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Michael Jackson Doco to Air Tapes of Singer’s Inner-Most Thoughts About Children

Channel 4's four-part series uses unpublished pre-trial audio and new interviews to explore Michael Jackson's psychology and revisit his 2005 trial and allegations.

  • On Wednesday, Channel 4 launches the four-episode Michael Jackson: The Trial at 9 p.m. GMT, featuring never-before-published audio from more than 20 years ago.
  • Revisiting the 2005 California trial, the series features archival audio from Michael Jackson's 1999 interviews with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, conducted before his acquittal.
  • In the trailer last week, Jackson says `Children just wanna touch me and hug me`, and the New York Post reported he said `I would kill myself if I could never see another child`; Deadline confirmed these will appear in episode two.
  • Amid plentiful new Jackson projects, a former defense attorney asserts `The entire accusations against Michael were a scam,` in the documentary.
  • As with prior documentaries, Wonderhood Studios produced the series amid abundant Jackson content, following Channel 4‑HBO's Leaving Neverland and its sequel from Dan Reed.
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In the trailer of the documentary "Michael Jackson: The Trial", the British channel Channel 4 announces the broadcast of unreleased recordings in which the artist says: "Children want to... The article "Children wanted to touch me and hug me": a documentary revives the scandal around Michael Jackson appeared first on Current Values.

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On Saturday, the New York Post reported another particularly alarming statement made by Jackson in those recordings.

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The singer who died in 2009 was charged with sexual assault on minors leading to trials in 1993 and 2005.

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The unreleased recordings in a new documentary about the king of pop: "If they said to me now: "Michael, you won't see a child anymore," I would kill myself. I have nothing else to live for."

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