It’s amazing how someone dying can sweep the nastiest cobwebs under the carpet, and Michael Jackson is a classic example.

I was living in the U.S. at the time, and when news broke street corners were filled with emotional tributes and impromptu Moonwalk performances.

Sure the man could dance, but perhaps his most skillful achievement was covering up what happened behind the doors at the Neverland Ranch.

A ranch called Neverland – let that sink in for a moment.

As never-seen-before reports finally make it into the public sphere we are seeing a rather awful picture painted. RadarOnline reports:

Michael Jackson hid a sinister house of horrors inside his infamous Neverland Ranch, stockpiling images of pornography, animal torture, S&M and gore in a bid to seduce innocent young boys…

Authorities wrote the bombshell reports after dozens of sheriff’s deputies, armed with search warrants, raided Jackson’s secluded Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos, Calif., in November 2003…

[The searches] turned up everything from Jackson’s twisted porn collection — which included filthy photos and videos of men, women, boys and girls in perverted positions — to drugs to treat sex addiction, with multiple prescriptions written by a variety of physicians for people close to the star.

One private investigator with direct knowledge of the raids said: “The detectives’ report cites Michael even used sexy photos of his own nephews, who were in the band 3T, in their underwear to excite young boys.”

But wait, there’s more. Cops also searched a storage space where witnesses say evidence was hidden, and that too revealed some horrors:

Among materials seized, according to a report, were “notes, diaries, documents, photographs, audiotapes and videotapes,” along with more than 80 video recordings and computer hard drives.

“The documents collected by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department paint a dark and frightening picture of Jackson,” an investigator in the case told Radar.

“The documents exposed Jackson as a manipulative, drug-and-sex-crazed predator who used blood, gore, sexually explicit images of animal sacrifice and perverse adult sex acts to bend children to his will,” said the source.

“He also had disgusting and downright shocking images of child torture, adult and child nudity, female bondage and sadomasochism.”

I could go on, but I think the picture has been well and truly painted.

It’s worth mentioning that MJ was acquitted on all seven felony counts of child molestation, and two felony counts of providing an intoxicant to a minor under the age of 14 in order to seduce him, back in 2005.

Looks like they might want to reexamine that ruling then…

[source:radaronline]