The video is for the song "Neverland" from the Broadway musical Finding Neverland.
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Though the role Neverland Ranch plays in Leaving Neverland and the one it played in the People v.
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I hope my fans are as inspired by 'Neverland' as I was inspired by Finding Neverland on Broadway.
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"Leaving Neverland" focuses on Wade Robson and James Safechuck who relate in graphic detail their experiences in the early 1990s at Neverland and elsewhere.
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The Neverland Visits In his interview with Martin Bashir for 2003's Living With Michael Jackson, Jackson describes the sleepovers with the Culkin kids at Neverland.
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Less than a week before the premiere of Leaving Neverland, it was announced that Oprah Winfrey will be offering up her services as an expert interviewer for her own special, Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland, which will air on Monday immediately following the second half of Leaving Neverland.
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Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch was allegedly full of hidden bedrooms, warning systems and other features that facilitated his sexually abusive behavior, according to the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland.
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You don't even need to change the mythology of Neverland all that much — you just need to turn the setting of Neverland from a game, with game logic, into the literal truth.
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Of course, the accusations have been resurfaced in Leaving Neverland.
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HBO will move forward with the airing of Leaving Neverland.
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Kelsey Grammer ("Cheers") is rejoining the "Neverland" cast on Jan.
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Is Paris Jackson shaking off the controversy surrounding Leaving Neverland?
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It's almost like a Neverland for the employees there. Yeah.
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It's a good thing "Neverland" tailors knew about stretch fabric.
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" The estate has already begun its war on "Leaving Neverland.
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The one on Jackson, I think is called Leaving Neverland.
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Leaving Neverland premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
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She interviewed the subjects of Leaving Neverland as a journalist.
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Part two of "Leaving Neverland" airs Monday at 8 p.m.
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Part one of "Neverland" debuted on HBO on Sunday night.
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Leaving Neverland gives us that, with steady and sober urgency.
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We're told she's been distraught ever since "Leaving Neverland" began airing.
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And some Jackson family members have reacted to Leaving Neverland directly.
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Leaving Neverland goes into much greater detail on the men's claims.
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This newest album, Forever Neverland, is her most mainstream work yet.
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"Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland" premieres May 29 at 8 p.m.
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The orchestral piece you used to depict Neverland was especially euphoric.
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Related: How Much Would You Pay for Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch?
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For some, "Leaving Neverland" was corroboration of their own investigative work.
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She also famously interviewed Jackson in 1993 at his Neverland ranch.
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A new documentary, "Leaving Neverland," has rekindled interest in the accusations.
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" Winfrey similarly challenged her guests, and did so again just a few weeks ago when the mogul found herself commanding a crowd for a television special called "After Neverland," a discussion about the HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland.
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She and her mom saw Finding Neverland on Broadway the previous weekend.
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Like such drinks, "Finding Neverland" is largely made up of empty calories.
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Michael Jackson with a young Wade Robson, from the documentary Leaving Neverland.
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Parts one and two of Leaving Neverland are now streaming on HBO.
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Turns out Neverland Ranch and East High School have something in common.
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Michael Jackson's infamous Neverland Ranch first appeared on the market in 2015.
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"Leaving Neverland" aired on HBO in two parts on Sunday and Monday.
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FINDING NEVERLAND (2004) on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Netflix, Vudu and YouTube.
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There really were protests over "Leaving Neverland" at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Years later, their pain in "Leaving Neverland" is also palpable and raw.
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The second part of Leaving Neverland airs Monday, March 4, on HBO.
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The Jackson estate came out swinging before Leaving Neverland even premiered at Sundance.
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After "Leaving Neverland" aired, Feldman tweeted about having fond memories of the singer.
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Sandy Duncan is flying back to Neverland, but this time as a grandmother.
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Neither Blanket or Prince have commented on the recent HBO documentary Leaving Neverland.
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Michael Jackson and a young James Safechuck, as seen in HBO's 'Finding Neverland'.
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HBO's premiere of "Leaving Neverland" drew an audience of 1.3 million, Nielsen reported.
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Sarah Ruhl's play about a troupe of aging siblings flies off to Neverland.
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" Feldman tweeted a lengthy statement Monday giving his thoughts about HBO's "Leaving Neverland.
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The two-part "Leaving Neverland" is set to start airing Sunday on HBO.
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I've heard about Michael buying the Neverland complex in Santa Barbara County, Calif.
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The documentary "Leaving Neverland" airs in two parts on HBO tonight and tomorrow.
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As the release of HBO's controversial Michael Jackson documentary, "Leaving Neverland," looms, Jackson's Sycamore Valley Ranch in Los Olivos, California, which serves as the backdrop for the movie — better known as the "Neverland" ranch — is on sale for $31 million.
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They talk about how they got the limos and the credit cards and the cars and the houses and Neverland, and one mother talks about the champagne and the wine and the wine cellar at Neverland and how great it was.
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HBO has been threatened with another lawsuit related to its controversial documentary Leaving Neverland.
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Its run time is two hours, the same as part one of Leaving Neverland.
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Every year is different, one year can be in Wonderland, one is in Neverland.
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It takes an id to create a Neverland in this account of Barrie's life.
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In 403, (unconfirmed) rumors swirled that Lady Gaga intended to help restore Neverland Ranch.
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In the documentary, Safechuck harrowingly describes being raped countless times by Jackson at Neverland.
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Or what Tinkerbell does when she's not flitting around with Peter Pan in Neverland?
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But Jackson himself left his famous Neverland Ranch long before his death in 2009.
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While the amount he spent on building and furnishing Neverland Ranch hasn't been confirmed ...
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The King of Pop was also close to foreclosure on his famous Neverland home.
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But I saw an advanced screener of Leaving Neverland a couple of weeks back.
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Neverland Clan is a group that spans a variety of different styles and genres.
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But the owners did decide to keep Jackson's famous Neverland train station during renovations.
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" She even managed to put a positive spin on the release of "Leaving Neverland.
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Now it's off to Neverland with its adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 2966 play.
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Now it's off to Neverland with its adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 2212 play.
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The parents of any kid who passed through Neverland were more convenient to indict.
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In Leaving Neverland, Safechuck says that Michael Jackson encouraged his family to let him drop classes so he could focus on his goal of becoming a director; Jackson gave Safechuck funding so he could create short films, including one at Neverland Ranch.
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Leaving Neverland garnered significant buzz upon its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
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The controversial Michael Jackson documentary series Leaving Neverland premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Twitter exploded Sunday night after HBO's premiere of the new Michael Jackson documentary, Leaving Neverland.
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"Finding Neverland" was a sellout in Cambridge, and it's already doing boffo box office here.
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Law enforcement tells TMZ ... the heated controversy surrounding 'Neverland' isn't lost on officers in Hollywood.
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He'll be playing the King of Pop in the upcoming Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland.
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Navi was out and about in L.A., shooting several scenes for Lifetime's 'Searching for Neverland.
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Jackson's estate has filed a lawsuit against HBO over the planned broadcast of Leaving Neverland.
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Think Finding Neverland – the J.M. Barrie biopic that got Johnny Depp his second Oscar nomination.
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The two became fast and longtime friends, and Michu was a regular at Neverland Ranch.
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"Searching for Neverland" also engages in its share of dramatic foreshadowing about Jackson's inevitable fate.
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Leaving Neverland will air sometime after its premiere at Sundance Film Festival on January 25.
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His Neverland Ranch featured a fully functioning arcade with loads of games available for playing.
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" She has choreographed movies; stage shows for pop stars; and a Broadway musical, "Finding Neverland.
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Welcome to Sycamore Valley Ranch, the former Neverland Ranch that once belonged to Michael Jackson.
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The HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland" has changed how we think and talk about Michael Jackson.
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Michael Jackson The two-part Michael Jackson documentary "Leaving Neverland" aired on HBO in March.
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He said he stayed with Jackson at his Neverland Ranch in California on several occasions.
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Almost every model wore a beanie cap with feathers sticking up, like refugees from Neverland.
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And Leaving Neverland supplies something bigger and more important than a straightforward reported piece would.
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Leaving Neverland, which premiered at Sundance in January, looks at the stories of two men, Wade Robson and Jimmy Safechuck, who were invited to Jackson's Neverland Ranch and were allegedly abused repeatedly by the pop star starting at the ages of 7 and 10.
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Leaving Neverland, a two-part docuseries, details allegations of sexual abuse by Michael Jackson spanning years.
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He closed Neverland and auctioned off many of his belongings, and still was in massive debt.
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She even officiated Taylor's eighth and final wedding, which took place at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch.
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Before Leaving Neverland aired in early March, Jackson's estate filed a $100 million lawsuit against HBO.
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HBO's Leaving Neverland, a two-part documentary, focuses on allegations of sexual abuse against Michael Jackson.
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Aside from Brown, Bieber's reference of Jackson comes just weeks after HBO's Leaving Neverland documentary aired.
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Now, in the wake of HBO's explosive documentary "Leaving Neverland," that investment could take a hit.
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In Leaving Neverland, Robson and James Safechuck, now 40, allege Jackson repeatedly molested them as boys.
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Were they all completely oblivious to the sexual abuse taking place at Neverland and on tour?
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Or in the suggested case of Leaving Neverland, the nurturing, kind, prolific King of Pop himself.
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"Leaving Neverland" profiles two men who say Michael Jackson sexually abused them when they were children.
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Despite accusations of child molestation in this year's "Leaving Neverland," Mr. Jackson's commercial legacy remains intact.
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He starred as J.M. Barrie in a Broadway production of "Finding Neverland" from 2015 to 2016.
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The Jacksons have condemned "Leaving Neverland," a documentary about allegations that Michael Jackson sexually abused children.
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Leaving Neverland airs on HBO in two parts on Sunday, March 3, and Monday, March 4.
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The explosive and controversial Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland is among this year's list of Emmy nominees.
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Controversy Five: Leaving Neverland is being released amid a growing swell of documentaries that revisit past newsmakers.
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While all of this played out, Chandler's parents got divorced, just like Robson's would in Leaving Neverland.
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He brought up the family's first trip to Jackson's Neverland Ranch when he says the abuse began.
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But ride-hailing firms for kids may end up like the children in Neverland, and never mature.
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He later joined with other survivors for an Oprah Winfrey special, After Neverland, on the documentary's themes.
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"I know that she went to the Neverland Ranch with him a time or two," she recalls.
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Our sources say she doesn't see a point in watching 'Neverland' because Michael's been dead for years.
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Escaping into grown-up concerns felt apt, because Leaving Neverland is about the incredible vulnerability of children.
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Leaving Neverland speaks with two men who allege that Michael Jackson molested them when they were children.
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Michael Jackson's music saw an uptick in consumption following the release of HBO's damning "Finding Neverland" documentary.
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Riley Keough has only fond memories of Michael Jackson and her visits to his famed Neverland Ranch.
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You can't just be like, 'Oh, I'm Peter Panning to this Neverland and I'll never look back.
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Warning: This story contains spoilers for Leaving Neverland, as well as graphic details about alleged sexual assaults.
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And we brought Shimon's granddaughter, who was working in Los Angeles, to meet Michael home at Neverland.
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There's [also] sort of a Western interpretation of South East Asia as a high-tech exotic neverland.
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You'll see similar comments on pretty much any Leaving Neverland-related internet post (including VICE's social media).
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Leaving Neverland part one premieres on HBO March 3, with the following installment released the next day.
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Check out what we'll be bringing to you: Neverland Clan Exclusive Mix:Neverland - Follow MeOmelet - Patrol Ride ft .
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Under Jackson's ownership, Neverland Ranch was a Peter-Pan inspired fantasyland with an amusement park, exotic animals ...
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As the evidence presented in Leaving Neverland reverberates through the media, the reaction has been oddly muted.
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Les Waters shows a cast including Kathleen Chalfant, Lisa Emery and Daniel Jenkins the way to Neverland.
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The volcanic island is the film's gloss on Neverland, the enchanted realm where children never grow up.
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Michael Jackson Part one of the new HBO documentary on Michael Jackson, "Leaving Neverland," aired last night.
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The details of Safechuck and Robson's molestation allegations were laid out in the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland.
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"Leaving Neverland," directed by Dan Reed, paints quite a different picture of Jackson's interactions with young people.
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What's still eating each woman up, toward the end of "Leaving Neverland," is that neither woman disagrees.
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BTW ... Janet did not perform at Friday night's ceremony -- possibly because of the fallout over "Leaving Neverland."
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Neverland Ranch is up for sale in a complicated deal that still has ties to Michael Jackson.
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Learn more: Leaving Neverland makes a devastating case against Michael Jackson, by Vox's Alissa Wilkinson The Michael Jackson estate airs rare concert films to try to distract from Leaving Neverland, by Vox's Aja Romano What do we do when the art we love was created by a monster?
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Safechuck told the Associated Press earlier this year that he was initially hesitant to participate in Leaving Neverland.
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The two-part documentary, Leaving Neverland, will air as scheduled on Sunday, March 3rd and Monday, March 4th.
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At the time, Jordan lived with his mother, June, and they'd spend weekends together at Jackson's Neverland Ranch.
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Surviving R. Kelly and Finding Neverland make this point very well: money and abuse go hand-in-hand.
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Darling is still incredibly upset that her children are missing (you know, because they've gone off to Neverland).
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Leaving Neverland, more than any other presentation of Jackson's alleged crimes, gets at the duality Jefferson lays out.
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The film titled Leaving Neverland, which is set to premiere at the 22009 Sundance Film Festival on Jan.
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Unlike The Lost Boys of Neverland, we get older every year and lose some of our childish whimsy.
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The concert film is, as Variety notes, exactly the same length as the first part of Leaving Neverland.
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The Breakfast Club's Allison Reynolds summed up that post-Neverland feeling as your heart dying (figuratively, of course).
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"I had one job, and I f—ed up," his mother, Stephanie, said during a Leaving Neverland interview.
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The Promised Neverland starts airing on January 9th, and it will stream on Crunchyroll, Funimation, Hulu, and Hidive.
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In Leaving Neverland, Safechuck details how many of the kid-friendly features were allegedly used for sinister purposes.
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The two-part HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland" has put renewed scrutiny on sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson.
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The Jackson estate has repeatedly dismissed Wade Robson and James Safechuck -- the accusers in 'Neverland' -- as proven liars.
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The "Neverland" video opens in this fashion: Late one night, Zendaya wants to get into a locked theater.
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Part 1 of Leaving Neverland will premiere on HBO March 3, followed by Part 2 on March 4.
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Jackson's estate has had a similar response to Leaving Neverland as R. Kelly's had to Surviving R. Kelly.
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Neverland Ranch was rebranded as Sycamore Valley Ranch and put on the market for $100 million in 2015.
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Here we are in Neverland, which is chartreuse, you will find, and dotted, for reasons inexplicable, with potatoes.
