HBO Taking Michael Jackson ‘Leaving Neverland’ Dispute to Appeals Court

HBO wants another shot at convincing a court that the Michael Jackson Estate can’t go to arbitration over its “documentary” Leaving Neverland.

On Monday, the pay network filed paperwork for a high-stakes appeal.

HBO is now going to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

“This bogus appeal is nothing more than HBO’s latest desperate attempt to cover up the truth about its shoddy journalism,” responds Bryan Freedman, an attorney for the Michael Jackson Estate. “For seven months HBO has tried and failed to avoid a public arbitration. This appeal, which is its latest Hail Mary attempt, is even more pathetic than all of its other attempts to avoid public scrutiny. If HBO truly wanted to avoid a judgment, it should have thought about that before it aided and abetted a one sided documentary without any journalistic integrity and in which the subjects have a huge motivation to lie — namely the millions of dollars for which they are suing the Estate. Our client will never stop until justice is served.”

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