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Michael Jackson faced repeated and serious allegations of sexual abuse of boys across three decades, including a 1993 accusation by Jordan Chandler that led to a large civil settlement and a 2005 crim...
Michael Jackson repeatedly admitted in interviews and was reported by journalists and trial records to have allowed unrelated boys to spend the night in his bedroom and sometimes to share his bed; def...
Michael Jackson was acquitted — the jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty on all charges in his 2005 child molestation trial on June 13, 2005, after deliberations that various sources report...
The principal accuser in Michael Jackson’s 2005 criminal child molestation trial was , a teenager who alleged Jackson abused him after they met when Gavin was being treated for cancer; the prosecution...
The assembled analyses indicate the 2005 trial record is composed of two overlapping reporting threads: detailed witness testimony and a large corpus of court filings and exhibits, but many publicly s...
Key defense witnesses who testified that Michael Jackson did not molest children included Wade Robson (who in 2005 denied any abuse) and Macaulay Culkin (who defended Jackson’s bed-sharing with boys),...
The 2005 criminal trial of Michael Jackson ended in acquittal on all counts after roughly four months of testimony and about 32 hours of jury deliberations; the jury’s initial vote was nine to acquit ...
Michael Jackson was criminally charged in the 2005 Santa Barbara County case with a total of 14 counts: four counts of child molestation, four counts of administering an intoxicant to a minor to facil...
Reporting and trial records show Gavin Arvizo testified in the 2005 Michael Jackson criminal trial that Jackson gave him alcohol, showed pornography and molested him; Jackson was acquitted on all coun...
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 People v. Jackson trial featured roughly 140 witnesses, voluminous testimony and media spectacle but ended in a unanimous not‑guilty verdict after jurors concluded the prosecution had not met...
Michael Jackson was the subject of a high‑profile child sexual abuse allegation in 1993 that ended without criminal charges after the principal family declined to cooperate and with a large out‑of‑cou...
In the 2005 People v. Jackson trial the prosecution’s key witnesses included the accuser Gavin Arvizo, his family members and former Neverland staff who described observations; the defense’s high-prof...
Multiple defense witnesses at Michael Jackson’s 2005 Santa Barbara trial testified that they had slept in Jackson’s bed as children and said nothing sexual occurred; key defense witnesses who describe...
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...
The 2005 criminal trial of Michael Jackson centered on allegations by Gavin Arvizo that Jackson molested him and supplied him with alcohol; the jury acquitted Jackson on all counts on June 13, 2005 af...
Gavin Arvizo’s 2005 testimony concerned allegations that Michael Jackson gave him alcohol, showed him pornography, masturbated in front of him, and made sexual advances at Neverland Ranch in early 200...
Gavin Arvizo and members of his family were the prosecution’s central witnesses in the 2005 People v. Jackson case: Gavin (then 15) and his siblings testified that Michael Jackson gave them alcohol, s...