{"id":1898924,"date":"2026-04-23T17:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1898924"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:13:26","slug":"colman-domingo-addresses-whether-michael-biopic-whitewashed-child-molestation-allegations-against-michael-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1898924","title":{"rendered":"Colman Domingo Addresses Whether \u2018Michael\u2019 Biopic \u2018Whitewashed\u2019 Child Molestation Allegations Against Michael Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIn the new Michael Jackson biopic Michael<\/em>, one complicated chapter of the King of Pop\u2019s life is notably absent: the accusations of child molestation that followed him for years, but for which he was never convicted or held legally liable.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a recent interview with Today<\/em>, however, Colman Domingo \u2014 who plays Michael\u2019s father, Joe Jackson, in the film \u2014 explained why he thinks the controversy ultimately didn\u2019t belong in the script. \u201cThe film takes place from the \u201960s to 1988,\u201d he said on Thursday (April 23) when asked whether he felt Michael<\/em> had \u201cwhitewashed\u201d that part of MJ\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cSo it does not go into the first allegations in, like, 2005?\u201d he continued, agreeing with co-star Nia Long\u2019s assessment that Michael <\/em>was deliberately written \u201cthrough [Michael\u2019s] eyes.\u201d \u201cWe centered on the makings of Michael, so it\u2019s an intimate portrait of who Michael is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Michael\u2019s criminal trial for charges related to child molestation took place in 2005, the allegations date back to the early 1990s. The Los Angeles Police Department first began investigating him in 1993 after Jordan Chandler, who was 13 at the time, accused the musician of inappropriate sexual conduct. The child\u2019s family settled with Michael for $22 million the following year, but the investigation was reopened in 2003. Two years later, a jury found Michael not guilty on all charges. Jackson and his legal team steadfastly denied the allegations. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s a possibility of there being a part two that may deal with other things that happened afterwards,\u201d Domingo continued on Today<\/em>. But Michael<\/em>, he asserted, \u201cis about the making of Michael, how he was raised and then how he was trying to find his voice as an artist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael <\/em>arrives this week after numerous production setbacks, with early projections estimating it could open with $150 million at the global box office. Originally scheduled to premiere a year ago, the film underwent heavy reshoots.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd while the film in its final form may not have gone into the years where Michael was under investigation, it\u2019s been widely reported that the reshoots were necessitated by the discovery of a decades-old agreement between the Jackson estate and Chandler\u2019s family, which promised that the former would never dramatize the latter in any capacity. The original script allegedly featured depictions of their accusations against the late icon, who died in 2009. <\/p>\n

\n\tChandler is not the only person who has accused Michael of molesting him as a child. Wade Robson and James Safechuck also claimed that the Grammy winner sexually abused them when they were kids \u2014 which the Jackson estate has vehemently denied \u2014 outlining their allegations in the 2019 docuseries Leaving Neverland <\/em>while spending the last decade pursuing legal action. In court filings from 2025, the Jackson estate claimed that Robson and Safechuck were seeking $400 million in their lawsuit, which Jackson\u2019s lawyers claimed had \u201cno merit,\u201d adding that \u201cMichael is innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Domingo address the absence of the child molestation allegations from Michael<\/em> on Today <\/em>below.<\/p>\n

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