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BOMBSHELL REVELATION­S

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1 THE BOYS WERE ONLY 7 AND 8 WHEN THE ABUSE BEGAN Safechuck claims Jackson taught him how to masturbate when he was 7, when he took him and his family on tour. “He set it up like I’m going to show you something that everybody does and you’ll enjoy it,” Safechuck said. “It felt like you were bonding, in a way. The tour was the start of this sexual, like, couple relationsh­ip.” Robson alleges that when he was 8, Jackson performed oral sex on him, saying, “You and I were brought together by God. We were meant to be together. This is how we show love.”

2 JACKSON ‘MARRIED’ SAFECHUCK “We had this mock wedding ceremony. We did this in his bedroom and we filled out some vows,” Safechuck alleges. “I was really into jewellery and he would reward me with jewellery for doing sexual acts for him.”

3 HE WAS TERRIFIED OF BEING CAUGHT “[Jackson] would run drills with me where we’d be in the hotel room and he would pretend like somebody was coming in and you had to get dressed as fast as possible without making noise,” Safechuck claims.

4 MACAULAY CULKIN ‘REPLACED’ ROBSON “Macaulay was where I was, in my previous trips. Right by Michael’s side [at] every moment,” Robson said. “There was jealousy from me, hurt, confusion.” In the 2005 trial, Culkin said: “As far as I know, he’s never molested me.”

5 HE ASKED ROBSON TO LIVE ALONE WITH HIM “Michael said to me, ‘Will you leave [the] little one with me for a year?’” Robson’s mum Joy said. “I tried to explain to him that it wasn’t going to happen. And after a while, he looked at me and said, ‘I always get what I want.’”

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