# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-w-sneddon-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:24:13.768Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-w-sneddon-jr"
name: "Thomas W. Sneddon, Jr."
slug: "thomas-w-sneddon-jr"
description: "Thomas William Sneddon Jr. was an American lawyer and politician who served as the district attorney of Santa Barbara County, California, from 1983 to 2007. He is best known for leading two investigations of Michael Jackson on child sexual abuse allegations in 1993 and 2005. His most famous case was when he was prosecuting child molestation charges against Jackson in a 2005 trial, at the end of which Jackson was acquitted."
tagline: "American lawyer, District Attorney"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1941-05-26"
deathDate: "2014-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.33
  momentum:             0.5521014672966924
  historical:           7.810992000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "小托马斯·斯内登"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توماس دبليو سنيدون الابن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sneddon"
    title: "Tom Sneddon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Sneddon_Jr."
    title: "Thomas W. Sneddon Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sneddon"
    title: "Tom Sneddon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%8D%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3"
    title: "トム・スネドン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sneddon"
    title: "Tom Sneddon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Sneddon_Jr."
    title: "Thomas W. Sneddon Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176819"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump