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Let's get into Michael Jackson and Diana Ross! Their bond has always been one of the stranger threads in Motown history. Diana was the glamorous star who helped launch the Jackson 5, took a young Michael under her wing, and became someone he idolized, later even naming her as who he'd want to raise his kids. But some look back at how intense that closeness was when he was still a child and read something more uncomfortable into it, floating theories that the mentorship blurred lines it never should have. Others say it was pure admiration and nothing more. This digs into where the "grooming" talk comes from, what's actually known, and how much is just internet speculation.

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