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Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson, born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana is an American musician and entertainer with a successful music career and a vontroversal personal life.

From 1988 to 2005, he lived on his Neverland Ranch, on which he built an amusement and private zoo for the enjoyment of poor and terminal ill children.

His frequently held sleep-over parties have received a big media coverage, especially after he admited that he sometimes slept in the same bed with several unrelated children. The attention grew when he was accused of child sexual abuse in 1993 and 2003. Jackson had to go to court in 2005.

The alleged victim was a boy called Gavin Arvizo who was 13 years old at the time of the alleged crimes. Adult materials was found at Neverland including many magazines of porn. Some had fingerprints of some victims who claimed that Jackson showed this adult materials to them and gave them alcohol.

Jackson denied and claimed that the children were sometimes "out of control" at Neverland and they found some magazines and drank alcohol in his absence. the boy admitted that he had lied under oath in an unrelated court. The jury found Jackson not guilty on all counts.