Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 31, 2019

JERMAINE JACKSON took some quality time to appear on ITV in England yesterday and said there is "no truth" to the allegations about his brother Michael in that controversial new documentary which premiered last week at the Sundance Film Festival.
In "Leaving Neverland," JAMES SAFECHUCK and WADE ROBSON claim they were abused by Michael when they were seven and ten years old.
This is despite the fact that Robson was one of the main witnesses for Michael at his 2005 trial.
Jermaine said: "Michael was tried by a jury of his peers and he was acquitted. There was no real evidence, there was nothing there and I will say this --our family are tired."
"There were slumber parties, there were girls there with their parents watching movies and eating cookies... Let this man rest. He did a lot for the world, let him rest. I'll just say this, there is no truth to this documentary... We're living in a time where people can say anything and it's taken as truth. Under oath he [Robson] said what he said, they would rather believe a documentary than looking at what was said under oath, under a judge, jury, everything."

When you go to a tattoo parlor, are you sure the tattoo getting put on your body --where others can see it-- is spelled correctly? Or if it's in a foreign language, means what you think it means?
ARIANA GRANDE got a tattoo using Japanese Kanji characters to plug her new single, "7 Rings," but it turns out she got the characters wrong and the finished tattoo translated to "shichirin," which means a Japanese style barbecue grill. Whoops.
Of course, this opens the phone lines for tattoo stories, both good ...and evil...

Marvel Comics creator STAN LEE is already gone ...but not forgotten. Wednesday night, a bunch of fans including KEVIN SMITH and others held a service around Lee's hand and footprints outside the TCL Chinese Theatre, later attending a private memorial inside the legendary Hollywood theatre as well. The evening included speakers, musical performances, an art exhibit, and costumes and props from Lee's creations and Marvel-movie cameos. Actors MARK HAMILL and VINCENT D'ONOFRIO and WU TANG CLAN member RZA along with Stan's daughter, J.C. LEE, were also in attendance.