Michael Jackson Estate Calls Sundance Docu “Tabloid Character Assassination”

The other side of the story. Wonder if they can block the TV release?

https://deadline.com/2019/01/michael-jackson-estate-attacks-sundance-leaving-neverland-film-1202542494/

“Leaving Neverland isn’t a documentary, it is the kind of tabloid character assassination Michael Jackson endured in life, and now in death,” said the often-litigious estate in a statement released late Friday night. “Conveniently left out of Leaving Neverland was the fact that when Robson was denied a role in a Michael Jackson themed Cirque du Soleil production, his assault allegations suddenly emerged,” the estate adds of Wade Robson and his claims of the abuse by the Thriller singer. (read the full statement below)

Since it was announced earlier this month that Leaving Neverland would open at Sundance, Jackson fans around the world have taken to social media and elsewhere to condemn the documentary. With the constant whiff of legal action in the air, representatives for the estate of Jackson — who died in 2009, four years after being acquitted of seven counts of child molestation and two counts of giving a drug to a 13-year-old boy — slammed Neverland as “just another rehash of dated and discredited allegations.”