2023-06-27 08:31:06
Dancer Wade Robson (40) has repeatedly claimed in recent years that the “King of Pop” sexually abused him as a child. 14 years after the death of Michael Jackson († 50), the case should still come to court.
As reported by TMZthe Court of Appeals in California has now given the green light for a lawsuit against Michael Jackson.
Plaintiff Wade Robson alleges that Jackson sexually abused him at his Neverland ranch when he was between the ages of 7 and 14.
Dancer Wade Robson in 2019. He claims he was sexually abused by Michael Jackson as a child
Photo: AP
Over the years, the 40-year-old had made different statements. In 2005, when Michael Jackson was tried and acquitted of sexually abusing another boy, Robson testified FOR the “King of Pop.” At the time, he said he slept in a bed with the famous pop star, but nothing happened. After Jackson’s death, however, he withdrew his testimony and filed a lawsuit against his company “MJJ Productions, Inc” in 2013, saying that years earlier he had testified falsely and for Jackson due to “complete manipulation and brainwashing”.
Michael Jackson’s famous “Neverland Ranch” in 2004
Foto: picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS
So far, lawyers for the Jackson company have argued that the company had no legal obligation to protect Robson or anyone else from Michael Jackson because it had no way of controlling the singer. The first court sided with the administrators of the estate. But the court of appeal saw things differently and made the provisional decision that there should be a trial.
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In his lawsuit, Brisbane-born Wade Robson alleges Jackson befriended him when he came to the US from Australia as a young boy and then sexually abused him for years.
Robson had already publicly renewed his allegations of sexual abuse against the late “King of Pop” in the documentary “Leaving Neverland” in 2019. “He was one of the kindest, gentlest, most loving people I knew,” says Wade Robson about his former idol. “And he sexually abused me for over seven years.”
Wade Robson (then 7) in 1989 with Michael Jackson (then 31)
Photo: PR
In 2021, the alleged abuse victim failed in court with a lawsuit against Michael Jackson’s companies (MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures). However, the California Court of Appeals overturned the dismissal of the case by a Los Angeles County court in April 2021 and provisionally ruled that the lawsuit should be admitted after all and the case should be heard in court.
The lawsuit of another man, James Safechuck (45, also spoke in the documentary “Leaving Neverland”), is currently still before the Court of Appeal. He also claims to have been sexually abused by Michael Jackson as a child.
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