{"id":2441297,"date":"2019-03-04T07:23:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=802611"},"modified":"2019-03-04T07:23:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:23:38","slug":"michael-jackson-estate-releases-concert-film-during-leaving-neverland-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/michael-jackson-estate-releases-concert-film-during-leaving-neverland-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson Estate Releases Concert Film During \u2018Leaving Neverland\u2019 Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Michael Jackson<\/a> estate released<\/a> a two-hour concert film on YouTube Sunday night in an attempt to divert attention from the premiere of Leaving Neverland<\/a>. The estate plans to drop<\/a> another performance tonight, March 4th, to coincide with part two of the bombshell HBO documentary.<\/p>\n

The Jackson estate has been<\/a> fiercely<\/a> critical<\/a> of Leaving Neverland, which centers around accusations from two men, Wade Robson and Jimmy Safechuck, who claim Jackson sexually abused them repeatedly when they were children. Even the concert film the estate chose to release Sunday night seemed to be a pointed rebuke: Michael Jackson in Concert in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour\u00a0first aired as a concert special on HBO in 1992.<\/em><\/p>\n

The film is also at the center of the Jackson estate\u2019s legal action<\/a> against HBO over the documentary. While the family can\u2019t sue the network for libel or defamation as dead individuals are exempt from such laws, they did file a $100 million lawsuit claiming that Leaving Neverland<\/em> violates a non-disparagement clause in a 1992 contract between Jackson and HBO over the rights to air the Bucharest concert special.<\/p>\n

\u201cHBO profited off the Dangerous<\/em> World Tour by airing a concert from the tour and promoting Michael Jackson\u2019s talents,\u201d the suit claims. \u201cNow, HBO is profiting off the Dangerous<\/em> World Tour by airing a \u2018documentary\u2019 that falsely claims Michael Jackson was abusing children on the same tour. It is hard to imagine a more direct violation of the non-disparagement clause.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suit, however, did not phase HBO. A representative for the network told Rolling Stone<\/em>, \u201cDespite the desperate lengths taken to undermine the film, our plans remain unchanged\u2026 This will allow everyone the opportunity to assess the film and the claims in it for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tonight, the estate plans to release Jackson\u2019s July 16th, 1988 concert at Wembley Stadium in London, England. Both concert films will be available on YouTube for a limited time. Part two of Leaving Neverland<\/em> airs at 8 p.m. ET on HBO.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Michael Jackson estate released a two-hour concert film on YouTube Sunday night in an attempt to divert attention from the premiere of Leaving Neverland. The estate plans to drop another performance tonight, March 4th, to coincide with part two of the bombshell HBO documentary. The Jackson estate has been fiercely critical of Leaving Neverland, […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 22:00:12","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}