All the members were siblings. His mother, Katherine Stercru, was a devout Jehovah’s Witness, and his father, Joe, was a fierce ex-boxer and metalworker. The discipline that their father instilled in rehearsals propelled them forward in their careers. But everything was painful for the brothers. Michael suffered the most because he was the one with the most future.
The years passed by in a meteoric fashion and Michael kept recording songs with his brothers. and in 1971 he began his solo career. [Music] The intensity with which Michael worked was proportional to the strictness that his father imparted to him, but precisely because of that, Michael would be marked for life.
But, jumping ahead in time, we find ourselves where the best years of his career would begin to unfold. And as the years went by, Michael’s success in life became increasingly resounding. As it grew, and at an incredible speed, it began to gain a truly brutal fame. By that time, he had automatically stopped living the life of a normal person.
And it was only in its early days that it began to win countless awards and achievements. By 1975, Michael had already released four albums, was writing splendid lyrics and was increasingly involved in dancing, but an accident during a routine meant he had to have nose surgery, but because it was not done correctly, he had to have several more surgeries on his nose.
Yes, this is where one of his many problems would begin. But with their fifth album came a wave of American Music awards. But his extraordinary talent led him throughout his career to win awards and cultivate a series of sensational achievements. Some of them were just around the corner, more precisely in the construction of a cemetery.
[Music] Entering one of the best years of the King of Pop, we find ourselves in 1982. Success came in the form of an album. The sixth and most well-known. Yes, we were talking about Thriller. The album earned him a record eight Grammy Awards and eight American Music Awards, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for “It.
” Thriller immediately became the best-selling album of all time . Selling an estimated 65 million copies, it topped several charts, totaling seven songs in the Bill Bor top 10 and countless other awards. Thriller is also the only album that started and finished at number one for an entire year on the Bill & Melinda Gates chart.
But one of the album’s unique features was the music video, and Michael totally revolutionized MTV. While the zombies danced among the dead, the music channel revived and climbed to exorbitant numbers. It was a music video, but with a story, with a script. Thriller redefined the concept of the music video, adding a storyline and nuances that had not been considered before.
Upon its release, it was the longest music video to date, lasting almost 14 minutes. Furthermore, it was the first to have a horror theme, something that really caught people’s attention. Thus, its fame was immediate and today it is considered the best music video in history for its transcendence and quality, both narrative, choreographic and visual.
It was written by Michael Jackson himself, along with John Landis, who was in charge of directing it. But there was something that almost derailed the best video in pop history. Yes, Jackson’s beliefs . At that time, Michael was a practicing Jehovah’s Witness, so obviously he shouldn’t have done anything related to the occult.
But after several doubts and advice from his mother, who was also a Jehovah’s Witness, Michael Jackson decided not to release the already made music video, but finally his team convinced him on the condition that they add a disclaimer at the beginning of the video stating that everything seen in the video was not part of his religious beliefs, and so they did.
Therefore, when you play the original video, you can find this clarification at the beginning. Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to emphasize that this film in no way endorses belief in the occult. Moreover, at that time, Jackson had the highest royalty rate in the music industry.
Yes, $2 for each album sold, and we previously stated that it sold 66 million; it’s just a matter of doing some calculations. And by 1983, that outfit and dance appeared that would mark a before and after in her career. That black sequined jacket and the white diamond glove were the setting that gave life to a movement that reached all the way to space.
Yes, we’re talking about the famous Moonwork. [Music] While singing, Billy Jean dazzled the audience and 47 million people watching from their homes. In late 1983, Michael and his brothers partnered with Pepsi to close a big advertising deal, but all the good things he was experiencing were overshadowed by a terrible accident he had while filming one of the music videos.
While filming, the fireworks on the set set his head on fire, revealing a very deep wound that exposed the skull bone. From that tragic moment on, Michael became addicted to painkillers to try to calm his pain, but that didn’t stop him at all and he continued to achieve amazing records, just to mention a few.
Michael earned 39 appearances in the Guinness World Records book, including one for being the most successful artist of all time. In addition, he won 15 Grammy Awards, including a Legend Award, 26 American Music Awards, 16 World Music Awards, and sold 350 million records worldwide. Michael Jackson also holds the Uranium Disc, an award given to only five artists worldwide who have sold more than 50 million records on a single album.
