the scenes. The Estate doesn’t always want to be publicly acknowledged or credited for what it does,"