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In 1993, Evan Chandler, the father of then-13-year-old Jordan Chandler, accused singer Michael Jackson of having sexually abused Jordan. Although Jordan Chandler refused to testify in criminal proceedings, and the police investigation of Jackson related to this accusation was eventually closed due to a lack of evidence, in 1994 Michael Jackson agreed to pay $22 million to the Chandlers to settle a related civil lawsuit. An article claiming Jordan Chandler had since confessed that his father coerced him into lying about the sexual abuse charges against Jackson first appeared a few days after the singer's death on 25 June 2009: Given that the sole source of this information was a single poorly-worded statement which was reproduced verbatim on multiple blogs, and that no mention of Jordan Chandler's supposed confession (or any statement from Chandler) appeared in the news media despite the continuous crush of Michael Jackson coverage after the entertainer's passing, we have to categorize this one as false.
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