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The explosive documentaries "Leaving Neverland" and "Surviving R. Kelly" have reignited a national conversation about child sex abuse.
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Look, talking of all you perverts, it was a big year, Surviving R. Kelly, Leaving Neverland, Two Popes.
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If Neverland was a real place I think they would move there with all of us in tow.
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Part one of "Leaving Neverland" featured interviews with Robson and Safechuck along with the families of both men.
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Even if you don't believe that Jackson was a predator, watching "Leaving Neverland" can't help but sadden you.
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Executing search warrants for a condominium in Los Angeles and Jackson's Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara County, Calif.
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She claimed Jackson imprisoned her family, and yet she was allegedly free to leave Neverland to pamper herself?
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The Estate is lashing out after HBO announced "Leaving Neverland" will be broadcast on March 3 and 4.
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Leaving Neverland centers on accounts from James Safechuck and Wade Robson, who claim Jackson abused them as young boys.
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Leaving Neverland begs the question: Was it for his own protection and peace of mind, or something more sinister?
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This weekend, Leaving Neverland, the highly-anticipated documentary about two of Michael Jackson's alleged abuse victims, premiered on HBO.
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HBO will move forward with the airing of Leaving Neverland, the two-part documentary, on March 3 and 4.
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One does not leave Leaving Neverland without a sense of Jackson's onetime grandeur, and the remarkable power of nostalgia.
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As Leaving Neverland reminds and ensures, "We didn't know how bad it was" is no longer a viable excuse.
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Much like Finding Neverland, the film Goodbye Christopher Robin looks at the people behind a classic set of stories.
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Oprah Winfrey isn't giving a second thought to those who disliked her support of HBO's controversial documentary Leaving Neverland.
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The then 7-year-old was at Neverland Ranch when Jackson invited her to 'sing whatever you really want!
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Neverland Ranch, the 2,700-acre property where the pop star lived for 15 years, is currently on the market.
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Cast out by the system, they have created their own idyllic if cramped Neverland of lost boys and girls.
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Michael Jackson's famous Neverland Ranch is back on the market for just a fraction of its original asking price.
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HBO will move forward with the airing of Leaving Neverland, the two-part documentary, on March 3 and 4.
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They were immediately on the grounds of his home when he died, gathering at Neverland to await new information.
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HBO will move forward with the airing of Leaving Neverland, the two-part documentary, on March 28 and 4.
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On March 6th and 7th, the long-anticipated Leaving Neverland will finally drop on Channel 4 in two parts.
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HBO will move forward with the airing of Leaving Neverland, the two-part documentary, on March 22003 and 22007.
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Michael Jackson's estate has filed a lawsuit against HBO over the planned broadcast of the bombshell documentary Leaving Neverland.
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HBO will move forward with the airing of LEAVING NEVERLAND, the two-part documentary, on March 3rd and 4th.
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Michael Jackson's former nanny is speaking out in defense of the late singer following the release of Leaving Neverland.
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Executive producer James Brooks told the Wall Street Journal that "Leaving Neverland" provided "evidence of monstrous behavior" by Jackson.
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The two parties are Lomdon's art-rap boy band Neverland Clan, and the French electronic super group, Club Cheval.
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Michael Jackson's famed Neverland Ranch is on the market for $31 million, less than half its previous asking price.
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Here, it's a stylized Neverland New York City, from its upscale uptown Jewish life to set-dressed downtown bohemianism.
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Since "Leaving Neverland" made its debut at Sundance, the fate of the musical has caused talk in theater circles.
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The next night, the second part had 927,000 viewers, and the Oprah Winfrey-led "After Neverland" discussion had 780,000.
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She remembered Hill standing "with her arms on her hips, like Peter Pan arriving in Neverland," surveying every shot.
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Dan Reed, who directed "Leaving Neverland," asked on Twitter whether pedophilia was tolerated in parts of the entertainment industry.
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They say board members were never informed that the auction proceeds would help cover the "Finding Neverland" investors' costs.
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" That return involved more somber parts, in the Broadway revival of Frank Wildhorn's "Jekyll & Hyde" and in "Finding Neverland.
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"'Leaving Neverland' is long but delicately, patiently done — and so quiet; you can practically hear yourself listening," he writes.
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Michael Jackson's daughter went back to Neverland Ranch on Wednesday and toured the grounds she used to call home.
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Leaving Neverland was picked up by HBO, which will air the documentary in two parts on March 3 and 4.
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The documentary's had more serious ramifications ... like Paris Jackson attempting suicide due, in large part, to the fallout from 'Neverland.
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Some of his most famous additions to the ranch, like a train station and a flowery clock reading 'Neverland', remain.
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Leaving Neverland, which airs on March 3 and 4, features two men alleging that Michael Jackson molested them for years.
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He eventually invited her to see a Broadway staged reading of Finding Neverland and told her she could bring friends.
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Paris Jackson found her way back to Neverland Ranch, taking to Instagram on Wednesday and posting photos of her visit.
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Directed by Diane Paulus — with the guidance of Harvey Weinstein, its chief producer — "Finding Neverland" is filled with such triggers.
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It seems likely that the Jackson estate will fight the consequences of Leaving Neverland for as long as it can.
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Jackson will be the subject of Leaving Neverland, an HBO documentary about the accusations the singer faced in the '00s.
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"Finding Neverland" had its best grossing week since it opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater last March, taking in $1,477,505.
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In Leaving Neverland, Safechuck, now 222, details how many of the kid-friendly features were allegedly used for sinister purposes.
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It's been 10 years since Jackson passed and with that milestone comes an examination of his legacy after Leaving Neverland.
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In March, following a hospital stay in the wake of Leaving Neverland, Paris vehemently denied reports that she'd attempted suicide.
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According the page, Meszaros was a close friend of Michael Jackson and became a frequent guest at his Neverland Ranch.
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Here's the kicker -- they still need to hash out who gets what ... potentially Neverland Ranch itself, if it doesn't sell.
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Michu was reportedly a regular at Neverland Ranch, present during MJ's courtship to Lisa Marie and even knew Michael's kids.
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In Leaving Neverland, Safechuck, now 40, details how many of the kid-friendly features were allegedly used for sinister purposes.
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In ways, the movie is tonally similar to "Finding Neverland," the splendid 2004 biopic about Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie.
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In March, following a hospital stay in the wake of Leaving Neverland, Paris vehemently denied reports that she'd attempted suicide.
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Read more: 7 jaw-dropping moments from 'Leaving Neverland,' the explosive documentary that lodges sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson
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Two days after the star's Neverland Ranch was searched by police that November, Jackson was arrested on child molestation charges.
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Leaving Neverland was one of the most buzzed-about films when it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
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The only added ingredient Ferrofluid Magnified needs is a big bowl of something psychoactive, and you're off to never neverland.
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The second part of HBO's "Leaving Neverland," which details sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson, premieres tonight (8 p.m. Eastern).
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"Alerts go into Neverland," said Treva Moss, a nurse who works in the medical center's specialty clinic in Eugene, Ore.
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She was featured on the 2015 "Finding Neverland" soundtrack, and in February 2016, she dropped a single featuring Chris Brown.
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You can find them outside villages or next to urban parks or squeezed into the Neverland between railways and housing.
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A minute here or there in Neverland would have been compelling, but fully half the work fell into that zone.
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The disturbing claims of HBO's documentary "Leaving Neverland" have many fans rethinking their feelings about the late King of Pop.
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There's a moment in "Leaving Neverland," Dan Reed's documentary about Jackson's alleged pedophilia, where I simply ran out of hooks.
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Questions about Michael Jackson's alleged pedophilia have been dominating the headlines after the HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland" debuted last Sunday.
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Mr. Jackson's estate has already begun its war on "Leaving Neverland" and is seeking $100 million in damages from HBO.
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Leaving Neverland prompted swift backlash from Jackson's estate and fans after its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
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In Leaving Neverland, it's never entirely clear what Robson's father made of the attention Jackson was lavishing on his son, especially after the family, then based in Australia, left the 22011-year-old Robson to stay with Jackson alone at Neverland Ranch while everyone else traveled on a planned vacation to the Grand Canyon.
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During the taping of Oprah Winfrey's interview special, Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland — which will air immediately after the documentary, Leaving Neverland, makes its television debut on HBO over the weekend — the two accusers, Wade Robson, 21992, and James Safechuck, 23, detailed the lasting effects of Jackson's alleged sexual abuse and "grooming" of them.
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That would set the cost per acre at a little over $230,235, making Neverland Ranch severely underpriced based on acreage alone.
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On November 23, after searching Neverland Ranch, Jackson was arrested and was later freed after posting his $3 million dollar bond.
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It's interesting because in the HBO documentary, "Leaving Neverland" ... Safechuck talks about the "engagement ring" he says Jackson bought for him.
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Pan escapes with Wendy's help, fleeing to "Nuncaland," this world's version of Neverland, where he tries to convince her to stay.
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Dan Reed, Wade Robson, and James Safechuck speak with Oprah Winfrey while taping Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland, on Feb. 27.
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She also opens up about her battles with drug addiction, what childhood was like on Neverland Ranch and her bright future.
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That last look is what Leaving Neverland feels like: the shock and pang of betrayal, a visceral reveal of insidious behavior.
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Leaving Neverland also comes on the heels of Surviving R. Kelly, a six-part Lifetime docuseries that aired in early January.
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The stage version of "Finding Neverland" is no replica of the film, though it might have been better if it were.
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Director Dan Reed, James Safechuck, and Wade Robson at the Leaving Neverland premiere during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on Jan.
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Leaving Neverland, which the Michael Jackson estate has already condemned, premieres at Sundance this January and on HBO later this spring.
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He has been at the zoo since 1997, the year he made his move from the Neverland Ranch to the facility.
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Following the controversial Leaving Neverland documentary that aired this past weekend, all eyes have been on the late Michael Jackson's family.
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It'll be interesting to see if the letter's value is affected by the renewed controversy generated by the "Leaving Neverland" documentary.
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One of the most interesting aspects of Leaving Neverland is the way it exposes the dangerous lure of fame by proxy.
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The guy who's trying to dump Neverland Ranch from his books just got dumped himself ... his wife is calling it quits.
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As Robson alleged in Leaving Neverland, he didn't identify what he says had happened to him as abuse for several years.
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"Neverland" aired over Sunday and Monday nights, provoking emotionally charged responses on social media from high-profile celebrities and shaken viewers.
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Michael Jackson's family has publicly denied the explosive allegations of child sexual abuse surfaced in the bombshell HBO documentary Leaving Neverland.
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Zendaya contributed her rendition of the song to Finding Neverland The Album, which features pop star takes on the show's songs.
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"Finding Neverland," the Broadway bio-musical about J. M. Barrie, the Scottish playwright who wrote "Peter Pan," will close on Aug.
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Mr. Morrison, who recently starred in the Broadway musical "Finding Neverland," has a farsighted vision that encompasses rock, jazz and swing.
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Leaving Neverland is interested not just in the fact of the crimes themselves, but in what happens to the victims afterward.
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Additional performances have been scheduled from Monday through April 6, giving many children ample opportunities to visit Neverland over spring break.
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Both men say Mr. Jackson abused them while charming their families at his 22020,19933-acre Neverland compound in Los Olivos, Calif.
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In the trial's wake, he left Neverland for Bahrain, where he was spotted in shopping malls wearing black robes and veils.
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"Leaving Neverland": The first episode of HBO's documentary about the allegations of child sexual abuse against Michael Jackson aired Sunday night.
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"Leaving Neverland": We recapped the second half of the HBO documentary about the allegations of child sexual abuse against Michael Jackson.
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Why, for instance, "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" and not "Peter Pan" itself, whose Neverland is featured in the cover art?
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The children would go on to inspire Peter Pan's character — a relationship detailed in the 2004 Johnny Depp movie Finding Neverland.
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An earlier version of this article misstated who in "Leaving Neverland" is shown remembering a lullaby Michael Jackson wrote for him.
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Sources told TMZ the attempt was in direct response to allegations made against Michael Jackson, her father, in the Leaving Neverland documentary.
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Michael Jackson's music has seen a major decline with its sales and streaming in the week following HBO's Leaving Neverland broadcast premiere.
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Michael Jackson's family has issued a passionate statement denouncing the documentary Leaving Neverland, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday.
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Immediately following Part 2, Oprah's one-hour special, Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland, airs simultaneously on HBO and OWN at 10 p.m.
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"They just felt really supported, really for the first time in public," Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed told BuzzFeed News on Monday.
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Jolie and David Oyelowo play their parents, and the movie takes place before Peter flies to Neverland and Alice falls into Wonderland.
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They've sung in the hills of Austria, flown over Neverland, eased on down the road to Oz and woken up in Baltimore.
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This will be Foster's second major reimagining for Disney, after his 20153 film Finding Neverland earned $22015 million at the box office.
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Diana Ross is defending Michael Jackson in light of claims made against the late pop star in the explosive documentary Leaving Neverland.
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Michael Jackson's family is speaking out against the long-awaited documentary Leaving Neverland, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday.
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The elephant, who used to live on the grounds Neverland Ranch with Michael Jackson, didn't get very far in his escapee adventure.
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" Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed responded to Streisand's interview on Twitter, writing, "'It didn't kill them' @BarbraStreisand did you really say that?!
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And, as of 2019, new owners of Neverland Ranch have the estate up for sale — only it's not called that any more.
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The Michael Jackson estate has also criticized "Leaving Neverland," releasing a statement that called it "blatantly one-sided" and lacking independent voices.
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"Leaving Neverland" does include Barnes' denial that Jackson did anything inappropriate, but only for a few seconds in writing on the screen.
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ESPN notes that she removed a Jackson Five song in light of the current conversation around Michael Jackson since HBO's Leaving Neverland.
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Jackson bought and renovated the Neverland Ranch he lived on — outfitting the property with a zoo, theme park, train station, and arcade.
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Neverland Ranch was filled with hints of glitz on the inside, too, like the gold-colored gooselike spout on the star's bathtub.
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Iraq claims the cargo was unlawfully misappropriated by the Kurdistan Regional Government and sold to Vitol to be loaded onto the "Neverland".
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After he defaulted on a loan, Jackson entered Neverland into an ownership agreement with private investment firm Colony Capital for $23 million.
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A quick synopsis: Peter Pan, eternal boy and Neverland-dweller, haunts the Darling nursery because he likes to hear the bedtime stories.
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But as Leaving Neverland shows us, our culture is struggling to shift toward one that believes and embraces survivors for coming forward.
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The movie is directed by Marc Forster, who brought a new take to the Peter Pan tale with "Finding Neverland" in 2004.
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Janet Jackson's going into the Hall and there's a lot of speculation about whether she'll mention her brother and the 'Neverland' allegations.
