Superstar Michael Jackson has decided to leave the Neverland ranch, his home until this year, when he was accused of child molestation and acquitted in June.
After the acquittal, the pop star thought it would be best for him to relocate in Bahrain, to recover after the trial.
But it appears that Michael liked it so much there that he decided to leave permanently the Neverland and move to Bahrain, where he has already made a lot of friends and fans, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.
"He's living permanently in Bahrain. He has friends there who have been very loyal and helpful to him in a difficult period of his life," said his lead attorney Thomas Mesereau. "He's
looking much better. He's with his children, and he's moving on in life."
Jackson's most famous home is his 2,600 acre (eleven square-kilometers) Neverland Ranch in Santa Ynez, California, which he purchased in 1988 for $17 million. It is named after the magical kingdom Neverland from the children's story "Peter Pan".
Jackson, a huge Disney fan, has built an amusement park on the ranch, and frequently welcomes sick and poor children there to visit and sponsors charity drives for them.
Jackson's relationships with children, both his own and others, have been controversial: his sleepover parties at Neverland have received widespread critical media coverage, especially after he has revealed that he sometimes slept in the same bed with several unrelated children.
The real estates agents have estimated that the ranch might fetch now somewhere between 50 and 100 million dollars.
