Where was Michael Jackson’s zoo?
MICHAEL JACKSON is one the highest selling artists of all time, and has inspired legions of people to try - and mostly fail - his trademark moonwalk.
But MJ was not only a singer and dancer, he even had his own zoo. Here's all you need to know.
What was Michael Jackson's zoo called?
The King of Pop's personal collection of various creatures was extensive.
He's believed to have had at least 50 different species of animals, including giraffes and alligators.
His zoo was located on his sprawling property, known as Neverland Ranch,
The zoo is not known to have had a specific name.
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Where was Michael Jackson's zoo?
Michael Jackson had huge success as both a member of The Jackson 5 and as a solo performer.
In 1987 he bought the 2,700-acre Santa Barbara County ranch for around $19.5 million which he turned into his own personal amusement park.
The estate, dubbed Neverland Ranch, is in California, at 5225 Figueroa Mountain Road, Los Olivos.
It had a number of outlandish features including a train (complete with a station), its own movie theatre and fair ground rides, as well as Jackson's infamous zoo.
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Jackson sold it to Colony Capital for $22.5million prior to his death in 2009.
His estate co-owned the property “with a fund managed by Colony Capital, a real-estate investment trust”, the .
The Beat It singer defaulted on a loan backed by Neverland and the trust “bought the note in 2008, putting the property’s title into a joint venture it formed with the pop star”.
In December 2020, the ranch was bought for £22million by billionaire Ron Burkle, after being listed for an amount almost four times that.
Jackson, who died aged 50 in 2009, strongly denied allegations of sex abuse made against him.
What animals did Michael Jackson have at his Neverland zoo?
A new ITV documentary airing on April 27, 2022, looks at what happened to the animals on Jackson's estate.
Former EastEnders star Ross Kemp investigates their current whereabouts in Searching For Michael Jackson's Zoo.
The actor told The Sun about his experience of shooting the programme: "Everyone remembers Bubbles the chimpanzee who was brought to Press conferences and featured in the Thriller star’s music videos.
"But there were well over a hundred more Jackson animals at any given time — lions, tigers, bears, reptiles. He had them all."
Jackson also kept giraffes, with one dying in a barn fire, as well as llamas and had elephants called Ali and Baba.
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Kemp said: "Very little is known about the animals’ whereabouts since 2005 and I was curious to discover what happened to the most famous private collection in the world.
"It is very likely some of his pets are still alive."