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So when I received an official invitation to a staged reading of his new Broadway show, "Finding Neverland," I was not surprised.
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On Saturday, HBO's harrowing Michael Jackson documentary, Leaving Neverland, was awarded a Creative Arts Emmy for Best Documentary or Non-Fiction Special.
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Mr. Lilien said Mr. Weinstein told Mr. Cole that the money raised through the auction would serve a "Finding Neverland" business agreement.
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As he sets down in the mystical world of Neverland, Peter tries to discover the truth about his estranged mother Mary (Seyfried).
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And Leaving Neverland exists in the real world, where that case and those versions of events have been given plenty of airtime.
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It may seem preposterous to call a four-hour film "restrained," but that's what Leaving Neverland is: a work of extraordinary restraint.
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On February 21991, 1993, Jackson sat down for a live interview with daytime talk show host Oprah Winfrey at his Neverland ranch.
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The ranch was known under the late pop star's ownership as 'Neverland' and is located about 40 miles away from Santa Barbara, Calif.
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West went on to seemingly reference the upcoming documentary about Jackson, Leaving Neverland, which is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Brenda Jenkyns and Catherine Van Tighem stand with protest signs outside of the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Leaving Neverland on Jan. 24.
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As People reports, Holmes treated her mother, Kathleen, and 10-year-old Suri to a showing of Finding Neverland on Broadway Saturday night.
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Leaving Neverland should prompt anyone who feels and thinks deeply to make a decision about their relationship to Michael Jackson and his music.
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In 2005, Jackson was acquitted at a trial on charges of molesting a 13-year-old boy at his Neverland ranch in California.
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As the conversation around Leaving Neverland has built, the estate has been vituperative in its dismissals of Robson, Safechuck, and the production itself.
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Leaving Neverland, a four-hour exposé centered around two particular cases of Jackson's alleged sexual abuse, premiered at Sundance Film Festival on Friday.
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He feels the 'Neverland' accusers are lying -- especially Wade -- because they had every opportunity to come forward while Michael was alive, but didn't.
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The two-part Neverland documentary details the allegations of two men who say they were molested by Jackson in the 1980s and 1990s.
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One need look no further than Neverland Ranch and the ways in which he hid his children's identities to see evidence of that.
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He was listed by Neverland Ranch staff as a potential victim during Jackson's 2005 trial, but he denied being assaulted at the time.
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At one moment you are a kid who worships Michael from afar and the next minute you're literally going to Neverland with him.
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Bubbles was known for living at Neverland Ranch with Jackson, where he slept in a crib in his room and shared his bathroom.
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Ahead of the release of Finding Neverland, Robson, now 36, opened up about his decision to testify on Jackson's behalf during the trial.
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Recent price cuts to multi-million-dollar properties include Michael Jackson's Neverland and an empty Beverly Hills plot, but they are not alone.
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In Bedlam's version, both the nursery and Neverland are represented by a rectangle of artificial turf and walls made up of plastic sheeting.
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Michael displayed the artwork at the expansive Neverland Ranch for 11 years, from 1994 to 2005, and it was super popular among kids.
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In "Leaving Neverland," Mr. Robson, 22013, and Mr. Safechuck, 22009, tell parallel stories of being drawn into Mr. Jackson's inner circle as boys.
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While the exhibition was developed by NPG in cooperation with the musician's estate, the Leaving Neverland documentary released without the Jackson family's approval.
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In between her commercial work, Ciani released several of her own albums: Seven Waves (1984), The Velocity of Love (1986), and Neverland (1988).
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Tabàrnia is something like Peter Pan's "Neverland" for the unionists, said Salvador Garcia Ruiz, the chief executive of Ara, a pro-independence newspaper.
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In Leaving Neverland, two men — Wade Robson and James Safechuck — allege that the late music icon sexually abused them when they were children.
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He's been dragged back into the news with claims of sexual abuse by Wade Robson and James Safechuck, detailed in HBO's "Leaving Neverland."
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Later, he bounds onto the houseboat, where the other three boys are asleep in their bunks like so many Lost Boys of Neverland.
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The two men featured in "Leaving Neverland" are courageous to recount what they allege to have happened, if indeed it is all true.
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Jackson supporters have also criticized Oprah Winfrey over her "After Neverland" special, a discussion with Safechuck, Robson and the documentary's director, Dan Reed.
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HBO subsequently announced that it would air the Winfrey-hosted special to follow "Leaving Neverland" and further address issues raised by the film.
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You'll hear from Wesley Morris on how his feelings about Michael Jackson have changed since watching the documentary "Leaving Neverland" earlier this year.
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Parents who were only too happy to be guests at Neverland, unaware what was happening to their sons a few closed doors away.
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The Neverland Ranch was Jackson's California compound that included an arcade, an amusement park, an assortment of exotic animals and a train station.
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As "Leaving Neverland" shows, Michael Jackson spent his life shape-shifting from best pal, father figure and beneficent idol into cruel, manipulative rapist.
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What Leaving Neverland and Surviving R. Kelly make clear is that to have fans is to have a peculiarly intimate power over them.
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In Leaving Neverland, Wade Robson and James Safechuck say they were manipulated and abused by a man they worshipped — a man they loved.
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Taj adds ... Wade's changed his story several times, and he suspects money is motivating him to say the things he says in 'Neverland.
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Without further explanation, the timing of her break left ample room for gossip sites and tabloids create a narrative around the Leaving Neverland release.
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Instead of Neverland, she arrived at the hospital, where it took four orderlies to hold her down while a nurse injected her with medication.
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He finally backed off and told her that his assistant would give her tickets to "Finding Neverland," a Broadway musical that he was producing.
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We got Ne-Yo Friday night at LAX, and asked him about the doc, "Leaving Neverland," that was previewed at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Holmes and her daughter have frequented Broadway often in recent years, taking in shows like Finding Neverland — where Holmes' mom Kathleen joined the duo.
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Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz and the Lost Boys of Peter Pan only got to Oz and Neverland, respectively, because they were orphaned.
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Paris Jackson isn't swayed by the allegations levied against her father in "Leaving Neverland" -- and firmly believes Michael Jackson was not a child molester.
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In July, Kathleen accompanied her daughter and granddaughter to Finding Neverland on Broadway, where they posed with the musical's cast backstage after the show.
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Oprah Winfrey is standing by the two men who are accusing the late Michael Jackson of sexual abuse in the new documentary, Leaving Neverland.
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A month after HBO aired the bombshell two-part documentary Leaving Neverland, Michael Jackson's family have struck back with a documentary of their own.
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To make up for canceling, Nyong'o says Weinstein invited her, along with some male friends, to a reading of his Broadway play Finding Neverland.
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" Oprah's interview with Jackson accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck is set to air Monday night on HBO after Part 2 of "Leaving Neverland.
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In a clip from the interview taped Wednesday, Oprah says "Leaving Neverland" transcends Michael ... and speaks to a larger societal issue regarding sexual abuse.
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"Searching for Neverland" opens after a flurry of those allegations in 2005 forced Jackson to become something of a nomad, temporarily relocating Las Vegas.
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The couple visited Neverland Ranch, Jackson's former home, where she played with the animals there and remembered her childhood with Snoddy by her side.
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The singer's brothers and nephew Taj, who spent years as a child at Neverland, say the accusations are untrue, hurtful and motivated by money.
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The HBO documentary Leaving Neverland details the stories of two men who say they suffered childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Michael Jackson.
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Unlike his debut single, "Neverland," which felt modest and constrained, "I'm Not Afraid" has 1983 attitude with a contemporary splash of dance-floor dynamism.
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The estate is seeking $100 million in damages from HBO over the "Leaving Neverland" documentary, which Howard Weitzman, the estate's lawyer, branded "a disgrace."
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The estate argued that the claims of abuse in "Leaving Neverland" violated that nondisparagement clause, and said it would seek $100 million in damages.
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At his home in Los Angeles, those contradictions were on display as domesticity coexisted with the Neverland aspects of playing rock for a living.
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Jackson has been accused of abusing young men who he invited to his Neverland Ranch in California, including James Safechuck and choreographer Wade Robson.
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EST on March 4, immediately following the conclusion of part two of "Leaving Neverland," which will air on March 3rd and 4th on HBO.
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She was mostly raised by her father between Hawaii and Los Angeles, with frequent pit stops at two legendary homes: Graceland and Neverland Ranch.
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Then, he was ensnared in the warped fantasy, a 7-year-old being initiated into sex at Neverland by the 31-year-old Jackson.
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ARTS & LEISURE An article on this weekend's cover about the documentary "Leaving Neverland" misidentifies who is recalling a lullaby Michael Jackson wrote for him.
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Each boy made trips to Jackson's palatial California estate, Neverland Ranch, with his family, and eventually would sleep in Jackson's room, with family nearby.
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Paris also still makes it a priority to return to her childhood home in Santa Ynez, California, to the compound her father named Neverland Ranch.
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The two-part, four-hour HBO documentary, Leaving Neverland, is controversy-laden already — and isn't even set to air until March 21993 and March 22004.
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Robson and Safechuck, along with their families, tell stories in Leaving Neverland about a lonely superstar who was isolated, and their flattery at his attention.
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We'll have to wait and see if that's enough to convince someone to buy the property despite what has now been revealed in Leaving Neverland.
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Ali, who used to live at the Neverland Ranch, wandered over to a courtyard behind the giraffe and elephant barn during her 20-minute getaway.
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Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland will debut simultaneously on HBO and OWN following the end of Leaving Neverland's two-night HBO premiere on March 4.
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The show's executive producer James L. Brooks told the Wall Street Journal he would pull the episode from circulation, after he viewed HBO's Leaving Neverland.
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"Leaving Neverland" chronicles allegations by James Safechuck and Wade Robson that Jackson sexually abused them over a period of several years when they were children.
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" Speaking to hosts Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan about Jackson sharing beds with young boys at his Neverland ranch, Jermaine continued, "Those were slumber parties.
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Searching for Neverland will chronicle the final years of Jackson's life, including his time as a father to sons Prince and Blanket and daughter Paris.
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A Neverland Valley brochure book, a white sequined glove, the Thriller jacket, all blackening and curling at their edges as they go up in flames.
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"Sebastian loves Jake and the Neverland Pirates," says the Amber Rose Show star, 32, showing off the desert island mural that covers her son's room.
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Leaving Neverland garnered significant buzz upon its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and was broadcast in two parts on Sunday and Monday.
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Winfrey's special Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland aired immediately following the documentary and featured Winfrey supporting the alleged victims despite expected backlash from Jackson fans.
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Neverland Ranch also a new name, Sycamore Valley Ranch, a change which the Wall Street Journal reported was heavily emphasized by the ranch's asset manager.
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His lawyer tells us the Twitter account was a fake, and adds Wade has been targeted by "several fraudulent postings and hackings" since 'Neverland' aired.
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Jackson's behavior, as described in Leaving Neverland, is not that of a loopy eccentric who took back his stolen childhood by surrounding himself with children.
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We're told Safechuck gives very graphic details of the abuse and sex acts, which he claims happened at Neverland and Jackson's home in Century City.
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He allegedly had drills with them, and had alarms go off so the boys knew to put clothes on when people would approach at Neverland.
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Other members of Michael's family have gone to bat for him in the wake of "Leaving Neverland," calling Wade and James' claims full-blown lies.
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Her projects also included the tempest-tossed "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" (2011), "The Addams Family" (2010), "Finding Neverland" (2015) and "Gorey Stories" (1978).
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Jackson's family has denied the allegations in "Leaving Neverland," calling the film a "public lynching" and suggesting that the accusers are motivated by financial gain.
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Up next: "Leaving Neverland," a documentary about abuse allegations against the pop star, which is screening at Sundance, and which the Jackson estate has denounced.
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Michael Jackson: A new HBO documentary, "Leaving Neverland," explores the stories of two men who accuse the pop star of sexually abusing them for years.
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In the new HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, two men — Wade Robson and James Safechuck — describe, in detail, their accusations of child sexual abuse against Michael Jackson.
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Aaron also blasted the "Leaving Neverland" accusers, calling them liars, because he said they had the opportunity to come forward when MJ was alive, but didn't.
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For Leaving Neverland, he set up the lights and operated the main camera himself, while his assistant producer Marguerite Gaudin operated the sound and secondary camera.
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Leaving Neverland merges that focus with the kind of vigilante, fly-on-the-wall style and related subject matter of his 2014 film The Paedophile Hunter.
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"Leaving Neverland," which features detailed interviews with Robson, Safechuck and their mothers and wives, will be shown in Britain and in other nations later this month.
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The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department had raided the pop star's Neverland Ranch property while investigating charges of child molestation, claims that were dismissed in 2005.
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Tony Yazbeck, the Tony-nominated star of last year's revival of "On the Town," will succeed Matthew Morrison in "Finding Neverland," the show's producers announced Thursday.
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Leaving Neverland has drawn criticism from members of Jackson's family, including his brothers Tito, 65, Marlon, 61, and Jackie, who emphatically deny any allegations of abuse.
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Barbra Streisand has weighed in on Leaving Neverland, the groundbreaking HBO documentary in which two men accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them throughout their childhoods.
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Yeah, the whole plot is basically the same as Hook except featuring a certain silly-old-bear, and the Hundred Acre Wood standing in for Neverland.
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It shouldn't have taken until Leaving Neverland to dethrone the King of Pop, but its horrific, honest detail of Jackson's crimes absolutely changed my own allegiance.
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Wade Robson, a choreographer/producer is suing MJ, claiming he was molested by Jackson for 7 years at the Neverland Ranch ... starting when he was 7.
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There's Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch, which is listed at $31 million, and the iconic Los Angeles mansion from "The Godfather," which is listed at $135 million.
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Even so, the things he did spend on — like the acres and acres of trimmed grounds at the Neverland Ranch — set him back quite a lot.
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The comedian and writer Matt Lucas (who, full disclosure, is a friend of mine) saw Leaving Neverland a couple of weeks ago and tweeted about it.
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As we reported, Wade Robson and James Safechuck -- the accusers featured in "Leaving Neverland" -- both blasted Chappelle for the jokes and personal comments he made onstage.
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HBO said the first of the two parts of "Leaving Neverland" had been watched by 9.2 million viewers, making it the most-seen HBO documentary ever.
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The Jacksons put on a show Saturday night in Brazil ... this in the wake of "Leaving Neverland" and the move by some to mute Michael Jackson.
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In March 2019, after the American broadcast of Dan Reed's Leaving Neverland, Oprah hosted an interview special with the documentary's subjects Wade Robson and James Safechuck.
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A documentary earlier this year, "Leaving Neverland," called new attention to the allegations and the musical's producers then canceled a planned pre-Broadway production in Chicago.
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About 40 minutes elapse before the participants begin to lay out the most disturbing allegations, and from then on, "Leaving Neverland" is not easy to watch.
