In fairness to the media, and everyone else with some suspicion over this, the guy did literally surround himself with children...and sleep with them...regularly.
He did bring a lot of this on himself. I kind of feel sorry for his handlers and lawyers and PR guys, who had to constantly struggle with Jackson's rationalization of needing to sleep with children. Even if it was all innocent stuff, and they just had pillow fights and whatever, they just had to be thinking "Motherfucker, don't you get it? This shit ain't normal! One allegation is all it would take, and it's all over! Get your head out of your ass! You're not a child. You're a grown ass man!"