As the saying goes, “the devil is in the detail.”

Documentary Leaving Neverland focussed on two men who claimed legendary singer Michael Jackson abused them at the height of his career.

Now filmmaker Dan Reed has accepted a detail of the abuse former child actor James Safechuck says took place could not have happened. 

A Biographer Questioned The Dates

In the harrowing four-hour docu-series, Safechuck described how he was assaulted in Jackson’s Neverland train station.

But a Jackson biographer, Mike Smallcombe, has come forward to debunk this allegation. Smallcombe took to Twitter to state that the station was not built until two years after Safechuck claims the attacks stopped.

Proving his point, Smallcombe shared an image of a construction permit issued by Santa Barbara County in September 2, 1993. The building of the Neverland station began after that date and opened in 1994.

But British director Reed responded on Twitter by stating Safechuck got the end date of his abuse wrong. 

He wrote in response to Smallcombe’s post: “Yeah there seems to be no doubt about the station date. The date they have wrong is the end of the abuse.”

In his lawsuit against the Jackson estate, Safechuck alleged he was abused for four years between 1988 and 1992. Safechuck says the abuse stopped when he was 14.

Wade Robson Also Has “Inconsistencies”

Smallcombe also went further and also accused Wade Robson of lying.

In the documentary, choreographer Robson revealed he was left on his own with Jackson while his family went to the Grand Canyon. Robson claimed Jackson begged his mother, Joy, to let him stay and she eventually relented.

But in a 1993 and 2016 deposition, Joy signed a testimony claiming the “whole family” went on the trip.

Smallcombe tweeted: “Wade Robson told a detailed story of how he claimed he was abused for the first time. How his family left him at Neverland alone, and went to the Grand Canyon. This can now be proven as false. Yet he was able to tell it to the world, without any scrutiny.”

The Jackson biographer also accused the director of not properly investigating the claims made by Robson and Safechuck. 

He wrote: “So @danreed1000 is now saying because the story has been debunked, suddenly the end of Safechuck’s abuse was when he was 16/17 rather than 14. It’s a three year discrepancy. Just hold your hands up, don’t change the story. This is what happens when you don’t investigate properly.”

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