Michael Jackson was an avid reader and a collector of books, he also loved art and

photography ever since he was a child. He had thousands of books in Neverland, bought
art books regurarly and received books from fans, artists, photographers from all over
the world.

Michael Jackson Extremely Well-Read, Had 10,000 Books

http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol/2009/07/02/michael-jackson-extremely-well-
read-had-10000-books/

A tweet of Keya Morgan who owned a shop where Jackson often bought art books:

Michael Jackson bought dozens of photography art books from me, some art
books have nude models in them. That is not pornography. Bullshit
https://twitter.com/KeyaMorgan/status/745685010984796161

More on Jackson's lifelong interest in art and photography and his habit to buy large
number of books here:
https://themichaeljacksonallegations.com/2016/12/27/has-child-pornography-ever-
been-found-in-michael-jacksons-possession/

In 1993 and 2003 the police cherrypicked 26 art photo books and adult erotic books from
Jackson's library in Neverland. All 26 books can be purchased on Amazon and/or found on
Google books and/or in major libraries including the Library of Congress. Obviously, none
of these books is child pornography or illegal in any way, contrary to the sensationalist
media's dishonest headlines and reports. While the police report repeatedly stated that
none of these books was child pornography or illegal they claimed because they included
photos of semi nude and nude people (all ages, both genders) they could be used to
groom children, even though none of the accusers claimed that Jackson showed them
books, these or any other.

These books were not found in the context of a collection of nude photographs of boys,
but they were found in the book collection of a man who was generally interested in
photography, art photography, art history, book rarities and vintage books. In any case,
no evidence was shown that Jackson himself bought any of these books or ever even
opened them and only two of these books which were supposedly found in Jackson's
bedroom suite have pictures of full frontal young boy nudes, both by the same authors
published in the 1960s. They can be found in the Library of Congress:

The boy; a photographic essay Boys will be boys!

https://lccn.loc.gov/65000007 https://lccn.loc.gov/66001965

The police, the prosecutor and the media like to point to these books as evidence that
Jackson was attracted to young boys and molested them. However, the facts about
these books actually prove Jackson was not a pedophile:

1. The first time Jackson learned of Evan Chandler plan to accuse him of molestation
was on July 8 or a day after when a taped phone conversation between Chandler and
Dave Schwarz was handed over to his private investigator Anthony Pellicano. On the tape
Chandler was heard talking about a plan to humiliate him [Jackson] beyond belief and
destroy him. The full transcript of the phone call can be read here:
http://michaeljacksonallegations.com/wp-
content/uploads/2013/06/schwartz_chandler.pdf

Then on Aug 4 Evan Chandler personally met with Jackson in the Westwood Marquis
Hotel in Los Angeles and threatened to ruin him.

Prosecutors and the media argued that Jackson used these books for sexual gratification
for years. But if that was the case why did he leave the books on the ranch in Aug 1993
knowing full well that Chandler could report him to the police any day and then his
ranch could be searched? Wouldn't he get rid of them at least after the Aug 4 meeting
where Evan Chandler told him he would ruin him? If he had been guilty most certainly he
would have done just that, he would have been worried about a possible police raid and
he would have eliminated any and all potentially incriminating evidence from his ranch.

But when Diane Sawyer asked him about these books during an interview in 1995 Jackson
reacted like he had no idea what she was talking about, he did not remember having
such books at all and if police found such books it was because some fan must have sent
them to him and he didn't even open them. Here's that part of the interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5xxK7ad-zg&t=1129s

The very fact that the books were still on the ranch long after Chandler's threats is
evidence that he told the truth: he indeed didn't remember those books which means
he didn't use them for sexual gratification and in fact didn't even know what pictures
were inside. Unlike pedophiles, Jackson had no interest in pictures of semi nude or nude
boys.

2. Unlike with Jackson's heterosexual adult magazines no fingerprint evidence was shown
in court regarding these two books. There was no evidence at all that Jackson ever even
paged them let alone that he did that repeatedly over 10 years. A pedophile would most
certainly have paged those books many times over 10 years.

3. Jackson didn't buy the books, they were sent to him by some fan named Rhonda in
1983. One of the books had her inscription:

To Michael, from your fan. Kiss, kiss, kiss, hug, hug, hug. Rhonda. 1983.
The two books were both out of print by 1983 and were by the same authors so most
likely they were sent together. Boys will be boys had Jackson's own inscription which
indicate that he wanted to send the book to someone most likely back to the fan who
sent it and asked him to sign it, one doesn't inscribe and sign a book for himself and
doesn't tell himself look. The book's cover shows four happy boys jumping in a lake.
Jackson's inscription reflects his thoughts while looking at that picture:

Look at the true spirit of happiness and joy in these boys faces. This is the
spirit of boyhood, a life I never had and will always dream of. This is the life I
want for my children. MJ.

The inscription is in line with what Jackson said publicly that he was missing a normal
childhood and he was focusing on the boys' happiness not on their bodies. The pictures
and paintings and statutes in Neverland also depicted happy kids and happy babies,
Jackson even had a poem about smiling babies displayed in the Neverland garden:

The inscription is evidence of Jackson's obsession with happy childhood not pedophilia.

4. He didn't buy the books and a pedophile would not wait for some stranger to send him
pictures of nude boys, he would actively look for such material. But Jackson didn't
collect pictures of nude boys at all. His computers were examined by the FBI and they
found not one picture of a boy , clothed or othewise, only heterosexual adult pictures.
5. The police took the books in 1993 and they didn't find them again in 2003. A pedophile
who needs such a pictures for sexual gratifications would not suddenly lose interest in
them. However police not only didn't find these books in 2003 they didn't find a single
photo in books, magazines or otherwise in Jackson's bedroom which depicted a frontal
boy nude, the very thing they said MJ was attracted to. Every semi nude or nude picture
which they found in his room were either men, women or girls or boys but without their
genitalia being shown. And the pictures were in art photography books and old nudist
magazines which Jackson liked to buy because he liked pictures of nude women from the
1930s 40s 50. A store owner who witnessed Jackson buying such pictures one wrote this
in his blog in 2011:

He also bought a bunch of old nude stuff-clipped out pictures from nudist
magazines and old shots of posed nude women.
http://chuckprophet.com/blog/michael_jackson_visits_recycled_records_-
_by_andrew_rush/

6. Police and prosecutors claimed that the books were found in Jackson's bedrom within
a closet within a closed file cabinet and they opened it using a key which a former maid,
Blanca Francia who left Neverland in 1991 still had. Prosecutor argued that Jackson had
the books there to hide it from the staff, the guests and the parents and at the same
time to be easily available when he needed it for sexual gratification.
However that story makes no sense. If he wanted to hide it from everyone why did he
allow a maid to have a key to that cabinet in the first place especially a mother who had
a teenage boy, Jason Francia. Why did Blanca Francia still have this key years after she
left her job in Neverland? Why couldn't the police open the cabinet when they had a
locksmith with them? How did the police find out that Blanca Francia of all people had
the key to that cabinet? These questions were not answered during the trial but the
police was hardly objective while investigating Jackson and they could put those books
anywhere during the raid or lie about where they found them later just to incriminate
Jackson.

Of course it's more than implausible that Jackson would not only leave those books on
the ranch after hearing Chandler's threats on July 8 1993 and then on Aug 4 1993 but he
would leave them in an incriminating place like a closed file cabinet in his bedroom.