Michael Jackson reportedly ran a child sex trafficking racket and smuggled a victim across the U.S., the FBI suspected.
The King of Pop has been facing child abuse and trafficking allegations for years after his death, and the documentary "Leaving Neverland" shared the story of two of his alleged victims. Most recently, a report about the FBI's belief that he had a child sex trafficking den resurfaced.
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Investigative journalist Dylan Howard uncovered the files regarding Jackson's crimes, revealing that the late singer introduced the child abuse victim as his cousin.
In Howard's "Bad: An Unprecedented Investigation into the Michael Jackson Cover-Up," Howard explored the FBI's suspicions on the "Smooth Criminal" hitmaker's interest in young boys, including how it began in 1993 after the singer abused a then-13-year-old Jordan Chandler.
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Following the findings, the cops asked the FBI's help until a probe started to look into the other allegations.
As quoted by OK! Magazine, an inquiry in the investigation exposed Jackson's alleged phone sex with a 13-year-old boy from the U.K. in 1979.
The child named Terry George, who is now a DJ, claimed he met Jackson in Leeds as he was a fan of him. They remained connected in the years after their meeting, during which the singer reportedly called him several times to conduct graphic sexual practices.
Howard previously informed The Mirror about seeing a video of Jackson in which the singer stares at a boy who eventually spits at him. He called the clip "worrying and baffling," especially since it was reportedly filled with foul language and was deemed age-inappropriate.
"Although Michael and the kids were engaging in what was clearly over-the-top theatrics, their preferred subject matter was without a doubt age-inappropriate," Howard said, per Daily Mail.
Michael Jackson's Child Abuse Cases Can Be Reopened
The revelation of the FBI's findings came after California's Second District Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that Jackson's alleged victims, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, could resume their lawsuits after the court previously dismissed them several times.
It reportedly reversed the previous ruling as "it would be perverse to find no duty based on the corporate defendant having only one shareholder."
On the other hand, Jackson's estate lawyer Jonathan Steinsapir expressed their disappointment after the ruling.
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