It looked more like a man enjoying a belated childhood than a man with malicious intent towards children.
There are many ways to make up for a missed childhood, especially when you have access to large financial resources. Hanging out with young pre-teen boys, swapping them around with regularity and having sleepovers with them is not the sole way to deal with childhood abuse from your father.
One option would have been to move out of the spotlight in LA and move to some place like São Tomé and Príncipe and follow through with some new hobbies; open a restaurant, open a small record studio, set up a charity program and get involved in day to day management and development. A wide range of possibilities were open to Jackson.
While the documentary does not provide formal evidence to back the statements made by the two men, I thought their story seemed convincing. If they were lying, they have some very good acting skills.
01011@monero.town 1 week ago
They were in LA trying to be a part of the entertainment industry, of course they had adequate acting skills.
jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Neither of them were actors though, one works as a choreographer and the other one is a cameraman I believe.
I’ve been to LA, it’s not like every single person who lives in the city is a master actor. This is a ridiculous idea.
You found the statements of the two men unconvincing. I find the idea that Jackson was merely trying to re-live his childhood by hanging out with young pre-teen boys and going on sleepovers with them, unconvincing.
01011@monero.town 1 week ago
The entertainment industry is about “attitude” i.e. your willingness/ability to bullshit. Furthermore, just because they were not working actors does not mean they did not take acting lessons at some point or pick up tips from those in the industry.
My point being, there’s nothing that I’ve seen or heard to dispute the theory that they lied.
jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Except the fact that Jackson did constantly hang out with young pre-teen boys and admitted to sleeping with them in his bed.
Not only that, he engaged in this behaviour for more than a decade. It’s not just “re-living childhood” of it’s a constant part of your life.
He could stopped hanging out with young pre-teen boys after the first abuse scandal in the early 90s, yet he didn’t.