Michael Jackson Estate Says Two Abuse Accusers Are Seeking $400 Million In Lawsuits

Two men who person agelong accused Michael Jackson of sexually assaulting them arsenic children are seeking a whopping $400 cardinal successful their tribunal cases, his property revealed successful caller tribunal filings.

Wade Robson and James Safechuck person spent much than a decennary litigating implicit their allegations of intersexual maltreatment – and successful a question filed past week successful Los Angeles court, Jackson property executors John Branca and John McClain accidental they’re seeking a monumental sum.

“It would beryllium disastrous for the Estate to default successful this case,” Branca and McClain wrote successful the tribunal filings, which were obtained by Billboard.

The revelation came amid an intra-estate quality with Jackson’s girl Paris Jackson, who claims Branca and McClain person paid excessively overmuch successful ineligible bills to definite instrumentality firms. In the caller filing, the executors reason that not paying those fees would person “profoundly destabilizing consequences,” including a costly judgement for Robson and Safechuck.

“The Estate would apt person to default successful the Robson/Safechuck litigation, wherever galore depositions, find matters, and different matters are scheduled to instrumentality spot implicit the adjacent respective months, and wherever the plaintiffs are seeking $400 million.”

In a connection to Billboard, the Jackson property said: “The suit has nary merit and Michael is innocent.” An lawyer for Robson and Safechuck did not instantly instrumentality a petition for remark connected the estate’s claims astir the damages demand.

Though Robson and Safechuck person being suing for years, it had ne'er been reported that they were seeking specified a monolithic award. The revelation was first reported by Us Weekly.

Jackson, who died abruptly successful 2009, was ne'er convicted oregon held legally liable connected immoderate accusation of kid molestation, but is inactive dogged by specified allegations. Last year, the property took ineligible action against a antheral named Frank Cascio, claiming helium fabricated specified claims arsenic portion of an alleged $213 cardinal extortion attempt.

Robson and Safechuck person spent years suing, and their allegations were amplified successful 2019 by HBO docuseries Leaving Neverland, which laid retired their claims successful disturbing detail. In 2023, an appeals tribunal revived their maltreatment lawsuits against Jackson’s companies, and the cases stay pending with a proceedings presently scheduled for adjacent year.

Paris Jackson filed her petition successful June, challenging however the property had paid its lawyers. She claimed the executors had failed to “provide capable responses” implicit however it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars successful payments to 3 firms. The executors aboriginal denied immoderate wrongdoing, saying its behaviour was “not antithetic and successful information is rather common” successful the euphony industry.

In past week’s caller filing, they utilized the menace of a imaginable nonaccomplishment successful the Robson and Safechuck cases to hammer that constituent home: “Petitioner’s requested relief, if granted, could devastate the Estate. The Estate’s attorneys — and those of its constituent businesses — are not going to enactment for free.”