He is also the only artist to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one as a solo artist and one as part of the Jackson 5. We also can’t forget that he performed in more than 125 countries, and that with his energy and charisma, he was the only global icon to hold the world record for the highest-grossing tour in history.
Yes, we’re talking about the Bad Tour. [Music] And going ahead a little in his story and summarizing his achievements, the reality is that throughout his life Michael has obtained unsurpassed awards and records that to this day no one has been able to surpass. There are even a few more missing. And I could make a whole video of hours talking about all of them, since what the musician caused with his mere presence in all the places he went was something that until now only Elvis Presley and the Bumblebees as a group had been able to generate. Basically, the frenzy that
Michael generated at his concerts was something out of the ordinary. Michael Jackson began his musical career when he was just a 4- year-old child. The private jet brings the most important artist of the decade to Chile. Their songs, the dancing, the production of the videos and the staging of the concerts made the difference and marked a myth in the history of music.
Michael Jackson is coming down right now . The show was suspended exactly an hour and a half ago. 65,000 fans are ready for one of the most iconic concerts of the ’90s to begin. But hey, do you remember that a few moments ago we talked about Michael’s choice to wear white gloves ? Well, that was due to comments from Michael’s own team that he should hide the blemishes on his skin.
And it is precisely in this part of the story that we are going to debunk what was said about him ad nauseam. Yes, that thing about hating her skin color. And the fact is that no matter how much they wanted to, there is no person in the world who can change their skin color with surgery, at most with tattoos, but in this case it would be the other way around .
What the King of Pop had was a well-known skin condition called bitillygum, which you probably know someone who has. Vitiligo is basically an irregular discoloration of the skin. Quite the opposite of the myth spread by the media that he wanted to stop being a person of color. The attack of the disease was so severe that he had to treat it with creams that lightened the dark areas a little to even out the pigmentation.
Then the makeup did what it had to do. In addition to this, he also had lupus. Yes, a disease that was also linked to problems in her skin and some organs. Precisely because of what we just mentioned, that’s why Michael could always be seen wearing a face mask or carrying an umbrella to protect himself from the sun whenever he went out.
But, speaking a little more about Michael as a person, we could say that his main characteristic is that he was one of the most philanthropic artists of all time. Yes, his solidarity was recognized on May 14, 1984 at the White House, when President Ronald Reagan gave him an award for his support of charitable organizations.
And by 1985 he had written USA for Africa with Lionel Richie , a musical production that included the single We are W, featuring big stars like Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Tina Turner, a somewhat lost Bob Dylan and the great Bruce Springsteen. It was recorded on January 28, 1985 and released worldwide in March of that same year.
The song raised $63 million, which was donated to hunger relief in Ethiopia. [Applause] We are the world. We are the world. We are a light that illuminates the darkest places with love . Years later, he created the Herald World Foundation to help the most vulnerable children around the world. Victims of violence, poverty, and terminal illnesses.
Yes, Michael became the artist who contributed the most money to charitable causes, helping around 39 charitable institutions and donating more than $300 million. In addition, Michael was nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize and has received numerous awards for his humanitarian work, particularly for community aid to children with cancer and other terminal illnesses such as cystic fibrosis.
What was also most significant was that he helped in different ways, so to speak , with the lyrics of his songs that raised awareness in the world. An example of that was Ear Song, which talks about the deforestation of the Earth by humans, Mining the Mirror, which focuses on people experiencing homelessness, Hell the World, which, as the title says, talks about caring for the planet and human beings themselves.
But one of the most important and intense is, without a doubt, The Care Abs, a protest song and the most controversial that Jackson composed, pointing to the unequal treatment and abuse of power by politicians. By March 1988, Michael had purchased a property in Santa Ines, California, for $17 million to build his Neverland Ranch, inspired by his love for Peter Pan.
There he constructed an amusement park, a zoo, and a movie theater. In addition, he hired 40 people to take care of the security of the premises, a place where the biggest controversies of his life would begin. But we’re not going to get ahead of ourselves, because we’re going to reach that moment in history soon.
