Beat It

The Smoking Gun lays out a devastating case against the King of Pop Michael Jackson based on recently reviewed documents from the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department. What deputies allegedly found at the Neverland Ranch wasn't pretty: a stash of porn including "Barely Legal" DVDs and "Pimp Up, Ho's Down," and books of nude men. But most damaging are the eyewitness accounts, especially those of Jordan Chandler, the 13-year-old boy who received an out-of-court settlement and in return dropped the molestation charges against the singer in 1993. From The Smoking Gun (and let me warn you that the following descriptions are graphic):

[Chandler] told police that Jackson frequently masturbated him, adding that he could provide a detailed description of the star's penis as a way of proving the pair had been intimate.... With Los Angeles Police Department detectives weighing his claims, Chandler gave them a roadmap to Jackson's below-the-waist geography, which, he said, includes distinctive "splotches" on his buttocks and one on his penis, "which is a light color similar to the color of his face." The boy's information was so precise, he even pinpointed where the splotch fell while Jackson's penis was erect, the length of the performer's pubic hair, and that he was circumcised.

There's much more unpleasantness to be found in the documents but that should suffice. On the other hand, if this is true, it does give credence to Jackson's explanation for his whiteness. Though he has admitted to suffering from vitiligo, a skin condition involving white spots on the body, critics rejected the claim, saying that he just wanted to be a white man. Now it seems he has been vindicated.

Who says there's no silver lining?