Oh my days this quote from David LaChapell! WOW. Love it!
“We persecuted him. Every person who ever bought a tabloid or watched the news, we all contributed to his death by taking in that form of gossip… Madonna has been torn down. Michael Jordan has been torn down. Michael Jackson was destroyed. Like no other person in our times. You have to remember that Michael Jackson was innocent. He was proved innocent in our courts. If you read the transcripts of the trial it is insanity, it should never have gone to court. We spent tens of millions of dollars to prosecute him when we don’t have money for schools in California,” LaChapelle tells Nowness in 2010.
Wishing to balance the overtly negative portrayal of Jackson in the media, LaChapelle decides to portray the singer as a martyr: “I believe Michael in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don’t see a crack in the facade. There’s this purity and this innocence that continued. If it had been an act, he couldn’t have kept it up. If you watch his concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you’ll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won’t see in any other artist of our time,” he explains to WWD in 2010.![]()
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