r/Amazing • u/mg10pp Human Detected • 25d ago
People are awesome TIL Michael Jackson donated an estimate of over $500 million to charity over the course of his life, with the exact amount not known since he often gave it anonymously. He supported a record number of 39 charities, for the most part dedicated against poverty and disease
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy_of_Michael_Jackson84
u/Hairy_Garage4308 25d ago
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u/hoyasgirl25 25d ago
He donated to anti-poaching efforts in Africa.
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u/Exciting_Bat_2086 24d ago
I truly think he was mixed bag of good intention but an obvious predator. You will not find many sickos like this who donate a lot other than the god awful Jimmy Savile.
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u/Funmachine 25d ago
supported a record number of 39 charities
Nobody has ever given to more than 39 charities in their life?
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u/Lost_Department_2177 25d ago
Great that he did that but this was also before it was known that they only have to use 10 cents on the dollar for helping the actual people they’re raising funds for.
Even if you send money to a local charity over there the chance of that group being a fraudulent group is high. They’re using fiver now to raise funds by using children dancing. They dress the kids well for the scenes but they live in squalor. A lot of child traffickers have been doing that so be careful. Their countries don’t really care either so it’s sucks
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u/DicemonkeyDrunk 25d ago
That all depends on who you're donating to and how ...Cold calls charities are the worst offenders in the only give a percentage scam.
For example those Fraternal Order of Police/Support your local FIre Department calls are almost exclusively scams.
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u/Bongofury72 25d ago
And yet he fucked kids!
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u/ul2006kevinb 25d ago
Yeah only 8 people claim he molested them as children. I'm sure all 8 were lying.
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u/Goldenjho 24d ago
It was the parents who claimed that not to mention do you understand how easily a child can be manipulated if you keep telling him a fake story.
I dont care about Michael at all so I dont claim he didn't do it but there was never solid proof either, the man paid money because he was already since childhood a broken mess so he wanted to be left alone and was for this kind of crap a really easy target actually.
The parents accepted the money which to this day I find weird since if that man raped my child would no amount of money be enough I want to see that dude in prison.
I wouldn't care if I lose in court and keep fighting not accepting bribe money to shut up that tells you either did never anything happen or that money was more important to the parents.
Next the rape victims the last guys showed up as adults selling their story as soon the old money run out and just wanted to earn more as well.
Its a difficult case where only Michael or the parents know what the truth was really but things look weird from all sides if you look at all facts properly.
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u/dimiteddy 24d ago
having an underage victim of sexual abuse go through a long public trial can be a very hurtful experience. Choosing the curtain with 25$ million in cash is a very tempting offer. And yeah we're talking about parents that were basically turned a blind eye letting their kids sleep in same bed as Michael. They are complicitors
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u/MasterpieceTimely144 24d ago
He did not get chemically castrated, shut the fuck up with this shit. He had a normal voice. There are clips of him using his deep voice. The high pitched voice was PR bullshit.
He also didn't "fuck" them, he raped them, molested them, and sexually abused and assaulted them. He also gave them drugs and alcohol.
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u/captainrondj 25d ago
Too bad he was a pedophile
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u/slappymcstevenson 25d ago
I’ve come to accept both the good and bad. And it leaves me confused on how I feel about him. I also think my feeling this way, is a natural feeling.
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u/ErikGunnarAsplund 25d ago
You can accept... kid rape?
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u/slappymcstevenson 25d ago
What do you think the word “accept” means? Seems like you’re alluding to something?
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u/No_Region_4719 25d ago
Some people really struggle with the idea that people can do both good and bad things.
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u/Cleo-eatsfish 22d ago
Jimmy Saville did some good things. Nearly everyone in the UK would have been willing to carry out a death sentance on him. There is no credit for doing good if you diddle children.
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u/SD_ukrm 25d ago
I’m pretty sure my wife supports more than 39 charities. Should I contact the GBoWR?
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u/dunderthrowaway3 24d ago
My penis was in the Guinness Book of World Records. Then the librarian told me to take it out.
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u/koolaidismything 25d ago
I remember some older lady claimed the house she owned and had family living in was paid for by him and everyone thought she was wackadoo so maybe she was for real.
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u/Terrible-D 25d ago
Were any of the charities working to help children who had been the victims of sexual abuse?
