Michael Jackson stockpiled pornography at Neverland Ranch, documents show

LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson’s activities at Neverland Ranch are back in the news this week amid the disclosure of documents suggesting the King of Pop kept a stash of pornography there.

The issue of pornography first arose about a decade ago when Jackson was on trial on molestation charges.

At the time, Santa Barbara County prosecutors described Neverland as a fantasy world that Jackson built to lure young boys, who he then “groomed” with alcohol and pornography before molesting them. Jackson was acquitted in that case. He died in 2009.

Now, Radar Online has published what appear to be case documents as well as pornographic images that were purportedly among items Jackson used to lure children.

Kelly Hoover, a spokeswoman for the Santa Barbara Sheriffs Office, told the Los Angeles Times that “some of the documents appear to be copies of reports that were authored by Sheriff’s Office” along with evidentiary photographs taken by Sheriff’s Office personnel. But she cautioned that they are interspersed with content that appears to be obtained off the Internet or through other sources. The sheriff’s material, she added, had case numbers on it.

Hoover said the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office did not release any of the documents or photographs to the media.