Michael Jackson – Hautnah

Living with Michael Jackson is a television documentary, in which Martin Bashir, who is hosting this episode in place of Trevor McDonald, interviewed Michael Jackson over a span of eight months, from May 2002 to January 2003, about different aspects of his life. It was shown first in the United Kingdom on ITV (as a Tonight with Trevor McDonald special) on 3 February 2003, and in the United States 3 days later on ABC, introduced by Barbara Walters.[1] In November 2003, the BBC aired "Louis, Martin & Michael", a documentary by British filmmaker Louis Theroux who originally tried reaching out to Uri Geller to interview Jackson, after losing out to Bashir.[2] In December 2003, following controversy raised from Bashir's documentary, Jackson was charged with seven counts of child molestation and two counts of intoxicating a minor with alcoholic drinks,[3] all of which he was acquitted of in a court of law in June 2005.[4]