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Robson, Safechuck file claim of abuse with estate

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Lawyers seek Aust Michael Jackson victims


July 15, 20164:40pm


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A new US legal team representing choreographer Wade Robson is planning to fly to Australia to interview Michael Jackson sexual abuse victims or witnesses to any of the late pop star's acts.




Brisbane-born Mr Robson has waged a three-year battle in the Los Angeles Superior Court after making the shock announcement he had been abused by the self-described King of Pop from the age of seven through to 14.

Mr Robson, 33, has filed a civil lawsuit against Jackson's business entities, MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures.

A trial, where Mr Robson will give evidence, is scheduled for March.
"We will, in all likelihood, be going to Australia," Mr Robson's new lead lawyer, John Manly, told AAP on Thursday.
"This case is a worldwide case and we will be doing some travelling.
"Most people don't know that even though they were abused in Australia, Britain or Morocco or wherever, they have a right to seek counsel in the US against a corporation.
"Mr Jackson is dead and you can't sue him or his estate, but his corporation is alive and well."
Mr Robson was a five-year-old dance prodigy in Australia when he was befriended by Jackson.
He was Jackson's star witnesses at the King of Pop's 2005 molestation trial in California, swearing under oath Jackson never abused him.
But Mr Robson said it was not until Jackson's 2009 death and the birth of his own son he understood he had been abused.
"Michael Jackson was an incredible musician, an incredible dancer, he changed music and the music business, and he is also a pedophile," Mr Manly said.
Mr Manly, who has led a legal crusade against the Catholic Church and other sexual abusers the past 20 years and has collected more than $US1 billion for victims, said most male survivors deny they were abused for years.
"What happened to Wade is what I'll call survivor 101," Mr Manly said.
Mr Manly is requesting Jackson's estate release other Jackson victims from confidentiality agreements they signed as a condition of large monetary settlements.
"The standard of proof is we have to prove the corporation knew or had reason to know that Mr Jackson was a pedophile before or during the time he was abusing Wade," he said.
"I want to go to the people responsible, the corporate officials and others involved who knew and did nothing - the people who stood by and watched those children be walked into that bedroom.

"There were many.
"It wasn't just Wade.
"I also want victims to know it is safe to talk.
"You will be protected."
Robson was one of the world's best known dance choreographers, working with Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears, had his own show on MTV and was a judge on America's So You Think You Can Dance.
But Mr Manly said Mr Robson has been unable to work since coming to terms with his abuse.
"When you fully come to grips with the fact you were raped as a child, let me assure you after going through this thousands of times, it's earth-shattering," Mr Manly said.
"You don't just get over it.



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Robson will head to trial next March in his civil case against MJJ Ventures and MJJ Productions.

Though a judge in the case originally dismissed the Australian dancer and choreographer’s rape claims in 2015, he refiled an amended complaint, which was then accepted by the court.

“Plaintiff Wade Robson has alleged sufficient facts of a business environment connection between him and defendants,” wrote Judge Mitchell Beckloff in his decision. “Certainly, there are allegations Michael Jackson sexually abused plaintiff prior to any business relationship.”

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Messaggio da soulmum » 18 luglio 2016, 11:07

Proof positive that Wade Robson seemed to have no problem wanting to attend the memorial for Michael. Not the actions of an abused person.

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"Stevie wonder on the piano

Wade Robson who was sitting DIRECTLY behind me (breathing on ur neck close) was bawling his eyes out during this one. He had his head down in his hands for most of this song ...poor bb

Read more at ONTD: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/36 ... z4Efvo51Bq"

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Messaggio da soulmum » 12 agosto 2016, 10:43

Thanks to Ivy from mjjcommunity

Ivy shared this info. The Estate asked for a mental examination of Robson. Robson filed an opposition, but the Judge granted the Estate's request of Robson's mental examination.

08/11/2016 Order (ON EX PARTE APPLICATION; ) Filed by Attorney for Defendant

08/11/2016 Stipulation and Order (REGARDING THE MENTAL EXAMINATION OF PLAINTIFF WADE ROBSON; ) Filed by Attorney for Defendant

08/11/2016 at 08:30 am in Department WEM, Mitchell L. Beckloff, Presiding Ex-Parte Application - Motion Granted

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Case Bombshell: Alleged Victim Wade Robson Is ‘At Risk’ Of Suicide!
Terrified lawyers warn judge that 'obtaining his testimony' ASAP is 'imperative.'

Michael Jackson Child Rape Case Alleged Victim Wade Robson At Risk Of Suicide Lawyers Claim In Court Documents
Michael Jackson‘s alleged child rape victim, Wade Robson, could be ready to kill himself over what happened to him years ago, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Robson’s attorneys made the bombshell claim repeatedly in new court documents filed in his molestation case against Jackson’s production companies. (Robson had initially sued Jackson’s estate, but that claim was thrown out in 2015 over statute of limitations concerns.)

A trial is scheduled in the new case next spring, but Jackson’s attorneys recently filed documents demanding that they be able to take Robson’s deposition on August 24. Jackson’s team says it’s just too soon.

“The Plaintiff is a victim of sexual abuse, and has a family history of suicide,” Robson’s attorneys warned.

“As has been seen in our firm’s experience in representing sexual abuse victims over the past decades, abuse victims are at an elevated risk of committing suicide … this is not a risk that is taken lightly.”

Robson “may not be actively suicidal,” they admitted, but said “obtaining his testimony at the earliest possible time is imperative in this litigation, in order to preserve his testimony …”

They continued to insist he has a “heightened suicidality risk” because “suicidality is present” in his family, and he “has lost an immediate family member to suicide.”

Taking his deposition as soon as possible, would be “a precautionary measure,” they insisted.

Robson is already scheduled to undergo an intensive medical examination in the case, which was requested by Jackson’s team. They insisted, ‘the damages claimed … are largely based on emotional and mental injuries and we are entitled to test the fact and extent of his injuries and the cause of his injuries.”

That examination will take place on August 22.

Robson, 33, has made an incredible litany of claims against Jackson and his businesses. In court documents, he’s alleged that ***** anally raped him, mutually masturbated with him, and forced him into fellatio. The documents claim that Jackson committed these acts between 1990 and 1997 at “his ranch in Santa Barbara County” and elsewhere.

He said he suppressed the memories for year and only recently remembered them through therapy.

He had previously denied that Jackson molested him, during Jackson’s 2005 trial against Neverland visitor Gavin Arvizo. Jackson’s estate has denied the latest allegations.
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From the hollywood reporter

— Wade Robson's deposition in his sex abuse case against the Michael Jackson estate will likely be sealed, according to a tentative ruling from judge Mitchell Beckloff. In a Tuesday morning hearing, attorneys for Robson and the estate argued about the deposition — but not about the seal. They can't agree on whether Robson, who currently lives in Hawaii, should have to come back to Los Angeles to give his testimony this fall. Robson's attorneys were planning briefly depose their client on Wednesday, but they've decided to push it back to coincide with the estate's 7-hour deposition planned for sometime in October. Robson, a well-known choreographer who has worked with Britney Spears and on the reality series So You Think You Can Dance, claims Jackson molested him as a child.

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Messaggio da soulmum » 5 settembre 2016, 10:41

For the following information I give credit and thanks to Ivy from mjjcommunity.


The last information we had about Robson case as follows:

•- September 21, 2015 - Judge overruled Estate’s demurer, Robson’s case proceeds to the next phase of discovery and summary judgment.
•- November 23, 2015 - Estate appeals Judge’s ruling on demurrer.
•- February 17, 2016 – Estate’s appeal has been denied.
•- March 3, 2016 – Case schedule including a tentative trial date is set.
•- July 13, 2016 – Robson changes lawyers. Manly, Stewart, Finaldi are his new lawyers.


This brings us to August 2016. Case summary has shown two things: mental evaluation of Robson and Robson’s deposition. The motions we got from the court helped us tremendously to learn what happened over the last few months.

MJ Estate Protective Order Robson Deposition: https://www.scribd.com/document/3230...son-Deposition
Robson Opposition: https://www.scribd.com/document/3230...ion-Opposition
After Estate’s appeal were denied, parties started to work on discovery. April 2016, there were some discovery issues about Estate’s responses to Robson’s written discovery request. That dispute was resolved amicably. At this time Estate also told Robson lawyers that they would seeking to take an independent mental examination of Robson and Safechuck.
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May 2016, Robson’s then lawyers agreed to the mental examination in principle and requested Estate to pay Robson’s travel expenses to California (This is normal under CA court rules). June 16, 2016, Estate contacted Robson lawyers to determine the date of the mental examination. Parties agreed on August 1st, 2016. However Estate couldn’t get a confirmation from Robson lawyers. When they called and asked Robson lawyers said there would be some developments in the case. 2 days later Robson would change his lawyers and his new lawyers would be Manly, Stewart and Finaldi.
Robson’s new lawyers immediately objected to Robson’s independent mental examination happening on August 1st and they tried to renegotiate the terms of the independent mental examination. After discussions parties agreed that the mental examination will happen as previously agreed but they delayed the date of it to August 22, 2016.
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Soon after Robson’s new lawyers sent a notice that they would be deposing their own client Robson on August 24th, 2016. This was unexpected news for Estate as Robson lawyers never mentioned their intention before.
Then the Robson deposition has turned into a mini war. First Estate was curious as why Robson lawyers were trying to take the deposition of their own client and so soon after the mental evaluation. Robson lawyers’ initial response was that it was because Robson would be in CA for his mental evaluation and it would be a convenient time to get his deposition. Later on in their responses and in their opposition motion, they would mention how abuse victims tend to be high risk for suicide. However Robson lawyers would also state that Robson isn’t actually actively suicidal. Robson lawyers also said that they would only need one hour to depose Robson.

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Understandably Estate wasn’t happy with Robson lawyers setting the deposition date without consulting and seeking an agreement from Estate and forcing the Estate to either depose Robson at that time or not at all. Estate expressed that they wanted to depose Robson after they get the mental examination report from their expert and have time to go over it. According to the court rules, expert doctor will have a month to prepare his report. According to the media, Estate is planning to depose Robson sometime in October.

