>>511049096They didn't need his money.
It's the half of Sony they wanted.
And the Beatles catalogue.
And all the other business ventures he was slicing himself into, one cut of the pie at a time.
The money bought him opportunities, sure, but it's the opportunities that had them worried.
What they really didn't want, was one of the single most popular entertainers in the world taking a bunch of the other popular stars who are clean, and cleansing the music industry by 1) setting up replacement labels and 2) exposing the pedos at Warner and EMI and Motown and so on.
If he said he was raped by managers, people would believe him. Once they realised this was becoming a credible threat, they launched the pedo rape allegations against him in a smear campaign through the media.