Kanye West: ‘No one should be allowed to tear down Michael Jackson’
hollywood.comKanye West has criticized attempts to “tear down” Michael Jackson by airing the child abuse allegations detailed in the Leaving Neverland documentary.Jackson’s status as arguably the most celebrated pop musician of all time has taken a battering since the airing of the film, which featured lengthy interviews with two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who accused him of abusing them as children, on HBO last year (2019).In a chat with Pharrell Williams published on the i-D magazine website, West spoke about the Thriller hitmaker’s status as an icon – and said media outlets and documentarians should not be allowed to attack Jackson, who died aged 50 in 2009.“He kissed Elvis Presley’s daughter on MTV,” West said of what made the King of Pop.
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