The number one artist in the world!
- That level of mega-stardom is not healthy.
People are not gods.
- Tonight, Jackson is wanted by police
of multiple felony counts of child molestation.
- The Jackson machine just keeps right on rolling.
- The British documentary called Living With Michael Jackson
has everybody talking.
- This is the way the Times newspaper in Britain covers it.
"Jackson faces ruin after admitting: I slept with boys."
- Why can't you share your bed with...?
The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.
- Merely admitting that on television has created
what one person says is the longest
professional suicide note in history.
- This documentary started a disaster.
It was clear he was really in trouble with this.
- It's just a question of what does he do
when he's in bed with them? - I mean, anybody advising Michael Jackson
would have to say, A, don't do that, and after he did it,
they must lock him up in a room and say, "You've got to be kidding."
But he's Michael Jackson, so probably nobody does that.
- He really was scared.
It was Michael's biggest fear
after the documentary, the fans could go away.
He could lose his whole brand, his reputation, everything he did.
We were in a hotel, Miami, and middle in the night,
Michael knocked on the door.
He was crying,
and he got a letter
from his accountant saying,
"There's no money right now.
"You need to go in a smaller room." And he was saying,
"Can you believe that they put me out of a suite
"and put me in a small room?"
- Michael Jackson does not earn the kind of money he used to make.
You know, at the height of his earnings power,
this guy made $50 million a year. Guess what?
His records don't sell any more. And, you know,
he's in a very tenuous spot right now.
- On song, but no longer making the notes.
The latest claim that the Peter Pan of pop is nearly penniless.
- He's spending about $700,000 a week, which means
that when he gets out of bed in the morning,
he's spent $100,000 before he's had coffee.
- We hope he's not broke,
because he owes my client $12 million.
- All of the money that Michael has at this point,
all the cash that he has,
I should say, comes from loans.
Everything is borrowed, borrowed... Borrowed, borrowed,
borrowed against the Michael Jackson catalogue
that has Billie Jean and Beat It and all his hit songs,
borrowed against the Beatles catalogue.
- Michael Jackson celebrated his 45th birthday in true Jackson style.
It was just him and the fans.
After all he's been through, they still love him.
SCREAMING AND CHEERING - The King of Pop!
- Michael taught me very clear that now as it's over
with touring, now he starts with new business.
The fans going to keep the business machine moving.
- There's going to be a new
Michael Jackson clothing line,
resort hotels... SCREAMING AND CHEERING
We promise to make Neverland more accessible to the fans.
SCREAMING AND CHEERING
- What's the media trying to say about you, Michael?
We don't believe a word of it. - He's perfect,
and he's an angel, and I don't care what anybody says.
- UNINTELLIGIBLE SHOUTING
- In 2003,
I was a prosecutor specialising in child sexual abuse cases.
I got a call to go see the district attorney,
and he showed me a two-page report.
It involved an allegation of child sexual abuse.
It said "Michael Jackson" on it.
And I thought, "Oh, my gosh, he's back!"
That scene in the documentary that was played
over and over and over again of Gavin Arvizo
sitting next to Michael Jackson
and resting his head on his shoulder and holding his hand...
I knew it was an inappropriate relationship.
- You sit right there, buddy.
We are going to try our best to make a case.
OK, a criminal case. We're going to try our best.
But you need to understand
that we're going to need your cooperation.
Gavin, can you tell us
what your conversations...
what you guys talked about?
- Good evening. For years, pop star Michael Jackson
has denied having inappropriate contact with children
and he has never been charged,
but tonight, Jackson is wanted by police.
- We would encourage him to turn himself in
and cooperate with law enforcement.
- Yes. Anita? What? Have you heard? Any sightings?
- Not yet. We're all on the lookout, though.
- We were in the hotel in Vegas.
Somebody called me and told me, "Dieter, watch TV."
The police went to the ranch.
- The service of the warrants
was part of an ongoing investigation
alleging criminal misconduct on the part of Michael Jackson.
- When I told him there's a new charge from this young boy, Arvizo...
