Michael Jackson's defence today asked the judge in his child molestation trial to rule out the testimony of ex-wife Deborah Rowe but did not reveal the reason in open court.

The stepfather of Michael Jackson’s accuser testified today that the boy’s mother called him in distress from the pop star’s Neverland estate during the period in which prosecutors allege the family was held captive.

WITH one ruling, Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial has been transformed from a courtroom drama focusing on one child to a retrospective covering a decade’s worth of accusations against Jackson.

Prosecutors in the Michael Jackson case have waited more than a decade for what a judge has now granted them: the chance to tell jurors about past sexual abuse allegations that never led to criminal charges.

AN array of previous sex abuse allegations made against Michael Jackson can be admitted as evidence in his child molestation trial, a court ruled yesterday.

Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial has started to look like an X-rated show, complete with lurid magazine covers of topless women projected on a large screen in the courtroom.

PROSECUTORS in the Michael Jackson child molestation case asked the trial judge yesterday to schedule a hearing as early as next week on whether to admit evidence of alleged prior sexual offences by Jackson.

Prosecutors in the Michael Jackson child molestation case asked the trial judge today to schedule a hearing as early as next week on whether to admit evidence of alleged prior sexual offences by Jackson.

MICHAEL JACKSON’S teenage accuser yesterday said he told a school administrator the singer did not molest him because he wanted to avoid teasing by classmates.

Michael Jackson’s teenage accuser said today he told a school administrator the singer did not molest him because he wanted to avoid teasing by classmates.

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy who testified he saw his brother molested twice by Michael Jackson said they were told not to breathe a word to anyone about what happened at his Neverland ranch, even if a gun was to put to his head.

The family accusing Michael Jackson of child molestation has been seen today by jurors in a video praising him as a father figure.

The teenage sister of Michael Jackson’s accuser told his child molestation trial today that the star suddenly had the family flown by private jet to Miami where he ordered them to not watch a documentary about him that would be on TV that night.

Police investigating allegations of child molestation against Michael Jackson found no DNA from his accuser when they searched the pop star’s bedroom, his lawyer told the jury today.

Jurors were given opposing images of Michael Jackson at the opening of the pop star’s trial – the prosecution portraying him as a perverted child molester and the defence saying he was the victim of a con artist who used her cancer-stricken son to prey on celebrities for money.

A PROSECUTOR laid out the child molestation and conspiracy case against Michael Jackson yesterday, saying his 15-year-old accuser was abused and employees tried to silence him by warning his mother could be killed.

Michael Jackson trial lawyers will spell out their cases to a jury today, more than a year after stunned fans watched authorities arrest the pop star and charge him with molesting a 13-year-old boy at his Neverland Ranch.

MICHAEL JACKSON’S parents yesterday insisted the pop star’s young accuser was simply after his money.

The tortuous task of finding 12 jurors who can ignore everything they have read about Michael Jackson began in a California court today and could last for a month.

Dozens of dancing, screaming fans gathered outside a California courthouse today as Michael Jackson’s child molestation case finally came to trial.

As Michael Jackson’s child molestation case headed to trial today, his parents spoke out in his defence, saying the pop star’s young accuser was simply after his money.

A judge today rejected a defence attempt to remove the district attorney in the Michael Jackson child molestation case on the grounds that the pop star had been the victim of an overzealous prosecution.

Prosecutor Tom Sneddon and his entire office should be removed from the Michael Jackson molestation case because he “is motivated by personal animosity” toward the singer, according to newly released court papers filed by Jackson’s lawyers.

Michael Jackson – dressed in white and accompanied by members of his family - returned to court to watch a showdown over key evidence with the prosecutor who has pursued the singer for years on child abuse charges.

FANS of Michael Jackson erupted in cheers yesterday as the pop star emerged from a double-decker tour bus and went into a California court for a showdown with the prosecutor who has pursued him for years on child molestation charges.

Fans of Michael Jackson erupted in cheers today as the pop star emerged from a double-decker tour bus and went into a California court for a showdown with the prosecutor who has pursued him for years on child molestation charges.

Dozens of Michael Jackson’s fans pressed against a chain-link fence outside a California court today, staking out viewing spots hours before the pop star was to arrive to face the prosecutor who has pursued him for years on child molestation charges.

Troubled pop star Michael Jackson is confronting the man who wants to put him behind bars over child-sex charges today, in a pre-trial hearing.

In a highly unusual move, the judge in the Michael Jackson child molestation case ordered the district attorney to take the stand and explain why a private investigator’s office was searched.

Attacking the news media for pandering to a “gossip-hungry” audience, Santa Barbara County prosecutors has urged the state Supreme Court to uphold a gagging order in the Michael Jackson child molestation case.

Pop superstar Michael Jackson’s ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley has been asked to appear before a grand jury investigating child sex abuse allegations against the singer, it emerged today.

A district attorney who charged Michael Jackson with child molestation is convening a grand jury to hear evidence in the case, it is reported.

Michael Jackson has again surrendered the passport authorities briefly returned to him so he could travel to Britain on business, although there was no indication he ever used it.

Pop singer Michael Jackson has found a friend in another celebrity who has had his own brushes with the law – former baseball star Darryl Strawberry.

Sex abuse charges against pop star Michael Jackson are driven solely by money and revenge, his lawyer claimed.

Pop star Michael Jackson will fight child sex abuse charges filed against him “with every fibre of his soul”, his lawyer has said.

POP star Michael Jackson was last night charged with child sex abuse after allegations that he molested a teenage cancer patient at his Neverland ranch.

Pop star Michael Jackson was tonight charged with child sex abuse after allegations that he molested a teenage cancer sufferer at his Neverland ranch.

Charges are to be filed against pop star Michael Jackson on Thursday or Friday, US officials said today.

A teenage cancer survivor accusing Michael Jackson of sexual abuse told social workers months ago that the star had never molested him, according to a document uncovered by a news website.

No one has come forward to make additional allegations against embattled pop star Michael Jackson after a tip-off phone line was set up by police, it emerged today.

Michael Jackson’s lawyer vowed to “land like a ton of bricks” on anyone who attacks the singer and claimed that the molestation allegations against him were motivated by money.

THE bad blood between pop star Michael Jackson and the prosecutor who has filed child molesting charges against him goes back more than a decade.

The bad blood between pop star Michael Jackson and the prosecutor who has filed child molesting charges against him goes back more than a decade.