Trial exposed star’s habit of sharing bed with young boys

MICHAEL JACKSON’S questionable attitude to children, including sharing a bed with young boys, came under the media spotlight during his child abuse trial in 2005.

At the trial the star faced allegations that he abused 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland ranch in California – named after the fictional world in the story Peter Pan. The ranch had its own amusement park rides and a zoo.

In court Jackson was branded a serial child molester who used Neverland to lure children to a predator’s lair filled with alcohol and pornography.