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Documentary spurs backlash The HBO documentary, "Leaving Neverland," chronicles allegations by James Safechuck and Wade Robson who say Jackson sexually abused them when they were children.
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It is, I guess, a thing, another part of the maturing of a place that has long seen itself as a perpetual Neverland of endless possibilities.
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In 2003, Jackson was indicted on child molestation charges when a young cancer patient accused the singer of groping him at the Neverland estate in California.
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In 2003, Jackson was accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy at his Neverland Valley ranch; two years later, he was acquitted of all charges.
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A chef claimed that he saw more than that when he walked in on the two in the arcade room of Neverland to bring them a snack.
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Couple that with viewing the painful stories told by the "Leaving Neverland" accusers, and it's clear there are no winners no matter which camp you fall into.
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Johnson said the real goal in buying the village seemed to be creating a private "Neverland" for Musk, SpaceX employees, and VIPs amid a multiplanetary-spaceship operation.
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In Leaving Neverland, the highly anticipated documentary that premiered over the weekend on HBO, Wade Robson, 36, and James Safechuck, 40, allege Jackson molested them as boys.
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Leaving Neverland has drawn criticism from members of Jackson's family, including his brothers Tito, 203, Marlon, 61, and Jackie, 67, who emphatically deny any allegations of abuse.
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Decades after their sons' alleged abuse by Michael Jackson, Wade Robson and James Safechuck's mothers reveal they are also still healing in the new documentary Leaving Neverland.
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Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland will debut simultaneously on HBO and OWN following the end of Leaving Neverland's two-night HBO premiere on March 3 and 4.
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There was the debt that led to foreclosure on his Neverland ranch, the prosthetic nose, the questions around who would control his estate as his family squabbled.
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The legendary boxer joined Michael Rapaport on his "I AM RAPAPORT" podcast (coming to Luminary this spring) ... where he was asked about the explosive "Leaving Neverland" documentary.
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But what the past couple years of reckoning have shown us, and what Leaving Neverland now demonstrates to devastating effect, is that it's not nearly so simple.
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Leaving Neverland does not spend any time raising possible defenses against Robson and Safechuck's claims, and nor does it explore what this might mean for Jackson's legacy.
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The president of that organization, Keen Zhang, has posted photos of around 20 events across China to his Facebook, apparently showing Jackson fans protesting against Leaving Neverland.
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Slate's review of the film was a glimpse into some of the content captured in the film: Leaving Neverland is slated for a spring release on HBO.
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Leaving Neverland details James Safechuck and famed choreographer Wade Robson's alleged childhood sexual abuse by Michael Jackson, arguably one of the biggest cultural icons of our time.
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The drink also contains adaptogens, ephemera from the neverland of is-it-food-or-not that are supposed to reduce stress and improve memory, focus and immunity.
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The second part will be followed by "Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland," a separate interview with the two men by Winfrey, which will air at 10 p.m.
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Dave Chappelle defended Michael Jackson against the sexual abuse allegations made in the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland during the comedian's newest Netflix stand-up special, Sticks & Stones.
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Their personal experiences with Jackson are documented in the HBO special Leaving Neverland, in which they allege instances of sexual abuse that they kept secret until adulthood.
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A California appeals court ruled that Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who appeared in "Leaving Neverland," could pursue their claims because of a change in California law.
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Jackson's estate has denounced Leaving Neverland, calling it "the kind of tabloid character assassination Michael Jackson endured in life, and now in death," according to the Associated Press.
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HBO's latest documentary, Leaving Neverland, offers us an unflinching look at the the sexual abuse allegations against the late Michael Jackson, from two men who Jackson allegedly abused.
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She's reading a passage from Peter Pan, which, of course, is about a young boy who goes to Neverland, to live amongst other children and never grow up.
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According to the Associated Press, his estate has denounced Leaving Neverland, calling it "the kind of tabloid character assassination Michael Jackson endured in life, and now in death."
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While it no longer has some of its iconic features, Neverland (yeah, we're gonna keep calling it that — sorry, Coldwell Banker) is still a unique piece of property.
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Noted Jackson impersonator Navi will make his acting debut as the King of Pop in Searching for Neverland, which has been shooting out and about in Los Angeles.
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Leaving Neverland — which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January — includes intimate interviews with Robson and Safechuck, plus both of their mothers, their wives and Robson's siblings.
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In "Leaving Neverland" the two adult men say they were befriended by Jackson and abused by him from the ages of 7 and 10 in the early 1990s.
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News of the property going back on the market comes after Jackson's estate filed a lawsuit against HBO over the planned broadcast of the bombshell documentary Leaving Neverland.
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There was always these massive, crazy pranks involving world global ... MM: If you imagine Neverland and there's all these lost boys that are all just ... SK: And girls.
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We went after David Magee who was an Academy Award winning screenwriter — he also notably wrote Life of Pi, Finding Neverland — to work with us on the screenplay.
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Jackson, who died in 2009, was acquitted at a 2005 criminal trial in California on charges of molesting a different, 13-year-old boy, at his Neverland ranch.
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Taking all of this into account, Leaving Neverland paints a similar picture to that of the seemingly outrageous Abducted in Plain Sight Netflix documentary from earlier this year.
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As you know ... the doc, "Leaving Neverland," explores alleged sexual abuse by the King of Pop, and the film is already being slammed by the late singer's estate.
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Seven years after his death, Michael Jackson is in the news again, this time over reports that claim he kept a stockpile of pornography at his Neverland Ranch.
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While the information presented in Leaving Neverland might have been the most detailed claims of sexual assault made against the singer thus far, the subject matter isn't new.
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According to The Guardian, Robson, who had spent the night at Neverland Ranch over 20 times, testified during the trial that he had never been molested by Jackson.
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Janet Jackson has broken her silence amid new allegations against her brother, Michael Jackson, in "Leaving Neverland" -- and her message is simple ... his rep will be just fine.
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"There's nothing about Michael that the fan community doesn't know," said Rain, whose blog post about "Leaving Neverland" became a go-to text even before the documentary aired.
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Our guest, the Times culture critic and "Still Processing" co-host Wesley Morris, introduces the film "Leaving Neverland," and tape begins to weave in and out around him.
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Michael Jackson might be getting muted on various platforms in the wake of "Leaving Neverland" ... but the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ain't gonna be one of them.
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Mr. Weinstein said that when arranging the charitable contributions that flowed to the theater he told some donors that the funds were to support the "Finding Neverland" production.
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Though she's technically the protagonist, and our way into the world of Peter and Neverland, it's clear from the get-go that this story isn't really about her.
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Synopsis: When Captain James Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.
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In London, fans of the singer protested outside the British network that is airing "Leaving Neverland" and bought ads on buses questioning the motives of his new accusers.
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" Opening the program, Winfrey noted that the studio audience had just completed watching "Leaving Neverland," which she described as "an intense and emotional experience for many people here.
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Perhaps even more difficult to digest than the very explicit details of the abuse Robson and Safechuck describe in "Neverland" are the indelible effects that persisted into adulthood.
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Since January, when "Leaving Neverland" debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, Jackson's superfans, his family and his estate have tried to poke holes in Safechuck's and Robson's stories.
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But "Leaving Neverland" contains granular, disturbing detail that could reshape his legacy for years to come: A secret system of bells to warn when other adults were approaching.
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But, as Leaving Neverland, a disturbing two-part documentary premiering March 3 on HBO, shows, with that level of fame comes great access to the hearts of the world.
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That strange interaction came to mind every time Leaving Neverland showed Jackson rushing through a crowd of flashing cameras and screaming fans with a young boy by his side.
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In court documents obtained by the L.A. Times, Robson says he was later invited to stay at Jackson's Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara, where the alleged "sexual activities" began.
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Neverland Ranch, which failed to find a buyer after the King of Pop's death, is being reintroduced to the market, with a giant price cut and a new name.
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Leaving Neverland chronicles allegations from two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who both claim Jackson befriended them when they were children and that their relationships quickly turned sexual.
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And it's taken 10 years since Michael Jackson's death for a significant documentary about the allegations of child molestation against him, HBO's Leaving Neverland, to crack through the surface.
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Leaving Neverland was released in January and focuses on the stories of two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who claim that Jackson sexually abused them both as children.
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Gutierrez and investigators devised a plan that she would agree to see Finding Neverland the following day and meet with Weinstein while wearing a wire to record their conversation.
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Leaving Neverland echoes On Michael Jackson in its assertion that Jackson probably hated women, hated responsibility, hated the trappings and freedoms that come with being a grown-up human.
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In the documentary, "Leaving Neverland", two adult men say they were befriended by Jackson and abused by him from the ages of 7 and 10 in the early 1990s.
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In a documentary released earlier this year, "Leaving Neverland," two other men said they were abused by him from the ages of 7 and 10 in the early 1990s.
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The estate has repeatedly slammed Leaving Neverland, telling PEOPLE in a statement in January ahead of the film's Sundance premiere that it was nothing more than a cash grab.
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NBC, which has taken viewers from the musical hills of Austria to Neverland to Oz with its live musical broadcasts, has a humbler destination in mind for 2016: Baltimore.
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Leaving Neverland chronicles allegations from two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who both claim Jackson befriended them when they were children and that their relationships quickly turned sexual.
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On the flip side, it's beyond terrifying for the GOP, who seem to think teens are like Peter Pan and the boys of Neverland, unable to ever grow older.
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"Leaving Neverland" is pissing off Michael Jackson fans and detractors so much ... cops are now paying extra close attention to the singer's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Oprah Winfrey will sit down with the two men accusing the late Michael Jackson of sexual abuse in an interview airing immediately after Leaving Neverland makes its television debut.
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And it may be called Sycamore Valley Ranch now, but the giant topiary clock reading "Neverland" still features prominently on the grounds — essentially its last remaining tie to Jackson.
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As for Robson, his memories of abuse begin even earlier, when, as a 7-year-old, he was invited to the Neverland Ranch after traveling to Hollywood from Australia.
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Forever Neverland came out last Friday, October 19 (we meet a few days beforehand) and, in my opinion, it's easily one of the best pop records of the year.
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Michael Jackson's rolling over in his grave, just to get stabbed in the back by HBO -- the producers of the controversial documentary, "Leaving Neverland" -- that's his estate's take, anyway.
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Tyson -- who was friends with Jackson and even visited him at Neverland several times -- says he believes a lot of the blame falls on the parents of the kids.
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Streisand was interviewed by The Times in the UK, and shared some bizarre thoughts about MJ and the 2 accusers featured in "Leaving Neverland" -- Wade Robson and James Safechuck.
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"Finding Neverland," with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham, was adapted from a nonmusical 2004 film that starred Johnny Depp.
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The HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland," a reference to Jackson's sprawling California estate, began airing Sunday and contains extensive interviews with two men who allege Jackson molested them as children.
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"The episode was pulled from broadcast television in March after two men accused Jackson of sexually abusing them when they were young boys in the HBO documentary, "Leaving Neverland.
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HBO also told us it's continuing to get very vocal support for 'Neverland' from celebs like Ellen DeGeneres, Sia, Bill Maher, Judd Apatow, Eve, Rosie O'Donnell and Gayle King.
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On January 25, Sundance was home to a screening of Leaving Neverland, a four-hour documentary detailing the sexual assault allegations that have surrounded Michael Jackson since the 90s.
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Leaving Neverland was released in January and focuses on the stories of two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who claim that Jackson sexually abused them both as children.
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His short film "Neverland", which shows a transgender woman cavorting in a sarong on a Thai beach, oblivious to the surrounding glares, recently featured in a Hong Kong gallery.
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A spokeswoman for HBO said the first of the two parts of "Leaving Neverland" has been watched by 9.2 million viewers, making it the most-seen HBO documentary ever.
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HBO's Michael Jackson exposé, "Leaving Neverland," won for best documentary, beating out competitors like Netflix's documentary on the Fyre festival and HBO's documentary on the Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.
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The ruling has allowed California's 6563nd Circuit Court of Appeal to revive the highly contested lawsuits filed by the two men at the center of HBO's documentary Leaving Neverland.
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Documentary "Leaving Neverland" is due to be broadcast on AT&T owned HBO on March 3 and 4 after a world premiere at the Sundance film festival last month.
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Could the young men at the center of "Leaving Neverland" have been both victims of Jackson and be money-grubbing opportunists seeking to tarnish his legacy for personal gain?
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HBO's forthcoming "Leaving Neverland" examines disturbing claims by James Safechuck and Wade Robson that Michael Jackson sexually abused them over a period of several years when they were children.
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"HBO could have and should have ensured that 'Leaving Neverland' was properly sourced, fact checked and a fair and balanced representation," the statement from the Jackson estate attorneys read.
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In some distant, misty Neverland, there is a G.O.P. capable of balancing fiscal responsibility and limited-government principle with the creativity required to address working-class America's social crisis.
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This special follows the second half of the HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland," in which Wade Robson and James Safechuck accuse Michael Jackson of abusing them from childhood into adolescence.
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Earlier this week, HBO aired the two-part documentary "Leaving Neverland," which details accusations of child sexual abuse against Michael Jackson from two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck.
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The one event in Jackson's life that gets plenty of airtime in Leaving Neverland is his death in 2009, which occurs about three hours into the four-hour film.
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Michael Jackson's nephew is bashing Wade Robson -- one of MJ's accusers in "Leaving Neverland" -- claiming he's only changing his story for revenge over a job ... one he didn't get.
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Cher also posed on stage with Tony nominee Stephanie J. Block (Falsettos), Teal Wicks (Wicked, Finding Neverland), and newcomer Micaela Diamond — the three actresses who play her in the musical.
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Conveniently left out of "Leaving Neverland" was the fact that when Robson was denied a role in a Michael Jackson themed Cirque du Soleil production, his assault allegations suddenly emerged.
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Jermaine Jackson is speaking out against the documentary Leaving Neverland, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday and puts forth explosive claims against his late brother, Michael Jackson.
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HERE'S THE RUNDOWNKanye West Goes Off in a Hollywood NightclubKesha Believes Dr. Luke is Another Bill CosbyBlac Chyna is Pissed Off at the KardashiansThe Amazing Neverland Ranch is for Sale!
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Ignoring the untimely comparison of Brown to Jackson, who faces a renewed host of sexual abuse allegations following the release of Leaving Neverland, several commenters took issue with the post.
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Immediately following the conclusion of the doc on Monday, Oprah Winfrey will sit down with Robson and Safechuck for an interview — After Neverland — which will air on HBO and OWN.
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The "Thriller" singer, who died in 2009, was acquitted in 2005 of charges of molesting a 13-year-old boy, unrelated to the documentary, at his Neverland ranch in California.
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In Leaving Neverland, Robson and Safechuck say they were coached to say that while they had spent the night repeatedly in Jackson's bedroom, he never once behaved inappropriately with them.
