beholds ANGELES (AFP) ??” Family and friends rushed to Michael Jackson's defense while fans planned candlelight vigils to lease shine the light of their faith in their idol.

beholds ANGELES (AFP) ??” Family and friends rushed to Michael Jackson's defense while fans planned candlelight vigils to lease shine the light of their faith in their idol, who stands charged with child molestation.

The beleaguered explosion icon -- who crowned himself "King of Pop" music and passed his music-royalty status onto his son naming them Prince Michael and Prince Michael II -- kept a gentle profile early Saturday at the virid Valley Ranch resort in Nevada, where he flew onward Thursday after being freed forward three million dollars' bail.

Jackson's international fan form a club announced plans for candlelight vigils in six cities in the United States and Britain upon Saturday to support him, as fans and reporters hordeed outside his Neverland ranch near Santa Barbara, California.

Supporters planned to gather around Jackson's star in succession Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

But in modern York, a call for worldwide vigils in