Michael Jackson built a 50-seat movie theater at Neverland with hospital beds set into the walls behind glass, so terminally ill kids on IV drips could lie down and still see the screen. He showed them to Oprah on live TV in 1993, in front of 90 million viewers, and almost nobody remembers.
He bought the 2,700-acre ranch in 1988 for $17 million, then spent another $35 million turning it into a working amusement park. Ferris wheel, zoo, train station, go-kart track, its own fire department.
Then he ran it like a charity with a house attached. He told Oprah that buses of sick kids from programs like Make-A-Wish came through every few weeks. There was a magic show, current films, a candy counter where everything was free.
His own children lived inside the park and got weekend passes. The rides existed for kids who were dying or had nothing, so the kids who had everything did chores and schoolwork first.
Jackson started performing at 5 and never got a normal childhood. He said the beds existed so bedridden kids could escape into a world he was deprived of. He built the thing he never had, then made sure his own kids couldn't take it for granted either.
He put over $50 million into Neverland. It sold in 2020 for $22 million. The only children in America who needed permission to use a Ferris wheel were the ones who lived next to it.
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@thepoplife@reverendmoney You do know that they are the same person, right? They are not 2 separate beings no matter how hard you try to use that lame as line.