Estate responded to Robson lawyers saying if they wanted to depose Robson on August 24th as a precautionary measure, it was fine. Estate lawyers would show up to the deposition and listen. However Estate wanted to preserve their right to depose Robson at a later date, after they got the mental examination report.


Robson lawyers wouldn’t agree to any of it. They wouldn’t budge on August 24th date. Robson lawyers would also say a person can only be deposed once in a case and for 7 hours. They would tell Estate lawyers, they better show up on August 24th and be prepared to ask questions or they would forfeit their chance to depose Robson.

This prompted Estate to file a motion to preserve their right to depose Robson and depose him more than 7 hours if needed after they completed the necessary discovery and ready to proceed with the deposition.

Estate pointed out that Robson should not allowed to delay mental examination and then force Estate to take his deposition at a time his counsel perceives it to be strategically advantageous.

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According to the case summary Estate’s request was granted. Media (THR) reported that August 24th deposition didn’t happen and the deposition will be sometime in October. Apparently parties also arguing about whether to depose Robson at Hawaii or California.
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In my personal opinion this was a very obvious tactic by the Robson lawyers to force Estate to depose Robson before they can get the mental examination report. Claiming they want to preserve Robson’s testimony because he is high risk for suicide but not actually suicidal doesn’t make any sense at this time. This case has been going on for 3+ years and Estate is planning to depose Robson in 2 months. If there was a suicide risk his deposition should have been brought up long ago. Furthermore if Robson lawyers were truly worried about preserving Robson’s testimony as a precaution, they could have taken their own deposition on the August 24th regardless of when Estate takes Robson deposition. When judge granted Estate’s request and Robson lawyers weren’t able to force Estate to depose Robson unprepared, Robson lawyers suddenly gave up their desire to depose Robson and decided to wait until October.



Finally some tidbits:

•- Robson lawyers want to downplay significance of Robson’s deposition, calling it a “simple deposition”.
• According to the Estate however Robson’s deposition is “critical”
•- Robson family members will be deposed late September 2016.
• During discovery Estate have recived Robson's all medical and therapy records.
•- Robson mental examination will be done by Dr. Harrison Pope of Harvard University and McLean Hospital.
•- Estate is also planning to seek a mental evaluation for Safechuck if his case survives demurrer.
•- Safechuck is still represented by Gradstein and Marzano.
•- Robson lawyers are trying to find experts in the areas of Standards of Care as well as Psychiatry / Psychology.
•- Motions for summary judgment are due November 2016.


Note about the documents: Both motions had the Robson deposition notice and email exchange between the parties as exhibits. I only scanned those once to save time.

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Messaggio da soulmum » 5 settembre 2016, 11:06

Thanks to Ivy from mjjcommunity for this update in the Safechuck case.



Update:

On August 23, 2016 the Court sustained the Estate's demurrer in the James Safechuck civil case with a leave to amend. This means that as it is currently Safechuck's complaint would be thrown out, but he gets another chance to amend his complaint to meet the requirements of moving forward.

Reason why the demurrer is sustained is that Safechuck couldn't even establish that the companies he is suing owed him a duty of care. As opposed to Robson he wasn't even employed by them. Only after a duty of care could be established they could even move on to discuss whether he meets the other requirements of CCP 340.1 - specifically the three elements of (b)(2).
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Full ruling: https://www.scribd.com/document/3229...emurrer-Ruling

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr...urt-add-928110


Robson claims Jackson and his inner circle "designed, developed and operated what is likely the most sophisticated public child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organization the world has known."
In a graphic new complaint, choreographer Wade Robson seeks to pursue additional negligence claims against two companies formerly controlled by Michael Jackson that he says fostered nearly a decade of sexual abuse.
In 2013, Robson sued MJJ Productions, the late musician's entertainment company, and MJJ Ventures, which employed Robson and Jackson during the time of the alleged abuse. Two months ago, the choreographer brought on attorney Vince Finaldi, who filed the motion to amend after reviewing the case file. Its claims are disturbing.
"MJJ PRODUCTIONS and MJJ VENTURES were held out to the public to be businesses dedicated to creating and distributing multimedia entertainment by MICHAEL JACKSON, however, in fact, they actually served dual purposes," writes Finaldi in the complaint filed Friday. "The thinly-veiled, covert second purpose of these businesses was to operate as a child sexual abuse operation, specifically designed to locate, attract, lure and seduce child sexual abuse victims."
Robson claims Jackson and his inner circle within the two companies "designed, developed and operated what is likely the most sophisticated public child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organization the world has known."
The choreographer says he first met the late pop star when he was five years old, after winning a "dance-a-like" competition run by MJJ Productions in Australia, where Robson was born. Two years later, his family took a trip to California because Robson's dance company was performing at Disneyland. Robson's mother contacted Jackson's assistant Norma Staikos to set up a meeting, according to the complaint, which describes Staikos as "a 'madam' or 'procurer.' " The family was invited to stay at Neverland Ranch, where Robson slept in Jackson's bed while his family stayed in separate guest quarters.
It was that weekend, Robson claims, that Jackson first sexually abused him. He was seven years old.
The graphically detailed complaint describes encounters ranging from French kissing to penetrative sex. Robson claims the abuse continued until he was 14, but became less frequent when he "began showing signs of puberty" and Jackson was "no longer as interested in him sexually."
In the following years, Robson would be called to testify in a civil suit brought by Jordan Chandler and in Jackson's criminal trial. Leading up to his testimony, he says the singer called him nearly every day to coach him and " 'brain washed' him into being a 'good soldier.' " He testified that no abuse had occurred.
Robson says he loved Jackson like a father and did not believe he was sexually abused until he entered psychotherapy following a nervous breakdown in 2012. He hasn't worked since.
Now, six months prior to the scheduled trial, Finaldi wants to amend the complaint to "rectify various flaws...simplify the complaint, and plead various causes of action/allegations that were omitted from the operate complaint."
Finaldi seeks to add several negligence claims to the suit, arguing the MJJ companies "breached their duty to take reasonable protective measures to protect minor children in their charge."
He's also seeking to withdraw the causes of action of childhood sexual abuse, sexual battery, assault and battery and negligent infliction of emotional distress, as well as allegations regarding the estate.
Attorneys for MJJ have not yet responded to a request for comment.
Trial is currently scheduled for March 13.

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Sounds like a lot of things have changed with the new legal team for Robson. How often can anyone change their minds about stuff like this? Crazy.


Michael Jackson ran the ‘most sophisticated child sexual abuse’ operation in history: suit
Michael Jackson operated the most sophisticated child sex abuse operation "the world has known," an alleged victim of the King of Pop claims in new documents.
The shocking claims are included in an amended complaint filed by Wade Robson, a choreographer who was taken under Jackson's wing as a child.
In the new filings, Robson, 33, alleges that Jackson and his inner circle sought out children in systemic fashion through two companies, MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures. The companies ostensibly dedicated to creating and disseminating Jackson's entertainment served "dual purposes," Robson's lawyer told the Daily News.
"MJJ Productions operated the most sophisticated child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation operation the world has known," Robson's lawyer Vince Finaldi said Monday.
"Although MJJ Productions on its face was a multimedia company dedicated to creating and distributing Michael Jackson's music and entertainment, it actually served a dual purpose, and that was locating, producing and enabling his sexual abuse of kids," he said.
"This wasn't just on his own. This was through his company, through (assistant) Norma (Staikos) primarily," he said. "She would call parents and say, 'Hey he wants to meet you, come down to the ranch.'"
Finaldi said the company would set up the limo, have someone drive the family to the ranch, sometimes pay for plane tickets, put them up in lodging, pay for food and have staff members give gifts.


"Make no mistake, Neverland Ranch was nothing but a well-orchestrated trap," Finaldi told The News. "It was custom-built to attract kids so he could groom them and decide which to sexually abuse."
Robson's amended complaint, obtained by The News, adds new negligence claims to his suit against the two companies.
He claims he was brought into Jackson's orbit when he was only 5 years old after winning a dance competition in Australia organized by MJJ Ventures.
Two years later, Staikos contacted the family about meeting with The Gloved One and staying at Neverland Ranch during a trip to Los Angeles, according to papers.
Staikos served as *****'s "madam" or "procurer," the filing states.


During that visit, Jackson allegedly sexually abused Robson. The abuse continued for eight years until Robson hit puberty and Jackson lost interest, according to the new complaint.
Robson, who went on to work as a choreographer for the likes of Britney Spears and 'NSync, denied he was sexually abused during the pop icon's 2005 molestation trial in Santa Barbara County.
But he subsequently recanted, saying he'd realized Jackson abused him following years of therapy. In 2013 Robson's claims against Jackson's estate were thrown out after a judge ruled he'd waited too long to sue. He is now pursuing separate charges against Jackson's companies.
A lawyer for MJJ Productions declined to comment when reached by The News on Tuesday.
A source in Jackson's camp called the new complaint "too silly" to warrant a response.


Finaldi said the new complaint could lead to a delay of the March trial now scheduled for the lawsuit in Santa Monica, Calif.
He said there's still plenty of time left on the five-year trial clock for any extra discovery that might be needed.
"It doesn't benefit anyone to have a complaint that isn't complete with all the necessary causes of action," he said. "This was just very standard practice. Our firm specializes in child sexual abuse litigation."


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Document : https://www.scribd.com/document/3241...mend-Complaint

Press release: Victim's Attorneys Manly, Stewart & Finaldi Accuse Michael Jackson's Production Company Of Procuring Child Sex Abuse Victims For Jackson
Revised complaint by Wade Robson describes Executive Administrator of MJJ VENTURES as "a procurer or madam" of child sexual victims.
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- New attorneys for Wade Robson, an alleged child sex abuse victim of Michael Jackson, filed a revised complaint containing shocking new allegations in a case which is due to go to trial next year.

