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Netflix Despite his death nearly 20 years ago, there are still few figures on Earth as famous as Michael Jackson. A singular entertainer, Jackson’s music has a timelessness and energy that reverberates across generations. However, the “Thriller” artist’s eccentricities and legal battles also remain forever tethered to his name. When Jackson was accused of multiple accounts of child molestation in 2003, it set off media mayhem, rivaling the O.J. Simpson trial a decade prior. Now, in Netflix’s latest docuseries, “Michael Jackson: The Verdict,” director Nick Green examines the case against the Motown legend, the news circus surrounding the 2005 trial and what happened inside the courtroom. Though the show offers the details and accounts which eventually led to Jackson’s acquittal, it stands more as an examination of our collective obsession with celebrity, who the public is willing to believe and why.
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