Because he was weird, and an easy victim for whatever horror stories because of some of the weirdness. Lets be honest if there was a story going around about jackson in the late 90s that he was going to attach fish gills to his throat and live underwater with fish it could have made it into most newspapers as fact before an eyebrow was raised to its credibility. The fact that the guy was weird doesn't make him a convicted criminal.... only the law does that, not rumours.

But yeah... MJ will always be the King of Pop to me, no one ever really rivaled him in terms of both musical genius and dancing ability imo, as for his personal life and taking the piss out of it, isn't that bandwagon pretty damn overly full now?

You still dance around the FACT that after multiple searches, there was no evidence of child pornography found in his home. That was in the court case and is now public record. Unless you can find new evidence that no agency has found, you're either in denial, or just lying.

I don't care if he's freaking Hitler,  all I care is that he made good music.

Aleister crowley is one of my favorite poets and he is normally called "wickedest man in the world",  I don't care if that fartface had ritual orgies and summoned Satan for the lols, his poetry had huge influence on my writing.

You focus on the art not the artist, artists are just humans,  they're boring, the art is the essence.

There's a defense force for anything. Hell, people held rallies for Joe Paterno.

Just let the man rest already.

Jackson's estate is now $2 to $3 billion in profit and growing every year cashing in on legacy and second album release and more on the way. Jackson will still be relevant many years after his death just like Elvis, Hendrix, Kobain, Tupac and other dead famous celebrities. Jackson's death was the best career move and he avoided embarrassment from cancelling his 50 London concerts and his half a billion dollar debt was erased within months of his death.

If there where even somewhat of credible evidence I might be somewhat quick to judge him also, but during his lifetime he hung out with 1,000 of kids yet there where only two people that seriously accused him of child molestation and neither case lead to any charges.  Also if he really would have been guilty he could have easily pulled a Roman Polanski and fled the country to avoid facing any charges. 

There is nothing wrong with linking a wikipedia article to support your argument.  Especially since that page has 75 notes that lead to further articles so its not like somebody wrote it without doing a lot of research.

The child molestation accusations were based on tabloid media witch hunt stories and extortionists making stuff up, the credibility of the claims must be dismissed. Throwing mud around sticks even if it is not true. Jackson despite being found innocent, his reputation was already destroyed.

Paterno got railroaded I'm pretty sure there where plenty more people that where involved in the Sandusky scandal cover up.