Robson, a 36–year-old director, actor and choreographer sued Michael Jackson's production companies in 2014. The suit alleges that Jackson's production company first introduced Robson, an aspiring dancer, to Jackson when Robson was 5 years old and invited Robson to stay with Jackson at Neverland Ranch when Robson was 7 years old. The suit further alleges that Jackson began an illegal sexual relationship with Robson which continued until Robson reached the age of 14 at which time Jackson lost interest in him.

Robson went on to a successful career in entertainment. Robson choreographed Spears's Pepsi commercials including one which aired during the 2001 Super Bowl. He hosted a show on MTV, choreographed the American Idols LIVE tour, wrote songs with Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears and directed feature films. He was originally set to direct Step Up Revolution, (released in 2012), but dropped out of the project following a nervous breakdown. He has been unable to work since. As a result of intensive psychotherapy, Robson has learned that his mental and emotional problems are a result of the sexual abuse inflicted upon him by Jackson which was facilitated and covered up by the employees of his production company.

"Two months ago, our firm was asked to become attorneys of record for Mr. Robson. After reviewing thousands of pages of evidence we have come to the shocking conclusion that Michael Jackson and select few managing agents/employees of MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures inner circle designed, developed and operated what is likely the most sophisticated child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organization the world has known," said victim's attorney Vince Finaldi.

The revised complaint alleges, "Michael Jackson acted with the full knowledge, consent and cooperation of MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures were held out to the public to be businesses dedicated to creating and distributing multimedia entertainment by Michael Jackson, however, in fact, they actually served dual purposes. The thinly-veiled, covert second purpose of these businesses was to operate as a child sexual abuse operation, specifically designed to locate, attract, lure and seduce child sexual abuse victims."

In addition to filing the revised complaint, Manly, Stewart & Finaldi have demanded that Jackson estate lawyer Howard Weitzman release the details of past payments to other alleged child abuse victims of Jackson.

"Child abuse settlements cannot be kept confidential under California law. The truth about Mr. Jackson and his corrupt organization will come out in this case," said victim's attorney John Manly.

Manly, Stewart & Finaldi is California's leading law firm representing child victims of sexual abuse. The firm has represented more than 150 victims of clergy sexual abuse in California and hundreds of others throughout the United States. The firm also represented plaintiffs in the $140,000,000 settlement against LAUSD in the Miramonte case, the largest sex abuse settlement against a School District in the US.



SOURCE Manly, Stewart & Finaldi

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Michael Jackson Accuser Wade Robson Recalled Alleged Abuse After Becoming a Father: 'This Wasn't Loving, Normal Behavior,' Says Lawyer

BY JORDAN RUNTAGH @jordanruntagh 09/16/2016 AT 05:15 PM EDT


Celebrity choreographer Wade Robson recently amended his 2013 legal claim that he was sexually abused by Michael Jackson with the startling allegation that the artist operated the "most sophisticated public child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organization the world has known."

The fact that he waited until decades after the alleged abuse took place – and three years after Jackson had died – has raised some eyebrows, but his lawyer says that Robson repressed the painful memories until 2012, after becoming a father to now 5½-year-son Koa.

"He just recently made that determination soon after giving birth to his first child," attorney Vince Finaldi tells PEOPLE exclusively. "He started having all these things come up. This wasn't loving, normal behavior – things that the world just won't understand. If this were my child I would absolutely not be okay with it. This is sexual abuse. He went to a therapist."

Though the original complaint was thrown out of court in 2015, Finaldi explains that a previous legal effort named the late singer's estate in their claim, despite the fact that the statue of limitations had passed. (Howard Weitzman, an attorney for the Jackson estate, hailed the ruling at the time, saying the estate believed Robson's earlier sworn testimony in Jackson's defense "when his sole motivation was 'to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.'")

Since he's been brought on, Finaldi's strategy is to continue with the cases against the late singer's business entities, MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures, which remain active.

"What triggered the amendment complaint is our review of the files and materials, and our determination that [Jackson] was in fact operating MJJ Productions as a child sexual abuse procurement operation. That was unquestionably the second purpose of this business," Finaldi alleges. "He was using it to pay for gifts for kids and parents in order to groom them for later sexual abuse. He was using it to pay for trips for kids, for plane tickets, for hotels to bring them with him on concerts and to also employ some of these kids as 'dancers' – but he would also be putting them into his room and sleeping with them at night and sexually abusing them."

He continued: "None of these are standard operations for an entertainment company that's supposed to be distributing music as an entertainment."

According to Finaldi, Robson, 33, is intent on "getting answers as to why this happened. If you can't figure out why this was allowed to happen, you can't protect kids from this happening in the future in the entertainment industry in general. One of his main concerns is making sure that this does not happen again and kids are protected. He wants to get the real story out there."

Representatives for MJJ have yet to respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.

While the case is prepared, Finaldi says that Robson continues to work on his personal demons.

"As with any other survivor, there are good days and there are bad days. You just have to plod through it, so he's still in therapy. He's working his depths going from being a victim to a survivor, and he's really committed to it. This is really hard work. This is lifetime work."

The trial is currently set for March 2017.





Wade Robson Claims That Michael Jackson And His Minions Ran The Most Sophisticated Child Sexual Abuse Operation In The World


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Choreographer and So You Think You Can Dance guest judge Wade Robson threw a lawsuit at MJJ Productions in 2013, claiming that Michael Jackson sexually abused him from the age of 7 to the age of 14. One judge threw out the case in 2015, because according to them, 33-year-old Wade Robson waited way too long to file it. (Yes, we are living in a world where claims of sexual abuse have an expiration date on them.) But the case is back on. The brain-melting disturbing details of the lawsuit were sealed up back then, but recently his new lawyer Vince Finaldi added a new complaint and The Hollywood Reporter published it. The new complaint claims that two of Michael Jackson’s companies acted as fronts for finding new victims.




Wade says in his complaint that MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures were Michael Jackson’s entertainment companies and they actually served two purposes. One was to do entertainment stuff and the other was to pretty much leave a trail of candy from a potential victim to MJ’s feet. These allegations come as a non-shock to pretty much everyone and really come as a non-shock to anyone who believes Corey Feldman’s claims that there’s a PedoBear hiding behind every tree in Hollywood. via THR


“MJJ PRODUCTIONS and MJJ VENTURES were held out to the public to be businesses dedicated to creating and distributing multimedia entertainment by MICHAEL JACKSON, however, in fact, they actually served dual purposes,” writes Finaldi in the complaint filed Friday. “The thinly-veiled, covert second purpose of these businesses was to operate as a child sexual abuse operation, specifically designed to locate, attract, lure and seduce child sexual abuse victims.”


Robson claims Jackson and his inner circle within the two companies “designed, developed and operated what is likely the most sophisticated public child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organization the world has known.”


The lawsuit states that Wade first met MJ in his native land of Australia when he was 5 years old and won a dance contest run by MJJ Productions. Wade and his family went off to California 2 years later, because his dance company was booked to perform at Disneyland. MJ invited Wade and his family to stay at Neverland Ranch. Wade slept in MJ’s room while his family slept in guest rooms, and that’s when the alleged abuse started. The lawsuit says that as Wade got older, the abuse got less and less and by the time he was 14, he was already too old for MJ.


Wade ended up testifying FOR Michael Jackson in 1993 in the Jordan Chandler abuse case. Wade says in his lawsuit that MJ coached him and “brainwashed” him into a being a “good soldier.” And now I need to bleach wash my brain after reading “good soldier.”


Wade had a nervous breakdown in 2012 and went through tons of therapy. He says that up until then, he had completely blocked out the abuse and it eventually came out in therapy. He says he hasn’t really been able to work since then.


The trial is currently scheduled to start on March 13th.


If this goes to trial, I expect it to be a mess and I expect the lawyers for Michael Jackson’s estate to call all of the characters from the past (Bubbles, etc…) to the witness stand. And the crazy dove lady from Michael Jackson’s 2005 trial is probably already training a new army of white doves to fly.






Thanks to Ivy from mjjcommunity - this is from her blog.

Great summary of the complaint on Ivy's website.






Sheer Absurdity of Wade Robson’s Revised Complaint (Includes Complaint Document)



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This post won’t be my standard “summary of the court documents” blog post. I won’t be making a long list of legal aspects of the complaint. While I will refer to some elements in Robson’s new revised complaint, I will mostly write my personal take on the revisions. Consider this a disclaimer.



I regularly add the relevant court documents to my blog posts and you will find a copy of Robson’s proposed revised complaint below. You might wonder how I got this document. This time I didn’t get it from the court. I was able to get a copy because Robson’s new lawyers wrote a press release and added the document to it. In the less than 2 months they have been on the case, this is the second press release they have done with a negative document attached to it. This makes it clear that these new lawyers are attempting to try to this case in the media. Furthermore the once sealed and redacted complaint is no longer redacted. One can only assume they want the salacious media stories to force MJ Estate into a settlement.



Here is the document: https://www.scribd.com/document/3241510 ... -Complaint



On September 7, Robson lawyers email Estate lawyers saying they want to amend Robson’s complaint. Simply put they want to remove the sexual abuse causes of action and add negligence causes of action. Estate replies they believe it is too late to amend the complaint and say they won’t agree to a new complaint. Therefore Robson lawyers file a motion with the court asking the court to allow them to proceed with a new revised complaint. In their motion they add a copy of their proposed revised complaint. A hearing on this matter will be heard on October 7th and the judge will decide if he will allow a revised complaint or not.



The causes of action on the revised complaint are intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, negligent supervision, negligent retention/hiring, negligent failure to warn, train or educate and breach of fiduciary duty.



There is some interesting stuff in the document. First you see how Robson lawyers try to justify allowing the amended complaint and how they claim Estate wasn’t ready to depose Robson so they can’t say it’s too late to amend the complaint. This is serious twisting of what happened a few weeks ago. Estate didn’t say they weren’t prepared, they wanted to get the results of the mental examination before they depose Robson. At that time Robson’s new lawyers had delayed the mental examination for 3 weeks and wanted to depose Robson 1 day after the mental examination. That didn’t give enough time to get the report for the mental examination.