After the release of his eighth album, Dangerous, he gave one of his best performances at the Super Bowl halftime show. That was undoubtedly Michael Jackson’s second most successful performance, as it was the most-watched in history, a record it still holds today. Over 133 million people watched him perform just five songs in a mere 15 minutes on that unforgettable January 31, 1993.
Yes, Michael Jackson was definitely a precursor to what the Super Bowl is today. On his journey to guaranteed success, he married Elvis Presley’s daughter , about whom I have a video on this same channel discussing Elvis’s life and death, which I invite you to watch.
But anyway, getting back to the point, he later had a son whom he showed off from his balcony and was heavily criticized for this. And as always, and as you will see throughout this video, the sensationalist media were responsible for creating a false image of him throughout his life, because as I was telling you on that occasion, they were the ones who asked Michael to show his son on the balcony and they were the ones who criticized him for doing so, accusing him of wanting to kill him.
Something completely absurd. But well, over time the relationship with Lisa Presley did not last and they divorced, and then he remarried another woman. By then, Michael had built an empire with much sacrifice and effort, but everything would hang by a thread due to events and accusations that were very difficult to bear.
Neverland was a major character in this story. Although the ranch had episodes of serious doubt and represented many legal problems over time, Michael lost affection for it when the police entered the home to carry out a raid. From that moment on, the magic of Neverland had faded, as had some of its followers.
But what were the police looking for? Okay, so we’ll move on to telling you the next story, but first I want you to know that from now on you might hear the censorship beep for using some words that YouTube doesn’t allow. So, let’s begin one of the most interesting early parts of Michael Jackson’s life. And for that, we’re going to talk about the relationship between the singer and Jordan Chandler that began in 1992.
Such was the friendship that the media said that Jackson seemed like another member of the Chandler family, but the problem began in 1993, when Evan Chandler, the boy’s father, appeared on the scene. And I want you to remember this name well, because later I will reveal an important detail regarding this case.
But anyway, as I was telling you, Evan Chandler was a dentist who worked with celebrities, but he was also a screenwriter, which led him to try to do business with Michael in the film industry so that the singer would invest money for a new project of the company, The Lost Boys Production.
But Jackson refuses, and Evan begins to blackmail Michael into answering his calls. But what were those extortions? Well, right at the moment Michael refuses to do business with him on his projects, he suddenly realizes that Michael was supposedly sexually abusing his son. That’s why this is where Evan Chandler threatened Michael with making public the alleged evidence he had against Jackson and spoke with his lawyer, who in a recording that came out in the trial can be clearly heard as Evan tells him that he has looked for the most son of a [ __ ] lawyer he
could find and that he wants to destroy Michael for having ignored him. Furthermore, he adds that he has no interest in his son. Listen, please. I found I mean I interviewed several and I picked the nastiest son of a [ __ ] I found. Once I make that phone call, this guy is just going to destroy everyone in sight in any devious, nasty, cool way that he can do it.
And given him full authority to do that. On August 14, 1993, Evan claims that Michael has abused his son and asks him for $20 million in exchange for not going to the press or the authorities. The boy vehemently denies it and claims that his father is only after money. And this is where the first of the interesting questions arises in this case.
If you, as a parent, find out that someone has abused your child, would you really meet privately with the abuser just to profit from it all in exchange for money? Or would you go to court so that the abuser pays the price for what he did and doesn’t do it to anyone else again? M, I’ll leave you to think about it.
But anyway, continuing with the case, there were some back and forth with offers to put an end to the Chandlers’ lie. But Michael finally decided to go all the way, yes, to a criminal trial to prove his innocence. And this is where another question arises that is very striking. And it’s something to think about, because a person who is supposedly an abuser, do they really think that he’s going to want to go directly to criminal trial knowing that if the verdict is against him he could lose everything and even go to jail? Well, Michael did it
because he was completely sure of his innocence and wanted it to be proven. But, in addition to all this, it is worth mentioning something very important and sinister in this story, which is that Evan gets custody of the child for two weeks, but does not return him to his mother. According to his own sources, he drugs his son with Sodium Pentothal to make him confess.
