The documentary's content, of which the New York Post has exclusively released some audio recordings, focuses on the 14-week-long legal process held in 2005 where the king of pop was accused of 14 charges, including four counts of child sexual abuse, another four of intoxicating a minor to abuse them, and secretly conspiring to keep the child and their family captivated at his Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara, California.
The program's narrative revolves around Gavin Arvizo, then a 13-year-old teenager who is now 36 years old and has been married to artist and designer Shelby Drake since 2013.
In some of the audio recordings made public by The New York Post, the author of Thriller confesses that "children end up falling in love with my personality. Sometimes I get into trouble"; "if you were to tell me right now... 'Michael, you could never see another child...' I would commit suicide" and "children... just want to touch and hug me." In some of the images, the artist can be seen having a picnic only with Arvizo in a part of the Neverland property.
A source who has had access to all the audio recordings commented to The New York Post that "there is something extremely unusual and disturbing about Michael Jackson's fascination with children, especially those who are not his own." Furthermore, "hearing his voice talking about children in this way, given that he had been accused of abuses, raises many doubts about his mental health, his mindset, and sadly, his intentions."
The first time Paris' father faced accusations of misconduct with a minor was in 1993 when a Beverly Hills dentist friend named Evan Chandler accused him of sexually abusing his 13-year-old son Jordan.
No trial took place because both parties reached an out-of-court settlement in which Jackson paid $22 million to the Chandler family. After the singer's death in 2009 at the age of 50, it was Jordan himself who confessed that "Michael never abused me, I lied for my father."
On June 13, 2005, a jury in the Santa Maria court in California found Jackson not guilty on all charges.
But Michael Jackson's name has been in question since the release of the documentary Leaving Neverland in 2019, where James Safechuck and Wade Robson revealed that the singer abused them in the late 80s and early 90s.
Both filed lawsuits in 2013 and 2014 against two of Jackson's companies, MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures, responsible for protecting the deceased's legacy, as well as managing his fortune and image rights, for being negligent in their care.
However, a judge dismissed these accusations in 2020 in Safechuck's case and in 2021 in Robson's case, considering that the mentioned companies were not responsible for protecting them.
But in August 2023, they were surprised when a California court reopened the cases for alleged sexual abuse. Both Safechuck and Robson starred in a second documentary, Leaving Neverland: Surviving Michael Jackson (2025), where they explained their entire legal ordeal and their intentions for justice to be served. The alleged victims have sued for $400 million.
The new trial is expected to begin at some point in 2026. Due to this sensitive issue, Paris Jackson (27), one of the singer's three children - along with Prince Michael (28) and Blanket (23) - is doing everything possible to clear her father's name and protect his legacy.
Last July, the young woman filed legal actions in the Los Angeles Superior Court against her father's estate administrators amounting to around $2 billion for excessive and non-transparent expenses to various attorneys. The executors John Branca and John McClain justified these disbursements to settle over 15 lawsuits.