Robson lawyers state this case had “voluminous pleadings and thousands of documents” produced during discovery. However the complaint makes it obvious that none of these thousands of documents uncovered anything new. The usual suspects are mentioned in the complaint: Quindoy, Michaels, Francia, Murdock and so on. All of these people were used in previous instances and all of them face serious credibility issues.



From the media you probably heard that Norma Staikos has been called a “madame” or “procurer” of a child sexual abuse victims for MJ. Here is the back story for that claim:



In 1987 aged 5, Robson wins a dance competition run by MJJ Productions and briefly meets Michael. According to the complaint these meet and greets were “sexual grooming mechanisms to acquire minor sexual abuse victims disguised as charitable events for minors”. It’s important to note that Robson’s mother was present in this so called “sexual grooming” meet and greet and in 2005 she testified that meeting wasn’t substantial and it was just a “how are you, it’s a pleasure to meet you” type of thing.. Then nothing for the next 2 years. The “sophisticated child sexual abuse organization” totally forgot about this kid they acquired through their evil intentioned dance competition and exposed to a “sexual grooming” meet and greet. Keep that in mind.



2 years later in 1990 aged 7, Robson comes to US with his dance company. His family members (mother, father, sister and grandparents) accompany him as they want to turn the trip into a family vacation. Robson’s mother calls Norma Staikos who then arranges for Robson to meet with Michael in a recording studio. Robson lawyers claims this meet and greet “purposely orchestrated” by Norma Staikos. Hold on a minute. Didn’t Robson’s own mother call and asked for a meeting with Michael? How is that orchestrated by Staikos? And how does that make her a “madam” or a “procurer” if she was only responding to Joy’s request?



By the way if it’s not the clear, “the most sophisticated public child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organization the world has known” is actually a secretary/ assistant doing her job. Personally I see no sophistication or “purposely orchestrated mechanisms” in a secretary / assistant making calls and travel arrangements situation.



Robson lawyers can’t seem to make up their minds about the relationship between MJ and the companies. On one page MJ is listed as “president/owner”, “representative/agent” of the companies. On another page the companies become MJ’s “co-conspirators, collaborators, facilitators and alter-egos” of MJ. Then MJ was hired by MJ Companies “as a singer, dancer, entertainer, teacher, mentor, and coach to in part mentor and train minors in entertainment industry”. So now Michael becomes “an employee, managing agent, agent, officer, director and/or servant of such and/or was under the companies complete control and/or supervision”. Then in the causes of action part, Robson lawyers list what should have been done in regards to negligent supervision, retention, hiring etc. These include stuff like: the companies should have done an adequate investigation into MJ’s background before hiring him, they shouldn’t have placed MJ in a function or environment in which he would had contact with kids, warn families about MJ’s dangerous propensities and unfitness, investigate, supervise and monitor MJ and even not retain – aka fire- him



You can't really appreciate the absurdity of Robson lawyers arguments until you imagine what they suggested happening in real life. Let’s try it, shall we: MJ forms a company, a company named after him. He hires Norma and others to work for his company. He pays their salaries. Norma who is working for Michael sets out to hire employees, agents, "mentors" for MJJP. How about Michael? He is a talented guy. Yes let's hire Michael at a firm he owns. Norma is supposed to run a background check on Michael, otherwise she will be negligent in hiring. If there were any red flags, she shouldn't have hired him. How would that go? "Sorry Michael, we can't hire you at a company you own, you didn't pass the background check". Imagine Michael managed to get hired by his own company. Then it's Norma's responsibility to supervise Michael because he is now a measly employee. Uh oh imagine some concerns were raised by other employees, now Norma needs to act. Remember Robson lawyers says she needs to put Michael in positions that he cannot interact with kids and/or supervise him when with kids. Michael finds a really talented young kid and wants to sign him up to his music label. Norma says: "Sorry Michael you cannot sign young people to your record label, why don't you stick with adults?" Michael wants to invite his friends including kids to his private residence. He calls Norma his personal assistant/secretary to arrange it. "Sorry Michael can't do it. You can't have kids over to your house. Or at least I need to send someone to monitor you while you spend time with kids". Then comes the dreadful day. After a "reasonable suspicion" Norma calls Michael to her office "I'm sorry Michael, you don't fit with MJJP's ethics and wholesome image. We will have to let you go. You are fired. Oh by the way don't forget to pay my salary." Poor Michael just accepts what Norma says. Seriously though, in what world can this even possibly happen?


Oh and it doesn't end there. Add to the mix that Michael was the owner and president of the companies and the companies were his alter-ego per the complaint then it becomes like this: Michael Jackson formed a company. Michael negligently hired himself to work for his company. Michael the owner was supposed to supervise Michael the employee and not place Michael the employee in a position where he has contact with children. And Michael the boss is negligent because he didn’t do that and he didn't stop Michael the employee when his behavior was inappropriate. Mind blown, right?
I can’t help but wonder, where is Wade’s mother Joy Robson in all of this? For example Norma Staikos is accused of intentionally placing Wade’s mother and sister at a hotel across the street while Wade stayed with Michael in his apartment and was sexually assaulted. Why couldn’t Joy as his mother say No to this? Even if we assume and accept that Joy was a total failure as a parent to take care and protect her kid, it doesn’t end there. Robson’s own documents state that MJ Companies applied for a work visa for Joy Robson, she was also to be an employee of MJ Companies and she was acting as Wade’s manager. I imagine as the manager of Wade, it was her job to supervise Wade and his interaction with other people including MJ. Why not accuse Joy of negligence as well after she was both an employee of MJ companies and was paid to manage Wade?




Then we see Robson lawyers trying so so hard to try to make mandated reporters argument work. The child abuse protection laws define some people as mandated reporters. These people are generally people who spend time with kids regularly or people who can see/hear/learn signs of child abuse during their work. They would include people like teachers, child care center employees, law enforcement, doctors, nurses, priests etc. One part of the law states that “An administrator or employee of a public or private organization whose duties require direct contact and supervision of children” is also a mandated reporter per law. So in order to fit with this suddenly MJ Companies are presented as “operated a program in that at least in part catered to children and required defendants’ employees interact with, be in contact with and supervise minor children”. That’s why all throughout the document you see references made to Michael as “teacher”, “mentor” and Robson being called a “student”, MJJP being called a “school”. If I’m being honest, some parts of the document read like a copy/paste from a school case.



There is a reason for that though. The lawyers repeatedly mention they are specialized in child sexual abuse cases. Their press releases mention the settlements they got for such cases. Both of these are true statement. However when you go to their websites, you will see that the most of the child sexual abuse cases they handle are against churches or schools. These cases have a very common style. Churches and the schools select and hire the priests and teachers. It is indisputable that churches/schools are responsible for hiring, supervising and retention of priests and teachers. Kids are exposed to these priests and teachers through the church or school. If they get abused and if the church and school knew about abuse and did nothing there is a very clear duty of care and negligence. So those cases are a lot more straightforward and even more slam dunk. Churches and schools tend to prefer to settle rather than going through a public trial.



So I think this is why these lawyers are trying so hard and so desperately to portray MJJP and MJJV as a school. But if you ask me, it doesn’t work, it makes no sense. MJJP/ MJJV simply do not fit the profile or organizations whose duties require direct contact and supervision of children.
As for the damages part, Robson lawyers tells us how special Robson is as he achieved success in many diverse areas. According to the complaint unfortunately this had ended and Robson couldn’t become an international superstar. So they ask for "past, present and future general and special damages, punitive damagesm statutory damages, costs of suit, attorney's fees, and interest as allowed by law". So just tens of millions of dollars.



In the damages section, we catch Robson and his lawyers in a blatant lie. They claim Robson is “unable to continue directing in any manner or capacity whatsoever”. However this is not true. Robson registered his Wade Robsons Creations webpage in 2014. He does documentaries, commercials, wedding videos, music videos and so on. His website says “Let’s create something great together!” He posted 60+ videos since 2014. In the last year he released two dance short films named “Flight” and “Life in Color”. So not only he is more than capable to direct, he can also do entertainment related dance videos. To be fair, he doesn’t seem to be working on good paying and/or big projects but I guess you don’t have to if you expect a big payout from Bank of Michael Jackson. Still no matter how you roll the dice “unable to continue directing in any manner or capacity whatsoever” is a blatant lie.
What’s even more unbelievable is that while his lawyers were filing this motion to amend his complaint, making claims he can’t work at all and ask for significant amount of money, Robson was posting on his Facebook about a music video he will be directing next week on September 21/22, 2016. Shortly after his lawyers sent the press releases to the media to start the salacious media spin, Robson deleted his Facebook post. Too late buddy, it was already screen capped.
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Now if Robson or his lawyers ever stumble upon to this blog post, they might be tempted to delete his website, videos and such. Don’t bother though. Every single one of them are too copied and saved. Or actually go ahead and delete it. I would love to do “here is all the things Robson has deleted and trying to hide” post.



Finally Robson lawyers state they have no issue if the judge allows the amended complaint and it means a delay in the case schedule. According to CA civil code, a case has to be brought to trial within 5 years. This means Robson case has be tried by May 2018 latest. Robson lawyers say that this gives them ample of time to amend the complaint and go through the process of discovery and such before that date. However if you remember just a few weeks ago Robson’s own lawyers wanted to depose him as soon as possible as they feared he was a high suicide risk. Now they have no problems with delays and waiting for the trial to happen. Isn’t it amazing that how quickly someone can overcome a fake suicidal risk?

http://dailymichael.com/lawsuits/rob...laint-document

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Messaggio da soulmum » 21 settembre 2016, 16:33

This gets more and more ridiculous.


