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<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Celebrity is a Kind of Infrastructure

Built up around Michael Jackson: everything from other artists to money to an almost celestial devotion. Plus the most politically tolerant county in America.

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in the HBO documentary .The movie focuses on the stories of two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who lay out, in gut-wrenching detail, stories of how Jackson lured them and their families with his celebrity and then abused them for years in his Neverland mansion. It paints a disturbing picture of how Jackson leveraged his fame as a cudgel against young boys and evaded the murmurs of wrongdoing that dogged him

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