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MICHAEL JACKSON ADMITS: THERE HAS BEEN A VIOLATION: _ But of course, it's nothing he's done. Jackson has been moaning about the leaking of the settlement details from that time he hadn't touched the kid, but gave him eight and half million anyway to keep quiet about the whole incident which never happened anyway.

"I respect the obligation of confidentiality imposed on all of the parties to the 1993 proceedings. Yet someone has chosen to violate the confidentiality of those proceedings."

Yes, funny that you'd be especially keen to keep all those details very quiet indeed.

"These kind of attacks and leaks seek to try the case in the press, rather than to a jury who will hear all of the evidence that will show that I did not, and would not, ever, harm a child. I have always maintained my innocence, and vehemently denied that these events ever took place."

But Michael, since you've always maintained there was nothing at all even the least sardine-scented about writing that big cheque out a few years back, why would you be so upset by the details filtering back out now? You tell us you did nothing wrong, and this generous pay-off was little more than an administrative way of tying up a couple of loose ends - so how could it influence the jury?