Another press release. The new lawyers are now also representing Safechuck and amended that complaint as well - which they needed to do per demurrer ruling

document here: https://www.scribd.com/document/3246...nded-Complaint

Press release here

Victim's Attorneys Manly, Stewart & Finaldi Now Represents Second Victim Accusing Michael Jackson's Production Company Of Procuring Alleged Child Sex Abuse Victims For Jackson
Manly, Stewart & Finaldi substitutes in as attorneys and revises complaint by James Safechuck, reinforcing allegations made in Wade Robson lawsuit. Complaint describes Executive Administrator of MJJ Ventures as "a procurer or madam" of alleged child sexual abuse victims.
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Safechuck, a 36-year-old father of two, starred with Michael Jackson in a Pepsi commercial when he was 10-years-old. He then performed with Jackson in the singer's "Bad" tour in 1988.

The suit alleges that Jackson began molesting Mr. Safechuck in his Paris hotel room at the start of his "Bad" tour and the sexual abuse continued for several years until the victim reached puberty.

"This case exhibits the same disturbing fact patterns as the case involving Wade Robson who is also a client of our firm. MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures ensnared Mr. Safechuck in this sexual abuse operation at the tender age of 10, causing him long term damage that haunts him until this day," said victim's attorney Vince Finaldi.

In addition to abusing Mr. Safechuck, the complaint alleges that Michael Jackson induced Mr. Safechuck to testify on Jackson's behalf in the 1993 criminal investigation of the alleged sexual abuse of Jordan Chandler. That case was dropped following a payment to Jordan Chandler by Michael Jackson of an undisclosed amount.

The complaint further alleges that Michael Jackson contacted Mr. Safechuck in 2005 and attempted to convince him and his mother to give false testimony in Jackson's Santa Barbara sex abuse criminal trial. According to the complaint Jackson threatened to reveal Safechuck's "perjury" in the Chandler case when he refused to provide false testimony in the Santa Barbara criminal trial.

"Michael Jackson used his production companies as a front for the recruitment of young boys to fulfill his unlawful and unnatural sexual urges. This corrupt organization left a trail of victims in its wake who are now demanding justice," said victim's attorney John Manly.

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Messaggio da soulmum » 4 ottobre 2016, 22:15

http://www.dailymichael.com/lawsuits/ro ... -complaint


Estate's Opposition to Robson's request to amend his complaint: https://www.scribd.com/document/3262000 ... -Complaint

First allow me to provide a brief history of Robson’s civil case against MJ Companies to better explain the developments in this case.

Robson filed his original complaint against Doe defendants on May 2013 with only one cause of action of childhood sexual abuse. On February 2014, Robson amended his complaint to name the Doe defendants as MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures (aka MJ Companies). Estate filed a demurrer on June 2014 and a demurrer hearing was held on October 2014. During that demurrer Estate argued that corporations cannot engage in childhood sexual abuse. Judge granted Estate’s demurrer but gave Robson a chance to amend his complaint.

December 2014, Robson filed his third amended complaint, this time alleging several causes of actions against the MJ Companies including a negligence claim. On March 2015, Estate filed a second demurrer and the hearing for the second demurrer was on July 2015. This time judge denied Estate’s demurrer saying that it requires a factual determination in a proceeding beyond demurrer.

In a demurrer the Judge needs to accept everything alleged in the complaint as true and only determines if there is a legal basis for the lawsuit. Defendants cannot bring counter evidence about the claims in the complaint, they can only argue legal aspects. Therefore in his demurrer ruling, Judge was saying he needs more information to decide and that could only happen after discovery when both sides present their evidence, witnesses etc. That information would allow the Judge to determine if these claims have any merit at all and if it can satisfy the exception conditions. So the dismissal issue will get revisited at summary judgment.

Going back to the timeline of the case, Estate filed an appeal about Judge’s decision to deny demurrer on November, 2015. Estate’s appeal was denied on February 2016. On March 2016, Judge set a trial date for 2017 and the discovery process had started behind the scenes. On July 2016 Robson changed lawyers and we learned about some discovery/ deposition disputes between the parties.

On September 9, 2016 Robson lawyers filed a request to amend the complaint again. They wanted to drop the childhood sexual abuse claims, add emotional distress and modify the negligence claims to include negligent hiring, retention, supervision, negligent failure to warn, negligence per se (mandatory child abuse reporting).

Estate asks Robson’s request to amend the complaint is denied because they can’t explain the delay in asking to make this amendment and the amendment is futile as they cannot allege sufficient facts to back up the claims. Furthermore if the amendment is allowed it would delay the case, costing more time and money.

One thing that works to Estate advantage is that amendment request can be denied when the plaintiff has “prior knowledge of the circumstances on which it based the amended complaint”. In the BOTH of demurrer hearings (first one on October 2014 and second one on July 2015) the issue of potentially negligent hiring, retention and supervision claims were mentioned both by Estate lawyers and the Judge. However Robson’s attorneys didn’t amend the complaint to include such claims. Furthermore Robson’s new proposed amended complaint lists the same previous allegations/ information/ claims and it doesn’t offer any new information to suggest that they newly discovered stuff that warrants an amendment.
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October 2014 Demurrer Hearing Transcript
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July 2015 Demurrer Hearing Transcript

Second issue Estate mention is Robson’s failure to allege “facts” to demonstrate that the companies hired, supervised and retained Michael to work for them. According to the law in order for the MJ Companies to be responsible for negligence due to Michael’s actions, Robson needs to show that the companies placed Robson in Michael’s custody or control. In other words companies aren’t responsible for the interaction their employees have with every single person outside of their employment, there has to be a connection to the employment. Although Robson claimed Michael was hired by the MJ Companies, Robson’s exposure to Michael wasn’t through Michael’s so called employment by the companies.

Robson’s own complaint alleges a personal relationship between him and Michael. According to Robson’s complaint he and his family came to visit USA on an unrelated matter. Neither companies nor Michael had prior knowledge of this trip. It was Robson’s mother who got in contact with Michael’s assistant and asked to see Michael. Robson and his family began a personal relationship with Michael and visited him at his private residences as his personal guests.

Furthermore according to Robson’s complaint it was over a year and half after the alleged abuse begun before Robson and his mother had a business connection with the MJ Companies. Therefore not only the MJ companies did not create an opportunity for the alleged abuse, they couldn’t stop Robson and Michael’s personal friendship.

One of Robson’s new negligence claim accuses MJ Companies by not warning Robson regarding risk of abuse by Michael. Estate’s opposition document mentions that according to Robson’s own claims the alleged abuse happened in Michael’s private residences when Robson and his family were Michael’s personal guests. That means the alleged abuse didn’t happen while Robson was entrusted to the companies during any so called “youth programs” at the offices of the companies. Estate argues as a matter of law, the companies had no duty of care towards Robson.

As for Robson’s negligence per se claims about mandated reporters, Estate argues Robson’s arguments are flawed. First of all the version of the law Robson’s attorneys cited is a recent version and it wasn’t in effect during the time of the alleged abuse. Estate argues that MJ Companies weren’t a mandated reporter organization. According to the law organizations that regularly provide services to the children are mandated reporters. Such organizations are schools, camps, day care centers etc. Despite Robson's attempt to portray MJ Companies as some sort of "school" with Michael mentoring kids, the companies were entities formed to handle Michael's business affairs. Furthermore Robson fails to identify which specific employees of the companies were supposed to be mandated reporters and what event they were supposed to report to the authorities.
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Finally Estate points out that Robson in his complaint mentioned the 1993 allegations and accompanying law enforcement investigation. Therefore Robson and his mother was fully aware of the allegations and took part in the investigation denying any abuse. Robson family continued their close personal relationship with Michael despite 93 allegations. Robson was also very aware of the 2005 allegations and trial and he testified and denied abuse once again. Therefore Robson’s claims that MJ Companies failure to report Michael caused his injuries doesn’t make any sense at all.

Estate also points out that allowing Robson to amend his complaint would cause significant delays and costs. If an amendment is allowed, the case will go back to the demurrer stage, require additional discovery to address the new causes of action.

This opposition document also allows us our first look to the discovery in the case. Although it might seem boring at first, we actually learn crucial information about the structure of MJ Companies. MJJ Productions were incorporated in 1979 and MJJ Ventures were incorporated in 1991. Michael was appointed as the sole director of the companies at their incorporation. We learn that Michael had 100% of stock in both companies at all times. In June 1994, as the sole shareholder Michael expanded the size of Board of Directors for both companies from one to four. He appointed John Branca, Sandy Gallin and Marshall Gelfand to the Board of Directors and they remained on Board of Directors until after 1997.

According to the timeline of the MJ Companies, Michael was the sole director and sole Board of Director of the MJ Companies during the time (1988-1992) Safechuck claims he was abused. Robson claims to be abused between ages 7 -14 or between 1990 -1997. Although there was a Board of Directors during the last 3 years of the alleged abuse, it doesn’t help Robson with his claims. Even though we assume the Board of Directors somehow fired Michael from the MJ Companies, Michael as the 100% shareholder could fire the Board of Directors, select a new set of Board of Directors and rehire himself. In other words this basic discovery shows us that the MJ Companies had absolutely no control over Michael.
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Why this piece of information is very important? Because according to the law (340.1), Robson and Safechuck had until their 26th birthday to sue the MJ Companies. Both were over 26 when they filed their lawsuits. There is an exception that allows people to sue entities after plaintiffs 26th birthday. The exception states


entity knew or had reason to know, or was otherwise on notice, of any unlawful sexual conduct by an employee, volunteer, representative, or agent, and failed to take reasonable steps, and to implement reasonable safeguards, to avoid acts of unlawful sexual conduct in the future by that person, including, but not limited to, preventing or avoiding placement of that person in a function or environment in which contact with children is an inherent part of that function or environment

As you can see this exception requires the MJ Companies to have power on Michael and prevent him from coming in contact with children. The discovery about the organization structure shows that MJ Companies had no power or control over Michael. This is the type of information that the judge was wanting to see before he decides whether this case can go to trial or not. This information alone can demonstrate that neither Safechuck nor Robson could satisfy the exception rule and therefore during summary judgment –when Estate can present this discovery/evidence to the judge- the cases can get dismissed due to statute of limitations regardless of the causes of actions.