For those who don’t know, sodium pentothal is a very powerful anesthetic that disinhibits the person who consumes it, but in turn makes them vulnerable to all kinds of suggestions. Therefore, with this alleged statement, a lawsuit is drafted with detailed facts, but Michael responds and sues them for attempted extortion.
Meanwhile, Michael was supposed to continue touring, but the tabloid media stole all the attention and he ended up canceling the rest of the tour due to health problems stemming from the accusations, but the lies and false evidence within the trial were becoming increasingly obvious. And among the details of the boy’s statement there was something interesting in this story, which is that Jordan had commented on several descriptions of Michael’s genitals .
The most important thing was that, according to him, Michael was circumcised. That’s why Michael here agrees and submits to a terrible humiliation to be examined. The authorities stripped him naked and photographed his genitals. [Music] Los Angeles Police Department earlier this week. They served a search warrant which allowed them to my body, but in the end, do you know what happened? Yes.
Not only did the description not match at all, but Michael was not circumcised. All these details would later be confirmed by the data from his autopsy. So the legal, criminal and judicial proceedings took up a lot of time and the trial looked like it would drag on for several more years. And all of this was greatly affecting Michael’s career.
Therefore, when January 1994 arrived, Michael reached a monetary agreement of 23 million dollars with the Chandlers to resolve the matter once and for all . And by September of that same year, the investigation of the crime was concluded when they dismissed the entire complaint. Interestingly, the amount Evan was asking Michael for was half of what he had originally asked for his film project.
After that, some people claimed that with that act Michael wanted to silence them and it was like admitting his guilt. But no, quite the opposite, since he always appeared at all the trial hearings to show his innocence and they were never able to provide a single valid, unadulterated piece of evidence that could show him guilty, since there was none.
Now, fast-forwarding a bit , almost a week after Michael Jackson’s death, Jordan Chandler ended up admitting that he had lied about the alleged abuse because of threats from his father in order to extort money from the star. Yes, the accusation was completely false from the beginning . After Michael became a father, another accusation of sexual abuse of the minor Gavin Arbizo would come to light, who said without any bad intention that he used to stay overnight in the singer’s room without him minding. It should be clarified here that the
rooms of the ranch were not those of an ordinary house, but had dimensions that were out of the norm. But anyway, beyond that, the boy’s family, more specifically his mother, accused Michael Jackson in 2003 of having gotten his son drunk and sexually abused him. Here I’ll take a moment to highlight something that was widely discussed: Michael may not have done things right at first , even his family questioned him about it.
The fact that he gave Evan money to end the trial prematurely, as this act, in turn, sparked the interest of other parents who also took their children to Neverland. And from that moment on, some began to see Michael as an opportunity to obtain easy and dirty money based on lies. [Music] But okay, let’s continue. This case, unlike the other, has several pieces of evidence and an unexpected ending for the child’s mother.
And the testimonies, the investigation, and the court hearings yielded evidence against the Arbizo family. Yes, basically, and as they say vulgarly, they spat upwards and it fell back on their faces. The trial revealed that the family had a negative history of defrauding other celebrities such as Luis Palanker, Jail Leno, Chris Talker, social services, news companies, and department stores in the area where they lived.
In other words, they were seeking money through fraudulent activities. Janette Arviso, the boy’s mother, had sued the security guards at the JC Penning department store for alleged sexual abuse when they caught her stealing. What was the result? He got what he wanted, an out-of-court settlement. She had also once accused her ex-husband of abusing her and her children.
Yes, she really was an unstoppable woman. The methodology was always the same. Gavin had cancer and his mother coached him to say what she wanted. They manipulated celebrities and obtained money for the child’s treatment. Money that was eventually discovered in court was being spent on cars, apartments, and other valuables. That’s how they got to Michael Jackson.
And here it is worth highlighting something that very few media outlets mentioned, which is that Michael paid for the child’s cancer treatment. Yes, just as you hear, he literally gave Gavin life because the treatment was a success thanks to him and how he was paid with the abuse scam. But before going to a long and expensive trial, Janet Arviso, the boy’s mother, contacted Larry Felman.
