IN the late 1980s and early 1990s, Michael Jackson was the undisputed King of Pop, and probably the most famous man in the world.

Troubled pop music legend Michael Jackson is facing a multi-million-dollar breach of contract action in London today, just days after he disposed of his Neverland ranch in California.

Michael Jackson's brother Jermaine has denied the singer's Neverland Ranch was ever for sale - insisting the property would go on the market "over my dead body".

Michael Jackson has signed a deal to save his Neverland Ranch home from being sold at a public auction.

Michael Jackson is determined to stop the auction of his old Neverland Ranch home by taking out a loan to cover the money he owes to the estate's trustees.

Michael Jackson has dismissed reports he is in danger of losing his Neverland Ranch in California after defaulting on a $23m (€15.7m) loan.

Pop superstar Michael Jackson has 90 days to pay back a $23m (€16m) loan plus interest or he faces losing property including his Neverland Ranch in California, according to legal papers.

Michael Jackson is house-hunting for a holiday home on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Lawyers for Michael Jackson dropped an effort to block an auction of the pop star’s personal belongings and other family items, including his gold record for the Thriller album.

Michael Jackson has denied US reports he is preparing to sell his Neverland ranch at the reduced rate of $20m (€14.8m) - $30m (€22.19m) lower than his original asking price.

Flanked by water-dropping helicopters, about 100 firefighters contained a 40-acre blaze on Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.

Trains once packed with laughing children no longer roll around the grounds of Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch.

Michael Jackson has closed the house on his Neverland Ranch and laid off some of the employees there, but has not completely shuttered the sprawling California estate.

Averting a potential state lawsuit, Michael Jackson has agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in back wages owed to dozens of employees at his Neverland ranch, according to a statement from the California Department of Industrial Relations.

Animals are not being mistreated at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, federal officials have concluded.

MICHAEL JACKSON has two weeks to stave off a €228 million foreclosure or lose his Neverland ranch and Sony Beatles music catalogue.

The bizarre world of Michael Jackson was laid bare during his trial.

The judge in Michael Jackson’s trial today cleared the way for another possible courtroom face-off between the singer and the boy accusing him of molestation.

Michael Jackson won’t take the stand in his child molestation trial, leaving jurors with only the singer’s videotaped statements about what happened behind Neverland’s closed doors.

A security guard at Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch told his child sex trial that he caught the pop star’s teenage accuser and his brother with a bottle of wine.

An orthodontist testified today in Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial that she saw no sign that his accuser’s family was being held captive when they came to her office on a visit that the mother claims was an attempt to escape from the pop star.

ACTOR Macaulay Culkin yesterday adamantly denied that he had ever been molested by Michael Jackson.

The property manager at Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch testified today that he was never ordered to hold captive the family of the boy who is accusing the pop star of child molestation.

SEVERAL ex-employees at Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch cast doubt yesterday over explosive allegations made by former colleagues.

Several ex-employees at Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch cast doubt today over explosive allegations made by former colleagues.

A former employee of Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch took the stand at the court in Santa Maria, California today to dispute the testimony of a maid who claimed the pop star inappropriately touched actor Macaulay Culkin and other boys.

Michael Jackson was a loving, pure and generous person who would never dream of sexually abusing children, two mothers testified today.

THE jury in Michael Jackson’s child abuse trial was discharged early yesterday to enable lawyers to debate various motions before Judge Rodney Melville.

MICHAEL JACKSON’S Neverland ranch is “all about booze, pornography and sex with boys”, a court heard yesterday.

MICHAEL JACKSON sobbed and shook when the mother of a boy he allegedly molested refused to let her son share his bed, the pop star’s child abuse trial was told yesterday.

Michael Jackson’s former maid testified today at the singer’s child molestation trial that she and other employees of the pop star used a ”media broker” to sell stories to tabloids including one claiming inside knowledge of Jackson’s sex life with ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley.

Michael Jackson tried to close the door on a 1993 claim of child molestation when he paid millions to a young accuser, but a court hearing in his current trial could resurrect those allegations.

A feeble-looking Michael Jackson arrived late again to his child abuse trial, but the judge took no apparent action – and the star sat through testimony from a psychologist who said few child sex abuse allegations turned out to be false.

Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial has not stemmed visits by youngsters to his Neverland ranch, his spokeswoman said.

Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial has not stemmed visits by youngsters to his Neverland ranch, his spokeswoman said.

Michael Jackson says in a television interview scheduled to air tomorrow that many of the news reports about him are “fiction” and that his celebrity makes him a target.

Michael Jackson may have violated zoning rules on his Neverland Ranch when he claimed a tax break for preserving agricultural land, Santa Barbara County officials have said.