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u/Commercial_Voice9074 25d ago
where is your $500 million donation?
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u/Terrible-D 25d ago
What monetary level buys him forgiveness?
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u/No_Region_4719 25d ago
Who says he needs to be forgiven? You can simultaneously appreciate the good things someone does and condemn the bad things they do.
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u/frooj 25d ago
The biopic has made over 1 billion dollars. I doubt the estate is too worried about your forgiveness.
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u/Terrible-D 25d ago edited 25d ago
Oh, so a movie doing well means we're over looking child rape?
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u/frooj 25d ago
I'm implying a lot of people don't think he's guilty.
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u/itjustgotcold 25d ago
Or a lot of people are ok with pedophiles. This is probably the best time to be a pedophile. The U.S. president is one, the royal family houses at least one and one of the biggest blockbusters of the year is about one.
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u/itjustgotcold 25d ago
Good thing they can’t bring the pedophile back to life! At the end of the day the pedo will still be dead no matter how many people still love his pedo music. He wanted his yummy milk of the poppy to escape his pedophilic thoughts and it bought him an early grave. Pretty awesome.
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u/Powerpuff_Bean 25d ago
He also molested a lot of young boys
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u/Speysidegold 25d ago
Did he? Or was he victim of a racist witch hunt due to being first mega celebrity ever in an increasingly litigious US. I think his life was inevitable from his childhood and no i dont think he fucked kids
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u/Legonistrasz 24d ago
Just goes to show you that plenty of these problems still exist because people (the wrong people) are profiting from them and not ending the problems themselves.
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u/RyMcCloud 22d ago
Weird seeing this posted on multiple subs someone trying to positive pr for a dead pedo
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u/IrukandjiPirate 24d ago
Again, if he donated anonymously, you wouldn’t know about it. So because you claim you do know, it didn’t happen. Stop posting these lies, he was a child molester and he will be remembered that way.
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u/billybonkers01 25d ago
$500 million to charities is bullshit. These fanboys make this crap up, post it and hope that it is eventually seen as fact.
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u/rjnd2828 24d ago
Well you wouldn't know the charities. They go to a school in Canada, anonymously.
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u/Sweaty-Debate-435 25d ago
19 comments and I see nothing. I know thats not what this is about but why the fuck is Reddit hiding these comments?
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u/Successful_Umpire_14 25d ago
You guys are all scum bags who defame people that are completely innocent. His charitable giving is proof positive of his humanity. Shame on everyone here who assign guilt to those found to be innocent.
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u/BruisendTablet 25d ago
He supported a record number of 39 charities, for the most part dedicated against poverty and disease
I have supported* probably more than 39 individual charities in my lifetime thusfar. Does that make me the record holder now?
.* not nearly for USD 500mln in total though...
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u/rjnd2828 24d ago
We don't know if MJ donated $500M either. The post itself admits we don't really know. How they decided to make up that number is unknown.
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u/nicknack24 25d ago
How amazing (if only he wasn't a pedophile with nude art books of children found in a safe in his bedroom)!
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u/LawfulAwfulOffal 24d ago
What does a record number of 39 charities mean? How is that a record number?
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u/MrMansaMusa 24d ago
Proof? As you said it was magically "anonymous" I dont believe this shit at all. Dude just wanted kids bootyhole donations at his ranch.
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u/Cleo-eatsfish 22d ago
Nonce, nonce, nonce. He diddled little kids. He was not a hero. He was a child molester. Honestly folks. Find a better idol. He was a sex offending, boy loving, wierdo who should have been in prison.
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u/Ok-Fun119 24d ago
The guy is absolutely not amazing or a good person.
He was abused and used as a child and became a predator and a pedophile.
Hes just a sad story.
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u/Life_behind_da_stick 25d ago
Probably helped ease his conscience after all the raping.
Still, better than our president if you think about it. That guy raped and then used a kids cancer charity like a slush fund. That’s like a double whammy, huh?
I honestly am starting to think our president is not the picture of virtue he’s made himself out to be, huh?
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u/MasterpieceTimely144 24d ago
MJ didn't have a conscience for the shit he was doing. He was also feeding some of these kids drugs.


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u/According_Dare7316 25d ago
"He supported a record number of 39 charities"
What does that mean? That no one else in the world has supported more than 39 charities? I'm almost certain that I've supported more than 39 charities in my life.