..he was so deeply shocked
that I think he's going to... He's going to die.
And then something terrible happened.
The director of the hotel told us to leave right away.
They did not want to have somebody with these charges in the hotel.
Michael was out of control and was screaming,
"Why you close the door in front of me?"
They didn't allow him to come in.
But then I told him,
"Michael, look, this time, you have to fight it."
- Jackson flying from Las Vegas
to Santa Barbara, turns himself in to the Santa Barbara sheriff...
- Michael Jackson has been booked on charges of child molestation.
- The famous shot you'll see plastered
all over newspapers around the world -
Michael Jackson in handcuffs.
- Michael Jackson today went from being
the gloved one to the fingerprinted one...
- I just sat down and said, "Not again."
- Seven counts of child molestation.
- I told him, "You don't know these wicked people.
"The people are just mean and wicked."
- The bail amount on the warrant has been set at $3 million.
- They'll tarnish your reputation, and people will always remember you
the way they said he was, not the way he really is.
- How do you view the guy now?
- Probably not in a good way. Definitely don't respect him.
- Reporters, cameras and helicopters have been chasing
the Jackson story around Southern California.
- Fox has confirmed he is now back in Las Vegas,
and here are the pictures to prove it.
- Hold on. He's coming out. Hold on, hold on,
hold on. - I remember when we went to the airport...
We took blankets and tried to stop all the press taking pictures.
He was so deeply shocked about the situation, how they treated him.
Later on, he showed me
these bruises on his arm, on his shoulder.
He was thinking the police, the system...
America...was against him.
- I wanted to let you know
that this is Michael Jackson's car as they ride through Las Vegas.
He keeps rolling his window down at intersections like this.
People have been coming up to the window
and he's been reaching out, shaking their hands.
- I think they're setting them up.
I mean, it just... none of this makes any sense.
You know? I love him so much. I mean, he needs us, you know?
And no matter what, I'll believe in him, and I'm here for him.
- Michael was ready to fight.
He was focussed completely on this whole problem.
Then the new security people came in
and his lawyers and his accountants showed up.
Michael's empire and reputation was at risk.
And this situation was terrible for me, because I had to leave.
I could do nothing any more. They took over completely.
It was the end of my work with Michael Jackson.
- Hey, I need to speak to Angela now.
Every crew is here and my crew is not here.
I'm still checking on what's going on.
- I got an assignment. There's going to be this huge
Michael Jackson business meeting, this summit.
Find out all about it. And if you can, get in there.
If we can get a quick statement... - Thank you.
- Come on. I had this little sort of mini cam
that I was walking around with, to the annoyance of everybody.
Can I get a brief statement? Is there any way...?
- You'll get a statement later? - Oh, you are... OK.
Thank you. Sorry to bother you.
I was a journalist reporting for Celebrity Justice,
and that later kind of morphed into TMZ.
- So if you guys want to just, uh, you know,
shoot the room, do what you want...
It's going to last about five minutes...
- It was all very confusing.
Oh, were we invited? How did we hear about it?
This is the Michael Jackson smoke and mirrors world.
- Is there a reason why you wanted us
to see the type of business meeting it is?
- No, no, the reason is you all are here... - Right.
- You had Charles Koppelman, an industry legend,
you had Al Malnik... He's the one who bailed Michael Jackson out
to the tune of $3 million when he was arrested.
Then you had Leonard Muhammad,
who is a top echelon Nation of Islam guy,
and you had John Branca,
the genius behind getting the Beatles catalogue.
And so these super heavyweights, they were there to keep
the glue together, right, in the Jackson Empire.
There are people who have wondered who is in charge.
Can you clarify that, sir? - Michael is in charge. Yeah,
clearly, Michael is in charge.
- Will he be taking part in today's meeting,
Mr Koppelman? - Um... He may. He's welcome at any time.
- Do you plan on seeing him at the meeting today?
- He's welcome at any time.
- Constantly it's said that Mr Jackson is in financial trouble.
