Jackson Acknowledges Settling Past Claims
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LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson, facing child-molestation allegations, acknowledged he has reached financial settlements with people in the past to avoid the embarrassment of going to court, but added he would never harm a child.    The six-paragraph statement was released hours before "Dateline NBC" broadcast a lengthy report alleging that the entertainer paid $2 million to the son of an employee at his Neverland Ranch in 1990 to avoid a child-molestation accusation...
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In an Aug. 19 story about Michael Jackson, The Associated Press reported erroneously that court documents showed a public statement he asked permission to make was about the investigation into his claims he was manhandled during his arrest last year.
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THE judge in pop icon Michael Jackson&#39;s child abuse case tentatively ruled today that scores of items of evidence seized at his Neverland Ranch could not be used against him in evidence.
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Pop star Michael Jackson and his former wife Debbie Rowe have reached a settlement in their long-running child custody dispute, her lawyer said on Friday.
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LOS ANGELES - The state attorney general's office has concluded that Michael Jackson was not "manhandled" by sheriff's deputies who took him into custody last year on child molestation charges, CBS News reported Sunday.    The findings were contained in a three-page letter Martin A...
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A settlement was reached Saturday in the dispute over the estate of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, including the rights to her name and image, a lawyer in the case said.
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A California judge has cleared the way for next month&#39;s scheduled start of Michael Jackson&#39;s child molestation trial. A defense request for charges against Jackson to be dropped has been denied.
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The district attorney prosecuting Michael Jackson on child molestation charges can stay on the case. That ruling came down Thursday from Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville in Santa Barbara County, California.
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Michael Jackson reached a settlement on Monday with a New Jersey financial company that brought a $48 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against him.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. - The stepfather of the boy who accused Michael Jackson of molestation testified Thursday that he asked for payment for the family's participation in a video interview intended to restore Jackson's reputation...
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Michael Jackson tried to "buy peace" in the past by paying to settle child molestation claims but now -- facing trial in another abuse case -- wishes he had fought his accusers in court, a lawyer for the pop star said on Friday.
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The state attorney general's office has concluded that Michael Jackson was not "manhandled" by sheriff's deputies who took him into custody last year on child molestation charges, CBS News reported Sunday.
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Michael Jackson's defense attorney said in a court-approved statement Tuesday that news reports about photographs reportedly seized from the singer's home are false and that the prosecution in the child-molestation case agrees.
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SANTA MARIA, California  - Prosecutors said on  Friday they have evidence that Michael Jackson's legal team  organized rallies for the pop star shortly after he was charged  with child molestation.
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Prosecutors in the Michael Jackson child molestation case want to include as evidence previous allegations of sex offenses for which police did not charge the singer.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif.  - Michael Jackson tried to  "buy peace" in the past by paying to settle child molestation  claims but now -- facing trial in another abuse case -- wishes  he had fought his accusers in court, a lawyer for the pop star  said on Friday.
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Michael Jackson&#39;s latest legal headache is a lawsuit by a Los Angeles antique dealer who claims the beleaguered pop star owes him $180,000.