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Is Michael Jackson too much of a cash cow to be cancelled? The King of Pop has a musical, a Cirque du Soleil show - and now a biopic starring his nephew as his estate rakes in hundreds of millions despite those damning claims of paedophilia

Sony's bragging about its ethical values doesn't mention its policy on child abuse. So how does it square this with purchasing the musical catalogue of an alleged child abuser?

But if Sony is a deeply ethical company, what on earth is it doing investing a nine-figure sum in the legacy of a man exposed in the all too convincingly horrific 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland as a manipulative paedophile who is alleged to have raped two pre-pubescent boys for years? According to Robson, Jackson started to abuse him in 1990 when he was seven and stopped only when he was 14, raping him both on tour and in a bedroom at his Neverland Ranch in California bearing a 'Do Not Disturb' sign and protected by an alarm system that rang if anyone approached. However, his estate executors settled his troubled finances within a year, generating hundreds of millions of dollars by making a string of big deals, involving Sony, Cirque du Soleil, a Jackson-themed video game and myriad merchandising ventures.

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