Can you clarify that, sir? - Again, do we look worried?
- Total BS, total BS.
Mr Mohammad...
There's nothing normal about this meeting
because Michael Jackson was about
to be subjected to the most high-profile trial.
The fact that his finances were such a convoluted mess, with debt,
with loans, with mortgages, with skyrocketing interest payments...
Obviously, this was the crisis summit.
The brand was on life support,
and if it died right there, it wasn't going to have a future.
- GIRLS SCREAMING
CNN has confirmed that a grand jury that's been meeting
to consider charges of child molestation
against pop star Michael Jackson has,
in fact, indicted Michael Jackson.
- We've just received this release from
Michael Jackson's attorneys,
saying he will appear and enter a plea of not guilty.
I know you know him, Donald. Any reaction to this?
- Well, I know him very well. He's lived in my buildings.
He lived in Trump Tower, and I know him very well,
and I don't believe it.
I'm going to stick up for him because nobody else is.
- Why would he turn around and say
"Michael Jackson sexually molested me" if it weren't true?
- Because parents have power over children.
This is not him. No, I know his heart.
- It was past midnight
and the telephone rang and I hear, "Hello?"
I said, "Michael, is that you?"
"Brian? Is that you?
"Oh, Brian, I'm so scared. Did you see what happened today?
"Yes, I did," Michael.
"This is not good, Michael." "Brian, what am I going to do?"
I said, "What we do is
"we have to find out everything there is to know about this family.
"Everybody has dirt. Everybody... They are not clean.
"And from what I hear, they're really dirty, Michael.
"And we will find the dirt on these people."
And he said, "Do it, do it, Brian."
I am Brian Oxman.
I am the former attorney for Michael Jackson.
I...have known all of the Jackson family for most of my life.
My first client was Randy Jackson.
I did his divorce and then I did Jermaine's divorce,
and then I did Jackie's divorce, and then I did Tito's divorce,
La Toya's divorce, and I did Michael's divorce.
I am part of this family. It's sort of like Hotel California.
You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.
- Michael, come over here. Shake our hands.
Michael!
- When I got to Santa Maria for the trial,
the press was camped out like it was the end of the world.
It was bigger than OJ Simpson, which I had been at.
This was in a small town. It was hard to get to,
but the whole place was taken over by this.
It was an extraordinary thing.
- # My brother, my brother... #
Michael! - Innocent!
- Michael! - Innocent!
- CHEERING
One, two, three, four, Michael's not a molest-or...
- Why? Why? Why, why, why?
- When Michael went to his arraignment,
it was a deluge of fans.
They were going crazy.
And in his own showmanship way, he let them know, "I am not afraid."
- CHEERING AND YELLING
- He had no shortage of lawyers.
- I mean, they got every single piece of paper,
every single document that had ever generated
by any member of the family - medical records,
psych records, school records, business records...
They got it by way of subpoena without notifying the prosecution.
- CHANTING: - Michael's innocent! Michael's innocent!
- Pervert, pervert, pervert, pervert!
- The prosecution said the family
is being harassed by these subpoenas.
They said the so-called victim's family
is going into witness protection.
So I needed to find them.
I called my friend, and she says, "I'll find them for you."
So she called the grandmother and asked
if she had their new address, and she said sure,
and she gave it to us.
It was to make it clear
that Michael Jackson was not backing down.
- Years ago,
I allowed a family to visit and spend time at Neverland.
I allowed this family into my home because they told me their son
was ill with cancer and needed my help.
These events have caused a nightmare for my family, my children and me.
I never intend to place myself in so vulnerable a position ever again.
I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.
- Opening statements began today.
The defence is expected to describe Jackson
as the victim of a money-hungry mob who coached her son to lie for cash.
The prosecution, on the other hand,
will paint Jackson as a wicked paedophile
who got a sick boy drunk to molest him.
- This is a trial for his life.
Not just his freedom, his life. Everything's on the line.
- Justice for Michael! Justice for Michael!
- He's been guilty for years! Put him away!