Personally this makes me more confident that these case will probably not survive summary judgment. In a demurrer when the judge needs to treat everything Robson says as true has no choice but to accept Robson’s claims, no matter how absurd it might be to us all. However in a summary judgment where Estate could bring evidence, witnesses, and discovery, the balance will change drastically.

I imagine Robson lawyers are fully aware of it, given all of their actions suggest they want a settlement. After all how can you explain sending out press releases for every motion they file and attach the court documents to it? To me it looks like they are hoping to create negative and salacious media stories and force Estate into a settlement.

What’s next? Robson lawyers will file a reply to Estate’s opposition. I have no plans to get that document. But given how much the new lawyers love publicity, they might do another press release with the document attached.

The hearing for Robson’s request to amend his complaint is set for October 7th. Judge will rule either on the spot or might take matter under consideration and rule later. I will update this post with the ruling once the Judge decides.

There are several possible outcomes:

- Judge might allow the amendment of the complaint. If that’s the case Estate asks the Judge to vacate the trial date and allow Estate to file a demurrer. A demurrer would take around 6 months. There could be several rounds of demurrer, new discovery etc. Robson’s case needs to be tried by May 2018 latest.

- Judge might deny the amendment. If that’s the case the next important thing will be the summary judgment motion. As of now the deadline for the summary judgment motion is November 23rd and a hearing is set for February 9th, 2017.

Tidbit: Footnote on page 7 says that Robson’s previous lawyer withdrew from the case. It doesn’t provide any more details but it makes you wonder if Robson wanted to replace his previous lawyers or if the previous lawyers actually dropped Robson and he had to find new lawyers.

Note: I omitted some inconsequential pages (cover page, table of contents etc.) of the document to save time scanning.

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Messaggio da soulmum » 8 ottobre 2016, 14:53

10/07/2016 at 09:00 am in Department WEM, Mitchell L. Beckloff, Presiding
Motion for Leave (TO AMEND THIRD AMENDED COMPLAINT) - Motion Granted



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03/13/2017 at 08:30 am in department M at 1725 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401
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Jordy Chandler disappears: Boy now aged 36 who sparked Michael Jackson's pedophile scandal in 1993 cannot be found for deposition in a separate sex abuse case
Jordan Chandler, now 36, won a $20million settlement from Jackson
His father Evan Chandler launched accusations that the King of Pop sexually abused Jordan when he was just 13 years old
In a separate case filed in 2013, celebrity choreographer Wade Robson is suing MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures, companies run by Jackson
Robson is claiming the two companies ran a 'covert child sex abuse operation', inviting children to the ranch for free and giving them gifts
Robson's lawyers have tried to track Jordan down in hopes of taking his deposition, but he can't be found
Lawyers have tried taking deposition from Jordan's sister Lily Chandler
But Lily has filed a request to the judge, asking for the deposition to be blocked citing fears that she will receive death threats from Jackson's fans

By Dailymail.com Reporters

Published: 02:32 GMT, 7 November 2016 | Updated: 08:20 GMT, 7 November 2016
A man who first sparked the child molestation allegations against Michael Jackson in 1993 has disappeared, TMZ reported.

Jordan Chandler, now 36, won a $20million settlement from Jackson after his father Evan Chandler launched accusations that the King of Pop sexually abused him at the age of 13.

Celebrity choreographer Wade Robson, who filed an ongoing lawsuit in 2013 claiming he suffered years of sexual abuse after he was groomed by two of Jackson's companies, has been searching for Jordan to no avail.

Since Robson's lawyers were unable to track Jordan down for a deposition, they turned to the 36-year-old's sister Lily Chandler instead, hoping she would be able to provide childhood accounts or information about her brother's whereabouts.

Lily, however, has tried to steer clear of the legal battle for fears that she will stoke the ire of Jackson's fans, who have directed numerous threats at her family throughout the years.
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Lawyers are trying to track Jordan (right in 1993) down for a deposition in a separate sex abuse case. They turned to the 36-year-old's sister Lily Chandler instead (pictured left)


Lily, who claims she has no recollection of any sexual abuse since she was five years old when she started visiting Jackson's Neverland Ranch, filed a request to the judge to block a deposition.

In legal documents submitted to the judge, Lily attached a number of threatening emails that had been directed at her family from staunch Jackson fans after they were swept up in the resulting scandal.

In 1993, Evan Chandler launched bombshell accusations that the King of Pop had molested his son Jordan, then aged 13.

Jackson had become close to the entire Chandler family after his limousine broke down in Santa Monica.

Jackson's chauffeur sought the help of a nearby car rental company, which was owned by Jordan's stepfather David Schwarz.

A starry-eyed Jordan, then aged 12, was ushered in to meet Jackson and the two became incredibly close, with the pop star calling the young boy and inviting him to Neverland.

Jordan's father Evan Chandler launched the accusations and received death threats from many of Jackson's loyal fans


Both Jordan's biological parents said they caught Jackson snuggled in bed with their son on separate occasions. Evan claimed he went into his son's bedroom one night to find Jordan being cradled from behind by Jackson, whose hand was cupping his groin.
Jordan's harrowing police statement later described in detail how Jackson seduced him on a jaunt to Monaco, after handing the boy's mother June a wad of cash to go on a shopping spree.

Jackson maintained his innocence but settled the civil lawsuit by paying Jordan $20million.

But the lawsuit made Evan a target of Jackson's fierce fans, many of whom sent death threats because they believed he ruined the star's reputation and ended his career.

The scandal fractured the Chandler family, and Jordan accused his own father of domestic abuse in 2006.

Three years later, Evan committed suicide and died from a single gunshot wound to the head, police said.

Even though Evan died more than 15 years after the accusations first emerged, Jackson's fans still held a vendetta for him, posting cruel messages on chat rooms that read: 'Good riddance, you piece of ****. Hope you rot in hell! Things that go around come around - karma is a bitch.'

It is no wonder, then, that Lily has tried to steer clear of Robson's ongoing lawsuit against Jackson's estate.

Robson, who first met Jackson when he was five years old, claims he was sexually abused by Jackson for seven years.

Four years after the pop star died, Robson filed a lawsuit against MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures, two companies that distributed multimedia entertainment made by Jackson.

Robson claimed the companies run by Jackson also served as the most sophisticated child sex abuse operation 'the world has ever known.'


It was Staikos who Robson's mother contacted when the seven-year-old and his family arrived at Disneyland for a performance with his dance company, according to the complaint.

Robson had met Jackson two years earlier in Australia after winning a dance competition run by MJJ Productions.

During the Disneyland trip, Staikos invited Jackson's family to stay at Neverland Ranch, the complaint states.

Robson's family stayed in separate guest quarters, while he slept in the pop superstar's bed, according to the choreographer.


That was the first night Robson claimed he was sexually abused by Jackson, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Robson, who has since worked with Britney Spears and appeared as a judge on So You Think You Can Dance, claims the abuse went on for the next seven years.

The abuse ranged from French kissing to penetrative sex and only stopped when Robson began 'showing signs of puberty', the complaint claims.

That's when Jackson became 'no longer as interested in him sexually'.

Finaldi said Robson wasn't the only child Jackson, Staikos and his companies lured to Neverland Ranch.

'(Staikos) would call parents and say, "Hey, he wants to meet you, come down to the ranch,' Finaldi told the New York Daily News.

Finaldi said the family's plane tickets and food would be paid for. They would arrive to the ranch in a limousine, and be given gifts from the staff.

'Make no mistake, Neverland Ranch was nothing but a well-orchestrated trap,' he told the New York Daily News.

'It was custom-built to attract kids so he could groom them and decide which to sexually abuse.'

Jackson's estate called Robson's allegations 'less than credible', but the choreographer said he would never make such public claims for money.

'The idea that I would make all of this up and put myself, my wife, my son, my entire family through this extremely stressful and painful experience all for money is incomprehensible,' he said.

'I've lived in silence and denial for 22 years and I can't spend another moment in that.'
Source - Daily Mail (UK newspaper)

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Re: Robson, Safechuck file claim of abuse with estate

Messaggio da soulmum » 28 dicembre 2016, 10:37

The Estate has filed a Motion to Compel against Robson. It seems he refuses to produce documents during discovery.

12/27/2016 Proof of Service (BY HAND RE DEFENDANTS MJJ PRODUCTIONS, INC. AND MJJ VENTURES INC.'S MOTION TO COMPEL WADE ROBSON'S COMPLIANCE IN PRODUCING DOCUMENTS AND FOR SANCTIONS )
Filed by Attorney for Defendant


12/27/2016 Notice of Motion (AND MOTION TO COMPEL WADE ROBSON'S COMPLIANCE IN PRODUCING DOCUMENTS AND FOR SANCTIONS; MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT )
Filed by Attorney for Defendant


12/27/2016 Declaration (OF MICHAEL KUNKEL IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO COMPEL WADE ROBSON'S COMPLIANCE IN PRODUCING DOCUMENTS AND FOR SANCTIONS )
Filed by Attorney for Defendant


12/27/2016 Declaration (OF JONATHAN P. STEINSAPIR IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS MOTION TO COMPEL WADE ROBSON'S COMPLIANCE IN PRODUCING DOCUMENTS AND FOR SANCTIONS )
Filed by Attorney for Defendant

The hearing about that is on February 2nd.

02/02/2017 at 08:30 am in department M at 1725 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Motion to Compel(WADE ROBSON'S COMPLIANCE INPRODUCING DOCUMENTS)

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Re: Robson, Safechuck file claim of abuse with estate

Messaggio da soulmum » 3 gennaio 2017, 9:02

http://dailymichael.com/lawsuits/robson ... ck-round-2


MJ Estate Demurrer to Safechuck - Round 2

Robson v. Estate 02 January 2017
As reported in the previous update, Judge ruled on first Safechuck demurrer on August 2016. Judge granted Estate’s demurrer request but also gave Safechuck the chance to amend his complaint.

The new lawyers that represent Robson, Safechuck and Jane Doe amended both Robson and Safechuck complaints adding claims of intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, negligent supervision, negligent retention/hiring, negligent failure to warn, train or educate and breach of fiduciary duty.

