tonight on "nightline" -- paterno's son speaks. tonight in the first sit-down television interview since the eruption of one of the biggest scandals in sports history, how the man at the center of it all is coping. fired penn state coach joe paterno's son describes his father's struggle. hot heels. angelina, scarlett, j-lo. turns out they all love the same man, shoe designer christian louboutin. but who is the magician behind those trademark red soles? and high five. he was a precocious kid who picked up a guitar and never put it down. tonight, adam levine of maroon 5 moves like jagger.

>> from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill we're in new york city, this is "nightline." november 18th, 2011. good evening, i'm terry moran. tonight, the paterno family speaks out about the child abuse scandal that has ended the storied career of penn state football coach joe paterno and given rise to harsh new national scrutiny of college sports altogether. paterno's son jay in his first sit-down television interview since the scandal broke spoke just tonight with our sister network espn answering questions about how his 84-year-old father's handling this crisis and a new diagnosis that he has cancer. in just two tumultuous tragic weeks, joe paterno has had a fall from grace that is hard to believe. at 84 years old, revered by sports fans across the nation

after coaching penn state's football team for 46 years and winning more games than any other major college coach, he was fired last week. >> joe paterno is no longer the head football coach effective immediately. >> reporter: disgraced for allegedly not doing enough to stop what he was allegedly told was the sexual abuse of children by jerry sandusky, one of his longtime assistants. and now joe paterno is battling lung cancer. >> if there's one guy that can beat that, it's him. >> reporter: paterno's son jay, who coaches with his father, spoke to espn's tom rinaldi tonight after the family released a statement saying doctors believe joe paterno's lung cancer is treatable. and for the first time tonight, jay answered questions about the scandal swirling around his father. and talked about what this tremendous fall from grace has felt like inside the paterno family. >> what have the last two weeks been like for you? >> pretty surreal. it's almost like the book of

job. i mean, i'm not a bible scholar by any stretch of the imagination but job went from having everything to having nothing. it's not quite like that but i think to keep things in perspective, one thing joe said to me throughout all this is, we've got to make sure we keep focus on the victims of this whole tragedy. >> reporter: but he says his father and mother are reeling. >> he's a father. he's a grandfather. and they have done so much for children and for young people. my mom and dad both. >> reporter: joe paterno stands accused not of a crime but of a different kind of moral failure. he did not do enough to protect children allegedly being victimized by sandusky. and there may be so many victims it seems. jerry sandusky coached at penn state for decades under paterno and in 1977 founded a charity for underprivileged kids called the second mile. many of the reported victims were second mile children.

>> it was unnatural from the beginning. >> reporter: deborah long's son matt was placed in foss fer care with sandusky after he got in trouble. he says he was never molested. but his mother believes otherwise. >> it's a nightmare. i mean, nobody wants to think somebody would do that to their child. >> you have to think about kids going to bed at night, you know, with really frightening demons and some innocence lost. and that's heart-wrenching. >> reporter: jay paterno spoke about the victims tonight but also staunchly defended his father. he argued that when assistant coach mike mcqueary came to joe paterno in 2002 and told him he'd seen sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in the showers, sandusky had already retired. >> he'd been gone for a couple years. he'd been retired. so he really wasn't part of that -- that staff anymore. >> reporter: penn state football brings in $70 million a year to the university. under paterno, all that money

from the program has transformed the school. and turned him into a living legend. actually cast in bronze in front of the stadium. tonight, when asked how he feels about his father's name being removed from the big ten championship trophy, it was clear that jay paterno, even in the midst of scandal, is still focused on the game. >> let's get there and win it and put it back on it. >> joining us now is the reporter who conducted that interview with jay paterno, tom rinaldi, from our sister network espn. tom, great work on this story throughout. tonight, i want to ask you specifically, after talking with jay paterno, do you think he gets it? do you think that they're aware that joe paterno's reputation, his legacy, has been tarnished here? >> i think that jay and probably a lot of the paterno family feels as though the way things look right now might change over time. i think they understand certainly what this has done to joe paterno and how he's perceived right now. and what it's done to penn state

