Living with Michael Jackson
2003 television documentary by Martin Bashir / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Living with Michael Jackson is a television documentary in which the British journalist Martin Bashir interviewed the American singer Michael Jackson from May 2002 to January 2003. It was broadcast in the United Kingdom on ITV (as a Tonight with Trevor McDonald special) on 3 February 2003, and in the United States three days later on ABC, introduced by Barbara Walters.[1] Jackson took Bashir on a tour of his home, Neverland Ranch, and discussed his family, unhappy childhood, plastic surgery and relationships with children.
Living with Michael Jackson | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Directed by | Julie Shaw |
Presented by | Martin Bashir |
Starring | Michael Jackson |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Production | |
Executive producer | Jeff Anderson (Tonight) |
Producers | James Goldston and Julie Shaw |
Production company | Granada Television |
Original release | |
Network | ITV (UK) ABC (U.S.) |
Release | 3 February 2003 (2003-02-03) |
In November 2003, the BBC aired Louis, Martin & Michael, a documentary by the British filmmaker Louis Theroux, who had lost out to Bashir to make the documentary.[2] In December 2003, following controversy raised from Bashir's documentary, Jackson was charged with seven counts of child molestation and two counts of intoxicating a minor with alcohol,[3] all of which he was acquitted of in a court of law in June 2005.[4]