Yes, the same lawyer who secured the out-of-court settlement with the Chandlers in 1993. Clearly, by this point in the story, Janet’s intentions were more than clear. And do you want to know more? Well, in this case, some truly incredible things happened , such as the dates of the alleged abuse being changed several times because Michael Jackson was either on tour or the family was simply not at the singer’s ranch.
The prosecution fabricated evidence, sending erotic magazines found at Neverland for fingerprint analysis after Gavin touched them during questioning in order to prove that Michael showed those magazines to the children. Yes, that was very shady. Everything was wrong from the beginning, but the worst part is that, thanks to the media, most people still believe absolutely everything to this day.
At the end of the case, all the witnesses made the same statements. The Arviso family were destructive, overbearing, and very assertive in their actions. Beyond the lawsuit, they threatened an employee with a knife , destroyed Neverland’s furniture, and, as if that weren’t enough, insulted other children. Ultimately, Michael Jackson was clearly found not guilty of all charges after a trial that resembled a carnival of extortionists and criminals.
But was that the end of the accusations? Unfortunately, the answer is no. In 2019, HBO released the documentary Living Neverland, which details other alleged cases of abuse, apart from the complaint made by Evan Chandler. But in the 4 hours of filming, far from showing the truth, the facts are contradicted and there are lies against Michael.
When this documentary came out, most people said that the glow left by the pop star would fade. And in this case, the gruesome details also begin. For example, Harvey Weinstein, a Hollywood mogul, financed this documentary to cover up his legal problems, as was the case with Touchon, the documentary that recounts his crimes. It was a coincidence, if you could call it that, that when W.
Robson and James Schachck had no money, they decided to tell that they had been abused by the artist. But like the other cases, do you think they went to justice? Of course not. They went to television first. They had a plan, one that was very similar to the previous ones, and that is that in all cases there was a single common denominator.
Yes, you guessed it, money. That’s why they continued with their public statements. Statements that contradicted things they had said in the past, since one of them had even strongly defended Michael in the 2005 trial, but apparently, as he got older it seemed as if his memory had been reset, but who knows why.
It should also be noted that they did this because defaming a deceased person in the United States is not punishable by law. The problem was that the accusations were false. To summarize, Living Neverland has inconceivable situations, cut videos of the stars that were supposedly directed at the alleged abusers, inconsistent dates, conflicting statements, false testimonies and, in addition to many strange situations, the lack of evidence in the case.
A clear example is that James Sifchack claims to have been abused between 1988 and 1992, specifically at the Neverland train station . And this is where one of his first lies comes in, since the station was not built until the beginning of 1994, that is, 4 years later. The documentary also states that they spent Thanksgiving 1988 with Michael in the United States and then went to the singer’s house in Herberas.
But here’s the other lie, because that day Michael was on tour in Australia. They also assumed that he sexually abused McLuken and Brad Barnes. However, both Mcow and Brad defend Michael to this day. In short, in all the cases where they tried to incriminate Michael, they always turned over every last stone in the Neverland mansion to try to blame him.
They raided his house, even when he was on tour, he voluntarily submitted to checks, as we already mentioned, to prove his innocence, and some of the most expensive trials in history were even carried out to find anything or any detail that could point to him as guilty.
But there was never anything against him . Michael was completely innocent of all charges, and he would be surprised to learn the gruesome details behind each accusation made against him. But if you want to know more, I’ll leave a link in the description to a channel that is specifically dedicated to showing all the evidence and details of these false accusations.
But anyway, let’s continue with what remains of Michael’s life. And now, jumping ahead in time, and after that dark storm had passed a little , on March 5, 2009, Michael Jackson made the announcement that millions of fans were waiting for: after a period of inactivity, he decided to return to what he loved to do, yes, music and live shows.
This is how the DCIS tour came about, a series of concerts at the Dom Arena in the British capital that would begin on July 13. Those were his last words in public. Jackson had committed to 10 dates. A record 1 million people registered to buy tickets in the first 24 hours after the announcement.
Therefore, seeing such high demand, they doubled down and added 40 more concerts. The big comeback was very important for the king of pop, who was mired in depression and loneliness, caused by media attacks and false accusations. Murray, who was Jackson’s private physician, was the one who administered the propofol to help him sleep.