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Radar Online also published a video of the 2003 police search that follows Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department officers as they walk through various rooms of the Neverland Ranch estate:
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Conveniently left out of Leaving Neverland was the fact that when Robson was denied a role in a Michael Jackson themed Cirque du Soleil production, his assault allegations suddenly emerged.
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Leaving Neverland garnered significant buzz upon its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month, and will be broadcast on HBO in two parts airing this coming Sunday and Monday.
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But when St. Felix asked Kanye West's former longtime creative director if he had heard anything about Leaving Neverland, Abloh's response came off as more than a little tone deaf.
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Continuing Recovery Into 2019 In the midst of this return to dancing comes the publicity blitz of Leaving Neverland, complete with further attacks from Jackson's estate and fervently defensive fans.
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As you know, "Leaving Neverland" has triggered a movement to mute Michael Jackson in a similar way "Surviving R. Kelly" created a movement to nix his music from the airwaves.
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Imagine if the lost boys of Neverland had been allowed to reach puberty, or the children of Pinocchio's Pleasure Island had moved away to get degrees in business or communications.
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Jackson, who died in June 2009, was acquitted at a 2005 trial in California on charges of molesting a different, 13- year-old boy at his Neverland ranch in California.
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The "Thriller" singer, who died in 2009, was acquitted at a 2005 criminal trial in California on charges of molesting a different, 13 year-old boy, at his Neverland ranch.
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However, the release of HBO's recent doc, Leaving Neverland, which forced the public to revisit 25 years of allegations of child sexual abuse against Jackson, has tarnished the award's name.
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Michael Jackson's artsy jungle gym is going on the market ... so you can take home some of the most interesting pieces of art ever displayed at the famed Neverland Ranch.
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After the first part of "Leaving Neverland" aired on Sunday, Jackson's fans came out in full force to defend him on social media, blogs, message boards, podcasts and YouTube videos.
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The March release of HBO's documentary "Leaving Neverland" featuring two men who say Michael Jackson sexually molested them as boys sparked a fiercely polarizing debate about the King of Pop.
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In "Leaving Neverland," Wade Robson and James Safechuck allege they experienced years of sexual abuse by Jackson in the late '80s and early '90s, which they describe in graphic detail.
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And so, in an alarming throwaway detail, the family starts disguising Jackson in order to sneak him out of Hayvenhurst, his pre-Neverland estate, and into their normal, suburban house.
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Even though these two, now as adults, don't appear in Leaving Neverland, Jordan and Gavin's histories with Jackson are still a part of the larger story brought forth by the documentary.
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The trailer for Leaving Neverland has arrived, giving a dramatic glimpse at the documentary about two men who allege that they were sexually abused by Michael Jackson when they were children.
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The interview comes on the heels of the allegations made by Wade Robson and James Safechuck in "Leaving Neverland," which all but suggest Michael would exclusively prey on young male victims.
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Leaving Neverland, a two-part documentary that chronicles allegations from two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who claim Jackson abused them as children, made its television premiere Sunday on HBO.
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"As demonstrated by the defendants, Neverland Valley Ranch, where some of the abuse is alleged to have occurred, was owned by Michael Jackson, not either of the corporate defendants," Beckloff said.
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And it wasn't the only project this year to take on famous abusers: The Jordan Peele-produced Lorena reassessed the Bobbitt case, while Leaving Neverland dug into allegations against Michael Jackson.
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ORLEANS, France (Reuters) - Michael Jackson fan groups sought damages on Thursday from two of the late pop legend's alleged abuse victims for "sullying his image" in the HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland".
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And regardless of what you as a viewer end up believing, Leaving Neverland is a powerful indictment of the perils of fame, and those who come too close to its glare.
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"Leaving Neverland" features on camera interviews with Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who describe their relationships with Jackson in graphic detail and said that as young boys they loved the singer.
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In the Cambodian jungle, just off the alabaster sandy stretches of Otres Beach, there is a place like Neverland, where there are no rules nor regulations and people are partying. Hard.
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Sources have cited the recently revisited allegations of sexual assault against Jackson as having decreased the ranch's value following the release of the four-hour HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland" in March.
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Still, the warming spark that enlivened the similarly themed "Finding Neverland," or even this year's "Goodbye Christopher Robin," proves as elusive here as Christmas bonuses and overtime pay around Scrooge's office.
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Additionally, the boy's mother, Janet Arvizo, testified against Jackson, alleging the singer had held her family captive at Neverland Ranch, although the jury found her unlikable and combative, the outlet reported.
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Also among those who testified on the singers behalf were former child actor Macaulay Culkin and Australian choreographer Wade Robson, one of two Jackson accusers featured in the documentary Leaving Neverland.
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The show, whose eight episodes become available Thursday, is a low-key slacker comedy set in the Venice section of Los Angeles, presented here as a sort of West Coast Neverland.
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HBO is denying reports it yanked its Michael Jackson documentary off the air, and adds ... "Leaving Neverland" isn't leaving it's lineup any time soon, partly because of its popularity with celebs.
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Critic score: 26%Synopsis: In this fantastic adventure, a grown-up Peter Pan — who now goes by Peter Banning (Robin Williams) — returns to Neverland to rescue his children from Captain Hook.
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And for some of the victims — like the survivors at the center of heavier exposé documentaries Leaving Neverland and Surviving R. Kelly — finally being heard can be a revelatory, empowering experience.
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Barbra Streisand apologized on Saturday for saying that two men who accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them — as detailed in the documentary "Leaving Neverland" — were "thrilled" to be with him.
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The documentary "Leaving Neverland" takes a critical look at one of the most controversial aspects of Michael Jackson's life and legacy: the persistent rumors that he abused children, specifically young boys.
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Analysis: We'll never listen to Michael Jackson the same way again The disturbing claims of HBO's documentary "Leaving Neverland" have many fans rethinking their feelings about the late King of Pop.
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Via artnet news Related: "Killer Heels" Take Center Stage At Brooklyn Museum Exhibition You Can Buy Björk's Summer Cottage for $205K How Much Would You Pay for Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch?
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Neverland Ranch, where Jackson lived for 15 years, was recently put back on the market for $31 million, a nearly 70% discount from its original asking price of $100 million in 2015.
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But Michael was subjected to a thorough investigation which included a surprise raid of Neverland and other properties as well as a jury trial where Michael was found to be COMPLETELY INNOCENT.
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But Michael was subjected to a thorough investigation which included a surprise raid of Neverland and other properties as well as a jury trial where Michael was found to be COMPLETELY INNOCENT.
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" Finally, Branca says, "They interviewed only two guys out of the thousands who visited Neverland – oh, and surprise surprise - they are the only two with lawsuits for hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The "Thriller" singer, who died in June 2009, was acquitted at a 2005 trial in California on charges of molesting a different 13-year-old boy at his Neverland ranch in California.
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My Ogre Book in particular, a self-described "suite of poetic tales," unfolds across a medieval-ish neverland of forests, mad kings, storm-swept landscapes, and those ogres invoked in the title.
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The ethereally pretty 19-year-old singer and actress has already proved her singing chops on Finding Neverland, and she can anchor a dance sequence as well: check out the clip above.
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Paris Jackson hasn't spoken out publicly since the release of the dark HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, but a source tells PEOPLE the daughter of Michael Jackson is standing by her late father.
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Creator Michelle Dean also pointed out that the child abuse allegations against Jackson 5 member Michael Jackson — recently resurfaced in HBO documentary Leaving Neverland — do eerily echo the events of The Act.
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Now that Leaving Neverland is giving Robson a very different kind of notability, many must wonder where he's been in recent years, and what Robson is doing with his career in 2019.
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Time magazine reported that when Neverland Ranch first went on sale in 2015, it was specifically being marketed to people who wouldn't use the land as a museum to memorialize the singer.
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Two years later, his family was invited to stay at the King of Pop's Neverland Ranch home in California, where he slept in Jackson's bed and was first sexually abused by him.
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In the new Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland, Wade Robson — a celebrity choreographer who has worked with 'NSYNC and Britney Spears — alleged the late music icon sexually abused him as a boy.
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A newly released police report from 2003 says that cops recovered a trove of child pornography, bondage, and animal torture images during a raid on Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch, Radar Online reports.
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Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch is on the market for nearly 70% off the original price — here's a look inside the 2,700-acre property with its sprawling mansion and Disney-themed train station
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"Our goal is to force the township planning board to put a stay on the decision, order new studies, and drag the issue into neverland," the blogger wrote, under the name weiminlu99.
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Since its March 4 premiere on HBO, part 1 of 'Neverland' has pulled in 7.5 million viewers ... according to HBO, which it says is second only to a Scientology documentary it aired.
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The musical comes as the public perception of Jackson has become even more divisive since the release of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland — which resurfaced allegations that he sexually abused young boys.
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On Monday night, after the conclusion of "Leaving Neverland," HBO and the Oprah Winfrey Network plan to broadcast Ms. Winfrey's interview with Mr. Robson, Mr. Safechuck and the film's director, Dan Reed.
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Jackson's estate in February canceled the Chicago run of a new jukebox musical about the singer three weeks after the Sundance premiere of "Leaving Neverland," and two weeks before its HBO broadcast.
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She called Jackson, who personally phoned her after the trial to thank her for her coverage, a "victim of his own superstardom" and said that "Leaving Neverland" should never have been broadcast.
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"This is yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson," the Jackson estate said about Leaving Neverland in a statement in January.
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The former child star - who asks to be called Mack - said he was less forthcoming after he ran into James Franco on a plane just after the documentary "Leaving Neverland" was released.
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Macaulay Culkin, longtime friend of the late Michael Jackson, recalled an allegedly awkward interaction between him and James Franco over the two-part HBO documentary Leaving Neverland in his new Esquire profile.
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While filming the music video for his first single "Neverland," the director told him that there would be a 19+ rating in South Korea if the clip showed any same-sex affection.
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He was in one of the handful of helicopters used to photograph Elizabeth Taylor's wedding (her eighth and last) to the construction worker Larry Fortensky at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in 1991.
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Mr. Ammar also said that Colony, which rescued Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch from foreclosure in 22010, had entered negotiations to buy all or most of the Weinstein Company's movie and television holdings.
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Two years later, his family was invited to stay at Jackson's Neverland Ranch home in California, where he claims he slept in Jackson's bed and said he was first sexually abused by him.
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What remains to be seen is if Leaving Neverland, and the general movement toward believing survivors of sexual violence at their word, will mute our nostalgia for MJ as much as his music.
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Though Wade Robson's and James Safechuck's allegations of sexual abuse by Michael Jackson are the focus of Leaving Neverland, the two-part docuseries also touches upon Michael Jackson's friendship with actor Macaulay Culkin.
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Dan Reed — the director of Leaving Neverland, a two-part documentary about child-molestation allegations against the late Michael Jackson — is opening up about the decision to include explicit details in the film.
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Robson says in Leaving Neverland that he and Jackson had sex multiple times during that period, establishing a pattern with Jackson that would persist off and on in Robson's life for seven years.
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Four members of Michael Jackson's family defended the deceased pop star against the allegations of sexual abuse featured in the upcoming HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, saying the singer's accusers are motivated by money.
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Wade Robson says he's received an outpouring of support since "Leaving Neverland" was released, but he doesn't care if people still listen to Michael Jackson ... because this is about way more than that.
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While Leaving Neverland is filled with moments of tragedy and heartbreak, its second half is particularly wrenching as we hear how Robson and Safechuck reckoned with the abuse and their trauma as adults.
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It was just one of many Michael Jackson memes that proliferated on TikTok last spring, around the same time that allegations of sexual assault against the musician resurfaced in the documentary Leaving Neverland.
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West didn't specifically name R. Kelly in his speech, so Kardashian appears to be arguing that he wasn't referencing Surviving R. Kelly but instead Leaving Neverland, a documentary that has not yet debuted.
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" Speaking of Leaving Neverland, Feldman admitted that although he "watched the first part, to be honest with you, it was very emotional, it was very painful, and I couldn't watch all of it.
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Though it is unclear where Jackson kept the Oscar – either at his Neverland estate near Ojai, California, or at his Los Angles home where he died – the whereabouts of the statuette remain unknown.
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Nearly five months after the explosive documentary Leaving Neverland, in which Wade Robson and James Safechuck claimed that Michael sexually abused them both as children, Janet opened up about her brother's lasting legacy.
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Winfrey's hour-long special with Jackson's accusers will be called Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland, and will debut simultaneously on HBO and OWN following the end of Leaving Neverland's two-night HBO premiere.
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A particularly gutting scene features Safechuck narrating a photo tour of the Neverland Ranch, listing the many, many rooms in which he and Jackson had sexual contact, and exactly what they did there.
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Michael Jackson's family is defending the late singer against allegations that surfaced in the documentary Leaving Neverland, one of the most buzzed-about films to debut at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
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Case in point, HOLLAND—the only openly gay performer currently actively making music in South Korea—whose debut music video "Neverland" (below), was rated 19+, purely because he kisses a man on screen.
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"Leaving Neverland" features two men now in their 25s and 25s who say they were befriended by Jackson and sexually abused by him starting from when they were 21986 and 10 years old.
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Disc jockey Michele Pesce joined the boycott in the wake of the "Leaving Neverland" documentary, explaining, "You cannot separate the art from the artist when it comes to using your public platform" now.
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She alluded to Leaving Neverland in a series of tweets that came in response to reports that she was worried about how the film and allegations against her father would affect her career.
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After an episode in which he is severed from his shadow, he sneaks in and urges Wendy and her little brothers to fly with him back to Neverland where they meet Peter's compatriots.
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They talked about the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the upcoming HBO documentary about Michael Jackson Leaving Neverland, Jussie Smollett's alleged hoax — and also why Dowd is increasingly disturbed by Silicon Valley's power.
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It will immediately be followed, on HBO and OWN, by "After Neverland," in which the director and the two men who accuse Jackson speak with Oprah Winfrey before an audience of abuse survivors.
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Wherever the "Peter Pan" fantasy turns up, though, her artwork blooms into color, suffusing Wendy's dreams of Neverland and tinging the elements of the real world that she's charged with her hopeful imaginings.
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And the faltering Weinstein Company is getting a cash infusion from the same investor that saved Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch from foreclosure — a financier who is one of President Trump's closest outside advisers.
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Two men who accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them as children in the documentary "Leaving Neverland" can now sue the pop star&aposs companies following a ruling made in California on Friday.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, the late pop star's Neverland Ranch has been listed for $0003 million, or about 70% less than the original asking price of $100 million four years ago.
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That said, this haunting documentary is a powerful addition to a growing body of post #MeToo films — including "Finding Neverland" and "Surviving R. Kelly" — that show how cultural power is accumulated and weaponized.
