Determined D.A. : Tom Sneddon, seen here during the 2005 trial against Michael Jackson, died on Saturday at the age of 73 Tom Sneddon, the former district attorney who sought twice to try Michael Jackson on child molestation charges and was disparaged in one of the pop star's songs, has died. Sneddon, aged 73, died Saturday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after a battle with cancer, said Patrick McKinley, a retired assistant district attorney for Santa Barbara County. Sneddon investigated Michael Jackson on child sexual abuse allegations in 1993 and again a decade later. The first case fell apart after a young boy's family accepted a multimillion dollar settlement from Jackson and declined to testify against him.
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Tom Sneddon passed away in Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara
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Sneddon first went after Jackson in 1993 for allegedly molesting a boy at his opulent 2,700-acre Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos
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In 2005 he lost second case against Jackson, in which he was accused of plying alleged victim with wine and sexually assaulting him at Neverland
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Jackson, who died in June 2009, repeatedly denied the allegations
A second set of allegations against Jackson made by a young cancer survivor resulted in a televised trial in 2005 which ended with @placeholder being acquitted.