Unable to secure any lasting work in showbiz, Robson soon also began suffering financial troubles. This led to him pawning his personal belongings, including some of his MJ memorabilia. He did this throughout 2011 and 2012, while continuing to praise MJ publicly.
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The following year, Robson’s “repressed memories” of abuse by MJ surfaced, at the age of 30. He immediately wrote a book about the abuse, and began shopping it to publishers, but interest was scarce.
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Fortunately, Robson received backup from Safechuck, who claimed that seeing Robson talking about the abuse on TV had refreshed his own memory, and that he was now also sure that he’d been abused.
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Together, the pair filed a $1.5 billion dollar creditor’s claim and civil lawsuit against MJ’s estate. Their case was thrown out of court due to the Statue of Limitations and possible implications of perjury. But Robson & Safechuck can still appeal, and intend to.
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Now, it is possible that Robson’s effusive tributes to MJ, his insistence on being associated with MJ even after death, his grand showbiz aspirations, his sudden epiphany of abuse when penniless aged 30, are the encrypted cries for help of an an abuse survivor.
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It is also possible that watching Robson detail his abuse on TV really did trigger latent memories of abuse in Safechuck, and that the two then decided to collaborate in good faith to innocently seek justice in the form of $1.5 billion by blaming MJ’s estate for MJ’s abuse.
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But, the more I learn about this case, the more room for doubt I find, and I am just not able to explain away the inconsistencies as peremptorily as so many of you have done.
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And even if Robson and Safechuck are telling the truth, then Leaving Neverland, with its tendentious cherry-picking, and its refusal to address suspicious holes in the testimony, from which doubts have sprouted, has utterly failed them, and they deserve better than a shock-doc.
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Whatever the truth, one fact remains: despite all the doubts we should have about the allegations—after Jussie Smollett and Covington—the world has once again uncritically swallowed a victimhood narrative based on mere talk. And that, to me, is wrongdoing I can be certain of.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Which of these claims do you think are the strongest? Some of them I find pretty weak (the distinction between 'met' and 'spoke to' can be explained by a phone call) The mother's claim of celebrating his death seems the most confounding one to me.
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Agreed. The mother's premature celebration was what rang the first alarm bells for me when I began researching the case.
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Gonna review it. It's possible it was a response to an off-screen question like: 'Did you see MJ's death in a new light after your son's confession?' Doesn't make sense otherwise. Such a lie shouldn't have got past the filmmaker, editors, subjects during screen tests.
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Checked and she's lying in some sort of capacity. Doesn't make sense to be part of a group lie. The other players would have surely identified it as being inconsistent with the timeline. It's possible she acknowledged MJ's guilt before knowing her son was one of the victims.
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