university and its football program. but there is a persistent belief, certainly among the paterno family, that as more facts come to light, things may not appear exactly as they do right now and perhaps may look more favorably upon joe paterno. >> and that's a great point, the facts have yet to emerge fully. what's next for the paterno family? >> joe paterno really needs to concentrate right now on his health. and in talking to jay and to others close with the family, they say the plan will be for joe to begin radiation this week most likely. >> absolutely. tom rinaldi in columbus for the penn state/ohio state game tomorrow, thanks very much for joining us. and we will continue to follow the penn state story. but just ahead, well, it's the color of desire and it's painted on every louboutin heel. we step into a footwear fantasyland. i'd race down that hill without a helmet.

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if you love high heels, and who doesn't, the man we're about to meet needs little introduction. christian louboutin is a high saint, maybe a deity, in the church of fine footwear. if you don't worship of the altar of the stiletto, then you'll want to know two things about his shoes. a pair cost more than household appliances and the soles are always a flagrant flirtatious red. here's sharyn alfonsi. >> reporter: from the back of a vespa, you can learn a lot about someone. darting in and out of traffic through paris on his red vespa it is clear. my driver is fearless. and while few women might

recognize his face, his sole, that sole, is now one of the most recognized in the world. christian louboutin. yes, that louboutin. the designer behind these. sexy, sky-scraping signature red soled shoes. a staple of sirens from angelina jolie to scarlett johansson. the stuff of powerhouses and pop stars like jennifer lopez. >> i would like a shiny new pair of louboutin shoes, the ones with the high heels and the red bottoms. >> reporter: who sings the shoe's praises with her song. ♪ >> reporter: women line up for his sexy shoes outside his paris store. but he has a very specific customer in mind. you got to have a tall girl in here? >> i quite like my customer to be fierce.

>> reporter: fierce? >> exactly. >> reporter: when louboutin isn't practicing his sky high trapeze routine, he's designing sky high shoes here at his atelier in paris. >> shoes made here are custom-made shoes. >> reporter: this is a custom shoe of some lucky lady? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: he makes no apologies for the sky-high prices. his shoes sell from anywhere from about $500 to $6,000. today, louboutin sells more than 600,000 pairs a year. >> a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. quality. these shoes are going to stay for a long time. >> reporter: louboutin started sketching shoes as a teen. kicked out of school at 16, he spent nights in paris, designing shoes for burlesque show girls. he launched his own company in 1991. three years later, a happy accident. the prototype of a shoe he created had come in but it seemed to be lacking something.

>> i had a girl working with me trying on the shoes. when she was not trying on shoes she had nothing to do so she was waiting. so she was doing her nails. she had this nail polish. i thought, this black has to be it. so i grabbed her nail polish and painted the sole. >> reporter: with the nail polish? >> with the nail polish. >> reporter: the famous red sole was born. today, he says those red soles attract men the way a bull's attracted to a red cape. but the red sole has also attracted something else, copycats. louboutin is now embroiled in a nasty lawsuit, suing one designer who started painting his soles red to stop. >> to be copied can be taken as a compliment. when it's to be really attacked in a way, i do not see it as a compliment. >> reporter: a lawyer for yves st. laurent said no designer should monopolize a color. did you feel that you were monopolizing a color? >> i did not monopolize a color.

i have put the color at a place where nobody has put it. hermes is not monopolizing orange for the bag or tiffany the blue. >> reporter: but it's your trademark? >> it is my trademark, absolutely. >> reporter: a trademark that's also viewed as a piece of art. this new book details 20 years of design, page after page of pure shoe porn. and watching women slip on his shoes is a study in psychology. >> some women are not completely comfortable with their body. even if you're not really comfortable with your body, you are comfortable with your feet. >> reporter: the feet always hold up. >> reporter: six months pregnant, feeling less than glamorous, he proved it to me. this is the lion paw. hello, lovers. i think i just lost five pounds and ten years. fabulous. that's high, huh? >> you would have half a size smaller. >> reporter: really? >> yep. >> reporter: comfort does not