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In the spring of 2008, Colony bailed out Michael Jackson, who was on the verge of default over a $19933 million mortgage for Neverland Ranch, his 2,500-acre playground in Santa Ynez, Calif.
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I came away from "Leaving Neverland," a new two-part HBO documentary in which Robson and James Safechuck accuse Jackson of having molested them when they were children, fully convinced by their stories.
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"Leaving Neverland," which appears on HBO starting Sunday, is a four-hour movie about the musician's alleged pedophilia, focused on the stories of two men who say they were his victims as children.
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Now 41, Safechuck shared detailed allegations in HBO's 2019 documentary, Leaving Neverland, which details his and Wade Robson's claims of childhood sexual assault they says they experienced at the hands of the late singer.
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"Please don't believe what you read," Paris Jackson tweeted on Saturday, denying tabloid claims that she suffered a meltdown following the release of the controversial documentary Leaving Neverland about her father's sexual abuse allegations.
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The documentary Leaving Neverland, in which choreographer Wade Robson and former child actor James Safechuck accuse Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them as children, is difficult to watch; it's equally as difficult to discuss.
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Since the documentary premiered on television in March, Jackson's family has vehemently denied the singer did anything wrong and have even released their own film in response — Neverland Firsthand: Investigating the Michael Jackson Documentary.
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With Leaving Neverland about to air, the family is once again speaking up about the charges and allegations brought against, over the last two and a half decades, and continue to maintain his innocence.
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In the upcoming HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, Wade Robson and James Safechuck go into devastating detail about the sexual abuse they say they experienced at the hands of Michael Jackson when they were children.
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The world became aware of Leaving Neverland on January 9, when Sundance added it to its lineup as a last-minute special event, to be shown at the film festival later in the month.
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Two years later, his family was invited to stay at the King of Pop's Neverland Ranch home in California, where he slept in Jackson's bed and said he was first sexually abused by him.
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I would wager if you are someone who liked Attack on Titan but fell off of it because of how bleak it can get, The Promised Neverland is probably what you are looking for.
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That's a fine way to deal with it, but I think it's important to talk about the fact that it is a bad thing to close our eyes and pretend ourselves away to Neverland.
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The new 30-minute film features interviews with Michael's nephew Taj Jackson and niece Brandi Jackson, as well as with his longtime technical director Brad Sundberg, who regularly stayed at Michael's Neverland Ranch estate.
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But watching Leaving Neverland, which aired on HBO in May, hearing the stories from two of his accusers, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, left me, and many others, unsettled about who Jackson really was.
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Now Abloh has spoken out to belatedly condemn the widespread allegations that Jackson sexually abused young boys — including Wade Robson and James Safechuck, the subjects of HBO's shocking, talked-about new documentary Leaving Neverland.
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We got the famed attorney at LAX Tuesday and asked how people should feel about Jackson as the HBO release of the "Leaving Neverland" documentary -- featuring accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck -- quickly approaches.
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Despite the alleged abuse, Rwaramba claimed that Robson insisted on having his wedding at Neverland amid Jackson's 2005 criminal trial in which he was charged with molesting Gavin Arvizo, a 13-year-old boy.
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He can also immediately demand that the State Department fulfill the congressional mandate to allow all U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem to list Jerusalem, Israel, as their birthplace (as opposed to the Neverland state).
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Three actresses play Cher at different points in her life: Tony nominee Stephanie J. Block (Falsettos), Teal Wicks (Wicked, Finding Neverland), and newcomer Micaela Diamond — who will make her Broadway debut with the role.
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As I examined the sweater, I asked Abloh if he had heard anything about the documentary " Leaving Neverland ," which aired earlier this month, on HBO, and alleges that Jackson sexually abused two young boys.
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In this exclusive behind-the-scenes video, Collins, 27, recites a passage from the last pages of Peter Pan, in which a grown-up Wendy tells the story of Neverland to her daughter, Margaret.
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In his new comedy special, 'Sticks & Stones,' DC straight-up says of Wade and James, "I don't believe these motherf***ers" after rehashing their allegations from the HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland" in graphic detail.
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The Federal Court of Canada has ordered the seizure of a 721,915-barrel cargo of crude from Kurdistan aboard the "Neverland" oil tanker on the request of the Iraq Oil Ministry, court documents show.
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"Porn and candy," James Safechuck says with a sigh in the upcoming HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, recounting one of the countless sexual encounters he claims to have shared with Michael Jackson as a child.
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But if you begin to take Neverland literally, and to treat the characters who aren't Peter and the Darlings as real people and not as props to have adventures around, it becomes extremely disturbing.
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After three weeks of testimony in Mr. Gilbert's murder trial, a picture of him has emerged as a perpetual Peter Pan who was increasingly troubled with the idea of losing his real life Neverland.
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In fact, Barrie's text sets her up as an aspirational womanly figure, positioning her against competing visions of womanhood in Tiger Lily, a Native American Neverland princess, and Tinker Bell, Peter's fairy best friend.
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Earlier this year, new allegations were made against Jackson in the Leaving Neverland documentary by Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who claimed in the HBO film that Jackson sexually abused them both as children.
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We'll never listen to Michael Jackson the same way "Leaving Neverland" chronicles allegations by James Safechuck and Wade Robson that Jackson sexually abused them over a period of several years when they were children.
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The cancellation of the Chicago premiere comes three weeks after the two-part documentary, "Leaving Neverland," was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, and two weeks before it is scheduled to debut on HBO.
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The legendary performer and Oscar winner, 75, tells Variety that she had an unpleasant experience with the disgraced producer after she refused to sing at the opening night of his 2014 Broadway show Finding Neverland.
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But beyond whatever comes of the suits, the lasting impact Leaving Neverland could have on Michael Jackson's legacy is difficult to measure — and the financial stakes for his estate and family could scarcely be higher.
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Though touted as a Michael Jackson documentary, Leaving Neverland focuses on accounts of the singer's alleged abuse from two men, James Safechuck and Wade Robson, and is solely comprised of their and their families' testimonies.
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Featuring a blue-tinged vintage postcard-like set by Scott Pask, with period costumes by Suttirat Anne Larlarb, "Finding Neverland" follows Barrie's struggles against his own inhibitions and a world of starchy, disapproving grown-ups.
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As with many a Broadway musical these days, "Finding Neverland" — which features a book by James Graham and sticky soft-pop power ballads by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy — is based on a popular film.
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Nearly two weeks after the release of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, Paris Jackson is clapping back at people who have shamed her for not publicly coming to the defense of her father Michael Jackson.
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Elsewhere at Sundance, the docuseries Lorena and Leaving Neverland reassessed two other major news stories from the not-so-distant past: Lorena Bobbitt's attack against her husband, and the child molestation accusations against Michael Jackson.
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Michael's relationship with his children is at the center of the Searching For Neverland, a May 29 Lifetime biopic which is based on the bestselling book about Jackson's final years by two of his bodyguards.
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Michael Jackson's personal life is being scrutinized again, this time in the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, which bears the name of Jackson's estate and includes extensive footage of the property throughout its four-hour runtime.
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Additionally, several radio stations took Michael's hits out of rotation and the star's 2,700-acre Neverland Ranch (now renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch) was put on the market at 70 percent off its original list price.
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We got the comedian outside Guastavino's in NYC Monday night, and instead of questioning how "Leaving Neverland" affects Jackson's legacy -- he went off on people who allowed him to do what's alleged in the doc.
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Director Marc Forster has an eclectic resume -- including a Bond movie and "World War Z" -- but the key entry for these purposes is "Finding Neverland," his moving 2004 look at Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie.
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It says 'Neverland' will stay on its TV cable service for another week, and then it will only be available for streaming on HBO On Demand, HBO GO and HBO NOW for months to come.
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In an interview, Mr. Reed noted that "Leaving Neverland" includes footage of blanket denials from Mr. Jackson and his lawyers, and he argued that the opinions of the estate and Jackson family members are irrelevant.
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The copious drone shots in Dan Reed's "Leaving Neverland," about two men who allege that the pop singer Michael Jackson raped them when they were children, help offset the excruciatingly intimate interviews about sexual assault.
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"It's very current, with what's coming out about the Catholic church and, coincidentally, this whole Michael Jackson thing," he said, referring to the new documentary "Leaving Neverland," about child-abuse allegations against the pop musician.
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Despite these high price tags, Jackson's legacy has become controversial -- most notably after the release earlier this year of HBO's "Leaving Neverland" documentary, chronicling Jackson's alleged sexual abuse of two men when they were children.
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Written by Mike Kenny, with a score by Ivan Stott, this acclaimed British production from the companies Tutti Frutti and York Theater Royal will bring Neverland to Queens on Sunday and to Brooklyn in April.
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There's perhaps no better example of this than Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell, a truly ridiculous tale of young love and teenage rebellion loosely based on songwriter Jim Steinman's Peter Pan-inspired musical, Neverland.
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The Second Case Against Jackson: 24673-2005 In August 2000, Gavin Arvizo and his family were invited to visit Neverland Ranch, because Gavin's cancer was in remission and Jackson often invited sick children to visit him.
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Leaving Neverland, the two-part Michael Jackson documentary on HBO, may have alerted the public to sexual abuse allegations against the singer (which his estate denies), but it hasn't stopped fans from listening to his music.
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Following in the footsteps of Surviving R. Kelly, Lifetime's newest documentary series exploring the allegations of sexual abuse against the artist, HBO announced that it will air Leaving Neverland, a documentary about Michael Jackson, this spring.
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The first audiences have emerged from the theater after seeing Leaving Neverland, the HBO doc about allegations of abuse against Michael Jackson by Wade Robson and James Safechuck, and it reportedly left critics shocked and stunned.
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Tony nominee Stephanie J. Block (Falsettos) — who previously confirmed her involvement in the show — will star as one incarnation of Cher, joined by Teal Weaks (Wicked, Finding Neverland) and newcomer Micaela Diamond making her Broadway debut.
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What Leaving Neverland presents is one, four-hour, long overdue side of a forced confrontation between the Michael Jackson audiences love and the one we've batted to the back of our minds for since the '90s.
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But with the release of Pirates and ensuing kid-friendly films like Finding Neverland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Depp gave press the impression that he was finally settling down and retiring his old ways.
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Last season, when Dega Do-er Corey got to celebrate his new lewk by taking his family to Finding Neverland, everybody in the fam jam got new clothes — it's not a party if only daddy's invited!
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Although Corey Feldman was friends with Michael Jackson, the former child star says that in wake of the allegations made against the late singer in the new documentary Leaving Neverland, he can no longer defend Jackson.
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Leaving Neverland was met with intense emotion at Sundance, where there were mandated counsellors on call in the lobby for viewers who needed them after hearing the harrowing, graphically detailed, firsthand accounts showcased in the film.
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" During an interview with Oprah Winfrey for her interview special, Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland, Robson said that if his son hadn't been born, there's a "really good chance" he would still "be living in silence.
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For context, HBO's Michael Jackson documentary, "Leaving Neverland," was watched by 6900 million in the same time slot and notched 2628,28503 viewers in the 22019-54 demographic even though it was on a pay-TV channel.
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The cancellation of "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" comes three weeks after the premiere of "Leaving Neverland" at the annual Sundance Film Festival, which is said to have shocked critics with disturbing accusations about Jackson.
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A Canadian media company, Cogeco, that told The Canadian Press it had banned Jackson's music on its 23 stations in Quebec — including three major Montreal stations — cited the public response to "Leaving Neverland" as the reason.
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For those in the first camp, like Maureen Orth, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, "Leaving Neverland" is the smoking gun in the final act of a detective story filled with near misses and false alarms.
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Jason Lilien, Mr. Weinstein's lawyer, said it did not matter if the other "Finding Neverland" investors "incidentally benefited" from the charitable contributions because the primary purpose was to put on a production for the public's benefit.
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" Howard Weitzman, an attorney for the Jackson estate, said in a statement on Thursday that HBO "could have and should have ensured that 'Leaving Neverland' was properly sourced, fact checked and a fair and balanced representation.
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His family has called "Leaving Neverland" -- in which two men accuse Jackson in graphic detail of sexually molesting them when they were boys -- a "public lynching" and suggest the accusers have been motivated by financial gain.
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In that respect, "Leaving Neverland" possesses another layer of relevance in methodically tackling the King of Pop, and a musical legacy that has long since been at the very least clouded, and for many, forever tarnished.
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In countering Robson and Safechuck's claims in "Neverland," Marlon and others in the Jackson family gravitate toward the idea that children who were actually abused by Michael would not maintain a long-term relationship with him.
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America, and the music world at large, has spent a significant portion of the past month grappling with the implications of "Leaving Neverland," the haunting HBO documentary that revisits highly credible pedophilia allegations against Michael Jackson.
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With Leaving Neverland, director Dan Reed has not made a journalistic documentary — or, at least, not the kind that hews to the fiction that you have to present "both sides" in order to say something true.
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You could watch Leaving Neverland and still choose to believe that Robson and Safechuck's stories are elaborate webs of baldfaced lies designed so that they can benefit, in some way, from a brilliant, troubled dead man.
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Trump is missing his opportunity to press Kim Jong Un on human rights The kids suing the government over climate change want to halt fossil fuel extraction Leaving Neverland makes a devastating case against Michael Jackson
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A handful of Neverland Ranch staff members testified that they had allegedly seen Jackson molest some of the boys staying at the ranch, with some of them witnessing oral sex acts and the children being given alcohol.
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But Leaving Neverland has collapsed the distance I was able to maintain from the boys who weren't safe from Michael Jackson, and in doing so killed my platonic affection for him, my identification with those aloof girls.
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The Girlfriend Experience star recalls splitting her time between Graceland and the 13-time Grammy winner's $100 million Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos, which was equipped with a small amusement park, a petting zoo and a waterfall.
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A 1991 episode of The Simpsons featuring the voice of the late singer Michael Jackson is being pulled from its archives following the explosive allegations of child sexual abuse surfaced in the bombshell HBO documentary Leaving Neverland.
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The creative team is full of powerhouses, including director Diane Paulus (Pippin, Waitress, Finding Neverland, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess), composer Tom Kitt (American Idiot, Next to Normal), and writer Diablo Cody (Juno, United States of Tara).
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When I texted a friend in the moments after I'd watched Leaving Neverland, expressing that it was unquestionably the darkest, and perhaps most haunting, portrait of Jackson's personal life we might ever witness, she cut me off.
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Three Michael Jackson relics have been removed from two exhibits at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis following the explosive allegations of child sexual abuse surfaced against the late singer in the bombshell new HBO documentary Leaving Neverland.
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The documentary "Leaving Neverland" will be screened at the Sundance independent film festival later this month and will be shown on cable channel HBO and Britain's Channel 4 television network this spring, festival organizers and HBO said.
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The 2 men who sued Michael Jackson's estate and were the subject of the gut-wrenching "Leaving Neverland" documentary ... are set to get their day in court to press their sexual abuse claims against the singer's estate.
