The King of Pop. Cultural Icon. Sexual Predator? Here's a timeline of the sexual assault allegations faced by Michael Jackson.
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00:00Before you label or condemn me, don't treat me like a criminal, because I am innocent.
00:30It was the most humiliating ordeal of my life, but if this is what I have to endure to prove my innocence, so be it.
00:45Mr. Jackson has been repeatedly advised by those who stood to make fortunes in his business affairs to pay money rather than face certain false allegations.
00:53He did pay money rather than litigate two false allegations that he had harmed children.
01:00He did pay money rather than litigate two false allegations that he had harmed children.
01:07And Jesus said to love the children and be like children, and he always surrounded himself with children.
01:13And that's how I was raised, to believe and to be like them.
01:31In the last few weeks, a large amount of ugly, malicious information has been released into the media about me.
01:37Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
01:40I deserve a fair trial like every other American citizen.
02:01I mean, nothing really. I mean, we played video games.
02:04The thing is with that whole thing, is that, you know, they go, oh, you slept in the same bedroom as him.
02:07It's like, I don't think you understand. Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories.
02:21This case is about one thing only.
02:25It's about the dignity, the integrity, the decency, the honor, the charity, the innocence,
02:34and the complete vindication of a wonderful human being named Michael Jackson.
02:39I couldn't speak the truth any earlier than I did. I wish I could have.
02:57I wish I was emotionally and mentally capable earlier than I was.
03:06For me, it was never a film about Michael Jackson.
03:08This is a film about Wade Robson and James Safechuck,
03:12and they and their families coming to terms with what happened to them as children.
03:19And in telling that story, we were in a position to educate people out there
03:24about how this kind of grooming child sexual abuse really goes on.