The Michael Jackson "rape room" row has taken a new twist amid reports two biographers both claimed there was a train station at Neverland at the time James Safechuck said he was abused there.

Leaving Neverland documentary subject Safechuck was branded a liar over his allegations that the pop superstar raped him in the train station, which was said to have been built two years after he said the assaults stopped

He said the abuse stopped in 1992, and Jackson's supporters claimed he wasn't telling the truth because Neverland's train station wasn't built until late '93.

However, the story has taken another turn as it's emerged that two Jackson biographers both wrote about another train station on the grounds of the estate, which was there in 1990.

Both refer to Jackson's grand unveiling of this mansion in '90 when he invited members of the press and the public in to have a look at ranch.

In Remembering The Time: Protecting Michael Jackson In His Final Days, former bodyguards Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard both describe a train station being there for the big unveiling.

They wrote: "In 1990, Michael Jackson opened the gates of his Neverland Valley Ranch to the public for the first time...

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"Neverland's visitors entered the ranch at its train station, boarding a steam engine that took them up to the main house."

Another claim that there was a train station there that year came from Randall Sullivan in Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson.

He wrote: "Reporters invited to tour Neverland at the 1990 public unveiling most often began by inspecting the towering statue of Mercury (the Roman God of profit, trade and commerce) in the drive of the mansion...

"Then climbed a hill out back that led to a near replica of the Main Street train station at Disneyland, with a floral clock that was more magnificent than the one Walt Disney had designed for his own park."

However, Sullivan's claim has been disputed by fellow Jackson biographer Mike Smallcombe, who claimed the other writer never went to the ranch was basing his description on a 2003 video from the Sheriff's Department.

Smallcombe tweeted: "A handful of people are citing something in Randall Sullivan’s book saying Neverland’s train station existed in 1990.

"Sullivan assumed the station was there then - his description of what Neverland might have looked like to visitors then is based on a 2003 sheriff’s dept video."

He also sourced the construction permits for the 1993 train station, which proved the building work was approved in September '93.

Smallcombe added of the Remembering The Time book: "The Remember The Time bodyguards book was a collaboration with a ghost writer.

"That ghost writer, like Sullivan, said Neverland itself opened to the public in 1990, except he did not specifically say the train station was there in that year.”

In a lawsuit against Jackson’s Estate, Safechuck claimed he was abused from 1988 until 1992, when he was 14.

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Smallcombe told previously Mirror Online the train station issue proved his story couldn't be true.

He said: "The deficiency in Safechuck’s story is this - construction on Neverland’s train station didn’t start until the latter part of 1993, and it didn’t open until the first part of 1994, when Safechuck was 16.

"So abuse in the train station wasn’t possible if the abuse stopped in 1992, as he claims in his testimony, as it didn't even exist then. There's a two year difference."

Jacko was apparently away on the Dangerous Tour and then in rehab in London the entire time the train station was being constructed in 1993.

Since the train station issue emerged, Leaving Neverland's director Dan Reed defended Safechuck.

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He tweeted: "Progress - the stans seem to have conceded that Safechuck was molested and are now debating which rooms at Neverland the sex took place in + James' age when it stopped. How about adding up total number of nights MJ slept with other people's sons: was it hundreds or thousands?" he tweeted.

"1. James Safechuck was at Neverland both before and after the construction of the train station there. The two still photos of the station shown in #leavingneverland were in fact taken by James, who is very clear that he was abused by Jackson in multiple places over many years."

"2. #leavingneverland also makes clear that sexual contact between James and #MichaelJackson continued until James Safechuck was in his teenage years. The station at Neverland is just one of the many locations where James remembers sexual activity taking place."

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