MJ: can we finally accept he was innocent?

So, he was a weirdo. And a rich guy. And he loved kids.
These are three facts anybody has to agree with, that he would admit himself.

He had a dream: he wanted to be a real life Peter Pan. He had all the money and charisma to make that true, so he changed his look, built a theme park for a house and surrounded himself with kids to play with, and tried to lead them in life too, mentoring them in show business and working with them on their talents and arts.

Now, you are this silly dreamer, innocent and naive and, in my eyes at least, quite stupid.
HOW WOULD YOU GO ABOUT THIS DREAM?
Would you put cameras and microphones in your own house, everywhere in your own privacy, because one day you might have to prove to somebody else that you are not molesting these kids?
Again, we are talking about somebody who's not too bright, obviously, so he would probably just think "hey, screw these other people! I'm not doing anything wrong so why do I have to prove myself innocent?" without realizing his little friends or their families will be the ones he has to defend against.
Is it that impossible for people to accept this reality?

On the other hand, let's suppose he was in reality NOT what I described so far, but an evil genius pedophile that just wanted to play with little boys's private parts. So he's still the most famous star in the world, but now he's a criminal pedophile.
Would you go about your pervesion the way he did, which is build this organization based around little kids just so you could get to fondle them? Wouldn't there be many other ways to satisfy your criminal urges that do not involve to publicly showcase your interest in them? Wouldn't you at least have a "beard" woman, or many of them, all the time, as a cover up?
Or was he SUCH an evil genius that he used the "basic instinct" strategy, which is he did all this as a cover up to say "would have I surrounded myself with kids so obviously if I were a pedophile" exactly because he was a pedophile building his alibi?
He sounded pretty stupid to me on many occasions, including in court when he was put on a stand to justify his own actions, so I would rule this scheme out. Or was all that an act of this evil genius? Is this reality more acceptable than the real one?

I rest my case, anybody can believe what they want, from what I see from my pov, I see him as a self made modern day Peter Pan that had to face the reality of the impossibility of such a silly dream.