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In lieu of facts, I think most apologists who know the broad strokes of his life tend to address his behavior as the result of the significant abuse he received as a kid. I'm not really familiar with his behavior beyond the highlights, but I don't know if he was ever accused of having raped any of the kids. I know he generally engaged in very creepy behavior with the kids, and the pedophilia was heavily implied though.
To answer your question, yes, I think it's a creepy cashgrab at best. I might watch it on a long flight out of curiosity if it's available, but I don't forsee seeking it out.
The first accuser...
But that one was weird. The kids parents were divorced and the mom had custody.
So the kid, his siblings, and mom hung out with MJ, and he took them to all types of shit, like award shows, giant concerts, trips all over the world. But not the ex husband, because the family was already split when they met MJ.
Ex husband initially was super pissed, then one day did a 180 and started pushing hard for unsupervised overnight trips that had never happened before. Then the ex-husband (who was a dentist) gave his kid a bunch of laughing gas for a "procedure" and claimed that in that state the child told him of the abuse.
MJ settled because that's what people did, and the second that happened the floodgates opened.
He was weird as fuck, and any parent that was letting him spend nights unsupervised with their child is a piece of shit...
That doesn't mean anything bad actually happened tho. There's no real evidence it did, but it's impossible to prove it never happened.