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Sources with knowledge tell us Paris did this in direct response to the allegations made against her father in "Leaving Neverland" -- a documentary in which Wade Robson and James Safechuck accuse MJ of molesting them as children.
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Sources close to Michael Jackson's estate tell TMZ the new flicks, 'Searching for Neverland' and the recently announced animated feature, "Bubbles," are not authorized -- therefore, they're not allowed to use ANY of Michael's materials ... especially his music.
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Now, he has all of Neverland to play in, and pirates to fight, and Lost Boys to play with, and Wendy Darling and all of her descendants to transform into mothers to replace his original, inferior mother.
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Brewing for weeks, their fight kicked into a new gear on Sunday, with the airing of the first half of "Leaving Neverland," an HBO documentary about two men who say Jackson repeatedly sexually abused them as children.
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In a post about "Leaving Neverland" that totaled more than 10,000 words, Ovchinnikova, who is 65 and based in Moscow, parsed the changing stories of the two men in the film and concluded that they are liars.
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Fiddy's referring to the media mogul's upcoming #MeToo documentary featuring Drew Dixon, one of the women who's accused Russell Simmons of sexual misconduct, along with her 'After Neverland' interview of Jackson's accusers, Wade Robson and James Safechuck.
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Robson, by this point a choreographer for stars like Britney Spears, testified that he had spent the night at Neverland more than 19923 times but that Jackson had never molested him or taken a shower with him.
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The first episode ended with a disclaimer that said the actor Macaulay Culkin, who also spent time at Jackson's Neverland Ranch in California, and another boy mentioned in the documentary, "categorically deny any sexual contact" with Jackson.
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Discussed this week: "How to Support a Friend or Loved One Who Has Been Sexually Abused" (Vanessa Marin, The New York Times, 2019) "Leaving Neverland" (HBO, 2019) "Moonwalk" (Michael Jackson, 2009) "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (ABC, Feb.
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Curiously, there was no mention of her personal connection to Jackson — in particular, the famous 1993 live interview with him at Neverland Ranch, which took place just months before the first public accusations against him were made.
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Megastars Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross defended Michael Jackson this weekend against two men who claim the pop star sexually assaulted them as boys, events they describe in stark detail in a new HBO documentary Leaving Neverland.
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Attila and Jovan Virag of Katy, Texas, told NBC station KPRC of Houston that their 2-year-old son kicked off his Jake and the Neverland Pirates shoes Friday and left them in the SUV over the weekend.
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Riotous clapping is occasioned when a bright point of light travels over the ceiling and the curtain of the Lunt-Fontanne Theater in New York, where the push-button, button-pushing musical "Finding Neverland" opened on Wednesday night.
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The terror documented in Leaving Neverland is the damage inflicted by a culture of assuming the best of the powerful, and of silencing and ignoring victims, which a post–#MeToo America is still just beginning to grapple with.
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Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet may not have succeeded in Finding Neverland when they costarred in the 2004 drama, but they found each other on the red carpet at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala Saturday night.
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Days after its broadcast premiere, she alluded to Leaving Neverland in a series of tweets that came in response to reports that she was worried about how the film and allegations against her father would affect her career.
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Work your way (slowly) through seven colorful, crazy strong options like Mickey's Fun Wheel, Neverland Tea, the Earthquake, and the Black Pearl (there's a secret menu Black Pearl at Trader Sam's, too, and it's not the same drink).
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Louis Vuitton said that at the time of the event, it was not aware of the "Leaving Neverland" documentary, in which two adult men say they were befriended by Jackson and abused by him in the early 1990s.
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Options include the 'neverland' possibility of simply not invoking Article 50, trying back channel talks to sharpen Britain's sense of what scenarios are possible, and hopping from an interim outcome to a more permanent post-Brexit landing site.
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For context, HBO's Michael Jackson documentary, "Leaving Neverland," was watched by 1.3 million in the same time slot and notched 21625,2900 viewers in the 220006-2202 year-old demographic, even though it was on a pay-TV channel.
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In Part 503 of "Leaving Neverland," two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, describe in disturbing detail how they were drawn into Michael Jackson's orbit when they were boys, and then how he repeatedly used them for sex.
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Jackson is the focus of an art show at the Bundeskunsthalle museum in Bonn, Germany called "Michael Jackson: On the Wall" ... and the timing couldn't be more curious in the wake of "Leaving Neverland" and the #MuteMichael movement.
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The abuse of trust is a recurring theme in Leaving Neverland, as well as in Surviving R. Kelly, Lifetime's recent docuseries about the decades of accusations that singer R. Kelly has sexually abused multiple women and young girls.
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Jackson's trial officially began on February 28th, 2005, and the prosecution argued that Jackson would lure young boys to Neverland Ranch to engage in sexual acts with them, and distracted their parents from what was happening via expensive gifts.
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In Leaving Neverland, news clips about Jackson's abuse are contrasted with fawning reports of his subsequent marriages to women, signaling the building of a traditional family, which survivor James Safechuck recalls as an intentional move to avoid public scrutiny.
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Paris Jackson is once again slamming reports that she attempted to die by suicide over the weekend, this time claiming that false stories followed her restrained response to the bombshell Leaving Neverland documentary about her late father, Michael Jackson.
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Meanwhile, on Friday, Paris responded critics who have shamed her for not publicly defending her father from the explosive sexual abuse allegations surfaced against him by Wade Robson and James Safechuck in Leaving Neverland, the 4-hour HBO documentary.
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Leaving Neverland was one of the most-buzzed about films to debut at the Sundance Film Festival last month, and now viewers have a first look at the two-part documentary featuring allegations that Michael Jackson was sexually abusive.
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For Miami Art Week, they'll host two small fairs: Now or Neverland Art Fair, an exhibition of 15 artists honoring hip-hop culture, and Art Beat Miami, a fair showcasing artists from both Haiti and all over the globe.
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In both cases, the singer kept in touch, turning the boys into mascots of sorts, and inviting them on tour with him, and to his multiple residences, including Neverland Ranch, his massive, amusement-park-like property near Santa Barbara.
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She has a chicken nugget box from a first date, a prop from a music video (looks like a finger from Thriller), and even a copy of the confidentiality agreement she signed when she visited Micheal Jackson's Neverland Ranch.
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That's the opening scene we're met with in Jordan Peele's new movie Us. The choice of T-shirt is a striking one given that the movie is being released just weeks after the airing of HBO's documentary Leaving Neverland.
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However, Netflix's documentary, which was titled FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, did receive an Emmy nomination alongside HBO's Leaving Neverland, CNN's Love, Gilda, Hulu's Minding the Gap, and HBO's The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley.
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If you find yourself depressed on whatever island you're on, pick up a passport designed by Adál Maldonado that will admit you, no questions asked, to El Spirit Republic of Puerto Rico, the African-Spanish-Taíno neverland he's invented.
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Tormented by guilt, she can't bring herself to admit that he's dead, and retreats into a fantasy in which he's been spirited away to J.M. Barrie's Neverland, drawing her visions in a notebook given to her by her therapist.
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Orin Snyder, a lawyer with Gibson, Dunn & Cutcher, said in a statement that "during our inquiry, Harvey Weinstein disclosed and we confirmed that the contribution was part of his company's 'Finding Neverland' agreement with A.R.T.," referring to the theater.
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Winfrey's hour-long special, "After Neverland" -- which aired after part two of the documentary and consisted of interviews with the two men and director Dan Reed -- is perhaps most significant for lending Winfrey's seal of approval to the project.
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Not because I believe that "Leaving Neverland," the HBO documentary by Dan Reed in which both men accuse Michael Jackson of sexually molesting them, answers all the points made by the dead singer's family in his defense; it doesn't.
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In wake of the new documentary Leaving Neverland, which has brought the sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson back into the spotlight, many viewers are left wondering how to handle situations in which they suspect a child is being abused.
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Leaving Neverland, the highly-anticipated documentary about two of Michael Jackson's alleged abuse victims, finds two adult men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, alleging they were the victims of sexual abuse at the hands of Jackson when they were children.
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Perhaps due to the controversy surrounding Jackson's legacy now that Leaving Neverland has been released, the listing agents and property's owners have chosen to concentrate not on the ranch's well-publicized past but on its "entertainment facilities" and "pristine" 2,700 acres.
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As Leaving Neverland viewers question whether Wade Robson burns an authentic Michael Jackson jacket in the documentary, Robson exclusively tells PEOPLE it is not the same jacket featured in the "Thriller" music video — but rather a replica from his childhood.
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The imagery has added fuel to the firestorm surrounding Leaving Neverland, the two-part, four-hour-long documentary from director Dan Reed that premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival last month before making its TV debut on HBO Sunday night.
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There was a secret tunnel to Neverland, and though it might not be safe, it was a place she could go, a last resort for a teenager who'd been called on to save the world—the only one who could.
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Michael Jackson's estate released a two-hour concert video on YouTube, Sunday, just as HBO premiered the first part of its explosive new documentary Leaving Neverland, prompting criticism that the late singer's family was deflecting from horrific allegations of sexual abuse.
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Whatever veil that remained around Jackson's private life was lifted at Sundance in January by the documentary "Leaving Neverland," and the stories of two men who claimed they were molested by the singer as children over a period of several years.
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It is Wendy who must explain to the grown-up Pan that they were, at one time, children together, before he watched her age, and eventually decided to leave Neverland behind when he fell in love with Moira, Wendy's granddaughter.
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But since the release of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, and the controversy that has ensued from the claims made against the idolized pop star, the brand has decided not to produce any of its Jackson-inspired looks from the show.
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Two years after their first interviews with Reed — and despite a renewed uproar of incredulity and hatred from Jackson's fans and vociferous denials from Jackson's family — Robson, now 36, and Safechuck, 40, agree that doing Leaving Neverland was worth it.
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Compelled by his abuser to keep the acts — and his shame — a secret, "I felt complicit," Chesley, now 61, tells PEOPLE after he watched the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, which explored male child sexual assault allegations against pop icon Michael Jackson.
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She said she told him to stop and he finally relented; he told her his assistant would give her tickets to see Finding Neverland on Broadway, which he was producing, and that he would meet her at the show that evening.
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For that state of retroactive helplessness and vulnerability requires a vast degree of power and privilege to fabricate, especially if you've never had it to begin with, which is a widely held belief about Jackson that Leaving Neverland also advances.
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Sunday night, as HBO aired part one of its new soul-shaking documentary Leaving Neverland, the Michael Jackson estate did what it's always done best in regards to the decades of child abuse allegations surrounding the singer: deflect and distract.
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PEOPLE can exclusively reveal that Carter, 31, will be joining the next season of Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Family Edition, where he will be sharing his thoughts on the late "King of Pop" following the controversial Leaving Neverland documentary.
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Searching for Neverland will narrate the final years of Jackson's life through the perspective of two of his personal bodyguards, Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard, and will include his time as a father to sons Prince and Blanket, and daughter Paris.
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Amid a legal battle with HBO's Leaving Neverland, Jackson's estate relisted the property, where the late pop star lived for 225 years, at a new asking price of $223 million, nearly $222 million less than its original listing from 220.
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Neverland, which is co-owned by the star's estate and fund management company Colony Capital, comprises of 217,700 acres and a nearly 12,000-square-foot main house and was first purchased by the King of Pop in 1987 for $19.5 million.
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Mia Wasikowska is back as Alice, now a grown-up ship captain who gets called back to Neverland because the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) has fallen into despair because none of his friends believe him that his parents are still alive.
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In the bombshell Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland, Wade Robson recalls the last time he saw the late music icon — whom he claims molested him for years as a boy — before Jackson's death at the age of 50 in 2009.
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In "Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and me" a two-part HBO documentary shown in the U.S. and U.K this week, Wade Robson and James Safechuck allege they were abused by the singer when they were age seven and 10, respectively.
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There is little to be gained materially from their appearances in Leaving Neverland, and the lifelong effects of sexual abuse explain much of why these two men spent so many decades defending the man who stole so much from them.
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The iconic crooner and songwriter co-wrote Michael's 2 posthumous hits -- "This Is It" and "Love Never Felt So Good" -- so when we got him Wednesday at LAX, we wondered if "Leaving Neverland" changed his perspective on their studio time.
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In the documentary Leaving Neverland, one of the most buzzed-about films to debut at the Sundance Film Festival last month and set to premiere on HBO in March, Wade Robson and James Safechuck allege Jackson molested them as boys.
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Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed doesn't feel that the Jackson estate has any legs to stand on in criticizing his film, and is optimistic that all of this will lead to greater conversation about sexual abusers in positions of power.
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HBO's controversial documentary Leaving Neverland has reignited the all too familiar debates when survivors speak out: Attacks on the accuser's credibility, vehement denials, and in this particular case, the polarization of even the most tried and true Michael Jackson fans.
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But the anniversary came just months after the airing of the HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland," in which two men, James Safechuck and Wade Robson, described years of sexual abuse at Jackson's hands, beginning when they were as young as 7.
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A spokesperson for the Bundekunsthalle in Bonn, Germany told Hyperallergic over email that the museum has no plans to cancel Michael Jackson: On the Wall, although the institution is closely monitoring discussions surrounding the recently-released HBO documentary, Leaving Neverland.
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Last month, John Branca, a longtime lawyer for Mr. Jackson who is one of the executors of the estate, said at a panel discussion at Harvard Law School that "Leaving Neverland" had had a financial impact on the estate's business.
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THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS Like "Finding Neverland" and "Goodbye Christopher Robin" (see above), "The Man Who Invented Christmas" seems predicated on the notion that most interesting underpinnings of any work of fiction are the autobiographical elements that inspired it.
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Since then, it's been tackled comedically (1991's Hook), fantastically (2015's Pan), dramatically (2004's Finding Neverland), vapidly (2003's Peter Pan), sweetly (many animated Disney permutations, beginning in 1953), and even as gritty horror (1987's Lost Boys).
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It's been almost eight years since the King of Pop died, but a reasonably convincing version of him lives on in "Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland," a made-for-TV movie that has its premiere on Monday, May 29, on Lifetime.
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The 2 men who were featured in "Leaving Neverland" who accused Michael Jackson of molesting them as children have just won a huge legal victory ... because a California appeals court has just given them the right to sue for sexual abuse.
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His reputation came under scrutiny again this year because of the Emmy-winning documentary "Leaving Neverland" in which two men gave emotional accounts of what they said was sexual abuse by the singer in the 1990s when they were boys.
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PARK CITY, Utah — Amid breathless reports of protests, disruptions and personal threats, news outlets swarmed to the Sundance Film Festival premiere of "Leaving Neverland," a new documentary mini-series detailing accusations of sexual abuse against the pop star Michael Jackson.
