What if they put Michael Jackson on trial, and a former child star reunion broke out?
The world may soon find out. Goonies alum Corey Feldman has been subpoenaed to testify at Jackson's upcoming child-molestation trial, ABC News reported Thursday.
Feldman joins a growing cast of potential prosecution witnesses with ties to the young Hollywood scene of the 1980s and 1990s. Macaulay Culkin (Home Alone) and Emmanuel Lewis (Webster) may be called to court as well.
Like Culkin and Lewis, Feldman hung out with Jackson when he was a young teenager, and the pop star was not.
Feldman, now 33, and possessed of recent credits such as Serial Killing 4 Dummys, is the first ex-child actor reported to have received a subpoena. ABC News says he's to appear in court on March 15.
Jackson, 46, faces 10 counts of molesting a child who is believed to be a recovered cancer patient now 15, conspiracy and plying the child with wine. He has pleaded innocent to all charges.
If prosecutors are looking for Feldman to lead them to the smoking gun, as it were, it seems doubtful he'll be the guide. But he could be used as a linking device to reputed evidence.
In an interview to air Friday on ABC's 20/20, Feldman tells famed Jackson journalist Martin Bashir that Jackson never molested him. (Bashir himself has been subpoenaed to testify at the singer's currently on-hold trial.)
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While Feldman has no tales of wrongdoing to share, the Stand by Me star tells 20/20 that, in hindsight, he considers some of Jackson's actions with him "inappropriate."
Once, while stopping at Jackson's apartment on the way to Disneyland, Feldman said he found a book on the singer's coffee table.
"The book contained pictures of grown men and women naked," Feldman tells 20/20. "And the book focused on venereal diseases and the genitalia."
Feldman, who was then about 13, said Jackson sat down and leafed through the book with him.
"I was kind of grossed out by it. I didn't think of it as a big deal. And for all these years, I probably never thought twice about it," Feldman says on the ABC newsmagazine. "But in light of recent evidence...I have to say that if my son was 14 years old, 13 years old, and went to a man's apartment that was 35, and I knew that they were sitting down together talking about this, I would probably beat his ass."
Investigators seized adult magazines, books and DVDs from Jackson's Neverland Ranch. It is believed the prosecution will argue Jackson tried to tempt children into sexual acts by showing them the explicit materials.
Feldman tells 20/20, "I hope and pray" the allegations against Jackson are unfounded.
"But if they did happen, then there's a lot of sickness with one person," Feldman says. "And that person needs to be punished."
Feldman, who publicly and privately stuck up for his famous friend in 1993 when authorities probed an unproved molestation claim made by another boy, had a falling out with Jackson over an escape from New York City on 9/11. Jackson, who was in the Big Apple during the 2001 terror strikes, helped get Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor and Liza Minnelli out of town, but not Feldman.
Feldman retaliated with the song, "Megalo Man," off his 2002 album, Former Child Actor, featuring the lyrics: "I believed in your words/I believed in your lies/But in September in New York/You left me to die/I love you, Megalo Man."
A call to Jackson's publicist seeking comment on Feldman's 20/20 interview was not returned late Thursday. ABC News says Feldman himself is now restricted from talking about Jackson because of the gag order in the case.