Michael Jackson fans wait in line to buy tickets for the "Michael Jackson's This Is It" film, at L.A. Live in Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. The film was produced from hundreds of hours of backstage footage of rehearsals. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
—2009: Sony releases "Michael Jackson's This Is It," a documentary featuring rehearsal footage from Jackson's tour that was supposed to begin in July 2019. Jackson's family was publicly against the release of the film.
Jackson won four posthumous American Music Awards
—2011: Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murphy, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. He was released in 2013.
—2013: Wade Robson and James Safechuck file a civil lawsuit claiming Jackson sexually abused them as children
Wade Robson, from left, director Dan Reed and James Safechuck promote the film "Leaving Neverland" on Jan. 24, 2019, during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
—2019: "Leaving Neverland," a documentary highlighting Robson and Safechuck's allegations against Jackson, premieres at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Jackson estate condemns the documentary and files a lawsuit against HBO.
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Several radio stations stop playing Jackson's music. "The Simpsons" remove a 1991 episode that featured Jackson's voice.
"Leaving Neverland" is released on HBO.
—Summer 2020: The Broadway musical “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough" is scheduled to premiere. A test run in Chicago was cancelled in early 2019, three weeks after the premiere of "Leaving Neverland." Producers cited "scheduling difficulties."
FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, file photo, Marlon Jackson, second from left, Jackie Jackson, second from right, and Tito Jackson, far right, brothers of the late singer Michael Jackson, and Tito's son Taj, far left, pose together for a portrait outside the Four Seasons Hotel, in Los Angeles. Michael Jackson’s brothers said they were already in a rough period of managing his memory and legacy, with their father, Joseph Jackson’s, death in 2018 adding to it, before they heard that the documentary “Leaving Neverland” was coming. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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Sources: Free Press archives; USA Today; “Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll”; NPR; The Associated Press; New York Times.
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