'A perfect situation for a paedophile': how Michael Jackson built Neverland
Neverland's gates in 2008, when the park was abandoned There was Thriller, and there was Bad, and then there was Neverland. Michael Jackson was a pop star, but it was a fantastical playground – which has just sold to American billionaire businessman Ronald Burkle for $78m below its original asking price – that he became known for creating. Throughout the Nineties, Neverland, the enormous 2,700-acre retreat nestled in the wilds of California’s Santa Ynez valley, became an integral part of Jackson’s image as an extraordinarily talented lost boy, a showbiz titan without a childhood who ...
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