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LA court considers whether to allow latest Michael Jackson molestation case to proceed

By | Published on Tuesday 7 April 2015

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A court in LA has been considering whether to allow a civil case against the Michael Jackson Estate to proceed in which claimant James Safechuck alleges that the late king of pop molested him when he was younger.

As previously reported, Safechuck, now 36, was a child when he met Jackson on the set of a 1987 Pepsi commercial. It emerged last year that he is now making claims of sexual abuse against the late singer, filing a lawsuit last May similar to that already being pursued against the Jackson Estate by choreographer Wade Robson.

According to the Times, among the allegations made in Safechuck’s lawsuit is that, when the claimant was nine, the singer held a secret mock wedding ceremony in which the boy played the bride. Jackson then allegedly paid Safechuck’s father a million dollars to ensure the family never spoke of the incident.

As for why the claimant had waited until last year to sue, lawyers working for Safechuck wrote in their litigation: “Jackson was successful in his efforts to the point that my client endured repeated acts of sexual abuse of a heinous nature and was brainwashed … into believing they were acts of love and instigated by James himself”.

If the Safechuck and Robson cases are allowed to proceed, it will likely result in a number of other claims being made about Jackson’s conduct around small boys, including the submission of evidence deemed inadmissible in the unsuccessful criminal case against the singer on child abuse charges back in 2005.

Elsewhere in Jackson news, property site Domain reports that the singer’s former ranch Neverland is finally up for sale with a $75 million asking price.



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