Very quickly Estate filed a second demurrer to Safechuck’s amended complaint. Below you will find a short summary. You can read the scanned document here : https://www.scribd.com/document/3354766 ... -Complaint

Estate argues that Safechuck failed to list valid causes of action in his complaint. Even from the start Estate points to the obvious - how Safechuck (plus Robson and Jane Doe of course) tries to make this all about the MJ Companies to keep their lawsuits alive.
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Estate also points out how Safechuck’s complaint is filled with easily proven falsehoods. For example Safechuck made claims against MJJ Ventures but MJJ Ventures didn’t even exist until 1991.
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Most of the legal arguments in Estate’s demurrer motion are similar to the previous motions at Robson and Safechuck cases. For example negligent hiring, supervision and retention claims doesn’t make any sense at all. Michael established the companies. Safechuck in his complaint stated that Michael was the president/owner and 100% shareholder of the companies. So as a matter of law, these claims cannot be successful.
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It doesn’t end there. Relationship between Michael and Safechuck was a personal relationship, not a business relationship. MJ Companies were irrelevant to how this relationship began and grew. Similarly companies did not have a duty of care towards Safechuck. Many of that duty of care and mandated reporter claims applies to the schools, churches, day care etc. but MJ Companies were none of those. Furthermore Safechuck’s parents were present for most of his interactions with Michael. This shows that Safechuck was under his parent’s care.
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Demurrer hearing already happened on December 7th, 2016. Judge Beckloff has taken the matter under consideration and expected to rule soon.

Both Robson and Safechuck cases have been going in circles for some time. A complaint gets filed, then a demurrer. Judge grants Estate's demurrer but gives Robson and Safechuck a chance to amend their complaints. And it starts all over again.

To get a better understanding of what’s happening behind the scenes we also acquired both demurrer hearing transcripts. Unfortunately due to copyright limitations I can’t share those transcripts in full. Below you will find summaries and some screenshots of the most interesting parts of the Safechuck demurrer hearings.

In the first demurrer hearing back in June 2016, Safechuck was still represented by his old lawyers. Judge Beckloff makes a note of how he approaches to Robson and Safechuck cases differently. Beckloff says during Robson demurrers he focused on the timing - statute of limitations. However on Safechuck demurrers although the timing is still an issue, Judge’s main concern is the duty issue. This makes sense as Robson has an employment relationship with MJ Companies while Safechuck does not. We all know that Robson/Safechuck/Doe is suing MJ Companies because they can’t sue MJ or MJ Estate. However while Robson has a connection to the MJ Companies, neither Safechuck nor Jane Doe has any connection. This makes judge question why would the MJ Companies have any kind of duty of care towards them.

That hearing also has this interesting statement by MJ Estate lawyer Steinsapir. While arguing about allegations, Steinsapir makes a reference to possible negligent hiring and retention claims as well as a duty to warn. He mentions how they think they can easily win against such claims in a summary judgment based on the evidence that MJ formed and owned these companies and no one in the companies had any power over him. Safechuck’s new lawyers in the newest complaint made exactly these claims – the claims that Estate feels they can easily win against at summary judgment.
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Safechuck’s then lawyers also argued that if someone warned Safechuck’s parents about Michael’s alleged abuse “they would have done what any parent would have done. They would have extracted their child out of the clutches of a known sexual abuser” (this is exact words of the lawyer). However we know that neither Safechuck’s parents nor Robson’s parents extracted their kids even after the 93 Chandler allegations and the accompanying law enforcement investigation and interviews. A criminal inquiry into Michael wasn’t enough for them to cut their relationship with Michael. So any argument that if someone from MJ Companies had warned them, they would have extracted their kids is quite unbelievable.
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On the second demurrer hearing at December, 2016, very promisingly Judge Beckloff starts by saying “I’m having trouble with a lot of this” to Safechuck’s new lawyers. Judge also questions if it would be a factual determination if he decides Michael couldn’t be controlled by anyone in the MJ Companies as he was the 100% shareholder of the companies. Personally I understood it as Judge is questioning whether he can dismiss Safechuck case at demurrer stage or if he needs to wait until a summary judgment phase.

I chuckled when the new Safechuck lawyers admitted that the Safechuck (and also Robson, Jane Doe) complaint was drafted off a complaint they used in a clergy case. A complaint they used across California for years. When we read the Robson and Safechuck amended complaints, they read like a copy/paste from a church/school case. Many of the arguments made no sense in Michael – MJ Companies situation. Now the lawyers confirm our suspicions.
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Estate lawyer Steinsapir also points out that this boilerplate complaint doesn’t work in this situation. Priests have supervisors. Even the school presidents have supervisors such as superintendent or board of trustees. This is exactly why a copy/paste complaint from a clergy or a school case makes no sense here.
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It’s hard to tell if Judge Beckloff is being nice or being sarcastic with “I don’t think you are sitting in your office copying this off your computer” comment. I think that’s exactly what they are doing as it can be seen from the gender specific pronouns they failed to change in the Jane Doe complaint.
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Another good sign is seeing Estate lawyers bring up pretty much the same things we have written on this blog. The latest complaints in these cases basically claim Michael Jackson the boss should have supervised Michael Jackson the employee. It also doesn’t make any sense to argue that a secretary or a personal assistant could have controlled Michael who happened to be their boss.
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The transcript gives us a fun tidbit as well. Estate lawyers mention that Safechuck/Robson/Doe lawyers have deposed “some people” (most probably Norma Staikos and Jolie Levine) and that they laughed to the idea that anyone from the corporations could have controlled Michael.
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Overall it looks very promising such as Judge questioning if the MJ Companies had any duty of care towards Safechuck, stating that he is having trouble with a lot of this. It makes a lot of sense given that unlike Robson, Safechuck did not have any work relationship with the companies. The only issue is if the Judge thinks he can dismiss the case at the demurrer phase (where he needs to accept any claims by Safechuck as true) or he will opt to wait for summary judgment (when Estate can present counter evidence). It is unfortunately still a waiting game.

Coming soon: MJ Estate’s motion to compel Wade Robson to produce documents. It would be quite eye opening.

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BUSTED! Wade Robson Got Caught Hiding Evidence and Shopping a Tell-All Book

 Admin Robson v. Estate 04 January 2017 





On December 27, 2016 The MJ Estate filed a motion to compel Wade Robson to produce essential documents. This motion gave us a first detailed look into the discovery phase and one thing is certain - time after time, Wade Robson is blatantly and desperately lying to withhold discovery from MJ Estate. From manipulating evidence to shopping a tell-all book, here is the unbelievable information that we have learnt from the motion to compel. (Document here)

It is now confirmed that Joy Robson and Wade’s siblings were deposed at the end of September 2016 as planned. Wade Robson was deposed at December 2016. On March 28, 2016 The MJ Companies served Wade Robson with their first set of requests for production (RFP). They asked Wade Robson about all the documents and all of communications between him and any person relating to his abuse allegations. However, it seems that Wade is no longer eager to share his truth:

1. Wade Robson initially produced one single email when asked to produce all communications relating to his allegations of abuse

On June 3, 2016 Wade Robson produced a single email and stated under oath that it was the only communications he had. The single email mentioned is the September 7, 2012 email that Wade Robson sent to 30 people. Judge Beckloff mentioned this email in his dismissal ruling at the probate case. According to Judge Beckloff’s ruling this email included sentences of “very personal information”, “extremely sensitive legal matter” and “truth of his (Robson’s) past”. This email was one of the reasons why Judge Beckloff dismissed the probate claim. (Link ) The new discovery shows there are plenty of other emails and documents that Wade failed to produce.

2. Wade Robson continuously lied under oath about existence of documents as well as his search and production of them

On June 23, 2016 MJ Estate lawyers conferred with Wade Robson’s previous lawyers and expressed their disbelief at a redacted assertion of Wade. Our guess is that Estate was having a hard time believing that there was only a single communication between Robson and other people about his allegations.

At the end of July 2016 Wade Robson hired new lawyers and all of a sudden changed his tone: they produced 100 pages in response to the first set of RFP. He provided no explanation as to why he previously claimed (*cough* lied *cough*) under oath that there was only one document. At the time Estate accepted that Wade Robson provided all the documents asked.

Moreover, during the deposition of the Robson family more evidence has surfaced as Wade’s mother and siblings produced more documents and emails about the alleged abuse sent or received by Wade - more emails that Wade neglected to provide during discovery. When confronted with the new discovery and asked to explain his destruction of relevant evidence, Robson’s counsel admitted that Wade had not produced all the documents in his possession and did not even search for the requested documents.

By the end of October 2016, Wade gave MJ Estate around 4,000 pages. During their examination of these, Estate once again realized Wade Robson was still failing to turn over all the relevant documents and continued making false statements.

After Estate threatened Wade with a court order and forensic examination of his accounts and devices Wade Robson magically located additional documents and once again claimed this completed his document production. However there are still deficiencies. Not only Wade Robson has not produced some documents provided by other people and wrongfully redacted many of the ones he did provide (read more in items 4 & 5) he also stated at his December 2016 deposition that he didn’t specifically search for the emails MJ Estate has asked for.

3. Wade Robson was shopping a book about alleged abuse BEFORE he filed his complaint

Yes, you read that right. Wade was shopping a book BEFORE he filed his first complaint. He even hired literary agent Alan Nevins to help him. His family friend / business advisor Helen Yu was also involved in this book shopping attempt. (Helen Yu is an entertainment lawyer who represented Wade. Do not confuse her with Susan Yu.)

Based on a document Wade produced around October 2016, The Estate has learnt that Wade Robson wrote a book about the alleged abuse in late 2012-early 2013 and was actively shopping it to publishers BEFORE he filed his lawsuit. On October 20, 2016 Estate asked Wade to provide them the drafts and treatments of his book, then also questioned why didn’t he turn it over before as the book was clearly about his abuse allegations. Now we can look back to the (dismissed) probate claim and current complaint against the companies and say that for three long years Robson hid the fact he wrote such book as it was never mentioned and produced before.

