By Ashley Young-
The horrifying allegations of sexual abuse allegedly wrought by late music icon, Michael Jackson, has suddenly been thrown in doubt after the singer exposed errors in the timeline of the abuse given by one of the singers accusers, James Safechuck
It comes after the director of the globally watched documentary, Dave Reed, responded to claims that one of Michael Jackson’s accusers lied in the HBO documentary. Incredibly, Jackson’s biographer, Mike Smallcombe, who has been studying the claims of the documentary very closely, exposed holes in James Safechuck’s story of being abused in Neverland’s train station. He revealed that the claims are false because it was built two years after he said the assaults stopped.
His attack on the credibility of the documentary comes after Safechuck alleged that he was assaulted in an upstairs room in Neverland’s train station. Reed admitted the error in a tweet in which he said:
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“Yeah there seems to be no doubt about the station date. The date they have wrong is the end of the abuse.”
The story was first broken by Mirror Online where Smallcombe ridiculed the response of the documentary’s director, as he challenged the director’s desire to ‘rewrite’ the testimony given by Safechuck. Safechuck has said several times in the past and in court under oath that his abuse stopped in 1992 when he was 14.
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Although the abuse happened decades ago, a victim of abuse is meant to remember the precise year the abuse ended because of the seriousness of its impact on them.
Smallcombe revealed: “Because the story has been debunked, it appears Reed is now suddenly wanting to change Safechuck’s timeline himself.
Firstly, I’m shocked that he’s spoken on Safechuck’s behalf. And secondly, it’s embarrassing that he feels he has to now change the narrative of the film – which is that the alleged abuse stopped in 1992 – all because part of it has been disproved.
“That’s what happens when you take allegations like that at face value, and make no attempts to scrutinise and investigate whether they are true.” Safechuck has on many occassions under oath in court, that he is alleging the abuse stopped in 1992, when he was 14.
Smallcombe added: “By acknowledging the build date, Reed is essentially confirming that Safechuck’s claim of being abused in Neverland’s train station between 1988 and 1992 is impossible.
“To seemingly now claim on Safechuck’s behalf that the abuse went on as Safechuck approached adulthood, all to preserve the timeline of his film, is astonishing.”
Smallcombe has also attacked the credibility of the allegations of Wade Robson, the other accuser in the documentary, citing his mother’s account in court documents.
Smallcombe says the claim by Robson that the abuse started when his family went to the Grand Canyon in early 1990 and he stayed behind with Jackson, is false and shows him to be a liar. Robson’s mother is said to have contradicted her own son’s claim to a court in both 1993 and 2016, where she stated that her son joined them on the trip.
The revelation throws fresh doubts on the validity of the claims of abuse which led to radio stations around the world stop playing Michael Jackson’s music, and the value of his luxurious Neverland ranch being slashed by nearly $50m from $69m to $23m. The account of the two accusers were so compelling that a vast majority of Jackson’s hard core fans who watched the documentary believed the accounts of the two men.
However, Jackson’s estate have always rejected the claims, as has many of his fans.
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