- In court, the prosecution played
the Living With Michael Jackson movie,
the documentary which created this whole furore.
And what happened as that programme progressed,
the jury there were bouncing and dancing
and snapping their fingers to Michael's music.
This was Michael's magic, infecting everybody.
This affected the entire course of the trial.
- We had one witness who worked at Neverland...
..and he told us that he brought
to Michael Jackson's room wine while the boys were there.
And when he was on the witness stand,
he said he brought Coca-Cola to the room.
I said, "Didn't you tell us that it was wine?
"It was alcohol that he brought to the room?"
"I was mistaken."
One after the other, witnesses would walk into court,
you would just watch them look over,
see Michael Jackson and their demeanour changed.
He was a very powerful person.
- The pop star didn't show up for court
this morning until the judge threatened to have him arrested.
- Jackson failed to show up in court at 8:30am
for testimony from the teen who claims Jackson molested him.
When Jackson did arrive an hour and ten minutes late,
he appeared dishevelled, his hair a bit messy,
only pyjama-bottomed, a T-shirt and a blazer.
- He tripped this morning and he fell
in the early morning hours while he was getting dressed.
His back is in terrible pain.
- I ended up testifying in the trial, right?
And that's where it became just absolutely a three-ring circus of
bizarre. I started noticing Michael's strange behaviour.
And, you know, besides,
when he showed up to court in pyjamas, which was Nutsoville,
Michael was like, "I can't deal with it,
"I can't deal with it, it brings me stress."
And I'm like, "OK".
But he's that brilliant genius, right,
that happens to be half braindead and dumb at the same time,
that doesn't know anything going on?
Wait a second - which one is it?
- Oh, he's trying to get the sympathy.
I could see the women on the jury
looking very concerned and very worried,
and we knew it was all an act.
His performance really was very good.
- Is Jackson spiralling downward?
- It was no accident that all of that pyjama business happened
when the accuser is about to take the stand
and deliver the most incriminating evidence.
- Michael! Michael!
Michael! Michael!
Go!
- You've been through a lot this year. - That's right.
No joke. - How is Michael doing financially?
Because he has not been recording or performing ever since it started,
and he has mega expenses.
How is he doing?
- Michael is doing fine.
- Are you worried?
- Am I worried?
Being the father, you always have to have some worry.
- Do you think if he's acquitted, he can resume his career?
- Of course.
Come on... Of course he can resume his career.
This is... This is just the United States.
All the rest of the countries all over the world
are very, very proud of Michael. It is here...
we have the most trouble out of.
- Why do you think it's such a problem in America?
Why do you think...? - Come on...
You don't want me to answer that, do you?
- No, don't answer it. - Shall I? - No, Joe, just shut up. Stop it!
- I don't want to cut to the chase on this one. - Stop it!
- Come on...
- It might be about racism? What do you think?
- It is racism. It is.
Katherine's not going to say it, but I will say it. It is racism.
- We shouldn't be even out here talking about any of this.
We weren't supposed to even bring Michael up.
You might get us in a lot of trouble. - No, no, no.
- A flurry of activity outside the courthouse in Santa Maria
as SUVs are seen leaving Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch.
What's going on?
SCREAMING AND CHEERING
Michael Jackson entered the courthouse to learn his fate.
- You've got to wonder
what is going through his mind at this point.
- He really thinks there are going
to be riots in the streets if he's convicted.
- He really believes that? - He really believes
that somehow this injustice will be overturned instantly,
because who would put the King of Pop in jail?
The people of the state of California plaintiff
versus Michael Joe Jackson, defendant.
Case number 1133603. Verdict...
We the jury in the above entitled case...
..find the defendant not guilty of a lewd act upon a minor child.
SCREAMING AND CHEERING
- And there it is. All ten counts. Not guilty on all ten counts.
Michael Jackson will be walking out of this courtroom a free man.
..Michael! - UNINTELLIGIBLE
- Was I disappointed? Sure.
You never, as a prosecutor, want to hear the words "not guilty".
I felt that it was remarkably obvious
that he was molesting children.
