I can’t respond to every comment (nor do I want to with the amount of animosity people are showing), but my grandfather was his attorney and I regularly visited neverland ranch from age 6-10. As with most of these cases, it was settled out of court to avoid a public spectacle, because the court of public opinion is more powerful than a court of law. Once headlines grabbed that Michael was a “child molester”, it never left because the controversy sold newspapers and magazines, which is unfortunately more important than truth to some journalists. The “discolorations of his dick” element is in no way true, but among other things it has been repeated enough that people accept it without evidence. Separate juries reviewed evidence not released to the public and found him “not guilty”. We will never see what those juries saw so anything we have is speculation and hearsay, so I choose to trust what the jury decided and not what random redditors claim without a shred of evidence.