Paris Jackson has defended her father Michael Jackson after the emergence of an old police report that claimed the star had a stockpile of pornographic images.
The documents date back to 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo’s child molestation accusations. In June 2005, Jackson, who denied the charges, was found not guilty and acquitted of fourteen charges – which included four counts of molesting a minor. He died on June 25, 2009.
In a video obtained by British newspaper The Mirror, police officers from the County of Santa Barbara District Attorney’s Office and Sheriff’s Department are seen searching the singer’s home in the 2003 raid where the stockpile was reportedly recovered.
Hours later Paris, 18, took to Twitter to urge fans to “ignore the parasites”.
She posted an image of her father giving a rude gesture to his critic from the video of Scream video, that also featured Michael’s sister Janet, to driver her point home.
Scream, from the HIStory album, is an angry retaliatory song against the tabloid media who had dubbed Michael ‘Wacko Jacko,’ and specifically against press coverage of sexual abuse allegations against him that surfaced in 1993 but for which he was never charged.
#mood pic.twitter.com/RxfOROqHMl
— Paris Jacksoη (@ParisJackson) June 22, 2016
“Unfortunately negativity will always sell. I urge you all to ignore the trash and the parasites who make a career trying to slander my father,” she tweeted. “The most pure people are always torn down. It will continue to be proven that my beloved dad has always been and forever will be innocent.”
Gossip website Radar Online posted what appear to be case documents as well as pornographic images that were allegedly among items Jackson used to lure children.
However, Kelly Hoover, a spokeswoman for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, told The Los Angeles Times that while “some of the documents appear to be copies of reports that were authored by Sheriff’s Office”, the material was interspersed with content that appears to be obtained off the Internet or through other sources. The sheriff’s material is identifiable because it has case numbers on it.
Jackson’s estate also blasted the release of the documents, and said via a statement to The Los Angeles Times “that he (Jackson) was acquitted by a jury in 2005 on every one of the 14 salacious charges brought against him in a failed witch hunt.”
Michael Jackson was preparing for a comeback tour in 2009 when he was found unresponsive inside his Holmby Hills mansion in Beverly Hills.
Paramedics were unable to revive the 48-year-old singer, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Pairs, then 11, and her brother Prince, 12, were at the home when he died and had witnessed attempts to resuscitate their father.
The cause of death was later ruled to be acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication caused by drugs prescribed to him by Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011.
Murray was released from prison in November 2013 after serving roughly half of his four year sentence.
