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Topic History of: interesting interview with a journalist re: Michael Jackson Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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The Leaving Neverland director says in the interview below (at around 1:38) that he has been making documentaries for 30 years, yet his IMDb bio mentions just three films: "Dan Reed was born in December 1964 in the UK. He is a director and producer, known for The Valley (2000), Terror in Mumbai (2009) and The Paedophile Hunter (2014)." www.imdb.com/name/nm0715371/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
However, the same site has an awards page that lists another five films too, and he has apparently been a nominee/winner of many film awards, including two BAFTAs, a Royal Television Society award and a Grierson Trust British Documentary award for The Paedophile Hunter. www.imdb.com/name/nm0715371/awards
He makes very interesting points about the Jackson case. But I wonder if his facts are accurate about the Savile case. He says at around 5 mins "The difference between Savile and Michael Jackson is, with Savile, although we didn't know it until after he died, there were multiple people who went to the police and filed police reports, with no financial motive whatsoever". I thought there was only one police report, to Sussex police, in 2008, dropped as the woman wouldn't take the matter further (source).
hedda wrote: And that the director of Leaving Neverland is repeatedly lying in interviews claiming the 2 accusers are not seeking money when they have $Multi-million claims ongoing against Jackson's estate.
Looks as if the director is selective with his facts.
Some interesting facts here which I've never heard before from journalist Charles Thompson slamming the media;s chorus line on that Neverland claptrap.
Such as Michael Jackson's autopsy revealed he was uncircumcised which blew out of the water his first accuser Jordan Chandler's claim that he was the opposite.
Chandler of course gave detailed descriptions of Jackson's body which were incorrect according to that autopsy.
And that the director of Leaving Neverland is repeatedly lying in interviews claiming the 2 accusers are not seeking money when they have $Multi-million claims ongoing against Jackson's estate. And they have contradicted themselves in these court proceedings with a judge slamming them over their porkies.
Thompson's complaint is really directed at today's unethical media which is parroting complete rubbish without fact checking.
## I met writer J.Randy Taraborrelli once over a proposed project that never eventuated. He is hugely successful as a biographer especially about Michael Jackson but he was also a very close friend of Jackson's and the one that always released the weirdest stories that Jackson often created himself..such as sleeping in an oxygen tent (good idea !) and so on.
The fact the media have completely ignored him, or sought his views and especially as the director /producer did not is very telling.
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