In the United States began in a dispute over film on sexual abuse by Michael Jackson

In the United States began in a dispute over film on sexual abuse by Michael Jackson

KIEV. March 5. UNN. On HBO released the first of a series of two-part documentary “Leaving Neverland” (Neverland Leaving), telling about the sexual exploits of singer Michael Jackson, who died in 2009, with children. The main characters — a 36-year-old Wade Robson and 40-year-old James Savchuk. They argue that at an early age was subjected to harassment on the part of the musician, reports UNN with reference to the number of American publications, including The New York Times.

Savchuk met with Jackson in 1986, when he was ten and together they starred in ads for Pepsi. “Everyone wanted to meet Michael or be with Michael, says Savchuk in the beginning of the film. He was bigger than life. And besides, he liked you. With nothing comparable to the feeling with Jackson to go to the car through the crowd of enthusiastic fans.”

After shooting the musician invited the boy and his family in your concert tour, where the relationship immediately allegedly acquired sexual in nature.

Two years later, Savchuk was replaced by Robson, now a successful choreographer. He first saw Jackson at age five, when she won a dance contest in his native Australia. The main prize was a meeting with the artist. In 1990, the boy’s mother brought them joy with her sister in Los Angeles, believing in the promises Jackson that he would make her son a star.

The stories of Robson and Savchuk is very similar. According to Robson, a musician told him that “God did so that they were together, and they are meant for each other”. However, he warned that if anyone finds out about their relationship, they will separate and they will never see each other. The singer allegedly threatened by the fact that they are put in jail for the rest of life.

However, the filmmakers have ignored a number of details, which caused a number of questions from the American media. Jackson build relationships not only with boys but also with their families. He could spend hours talking with mothers about their children, saying that praying about their future. The musician stayed in a small family home Savchuk in the California town Simi valley. As told by Stephanie, the mother of James, it touched that Jackson could be anywhere in the world, and spent time with them. Stephanie started to think of a musician as his second son.

Family the two boys often stayed in the Neverland, but they always left in the guest house away from the rooms where Jackson lived with his children. According to mother joy Robson, during one of his visits, she had a feeling that the son avoids her, but then suspicious things have not gone.

According to the journalist of Vanity Fair Maureen Orth, formerly joy Robson admitted in court that as a source of income to get permanent residency in the U.S. she stated the wages paid by firms of Jackson. Family Savchuk Jackson gave a new home and several cars. This was in the first episode of HBO is not mentioned.

According to lawyers of the family of Jackson, HBO has flagrantly violated the contract of 1992 to broadcast the concerts of the tour “Dangerous”. Under the agreement, the channel was not supposed to disseminate information discrediting the reputation of Jackson. The tour was then cancelled — as Vox writes, largely because of the scandal connected with charges in sexual harassment. The contract remained in force.

According to lawyers, the filmmakers violated the principles of journalistic objectivity as it did not interview any family members of the singer nor the other children staying at Neverland. Business Insider asked the film’s Director Dan reed with the question of why he was not interviewed Macaulay Culkin, the actor from the movie “home Alone”, who often visited at the ranch of Jackson and repeatedly called ridiculous any suggestion that the musician molested him. The Director replied that a lot of thought about whether to contact Calcine for comment, but in the end decided that the position of the actor and so well known, and a witness of the scenes referred to in the film, he was not.