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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...
was the teenage accuser at the center of the ; he testified that Jackson had molested him, given him alcohol and shown pornography during visits to , and his family’s testimony and conduct became a fo...
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 ...
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...
The 2005 criminal case centered on allegations by a 13‑year‑old, , and members of his family that had sexually abused Gavin and related counts including intoxication and conspiracy; prosecutors relied...
Prosecutors in the trial relied not only on testimony from and his family but on documentary footage, testimonial threads from former household staff and attempts to show a pattern of conduct and cons...
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...
Since ’s , the clearest “new” material tied directly to the 2003–2005 Arvizo case consists of previously unreleased audio and video recordings and the resurfacing of insider witnesses who now say the ...
Major mainstream outlets since 2005 have generally framed the Arvizo family within the contours of the criminal case and its wider cultural fallout—reporting the allegations, trial outcome, and media ...
testified in the 2005 that gave him alcohol, showed him pornography, masturbated in front of him, and made sexual advances, testimony that the defense later challenged for inconsistencies under cross-...
has made virtually no sustained public commentary in the criminal trial; contemporary journalists who revisited him or his story found him largely private, reachable only through a longtime family fri...
against accused him of repeatedly molesting , then 13, at and of related crimes including giving a minor alcohol to facilitate abuse, holding the Arvizo family captive, and conspiring to abduct and ex...
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...