Jackson was acquitted of all charges in 2005, but do you think he could get his life back on track? Thanks to a media frenzy that colored him guilty from the first whisper of untruth, he never had a chance. Jackson's career was over, and his time at Neverland was done. He would always have his supporters, but the tabloids took care of the rest.
While Macaulay did all he could to help out his friend, Culkin didn't really have much pull in the wider world of entertainment either. His career was just as dead in the water as Jackson's was. In the end, Jackson gave up Neverland (which he claimed was defiled by law enforcement) and fled to Bahrain. In 2009, as he planned a comeback tour, he died of a drug overdose.