I was mystified why other people didn't see it.
Everything about him just screamed "child molester".
- He needs to, you know, stay low for a while
and keep the adults at the ranch
and maybe stay away from the kids for a little bit,
maybe bring some girls over, Michael. Come on now!
- The result was innocent,
but so many Americans thought he was guilty.
Michael was extremely concerned about all of these people.
He would complain to his mom and to his dad and to everybody,
to me... "My life's over."
- What exactly is happening to Michael Jackson today?
- It's the same thing that always happens, Nancy.
This guy doesn't pay his bills.
- How much are we talking about?
- We're talking about nearly $300 million outstanding debt.
- After the trial, a lot of people were saying
Michael Jackson put himself into exile.
Right?
He had to not only leave Neverland
but he left the United States of America.
He pops up in Bahrain, and of course,
he's friends with the royal family
and living like the King of Pop again,
borrowing millions of dollars from his host.
Then it's "where's Michael Jackson? He's left Bahrain.
"Oh, wait. Hold on. He's in Ireland..."
Ireland!
- At around 4:00 today, Michael Jackson emerged
from his scheduled Aer Lingus flight.
He made his way down the plane's steps holding a masked child's hand.
Jackson and his travelling party boarded a silver Volkswagen minibus
via the VIP exit of the airport.
- Michael Jackson was trying to figure out -
what am I going to do with the rest of my life?
Ireland is kind of a little out of the way,
and he was able to live kind of a tranquil life -
he hoped, anyway.
- In June 2006,
rumours started circulating in the Irish press
that Michael Jackson had been sighted in different places.
But I didn't think much of it. So we were quite surprised
when the door opened and the patient said,
"Hello, my name is Michael Jackson."
And it wasn't too long before Michael entrusted us
with his aesthetic treatments.
We treated in that period his...
bottom of his ankles were beginning to turn black again
and he wanted us to increase
the bleaching cream to a stronger percentage.
He didn't really have any money.
I mean, his credit cards bounced on many occasions.
I remember one time he was in our big glass showroom
and he started pocketing quite a lot of the cosmetics.
Some of the things were worth between 100 and 500 euros,
and he had a big sort of jacket, coat on,
and when I ran into him, he had as many as 20 or 30
of these products in his pockets, and he just laughed.
I think as time progressed,
you could see that Michael became happier
and happier living in Ireland.
He said that he'd love to settle here, away from the press.
Our friendship became closer,
and when I was down his house, he opened up to me.
I think he felt trapped between finding a new location to live...
..and having to go back to the United States
to overcome those financial struggles.
I could see that this did play on his mind.
- I was asked would I be interested in doing a security detail
for a dignitary that was coming to town.
Mr Jackson - I called him Mr Jackson -
he was returning to the States
on the basis of being a headliner in Las Vegas.
- Come on, guys, come on in.
- It was a lot going on. I mean, he had a lot going on.
He was raising three kids, that he wanted to do on his own.
Mrs Jackson moved into the house, which was on Monte Cristo.
We realised that he did have insomnia.
Even though we had armed security at the property,
we would see him walking throughout the house at night, checking doors.
A very lonely world.
- ..or Candyland?
- There's always someone trying to see him...
Business associates,
all different type of producers trying to get at him.
I think it put him into seclusion a little bit.
- Michael, we love you! - We love you, Michael!
You're the best!
- There he is! David Beckham,
the huge international soccer star, is coming to America!
- My partner and I, Paul, worked for a division of AEG.
The core business is live entertainment, sports...
You know, those kind of things.
AEG had just done a deal with David Beckham
to play for the LA Galaxy.
- It's nice to see so many fans, and I thank you for that.
- CHEERING
- When Michael saw that, he was really excited,
he was kind of jumping around the room and saying, "Hey,
"you guys should do a David Beckham deal with me."
Remember that Michael's last tour was
the HIStory tour in 1997,
so this would have been a good 12 years after that.
So the anticipation of being able
to see Michael Jackson live was...
