The michael jackson situation wasn't that complicated when it went to court the second time when i was younger. The media and seemingly the world at large accepted that he was a weird fucking creep that did creepy shit with kids.
What changed all that was his being found innocent of that crime twice and then his following death. Shit, up until he died people were still doing south park jokes about him. It's a great narrative that society was just oh so cruel, and that we harmed a man, possibly to death, because we judged him by his eccentricity and appearance. People wanted to redeem him for what they perceived to be their assumptions. Some real life Quasimodo shit. Hell, up until recent years, thats what I believed, and I've never listened to his shit except for like, thriller.
But now that I'm a little older I can see a lot of this for what it is: the two accusations that went to court were bullshit. Their stories were wack, the parents were crazy, and the kids didn't provide anything that would hold up in the same way these victims in the documentary did. MJ was able to clear his name twice because he took the bullshit claims public and kept the real ones quiet. All the smoke was just that, kidnapping is creepy, sleeping in beds is creepy, and whether or not he saw it that way it he was conditioning them.
Also, I don't think he buttfucked those kids.