Michael Jackson Leaving Neverland director demands doubters add up all the hours superstar was in bed with little boys before declaring his innocence
LEAVING Neverland director Dan Reed has asked Michael Jackson’s defenders to “add up the nights” the controversial singer allegedly slept with little boys.
The filmmaker is on the offensive after accuser James Safechuck’s timeline of the alleged child abuse was called into question.
Safechuck claims he was molested until the age of 14 including in a room at Neverland’s train station.
However, Jackson’s biographer Mike Smallcombe revealed that the station was not built until 1994 when the accuser was aged 16.
But in a series of tweets, director Reed hit back asking doubters to check other examples of corroborating evidence against the eccentric entertainer.
He tweeted: "Progress - seem to have conceded that Safechuck was molested and are now debating which rooms at Neverland the sex took place in + James' age when it stopped.
How about adding up total number of nights MJ slept with other people’s sons
“How about adding up total number of nights MJ slept with other people’s sons: was it hundreds or thousands?"
Reed also wrote that Safechuck was abused after train station was built – despite the accuser stating numerous times, including in court docs, that the molestation ended when he was 14.
The filmmaker tweeted: "James Safechuck was at Neverland both before and after the construction of the train station there.
"The two still photos of the station shown in #leavingneverland were in fact taken by James, who is very clear that he was abused by Jackson in multiple places over many years."
On Monday, biographer Smallcombe tweeted out Santa Barbara County construction permits showing approval for the building of the station happened in September 1993.
Despite this, Reed remains convinced about the fact checking in his two-part film.
In response to GMB host Piers Morgan asking: “What other facts did you get wrong @danreed1000?”, the director posted: “What facts did I get wrong @piersmorgan ? Do tell.”
On Twitter, Smallcombe previously slammed Reed’s apparent attempt to change the accuser’s timeline.
He posted: “So @danreed1000 is now saying because the story has been debunked, suddenly the end of Safechuck’s abuse was when he was 16/17 rather than 14.
What facts did I get wrong @piersmorgan ? Do tell
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“It’s a three year discrepancy. Just hold your hands up, don’t change the story.
“This is what happens when you don’t investigate properly.”
Speaking with the , the biographer called the filmmaker’s response “embarrassing.”
He said: ““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.”
Smallcombe also claims some of the testimony given by another Jackson accuser Wade Robson in the documentary can be disproved.
Speaking with the , he questions the Australian-born dancer’s account of being molested by the superstar in 1990 while his family visited the Grand Canyon.
Wade said he was left alone with Jackson for five days at the star’s Neverland Ranch in California.
But the youngster and his mother both defended Jackson while speaking to investigators in 1993 after 13-year-old Jordan Chandler accused the entertainer of sexual abuse.
Smallcombe claims it is this testimony that proves that Wade is not telling the truth.
He said: “His mother, Joy Robson, testified under oath in a deposition in 1993/1994 in relation to the Jordie Chandler case that Wade had actually gone with them on that trip to the Grand Canyon, before the entire family returned to Neverland for the second time the following weekend.
"Joy Robson had no reason to lie about this; she openly admitted that Wade stayed with Jackson alone on other occasions.”
Smallcombe added: “Her words in that deposition were, ‘We went to the ranch for the first weekend, and then we left and went to the Grand Canyon, and we toured. We came back to the ranch for the following weekend’.
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“She was asked to elaborate on who had gone to the Grand Canyon, and she said ‘my family’. There was no mention of Wade staying behind.”
Jackson’s biographer then claims Joy said Wade had not stayed alone with Jackson at Neverland until 1993.
Wade Robson also testified in defence of Jackson during the Billy Jean songwriter’s 2005 trial in which he was cleared of molesting youngster Gavin Arviso.
In this court room testimony, the choreographer said that the only time he had stayed at Neverland without Joy was in either 1992 or 1993 along with other Jackson companions Macaulay Culkin and Chandler.
Smallcombe points out that Wade said that his sister had stayed in the same bed as him “the entire time” they were at Neverland the first time.
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He says Joy corroborated that account when giving evidence in the same trial.
Smallcombe adds that Wade said he “did not know” whether his recollection of that night came from his own memory or if someone else had told him what happened.
Wade Robson alleges that Michael Jackson sexually abused him from the age of seven to 14.
Safechuck claims he was groomed and raped from age of 10 to 14 by the superstar.
Michael Jackson denied all allegations of sexual abuse made against him.
His estate has called the two-part documentary film "one-sided."
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