appear to be part of the lexicon. some stilettos are seven inches high. >> i don't want these shoes to appear comfortable shoes. >> reporter: they're not meant to be birkenstocks. >> exactly. all the respect i have -- >> reporter: all respect for those. sex he says is behind most of his designs. one customer commissioned him to make a shoe for his wife with rubies all over the sole. >> i said, well, you know, but once you have the weight of the person, they're going to pop off. he says, there won't be any weight on it. it will only be worn in a way -- >> reporter: in a horizontal way? >> yeah. >> reporter: after my tour of shoe heaven and a vespa ride through paris, like so many other women, i was convinced, louboutin just might be my sole mate. for "nightline," i'm sharyn alfonsi in paris. >> sharyn's sole mate. next up, he's one of the voices on the hit single stereo hearts.

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they grabbed a grammy award for best new artist in 2005. the band maroon 5 is still riding high with current hits like "move like jagger." bushtly billboard's number one radio song. their success is thanks in large part to the enchanted voice of their lead singer adam levine. he's tonight's "play list." ♪ ask her if she wants to stay

alive ♪ ♪ she will be loved >> "she will be loved" is one of those songs that when i wrote it was done in just a few hours. i just felt like i was connected to it. i really thought people were going to understand it and love it. that was a great moment. writing that song, which was probably a decade ago. it's crazy. ♪ rock down to electric avenue ♪ and then we'll take it higher ♪ >> listening to electric avenue by eddie grant. that was the first actual hard copy i ever bought. the first tape i ever bought. i made my parents listen to it all the time. i probably drove them a little crazy with that so i'm sorry to my parents for that. my family's a very musical family. they appreciate music. i was obsessed with the tune. i love the song to this day. it's irresistible. it's one of those songs. ♪ thriller night ♪ and no one's going to save

you ♪ "thriller" was just everyone's soundtrack. it was the biggest record on earth. everybody wants to be michael jackson. i would dance around the living room with my glove on like every other kid. michael jackson was probably his biggest at this time. almost as if pop music is something i loved so much as a kid. then i was 13, 14, 15, kind of left it behind and didn't think it was particularly cool. ♪ take me away to paradise i remember hearing greenday for the first time and being kind of blown away. i heard "longview" on the radio i was just enamored by it, like, wow, what's this? this is amazing. it was definitely popping music. it was a little kind of pissed off and obnoxious. when i was in high school i was a little rebellious. i wanted to play music. i didn't want to do the things they were teaching me. singing was something i never really wanted to do, to be honest, i wanted to be a guitar player. i had a music teacher. he told me at a really young age

i had something special. i could sing. i always thought it was terribly uncool to have a melodic voice. i wanted to be a guitar player. i picked up the guitar and that was it. i fell so madly in love with it. it's all i did. it consumed my every thought. ♪ he's the one they call dr. feelgood ♪ actually learned how to play drums in my attic listening to dr. feelgood, motley crue record. just listening to it and playing it as loud -- i had a karaoke machine that i'd put -- really bad idea but i put it right by my ear. in order to get it loud enough. i'd have these drums, really crappy drum set, listening to it and almost treating it like a monitor. i'd have it rigged up blasting and i'd play that whole album and learned how to play drums. thank you, tommy lee, appreciate it. ♪ with the girl i love ♪ and i'm like forget you clo has made some records. also on his own that i think are

amazing sounding and so cool and refreshing. also rooted in old school which is cool. lots of different ways to get people interested in music. i think it's cool. ♪ gonna have to keep it working with christina on "moves like jagger" was amazing. it was great. hearing her singing for the first time was amazing. it was a very soulful kind of simple performance. i felt like it was a different thing for her. it was a very different thing for us. i felt really cool about the collaboration being something new for both entities. ♪ and it goes like this ♪ take me by the tongue and i'll know you ♪ ♪ kiss me till you're drunk and i'll show you ♪ ♪ got the moves like jagger "moves like jagger." sounds good. thanks for watching abc news. on monday on "nightline," tune in to see wounded iraq veteran former "all my children" star j.r. martinez, currently gracing "dancing with the stars," he'll h