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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...
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 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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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 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...