man, there's so much disinformation about this shyt, and it's mostly the media's fault.
As concise as I can make it:
1993 - the boy's father (Evan Chandler) accused MJ of molesting his son. and went to extremes to get his son to "confess". he initially pursued a CIVIL suit, would not go to the cops (if not for the law that required a psych to call the cops). judge wouldn't stop the civil suit before the criminal case from proceeding, so MJ/insurance/whoever settled on a negligence claim. criminal case proceeded regardless. ultimately ended because accuser (and dad) would not work with cops, and 2 grand juries declined to indict due to lack of evidence. most of the truth of this was printed in a GQ cover story by Mary Fischer: "Was Michael Jackson Framed?"
2005 - pure bullshyt. the prosecution's case started unraveling as soon as the accuser and family took the stand. accuser's story didn't pass cross examination, or did it even match the initial deposition. when asked in court, why he was upset with MJ, he said "because MJ didn't call me anymore", not because he was molested. the accuser's mom was caught in a whole lot of scams, including one with JC Penney that resulted in a $150K settlement, that got her in trouble for welfare fraud. she talked directly to the jury, including the foreman who I assume is a Mexican-American, snapping at them, and talking to the foreman as if they were skinfolk. the jury came back with a unanimous "not guilty" on all counts with little deliberation. best write up of this shyt was in Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi. look up interviews with Paul Rodriguez (Jury Foreman) for more info. btw, the prosecution got near everything they wanted out of this case and they still caught a big L. jury was mostly old-ass cacs who didn't give af about no damn MJ or his celebrity. so this wasn't some "OJ" shyt they could blame on nikkas, either. in recent times, a witness who was there (who was one of the people they were gonna call to court), a young woman named Jenny Winings (Google her, she has a Youtube channel and a Twitter), has noted how the accuser was really acting around Mike, that Mike wasn't with it, and ... frankly, that lil nikka sounded like a creep in retrospect.
Wade and James - filed civil suits between 2012-14 against MJ's companies for sexual abuse. Wade's case was initially filed under seal, likely to attempt a settlement being forced. James (repped by same lawyers) hopped on afterward. statute of limitations sent James's suit out. Wade's was about to go that way, but he decided to use a loophole to get around it, in which you have to have gone through therapy and "discovered" abuse within 3 years. only one problem: email correspondence from Wade was now made discoverable. in the emails, you find out he was emailing himself shyt from anti-MJ websites about himself, asking his mom if they actually happened, and even an email he sent to Estate reps trying to get on the MJOne Cirque de Soleil shyt. that same email was put on the Summerjam screen on French TV this year when Dan Reed was part of a panel interview. then you got this film, which has a gang of contradictions (even to their sworn testimony in the above civil cases), and the shyt that's come to light recently.
to be clear, I am not one of these nikkas that think every accuser is lying.... but these 2 GOTTA be, with all this bullshyt and the director moving the goal posts every time something new is found out. I also think that this might be bigger than these 3 (Wade, James, the director) but I have no proof of that. I even thought there was something to 93 because of the settlement, until I learned the likely truth of the matter. then I realized the media is pretty complicit in how fukked up this narrative is, and it's definitely true now.
the dum-dums ain't ever gonna change their position unless they recant, but my thing with Mike is -- many nikkas in the media have lied about him and they didn't need to. if he was gonna go down, it was in 2005. there was never any evidence. he was a weirdo, probably not the best person to hold up as your hero, but next to no evidence he's a pedo, unless you're a dumb nikka who inhales ceiling fan dust.