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Michael Jackson faced multiple, high-profile allegations of sexual abuse of minors beginning in 1993, including a reported 1993 settlement and a criminal trial that ended in acquittal in 2005; later t...
Michael Jackson faced a ten-count criminal indictment in the 2005 Santa Maria trial that combined ; prosecutors charged him with multiple counts including lewd acts on a minor, administering an intoxi...
The principal prosecution witnesses in Michael Jackson’s 2005 criminal trial were the Arvizo family—chiefly (the accuser), his brother Starr (often spelled “Star” in contemporaneous reporting), and th...
The 2005 criminal trial of Michael Jackson (People v. Jackson) centered on allegations by the Arvizo family that Jackson molested 13‑year‑old Gavin Arvizo at Neverland in 2003; the prosecution present...
There were multiple child sexual-abuse allegations involving Michael Jackson before the 2005 criminal trial: the best-known, high‑profile accusation arose in 1993 involving Evan Chandler and his son J...