{"id":266445,"date":"2019-01-30T10:25:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1009870"},"modified":"2019-01-30T10:25:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:25:30","slug":"michael-jacksons-brother-jermaine-defends-him-over-leaving-neverland-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/michael-jacksons-brother-jermaine-defends-him-over-leaving-neverland-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson’s Brother Jermaine Defends Him Over Leaving Neverland Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jermaine Jackson<\/strong>, brother of the late\u00a0Michael Jackson<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0reiterates that the allegations of child sexual abuse two men make against the King of Pop in a new documentary are untrue and is pleading to the public to let the late King of Pop rest in peace.<\/p>\n

The film, which\u00a0focuses on\u00a0accusations by Wade Robson<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0James Safechuck<\/strong>,\u00a0premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on Friday and drew emotional reactions<\/a> from the press and other viewers. Michael’s estate had denounced the documentary before its release. In a new interview on ITV’s\u00a0Good Morning Britain<\/em> on Wednesday, Jermaine said he is “1,000 percent sure” of his brother’s innocence.<\/p>\n

“Because Michael was tried by a jury, and he was acquitted on all of this because there was no real evidence, there was nothing there,” he said. “Our family are tired. We’re very tired. Let this man rest. He did a lot for the world. Let him rest. There is no truth to this documentary.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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A few years after Michael’s\u00a02009 death,\u00a0Wade and James filed civil lawsuits against his\u00a0estate, claiming sexual misconduct by him. Their cases\u00a0were<\/a>\u00a0dismissed<\/a>. In a 2005 criminal trial, Jackson was acquitted of charges of molesting a different boy, a 13-year-old at his Neverland ranch.\u00a0Wade\u00a0had testified\u00a0in the singer’s defense, saying the King of Pop had “never” touched him in a sexual way.\u00a0But in his\u00a0civil lawsuit, Wade stated\u00a0that he did not think he’d been sexually abused until he suffered two nervous breakdowns and went to psychotherapy as an adult, according to the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

“We’re living in a time where people can say anything and then it’s taken [for] the truth,” Jermaine\u00a0said on\u00a0Good Morning Britain<\/em>. “They would rather believe a documentary than looking at what was said under oath, in front of a judge, jury, everything.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Earlier this month,\u00a0Jackson’s estate had called\u00a0Leaving Neverland<\/em><\/a>\u00a0“yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson,” adding, “Wade Robson\u00a0and\u00a0James Safechuck\u00a0have both testified under oath that Michael never did anything inappropriate toward them. Safechuck and Robson, the latter a self-proclaimed ‘master of deception’, filed lawsuits against Michael’s Estate, asking for millions of dollars. Both lawsuits were dismissed.”<\/p>\n

Jermaine\u00a0signaled on\u00a0Good Morning Britain<\/em> that the documentary and the reactions to it have\u00a0been “very, very tough” on his family.<\/p>\n

“When these things happen, we pull together,” he said. “The statement that we put out with the estate says it all as well. But I wanted to come on because I’ve always jumped to my brother’s defense even when he was living, and now. But I’m just saying, he was tried\u00a0with all of these things and even Child Services of Los Angeles cleared him, even before the trial in Santa Barbara. So they had to put and sling him through the mud and he was cleared of all of this. So it’s nonsense.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2003, ABC and Britain’s ITV aired the shocking documentary Living with Michael Jackson<\/em>, which stated that the singer, then\u00a0in his mid-40s,\u00a0still had\u00a0sleepovers with young boys. The allegations were never proved and\u00a0Michael\u00a0aired\u00a0a rebuttal.<\/p>\n

“Those were slumber parties,” Jermaine said on\u00a0Good Morning Britain<\/em>, regarding sleepovers Michael was reported to have had with the kids. “What they didn’t tell you was there were little girls there, even with their parents, their uncles, and they were sitting down, watching movies.”<\/p>\n

Wade had claimed in his complaint that he and his sister shared a bed with Michael one night at Neverland, while their parents slept in another room, and that the following night, his sister didn’t want to sleep in the bed again, so he and the singer stayed there alone. He claims that that is when Michael began his alleged sexual abuse of him, which allegedly continued for seven years.<\/p>\n

On Good Morning Britain<\/em>,\u00a0Jermaine was asked if the family planned on pursuing legal action against the\u00a0Leaving Neverland<\/em> filmmakers.<\/p>\n

“That’s something for the estate,” he said. “We lost Michael, we lost a father, we’re still mourning, we lost a lot. Just leave us alone, leave him alone, Let him rest, please. Let him rest. He deserves to rest.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Jermaine Jackson, brother of the late\u00a0Michael Jackson,\u00a0reiterates that the allegations of child sexual abuse two men make against the King of Pop in a new documentary are untrue and is pleading to the public to let the late King of Pop rest in peace. The film, which\u00a0focuses on\u00a0accusations by Wade Robson\u00a0and\u00a0James Safechuck,\u00a0premiered at the 2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 11:37:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}