Neverland Ranch’s gold-leafed gates served as the border of a refuge created by a man who, more than anyone in history, recognized the tremendous cost of a stolen childhood. They were always more than simply a defense against the paparazzi’s probing lenses. Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris Jackson is now pulling aside the heavy velvet curtains to show the quiet, hallowed reality of the man who existed when the stage lights finally went out. For years, the world saw Michael Jackson through the prism of filtered headlines and tumultuous courtrooms. This is not the tale of a pop star; rather, it is the tale of a father who fought a silent, desperate battle against the world to give his kids the feeling of wonder that the industry had attempted to rob him of since he was a young lad.