Neverland
Fairy tale... gone bad
Neverland was Michael Jackson’s home from 1988 to 2005. It was named after
Neverland, the fantasy island in the story of Peter Pan, a boy who never grows
up. Jackson purchased the property from golf course entrepreneur William Bone in
1988 for $16.5 to $30 million. It was Jackson's home and private amusement park
and contained, among other things, a floral clock, a zoo and a theme park, with two
railroads, a ferris wheel, carousel, zipper, spider, sea dragon, wave swinger, super
slide, dragon wagon kiddie roller coaster and bumper cars. During his residency there,
Jackson brought groups of children and their families to the facility as day visitors. He
also hosted various children overnight, a practice which came under scrutiny when
Jackson was accused of sexual misconduct with minors at the ranch, first in 1993 and
again in 2003. Jackson said in 2005 that he would not return to the property, saying
he no longer considered the ranch a home, feeling the 70 police officers had "violated"
it in their searches. In 2006 the facilities were closed.
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