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American actor, witness
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 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 was criminally investigated twice over allegations of child sexual abuse (1993–94 and 2004–05) and was acquitted at trial in 2005 on all counts after a four-month criminal trial (jury ...
Key civil litigation alleging Michael Jackson’s sexual abuse has been revived and survives appeals, but criminal prosecutions ended without conviction and many factual questions remain litigated, not ...
Michael Jackson paid one or more large out‑of‑court settlements tied to child abuse allegations in the 1990s — commonly reported as around $20–25 million for the 1993 claim by Jordan Chandler — and th...
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...
Leaving Neverland presents detailed, first-person accusations by Wade Robson and James Safechuck that Michael Jackson sexually abused them as children, describing prolonged contact, graphic acts, groo...
Michael Jackson was acquitted on all criminal charges in the 2005 Santa Barbara trial; jurors returned a not‑guilty verdict on June 13, 2005 . Separately, he had settled an earlier civil claim in the ...
Posthumous lawsuits by Wade Robson and James Safechuck have revived legal scrutiny of Michael Jackson’s conduct by allowing personal-injury claims against his companies to proceed to trial after appel...
The release of Leaving Neverland produced a sustained rupture in Michael Jackson’s public standing: it transformed whisper and accusation into detailed survivor testimony that , while simultaneously p...
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...
Multiple official actors—law enforcement, courts, Michael Jackson’s estate, corporations, and individual witnesses—have issued statements, rulings, or public retractions touching on allegations agains...
Leaving Neverland is a 2019 two-part documentary, directed by Dan Reed, that presents extended, personal allegations by Wade Robson and James Safechuck that Michael Jackson sexually abused them as chi...
During Michael Jackson’s 2005 Santa Barbara trial, prosecutors presented testimony alleging he shared beds with minors and behaved inappropriately; defense witnesses — including Wade Robson and Macaul...
Posthumous documentaries — most notably Dan Reed’s Leaving Neverland and its 2025 follow-up Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson — and renewed legal actions by accusers have kept allegations...
Media, lawsuits, and high-profile documentaries drove intense public focus on allegations that Michael Jackson sexually abused children beginning in 1993; law enforcement investigated him in 1993–94 a...
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...