Leaving Neverland, by Bafta-winning director Dan Reed, will receive its world premiere at this year’s Sundance film festival on 25 January, and will air on Channel 4 later this spring
It explores what a synopsis calls the “manipulation and abuse” of two unnamed men by Michael Jackson, from the ages of seven and 10 onwards
Michael Jackson’s estate has condemned a new documentary film, Leaving Neverland, which features allegations that the singer sexually abused children.
Speaking to TMZ, representatives from the estate said the film was “another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson … just another rehash of dated and discredited allegations. It’s baffling why any credible film-maker would involve himself with this project.”
The film, directed by Dan Reed, who has won Baftas for documentaries including The Paedophile Hunter and Terror in Mumbai, is described as “a portrait of sustained exploitation and deception, documenting the power of celebrity that allowed a revered figure to infiltrate the lives of starstruck children and their parents”.
Numerous accusations of sexual abuse of children have previously been made against Jackson. In 1993, Jackson was accused of sexually molesting 13-year-old Jordan Chandler – he denied the claims, and later settled out of court for $23m.
In 2005, a jury found Jackson not guilty of molesting Gavin Arvizo and related charges. Arvizo was aged 13 at the time of the alleged offence.
In 2013 and 2014, after Jackson’s death in 2009, two further lawsuits were filed by Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who each alleged that Jackson had abused them in the early 1990s when they were children. Both cases were dismissed for being filed too long after the alleged incidents.
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AmmaK ago
I have no idea whether MJ was a pedo or not.....I do know that Q has inferred that history will be rewritten and what we have been told is just the opposite. My eyes are wide open to the sham the deep state has projected. Knowing how corrupt the CIA and FBI were, I put nothing past them......
think- ago
Well, I guess you would someone call a pedo who has child porn in his closet, like Jackson.
AmmaK ago
Maybe he did or that is what we were told. Q says this is bigger that we know and that we need to thsee no for ourselves. Could it have been a set up? Maybe. Could Michael have been protecting children? Maybe. We will probably never know the truth. I just know that the deep state/cabal is evil and anyone who is a threat to them will be taken out. I am questioning ‘everything’ that we have been told - was is truth or fiction.........
Vindicator ago
Ya think?
think- ago
What do you mean? looks confused
'Pedo' doesn't necessarily mean that someone is only interested in children, it might also refer to someone who has sexual contacts with adults, but sometimes abuses children, imo.
Vindicator ago
I was agreeing with you.
think- ago
Ah, ok. LOL. ;-)