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"Sun In Our Eyes," the first single from the Danish singer's Forever Neverland, is a perfectly alright pop song—though I prefer oddball MØ to radio-ready MØ—and after a few plays the melody does start to catch nicely.
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" The hourlong special, which aired Monday evening on both HBO and OWN immediately following the conclusion of "Leaving Neverland," was a return to the audience-involved, talk-show therapy format that she perfected over 25 seasons of "The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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But Leaving Neverland does exist — and it is a slow, methodical, measured, and devastating rebuttal to claims that victims of sexual assault in general and Robson and Safechuck in particular are just "in it" for the fame and the money.
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James Safechuck, the other man who says in Leaving Neverland that Jackson abused him, says that he was not a Michael Jackson fan the first time he met the singer on the set of a Pepsi commercial they filmed together.
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As for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ... the honchos at the org say MJ's not going nowhere, saying the allegations made in the "Leaving Neverland" doc by Wade Robson and James Safechuck will have no bearing on Jackson's status.
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In the middle of august 22013, the case was brought to the Los Angeles Police Department's Sexually Exploited Child Unit, and a few days later a search warrant was issued for Jackson's Neverland Ranch, according to an LA Times report at the time.
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Late last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Neverland Ranch, Jackson's estate where much of the alleged abuse was said to have taken place, has been re-listed for $31 million, which is a whopping 70% less than its original asking price.
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Researchers conducting new studies of Drosophila development have kept their monikers on theme: Two proteins that control the expression of neverland and spookier were named Ouija board and séance—the latter of which was first described by a research team this February.
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Just a few days after HBO premiered Leaving Neverland, its documentary about Michael Jackson that details the alleged abuse of Wade Robson and James Safechuck when they were boys, some major radio networks around the globe are suspending play of his music.
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Even Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed has said the aim of his film is not to wipe Jackson's songs out of our lives, even though many people who have seen it report definitely not wanting to hear his music for the foreseeable future.
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In a recent interview with The Times of London, Streisand, who crossed paths with the late pop star during his heyday, revealed she "absolutely" believes the claims made by Wade Robson and James Safechuck in the HBO 2-part documentary Leaving Neverland.
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Though public perception of Michael Jackson has become even more divisive since the release of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland — which resurfaced sexual abuse claims against Jackson earlier this year — the legendary musician's 1982 hit "Thriller" seems to have survived largely unscathed.
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Given the timing of their releases, Surviving R. Kelly and Leaving Neverland are destined to be linked together in much the same way that the stories they tell — of beloved and famously eccentric entertainers, accused of unforgivable abuses — bind Kelly and Jackson.
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The daughter of the late pop star explained in a tweet on Friday that it was "not her role" to defend Michael in the wake of the sexual molestation allegations made by Wade Robson and James Safechuck in HBO's bombshell documentary, Leaving Neverland.
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King has scored a number of news-making interviews in recent months, including exclusives with R. Kelly, Virginia Democratic Governor Ralph Northam and the filmmakers and accusers of "Leaving Neverland," the controversial Michael Jackson documentary that premiered on HBO earlier this year.
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The daughter of the late pop star explained in a tweet on Friday that it was "not her role" to defend Michael in the wake of the sexual molestation allegations made by Wade Robson and James Safechuck in HBO's bombshell documentary, Leaving Neverland.
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Directed by Eli Pedraza and released on YouTube on March 30, Neverland Firsthand: Investigating the Michael Jackson Documentary aims to refute the allegations of Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who claimed in the HBO film that Jackson sexually abused them both as children.
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But Leaving Neverland and other recent stories about child sexual abuse deserve our attention so we can best equip future generations with the vocabulary and knowledge to pinpoint the grooming of children (and their families) before more children are traumatized by sexual abuse.
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His music also saw a major decline with its sales and streaming in the week following the HBO documentary's premiere, while Neverland Ranch, the 2,700-acre property where the pop star lived for 15 years has struggled to sell on the market.
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They shut out the team from "Beautiful" by a score of 5-0, beat "Kinky Boots" and "Phantom of the Opera" by seven runs each, and blew out the combined team from "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Finding Neverland," 1703 to 0.
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This theme includes edibles like Tinker Bell's Pixie Punch and Second Star to the Right Cookies, directions for a Jolly Roger Serving Bowl, and a bonding game called "Find a Friend in Neverland," where you mingle with guests to find common experiences.
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Safechuck alleges that Jackson supplied him with wine and the two would perform sexual acts on each other on a daily basis, both at Neverland Ranch and in hotel rooms on tour (where his mother was often booked in a separate room).
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If Neverland is an arena for games — which is how it began, with Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies children inventing wildly around a lake in the countryside — this is fun and silly adventuring and the deaths and mutilation and starvation don't feel real.
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" Dan Reed, the "Leaving Neverland" director, said he "wouldn't like to see some kind of moral police vetting every single cultural artifact we have, every song, every book, every poem, because I think we'd end up eliminating a large part of it.
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And after litigating the case of Michael Jackson on specials in 2004 and 2017, he does so again here, telling his audience not to watch the recent HBO documentary, "Leaving Neverland," in which two men who accused Jackson of sexual abuse speak out.
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HBO's controversial documentary Leaving Neverland, which chronicles the longtime allegations of child sexual abuse against the late Michael Jackson, picked up the award for outstanding documentary or nonfiction special at Saturday's Creative Arts Emmys — a prize the King of Pop's estate quickly criticized.
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Black women would not rest until R. Kelly was investigated While Jackson has been beloved by fans of all races, some of Jackson's supporters have suggested that the accusations raised in "Leaving Neverland" have received heightened attention because the accusers are white men.
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Michael Jackson: After the debut on Sunday of the first half of the HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland," which includes allegations of sexual abuse against the pop star, Jackson's fans came out in full force with what they viewed as evidence exonerating the singer.
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On a recent afternoon, an audience composed mostly of survivors of sexual abuse sat in the Times Center auditorium in Manhattan for a preview screening of Dan Reed's "Leaving Neverland," to be followed by a Q. and A. led by Oprah Winfrey.
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In focusing on the survivors rather than the alleged perpetrator, Leaving Neverland is following in the footsteps of such recent documentaries as Surviving R. Kelly and Untouchable, as opposed to, say, the more perpetrator-focused series Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.
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And, in addition to actual countries, Radiooooo has mapped two imaginary islands, home to specific musical offerings: Neverland, indicated by a flower-headed jack-in-the-box, plays children's hits; Discovery Island is where you'll find new music arrivals selected weekly by Radiooooo's team.
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Enter the release of Leaving Neverland, the Michael Jackson documentary so devastating thanks to the detail shared by two men who claim Jackson sexually abused them as children, that Sundance had counselors on hand for its audience when the four-hour film premiered in January.
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Who knows what happened when these kids were growing up to cultivate all the ambitions we're seeing, but Croydon, Peckham, Brixton, and the like can't stop producing talent after talent at the moment: from Krept & Konan to Yungen to Daniel OG and the Neverland Clan.
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Leaving Neverland follows the story Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who came to know "Bad" singer from a young age — as young as 220 in Robson's case — and who now claim Jackson sexually molested both of them at separate times when they were children.
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As a result, I felt like I knew what I was getting into when I started Leaving Neverland, Dan Reed's controversial documentary in which two men recount their personal experiences with Jackson as children, including alleged sexual abuse that they kept hidden until adulthood.
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But while Marc Forster, of Finding Neverland fame, offers a few nice shots, his direction mostly made me wonder why he tried to recreate Terrence Malick's signature shot of a hand running through long blades of grass or wheat with Winnie the Pooh's paw.
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And while many stories for children send their protagonists back to the real world for good — Wendy grows up and can't return to Neverland; Lucy leaves Narnia; Jackie Paper abandons Puff the Magic Dragon — Hanlon does not champion maturity as the answer to adversity.
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The four-hour documentary, "Leaving Neverland," to be broadcast on HBO in two parts on Sunday and Monday, focuses on the wrenching testimony of two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who say Mr. Jackson abused them for years, starting when they were young boys.
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Two months after HBO broadcast "Leaving Neverland," which detailed allegations of child molestation against Michael Jackson, a legal dispute between the cable channel and the Jackson estate has intensified, with HBO firing back over claims that it violated an old contract by showing the documentary.
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"Leaving Neverland," which HBO began showing in two parts this month, features Mr. Robson and Mr. Safechuck detailing how they met Mr. Jackson, how thrilled they were to work with him and how he ingratiated himself with their families to have access to them.
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While Peter Pan's Neverland home can only be reached by following the "second star to the right, and straight on till morning" the route to the home of his creator, Scottish writer J.M. Barrie, is far more down-to-earth: You simply travel to London.
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About an hour into Leaving Neverland, HBO's relentlessly devastating documentary about two men who say they were abused by Michael Jackson, Wade Robson tries to explain how it came to be that his parents felt comfortable letting him spend the night in Michael Jackson's bedroom.
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"Through gut-wrenching interviews with the now-adult men and their families, Leaving Neverland crafts a portrait of sustained exploitation and deception, documenting the power of celebrity that allowed a revered figure to infiltrate the lives of starstruck children and their parents," reads the film's description.
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The documentary features two accusers, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who describe the details of their alleged sexual encounters with the singer, that started when they were both young children visiting him at his Neverland Ranch in California (Jackson's Estate and family vehemently deny these claims).
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On Tuesday's The Talk, the co-hosts discussed allegations brought against the late Michael Jackson in the Finding Neverland documentary and also spoke about the personal pain they both endured in childhood as a result of sexual abuse — and how and why they chose to forgive.
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Once the film concluded, the audience burst into applause again, this time for Safechuck, Robson, and Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed as they stepped to the stage to talk about the film with Oprah Winfrey, perhaps the most famous child sexual abuse survivor in the world.
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When Reed first learned of Robson's and Safechuck's lawsuits against the Jackson estate, he was in the middle of researching the broad subject area of the Jackson child abuse allegations, he said in an interview at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where Leaving Neverland premiered.
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Like Robson, Safechuck had previously denied that any abuse had taken place during his friendship with Jackson; yet, like Robson, according to unsealed court documents from 2004, other witnesses had previously identified him as being one of the boys they had seen Jackson abusing at Neverland Ranch.
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The statement followed the premiere at the Sundance film festival on Friday of "Leaving Neverland," in which two men, now in their 30s, say they were befriended by the "Thriller" singer and sexually abused by him starting from when they were 7 and 10 years old.
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Following the explosive allegations of child sexual abuse surfaced in the bombshell HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, Jean, creator Matt Groening, and executive producer James L. Brooks collectively agreed to remove the episode from re-runs, streaming platforms, and upcoming DVD/Blu-ray box sets last week.
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We probably should have seen this one coming; after HBO released Leaving Neverland, a documentary that detailed two men's allegations of childhood abuse by Jackson, in March, the Simpsons production team decided to pull "Stark Raving Dad" from circulation out of consideration for Jackson's alleged victims.
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Wade Robson, the man featured in the upcoming Michael Jackson documentary, "Leaving Neverland," says his endgame is not necessarily to mute MJ. We got Robson at LAX Thursday AM and asked him about the film that will make its debut Friday at the Sundance Film Festival.
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The Jackson estate has been working hard to discredit HBO and the director and subjects of Leaving Neverland, releasing a ten page letter to the company citing numerous grievances (including calling Robson unreliable because his father suffered from mental health issues and took his own life).
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As of Monday, the total audience for Part 1 had risen to a healthy 3.7 million, thanks to delayed viewing on television, DVR and the HBO platforms HBO Go and HBO Now, and the second part of "Leaving Neverland" had been watched by 2.5 million viewers.
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When The Simpsons' executive producer James L. Brooks told The Wall Street Journal last Thursday that a 1991 episode featuring a Michael Jackson voiceover was being pulled from circulation, it seemed like another stand against the late icon in the wake of the release of Leaving Neverland.
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Jackson was tried in connection with such allegations during his lifetime but was acquitted, and the media and the public have embarked on a new reckoning with the reports only after the singer's death, inspired in part by the release of the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland.
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WATCH: Wade Robson: What to Know About the Man Accusing Michael Jackson of Abuse in 'Leaving Neverland' "The opening minutes of the film are these two guys saying what a wonderful, warm, kind, loving, generous person Michael was and he sexually abused them for seven years," he said.
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While Jackson's death was met with a wave of grief in 2009, his reputation has come under scrutiny again because of the documentary "Leaving Neverland," in which two men gave emotional accounts of what they said was sexual abuse by the singer in the 1990s when they were boys.
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In fact, it's about to find a new life with a brand new set of eyes as HBO prepares to air Leaving Neverland, a two-part documentary that focuses on two of Jackson's accusers, Wade Robson and Jimmy Safechuck, who claim they were sexually abused by him as children.
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He divulges about his relationship to drugs, where his alleged use was the subject of countless gnarly tabloid rumors: He clarifies his relationship with Michael Jackson: Culkin had an awkward run-in with James Franco after Leaving Neverland came out: He had a bad audition recently: Cheers, Mac.
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Up until very recently, before I began to hear the conversation around Leaving Neverland that came out of Sundance, I saw myself in relation to Jackson the way I imagined the women love interests in his music videos related to him — with an abstract, anodyne kind of affection.
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Little Haiti Cultural Center/Now or Neverland Art Fair/Art Beat Miami When: December 6–10 Where: 212 Northeast 59th Terrace, Miami Also known as the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, this Downtown Little Haiti mainstay has been dedicated to preserving the history of the neighborhood for 11 years.
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Michael Jackson never molested a guy named Brett Barnes -- so says Barnes himself -- and he's getting ready to sue HBO for a documentary insinuating he was sexually abused by MJ. The upcoming documentary, "Leaving Neverland," shows Brett, and he claims it implies Jackson molested him as a boy.
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Less than a month after Lifetime's documentary Surviving R. Kelly aired, exposing the R&B's singer's decades-long pattern of abuse against black women, HBO and the UK's Channel 4 announced Thursday that they will be airing the documentary Leaving Neverland about Michael Jackson's alleged history of molestation.
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Stories within the film include the star's secret system of bells to warn of approaching adults; a mock wedding ceremony with a child and studded diamond ring; a series of slumber parties that turned into sex; and unaware parents who were ecstatic to be guests at Jackson's Neverland Ranch.
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For the park's design, Mr. Diller hired the renowned British designer Thomas Heatherwick, who envisioned an undulating 2.4-acre platform that rises out of the river like a green Neverland, supported around the perimeter by clusters of Champagne-glass-shaped pots sprouting from pilings sunk into the riverbed.
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Directed by Les Waters — who staged Ms. Ruhl's "In the Next Room, or the vibrator play" and her heart-piercing "Eurydice" — "For Peter Pan" is about five adult siblings confronting mortality and making one last trip to Neverland, even if flying is harder than it used to be. (playwrightshorizons.org)
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