I don't know. I can't think of anything, really,
that would be bigger than that.
- I remember the day he signed the deal,
when This Is It was in formation.
He came out and said, "Bill,
"now you're going to see the vultures."
I started to get all the phone calls from people
that we've never heard from before.
People were coming out the woodwork. They wanted to be part of this tour.
They wanted to be part of him.
I always said it. Mr Jackson was a big ATM.
- Feel my heart, it's going boom, boom, boom right now, seriously.
- Since I was little, I used to come home from nursery, yeah,
put on my Michael Jackson video and that's it. I was gone.
Like, he taught me how to dance, everything, man.
It's gonna be sick.
- London was Michael's... Probably biggest market in the world.
Our plans were that the tour would go global.
- I've got every single album, I've been to every single tour,
and I'm going to go to every single date
that he releases that I can get my hands on.
- You're obviously a very rich woman, then?
- No, I'm not. It's the credit crunch! It's my credit card.
- The This Is It tour was going to be much bigger than
anything he had... He had done.
- Do you really think he can come back after everything that's happened?
- There's nothing happened. It's just the media, innit? So it's fine.
- Court case, rumours of financial.... - Rubbish. This is Michael Jackson.
You know, he's... He's the King of Pop.
- Ready for this?
London welcomes the King of Pop, Mr Michael Jackson.
CHEERING AND SCREAMING
- So it's been a while,
and everyone's waiting and waiting and waiting.
They didn't realise that Michael was drunk and out of it.
- I was at the O2 and they were back at the hotel with Michael
trying to get him going because things were going very slowly.
While we were waiting, I kind of wrote a really short speech,
and when Michael walked in, he came over to me
and he gave me a big hug and I said, "Here's the speech."
And he went... And he whispered in my ear,
"Make the words really big, I can't see."
- SCREAMING AND CHEERING
- And the crowd just erupted.
- I love you.
HE CHUCKLES
- He just started to bask in it.
He started to glow, in a way, you know...
I think he was overwhelmed, actually.
- CROWD CHANTING: - This Is It. This Is It!
SCREAMING AND CHEERING
I just want to say that, um...
This will be it. This is it. And when I say this is it,
it really means this is it,
because these will be
my final show performances.
This is it, and see you in July.
CHEERING
- So what happened was we ended up at 50 shows.
I've never seen demand like that.
We had about 15,000 sellable seats per show.
They all went for 50 shows.
Got a calculator? Do the math!
- We're kind of excited, Michael's coming today.
- There's the man. - There's Michael. - The man is here.
- During rehearsals, Michael knew exactly what he wanted,
but it was Kenny who ran the rehearsals.
Michael really didn't have to say anything to anyone
because Kenny was so on top of it.
- Michael... - It's not easy, though.
- Michael... One more time, I couldn't hear you, sir.
- The inner ears are very difficult for me. When you're raised...
To use just your real, own... you know, aural... oratory ears.
- Yeah. Is it...? - It feels like... It feels like somebody's fist...
Just their fist is shoved into your ear.
- Mr Jackson was not happy.
Privately, he felt that physically, he was not prepared
to do that many shows in that short a time.
He said to me directly... He said, "Bill,
"I can't do 50 shows. Bill, it would kill me."
But he was going to make a lot of money from this show,
enough to where... he was done.
- # And... #
Just trying to conserve my throat, please. So understand...
- I would watch Michael,
and the impression I got was kind of lost.
He was dealing with an addiction issue.
I was watching, you know, pills come in and pills go out.
You see people with fetty or other things in street drugs
that they're not alive, but they're not dead yet.
And it just had this feeling of, like, limbo.
The assumption I think that a lot of people think
is that he's being controlled
and that he doesn't know what he's doing.
That isn't true. He knew what he was doing,
and he knows what kind of drugs he's taking.
But Michael was surrounded by people that wanted to please him,
people he chose to surround himself with.
- SCREAMING AND CHEERING
- But he is going downward. And so you...
You have to ask yourself, "Where am I going?"
You know, "What's the next train stop?"
