As a professional, I felt it necessary to attempt some input on this thread.
I deal with people who ain't quite right on a daily basis.
I genuinely like and enjoy most of these people.
However, I don't think that even I am capable of explaining Jacko.
He is of another species.
You see, there are crazy people, and there are people like him.
Crazy people with money are different.
Many years ago (around the time of the John DuPont case) vsp put it best.
He made this little table. It listed various socioeconomic levels. They were ALL amusing. But the two I remember were something like ...
FILTHY RICH .............................. Eccentric
LIVING IN A BOX ........................ Speedbump on the roadway of life
I see a lot of option A. Relatively few of option B.
They get treated differently by the criminal justice system in particular. Police in jurisdictions with a lot of $500K+ homes know ... If you go to the good end of town, bend over backwards, and get the guy to the 'nice' hospital. The folks on the wrong side of the tracks get dumped into the back of a cruiser, after somehow managing to hit their head on the door on the way in.
So, what am I really saying here?
It's about money. If MJ didn't have more money that God (oh, I'm sorry, I believe I should have said 'Creator') we wouldn't have seen him after the child molestation accustions. Or the McCauley Culkin rumors. Or the Lisa Marie Thing. Or the baby dangling, or the ... well, you get the idea.
Oh, and the thing about the nose ... it's some kind of pressure necrosis. He's had the skin stretched so tight it's stressed to the point that it can no longer regenerate itself. The tissue dies, turns black, sloughs off. It's NASTY. He'll likely be going for the veil full time sometime soon ... gonna be looking like the Abominable Dr. Phibes in the near future, no doubt.