Investigators from the Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office and Sheriff's Department searched entertainer Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in California Tuesday as part of an "ongoing criminal investigation," a spokesman said.
The nature of the investigation -- or what they were searching for -- was not disclosed.
Stuart Backerman, a spokesman for Jackson, said the singer was up all night shooting a video in Las Vegas and as of 12:30 p.m. PT (3:30 p.m. ET) was resting, so "he doesn't know about it [the search] yet."
Backerman said Jackson has been in Las Vegas for the past 2 1/2 weeks, shooting a video to promote a CBS special called "One More Chance." A song by that title is on his "Number Ones" album, a greatest hits collection released Tuesday by Epic Records.
The TV special is scheduled to air at the end of November.
The spokesman had no comment to make on the search at Neverland Ranch.
"We're unaware of what the substance of this matter is," Backerman told CNN's Frank Buckley in a telephone interview.
Backerman said no one was aware that the sheriff's department was coming Tuesday.
Johnnie Cochran, Jackson's attorney in that case, said at the time that Jackson maintained his innocence and that settlement was in no way an admission of guilt.
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