- It's an American tragedy.
The tragedy was not that he was taking prescription drug medication.
The tragedy was that this man who got more attention
than any human being that might have ever lived
in the history of the world
was still so utterly lonely.
When I was in Macy's, they kept saying,
"Michael's dead, Michael's dead."
I dropped everything and just came running out here.
- No-one else. No-one else. No-one else...
- I walked into the emergency room.
And I looked through the doors and I could see the family.
And I saw La Toya, and she was leaning up against the wall.
And then I saw her slump to the ground and sat on the floor.
I said, right then and there...
I said, "Michael Jackson is dead.
"Michael Jackson is dead."
- (Oh, God...)
This is hard. Um...
My brother, the legendary King of Pop,
Michael Jackson,
passed away on Thursday, June 25th, 2009, at 2:26pm.
It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home.
- This is a Fox News alert. The chopper is in the air.
They have picked up the body of Michael Jackson.
His body is now going to be in the custody of the LA coroner.
- The autopsy has been expedited.
It will happen tomorrow at some point between 7am
and three o'clock in the afternoon.
After that, the body will then be released to the family.
- There was a fire inside me that I could not contain that day.
In my mind, I was saying to myself, "You stupid, stupid man.
"I begged you, I warned you, you've now orphaned your children.
"There's nothing you loved more in the world than your children.
"You were the only one who could protect them.
"And now you orphaned your children.
"You stupid man!"
- Michael's demons that I think he was dealing with was self-loathing.
Well, you don't have to feel anything if you're on, um...
Demerol. You just numb it all away.
He felt desperate to change, but couldn't.
And he actually ends up finding people that help him to his death.
Is that the most crazy thing in the world?
If somebody would have just told the truth,
he would probably be alive, but nobody did.
- Michael Jackson T-shirts, Michael Jackson T-shirts.
King of Pop, King of Pop. Come down here, guys.
Come support Michael. - You got change?
- Give you two for 20. - Oh, how many did you make?
- We made, uh, I think it was 1,500 T-shirts.
We sold 40. We've been here for about ten minutes.
- And then you give 10% to the charity of Michael Jackson's choice!
Woo! Yes, you do that!
- I feel like Michael's of
the magnitude to deserve a state funeral.
- I just wanted to wake up and somebody told me this isn't real.
- People are saying that this is going to be like when Princess Di died.
- 1,500 inmates in the Philippines pulled together
a brand new tribute to the King of Pop.
- Michael Jackson fans have always been committed,
and when he died, it didn't diminish at all.
In fact, it became stronger.
- CHEERING
Beat It PLAYS
Tonight, a family's pain.
For the very first time since
Jackson's shocking, unexpected death,
Jackson's family is speaking out.
- Do you know anything, Mr Jackson, about funeral arrangements?
Have you had time? - Yeah, we haven't gotten to that yet.
Yeah, but we're working on that.
- You said your wife has helped.
What about Janet and the rest of the family? The daughters...
- They're all doing fine.
But I want to make this statement. This is a real good statement here.
Marshall and I have... We own a record company called...
Tell them. - Ranch Records. - Right. - OK?
It's driven by Blu Ray technology, and that's his next step.
- And that's your next step.
- For most of his life. Michael's father
was constantly coming to him for money, also with schemes.
So you could say Joseph Jackson, he was very opportunistic.
Even when Michael died, nothing changed.
- Hello, everybody.
What I'm doing is, I established a record company,
and this is Marshall, by the way. Marshall, go ahead.
- OK, what's happening is, in the entertainment side,
we're going all the way back to the beginning.
We are going back to Michael Jackson's legacy,
and we're going to bring him all the way back to the top.
We love you.
- Michael's will was brought to his family
a couple days after his death.
It was absolutely startling.
Joe Jackson and his children were not included in the will.
And I filed objections...
- How do you feel about Michael not including you in the will?
- I didn't think that they were given
the consideration that they should have been.
- How do you feel about Michael not including you in the will?
Thank you, Joe.
