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A longtime close friend of Wade Robson – the choreographer accusing Michael Jackson of childhood rape – says he is stunned by the allegations.

Dan Karaty, best known as the effortlessly cool judge from Fox hit “So You Think You Can Dance,” shared a house with Robson and his mom, Joy — who was his first ever manager.

And he was shocked upon watching the HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland”, where Robson and James Safechuck made horrifying claims that the superstar subjected them to years of abuse.

In Robson’s case, he said the abuse started when he was just 7 years old.

And Karaty, a talented choreographer who’s worked with NSYNC, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson and Kylie Minogue, told Page Six: “I watched the documentary and I was shocked, of course I felt ill.

“This was just something I had never heard about, Wade had never spoken about anything like this — and in fact, it was just the opposite.

“Michael would call our house every week, he was a huge inspiration for Wade — as he was for every other dancer and choreographer.

“I moved in with Wade when I moved from New York to L.A. in my early 20s and lived with him for a year and a half. Eventually he spoke really openly about Michael and how much he meant to him.”

Karaty even joined Robson and his family at Neverland for dinner one night, saying: “Michael was only interested in his guests and our dreams, what we wanted to do. He was so gracious.”

The now married dad of two — who appeared on six seasons of SYTYCD in the US — now has a successful TV career in Europe and has just inked an exclusive, multiyear, multimillion-dollar overall deal extension with mega network RTL.

The deal was negotiated by Karaty’s long-term rep Michael Sanchez of Axis Management.

It means he’ll stay on The Netherlands’ biggest TV network for the next four years, where he appears on European versions of SYTYCD, “Got Talent,” “X Factor,” “Dancing With The Stars” and “Time To Dance.”

He met Jackson, who died in 2009, a few times more with Robson and has strong feelings about the principle of due process.

He said: “I think that all accusers should be given the chance to speak out, but the problem is that Jackson isn’t here to defend himself. There needs to be due process.”