On June 24, on the eve of his death, Jackson arrived late to DC rehearsals at the Styb Center in Los Angeles and appeared somewhat incoherent due to having taken propofol to sleep for 50 consecutive days . But the next day, because of that same medication, he would sleep forever. On the morning of June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson suffered a cardiac arrest at his Holming Heist mansion.
Emergency medical personnel arrived at the scene and found him without a pulse or breathing. In this way, and as the protocol indicates, they tried to resuscitate him and transferred him to the Ronald Rean Medical Center, but unfortunately they could not do much. Thus, at the age of 50, he was declared dead at 2:26 in the afternoon. The last known photo of him shows his thinness; according to investigations, the body had abundant scars from surgical interventions.
Her lips, attacked by bityligo, had been tattooed pink, while her eyebrows were black tattoos. The first official report described her death as being caused by a combination of painkillers, with her doctor, Conrad Murray, as the prime suspect. On August 28, 2009, the Los Angeles County coroner stated that his death was a homicide.
Thus, Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011 and served a 2-year prison sentence. But do you remember that a few moments ago I mentioned that you should remember a person’s name? Yes, Evan Chandler’s, the one who had stood firm on the false accusation against Michael Jackson.
And you know what? She just happened to take her own life after learning of Michael’s death. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Everything seems to indicate a feeling of guilt, but that’s just a feeling. I’d like to hear your opinion in the comments section. But the sudden death of Michael Jackson caused a heart-wrenching outcry around the world.
The streets around the hospital were blocked. The Americans dropped everything to find out what was happening. Many fans even went to his house. His death caused the internet to crash as millions of people tried to find the truth online. Nobody wanted that news to be true. Social media exploded and its multiple outages marked Michael’s death as a crucial event in the history of the internet.
And moving forward in time, two weeks after Michael Jackson’s death, amidst tributes and farewells, the king’s sister, La Toya Jackson, came out to speak and the first thing she said was that her brother had been murdered and that she knew who the culprits were. She asserted that several people, along with a conspiracy, were responsible for taking her brother away, adding: “I think it was all about the money.
Michael was worth over $1 billion in music rights assets, and someone killed him for that. He was worth more dead than alive.” And what La Toya said wasn’t far from the truth, since after his death, Michael Jackson became the best-selling artist of 2009: 8.2 million albums in the United States and another 35 million worldwide.
Seeing the intense demand from fans, Sony released a previously unreleased single titled ” DC” on October 12th, which accompanied the release of the double album “De la misma manera” (In the Same Way). Two days later, without stopping, they premiered the film “Michael Jackson DC.” And then in 2010, they released an album called “Michael” with all new songs.
Something that is particularly striking is that on the album cover, more specifically on Michael’s lips, the word “Alive” can be seen. A hidden message that many fans interpreted as meaning he ‘s alive. In 2014, the album Escape was released, which includes a song called “De la misma forma” (In the Same Way), about escaping the government, people, and accusations—something that gave many people pause for thought.
Some fans interpreted the lyrics as a message he was leaving for them, telling them not to worry, that he was okay. But those are just conjectures, and just as these rumors exist, there are many more, such as the one about Michael having a long-lost son who could be Bruno Mars, and other things we could leave for another video.
Anyway, we’re wrapping up this video, and as always, I’d like to give it an emotional ending, especially for the person who inspired so many future generations to achieve their dreams. Throughout his life, Michael left behind timeless albums. His radical physical transformations undoubtedly marked a before and after in pop aesthetics.
He is one of the most copied figures in history, in addition to leaving a vast and immortal legacy. Musicians. The moonlit, impossible dances left a bitter taste in everyone’s mouth after his unexpected end. He changed the music industry with his songs and videos that looked like something out of a movie. He was young and had so much to give.
He was attacked from all sides and stood firm until he couldn’t take it anymore. Today, the legend remains strong. Even though they try to tarnish it with sensationalist documentaries and senseless statements, so many years after his passing, it’s good to remember him for what he is. Yes, the King of Pop. [Music] Well, that’s all for today’s video, but before you go, I recommend these two videos where you’ll see some very interesting cases.
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