- Joining us from LA is Jackson family attorney Brian Oxman.
Good morning, Mr Oxman. - Good morning. How are you?
- I'm fine. Thank you for joining us. Is it safe to assume that
Michael Jackson did not want his father,
whom he very publicly accused of abuse,
to control neither his estate nor his children?
- Joe Jackson is a good man. Michael loved his father,
and I want that to be known throughout all of time.
- Michael Jackson's brothers and sisters were left nothing.
It's a slap in the face.
I mean, they were there from the beginning.
Jackson Five... Right?
Now, John Branca and another business type
were named co-executors of Michael Jackson's estate.
There was a tug of war between
the Jackson family and the executors about the will.
- Last week, Randy, Jermaine, Janet,
Tito and Rebbie signed a stunning letter
to the executors of Michael's will.
They're crying conspiracy over his death,
calling the will fake, flawed and fraudulent.
- Jane, help me out here. What the heck is going on?
- One word - money! Money, money, money, money!
- Michael was massively in debt when he died. $500 million.
But the inherent value of his work
was such that there was money to be made.
- As concert promoters, we had spent a lot of money,
close to, I think, $40 million already on the This Is It project.
So the day that Michael passed,
we went around and collected everyone's hard drives,
any footage of Michael...
- Yo, dude, taking a quick little tour here.
- ..and then we produced the theatrical release that went to DVD.
- It was the story of a making of the tour,
all those hits and all those great songs,
seeing Michael Jackson live, and people wanted to see it.
- # All I want to say is that
# They don't really care about us
# All I want to say is that
# They don't really care about us... #
- This is us going to the premiere. Hey!
- That's when John Branca, who ran Michael's estate,
jumped in and made the deal with Sony.
He managed to maximise this revenue
in ways that I...
You know, I couldn't believe.
- We think that the movie This Is It gave fans a pretty good glimpse
at the real Michael.
He was a perfectionist,
and at the same time, he was a humanitarian...
- Branca steered that beautifully.
I mean, This Is It was the highest-grossing
concert documentary of all time.
That deal got us all of our money back.
And then some.
- Go, Michael, go!
- The This Is It DVD and the theatrical release
just made a huge amount of money for the estate.
But it was just the beginning of what they were going to do.
They cleared Michael's debt, put Neverland up for sale...
..then they did their show in Las Vegas,
the Cirque du Soleil show.
The estate became a money making machine.
- He is raking in more than any musician in history,
years after his death.
- Your view of American icon Michael Jackson
will never be the same
once you hear about the new documentary Leaving Neverland.
- Once the abuse started, within that first week,
you know, every night that I was with him, there was abuse.
You know, he started talking about how much he loves me.
What this is is us,
how we show our love for each other.
- The new documentary detailing abuse accusations
against Michael Jackson has sparked a new debate about his legacy.
- I found the testimony from the two alleged victims of Jackson
to be incredibly compelling and visceral
in a way that the criminal trials and previous accusations
had not been, so personally, as a listener,
my relationship to this music has changed completely.
- Jackson's estate filed suit against HBO.
They actually called this documentary a public lynching.
- It may be too soon to know if there will be
a lasting impact on the popularity of Jackson's music.
- After the film Leaving Neverland, the estate was really shaken.
Those accusations could have been the end of everything.
But the estate kept their eyes on the prize...
..and Michael's legacy survived.
- The Michael Jackson Story is about
one of the great performers of all time.
He was a genius, and yet he was very troubled and problematical.
And now, in death, the executors of Michael Jackson's estate
are working ferociously to erase
the problematical side of Michael Jackson
and focus entirely on his younger years,
his creative years, and focus on the music.
This is the most extraordinary effort to un-cancel someone.
- The show must go on.
- HE CHUCKLES
Woo!
I've been on an incredible... An incredible journey.
I've seen children just shower all over me with love.
They want to just touch me and hug me,
and just hold on and cry and not let go.
I really believe...
..that children are God.
When I look in the eyes of a child, it's like God saying,
"Michael, everything will be OK."