I recalled an interview I watched many years ago in which Jackson was extremely unconvincing in his denials that child erotica had been found in his possession. I thought it was the Oprah interview, but I just searched for transcripts and found that it was the Diane Sawyer interview he conducted with Lisa Marie Presley in 1995. Here's the relevant section:
Diane: I want to ask you about two things. These reports that we read over and over again, that in your room they found photographs of young boys…
Michael: Not of young boys, of children, all kinds of girls and…everything.
Diane: And that they found photographs…books, of young boys who were undressed.
Michael: No.
Diane: It didn’t happen?
Michael: No, not that I know of – unless people sent me things that I haven’t opened – People send, people know my love for children, so they send me books from all over the world. From South America, from Germany, from Sweden. I…
Diane: So people say that, that they found these things, that there’s an indication…let them come forward…Let them produce them, right?
Michael: Yeah. Because I get all…I get all kinds…you wouldn’t believe the amounts of mail that I get. If you say to somebody, you know, if I let the fans know that I love Charlie Chaplin, I’ll be swarmed in Charlie Chaplin paraphernalia.
Diane: What about…
Michael: …If I say I love children, which I do, they swarm me with everything pertaining to kids.
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It struck me as suspicious when I first watched it as a young teen, which is why it stayed with me all these years. It doesn't read any better now.