Wade replied by saying he didn’t produce the book because he was unable to locate it. Then, only 4 days later he changed his story - Wade’s attorneys said he did have a draft of his book but it was labelled “for my attorneys”. So now the lawyers claimed Wade had the draft of the book but withheld it because it was privileged (client-lawyer confidentiality). See how quickly and easily they change their stories.

Wade Robson’s lawyer said that Wade would waive the privilege and produce the draft of the book to MJ Estate. MJ Estate asked for all drafts of the book to be given to them with metadata intact. Wade Robson’s lawyers said that they received a “recently created” PDF of the book draft and a special program was needed to open the “original publishing format”. Estate again requested from Wade’s lawyers to send them the original document and said that they “can find out the program we need to open it”.

On October 2016, Wade Robson produced a single draft of his book and refused to provide other drafts / treatments of the book as well as the original electronic documents with metadata intact. He provided no explanation as to why he is refusing to provide the original document with the metadata. Wade also claims that his communications with the publishers about the book are privileged.

Why the original electronic document with the metadata and all drafts/treatments of the book are so important to the MJ Estate? They want to know when the document was created, when it was modified and if Wade altered the draft of the book during the course of this lawsuit.

4. Wade Robson did not produce his communications with his family members. A redacted email by Joy Robson may cast doubt on a claim Wade later possibly included in his complaint.

The Estate was also able to see that Wade did not produce many of his email exchanges with his family members. This made Estate ask the two obvious questions – What else is Wade withholding? And if Wade does not have these emails anymore what else did he delete?

The motion mentions some of the emails missing. One of them was an email chain dated October 2012 named “Questions for Mom – 2.0”. In the motion Estate states that Wade was asking his mother questions about his visits to U.S as a child, his interactions with Michael and abuse allegations. Wade did not give any of these emails to MJ Estate.

Another email is dated February 15, 2016 and has the subject of “Security Testimony”. Estate says in this email Wade Robson asks his mother Joy what she thinks about a purported statement by a former Neverland security guard about inappropriate conduct by Defendants (ie. the MJ companies). Joy Robson replies by saying “Wow. None of that’s true…” and the rest of the response is obscured in the version produced by Joy Robson. While Wade Robson produced the email he sent to his mother, he did not provide his mother’s response to the Estate and now Joy conveniently claims she no longer has access to this email either. Wonder why?
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We would like to take a little detour here and discuss what this might mean. The Neverland security guard that purportedly gave a statement about Wade and Michael is most probably Charli Michaels. She is the only security guard who made claims about the Robsons, including Joy Robson. Wade used her claims in his latest amended complaint, filed in September 2016, to implicate the companies through Norma Staikos. Here is the relevant part from Robson’s complaint:
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If our suspicion is right and this is about indeed the claims by Charli Michaels then it would mean that Wade Robson has no qualms about using stories and claims in his court documents that he knows to be untrue. Let us stress it: In February 2016 Wade Robson’s mother responds to Wade regarding Charli Michaels’ story: “Wow. None of that is true.” Yet Wade has no problem using it in his complaint in September 2016. This could be proof positive of him knowingly and deliberately lying in court documents to get what he wants – money. After all this is all about the “truth” and “justice”, not money, right? This could explain why Wade never provided his mother’s response and why Joy only provided an obstructed version of her email and now claims she no longer has access to that email.

Talking about “justice” and “truth”: What kind of “justice” and “truth” is it that is based on lies? Allegedly these companies are “the most sophisticated child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organization the world has ever known” and they need to be brought to “justice” but to implicate them Robson uses information that he knows to be not true. At the same time he co-operates with his mother on these stories - the same mother who initiated the contact with Michael and his companies in early 1990 when the Robsons came to the US, the same mother who was calling Michael’s companies every day pushing for the green cards, the same mother who let him sleep in Michael’s room not only before but also after the Chandler allegations. Yet, it is Norma Staikos who is the “madame” and Michael’s companies are the “sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organizations”. How come it is not his mother that Wade wants to bring to “justice” but rather companies based on stories that he knows to be untrue? The question is rhetorical. The answer for this question is quite obvious.

5. Wade Robson unnecessarily redacted some of his communications and falsely labeled them as privileged.

Wade Robson has fully redacted 70 emails between himself and his family members. 50 of the emails were sent to his non-lawyer mother Joy. Robson claimed an attorney client privilege and work product doctrine to explain his redactions. Nice try, Wade!

Wade also redacted every single email that Helen Yu was copied despite the fact that there were other non-lawyer people included in the communications.

These redactions don’t make much sense. Wade’s family members aren’t lawyers. Similarly Estate states while some communications with Helen Yu might be privileged, her presence doesn’t make all of the communications privileged. It would depend on the content. We see that Wade’s lawyers are claiming that the communications between Wade and his family members are “attorney directed witness statements”. MJ Estate is not buying this argument. Neither are we.

Furthermore based on an example of a redacted exchange between Robson and his mother, Estate states that Wade’s independent memory of his childhood is limited and he has been relying heavily on his mother for information about his interactions with Michael. Estate argues for this reason alone Wade’s correspondence with his family members should not be withheld from the Estate and a denying to produce them would unfairly prejudice MJ Estate in their preparation of their defense.

6. Wade Robson failed to produce attachments to emails

Above all that, it turns out that Robson produced almost all emails without their attachments. MJ Estate mentions an email communications Robson sent shortly after Michael died. Estate describes this email as “one of Robson’s many attempts to make money from his association with Michael after his death,” but Robson did not provide the attachment included in that email.

Robson’s lawyers acknowledged that this was a common mistake as Robson exported his emails to PDF and that method does not print out the attachments. Robson agreed to produce attachments to two emails. However he did not provide the attachments with the cover emails. This makes it hard to determine which attachment goes with which email. Furthermore Robson did not provide attachments for any other email as well.

Absurdly Robson tried to shift the burden to the MJ Estate telling them to identify which of his emails are missing the attachments.

Dear Wade, you know that the little paperclip image means that the email has an attachment, right? The stupidity of Robson’s arguments is amazing.

7. Clearly, all of this sheds a new light on why Wade Robson’s lawyers wanted him to be deposed as early as possible.

You might remember that Robson’s lawyers wanted Wade to be deposed on August 24, 2016 and tried to force Estate to a now or never deposition. Estate successfully argued and won their request to delay Wade’s deposition as they wanted to wait for the report from his mental examination. ( Link )

If Robson’s lawyers succeeded and forced Estate to depose Robson at August, 2016. Not only that the Estate wouldn’t have had the mental examination report, but they also wouldn’t have known about the missing emails between Wade and his family or about the book Wade wrote.

Back then it seemed like a tactic by Wade Robson’s lawyers to force MJ Estate to depose Wade before they can get the mental examination report back. Now we learn it was way more serious than a single report. They wanted to force Estate to depose Wade before they could get ANY discovery.

Let it be clear that disrupting evidence and sabotaging discovery is against the law. As a result Estate wants the court to compel Wade’s compliance to his discovery obligations, they want Wade to provide unredacted versions of the emails that he improperly redacted, provide all the attachments to the emails. MJ Estate is also asking the judge to order that Wade’s accounts and devices to be subject to a forensic examination. Estate argues that it is impossible for them to know what else Wade still failed to produce. Estate have already hired an expert – Michael Kunkel of Setec Security Technologies- to do the forensic examination of Wade’s accounts/devices so that Estate can get the discovery they are entitled to defend against Robson’s allegations. Finally Estate is asking Robson to be sanctioned in the amount of $17,100. Hearing for motion to compel is set for February 2, 2017.

Overall when you look to the above information, we are left with three possibilities
•Wade did not diligently search for responsive documents
•Wade is willfully withholding responsive documents
•Wade destroyed relevant evidence.

We vote for options 2 and 3. Wade is deliberately withholding the documents and most probably deleting them left and right like a scared cat now that Estate caught him in multiple lies.

Repeatedly Wade produced some documents, under oath claimed to be it’s everything he has. However whenever Estate found out evidence to the contrary, Wade suddenly able to find and give more documents to the Estate. This happened several times and it still seems to be the case.

Our take on this

We would like to finish this post with sharing our personal opinion on this latest developments. All of information above confirms that this is all about money as we suspected from the day one. It is apparent that Wade aimed for a settlement all along and never planned that this case would come to the discovery phase. Now they are desperately trying to hide information from MJ Estate and lying very blatantly in the process.

If we take a look at the timeline and all the information we have so far, we get yet another confirmation that Wade made “many attempts to make money from his association with Michael after his death”. At the very least we know that in 2010 and 2011, Robson was in contact with Cirque about Michael related projects. In 2011 Wade even met with John Branca to discuss Cirque projects. (Fun fact: Despite his meeting with Branca, Wade claimed he didn’t know about the MJ Estate.) In July 2011, Wade gave an interview saying he will be directing Cirque’s MJ show. We know that didn’t happen. It’s safe to say that his attempts to make money from his association with Michael were unsuccessful.

We also now learn that Wade was writing a book in late 2012 and early 2013 and he unsuccessfully shopped it to publishers before filing his lawsuit. So that attempt of money making failed as well. Obviously, this has brought us to this lawsuit which we can call “when everything else fails sue the Bank of Michael Jackson” lawsuit.

Wade writing and shopping a book to publishers BEFORE filing this lawsuit makes it crystal clear that this was all about money and nothing else. Some of Wade’s defenders may mention “truth” and “justice” but “truth” can be told without a price tag on it and “justice” doesn’t come from a book. When you put getting a book deal before filing a lawsuit, it leaves no doubt that this is all about money.

Don’t forget Wade initially filed this lawsuit sealed. Telling the “truth” wasn’t really his concern from the start. He probably hoped that MJ Estate will quickly settle to make these allegations go away. But it didn’t happen. Then the tactics changed. Safechuck was probably recruited and his complaint was announced with an exclusive by Diane Dimond - a known MJ hater. Radar Online became a mouthpiece for Wade writing pieces filled with misinformation and dramatic titles that included “anal rape” and so on. The timing of many of these events is also quite suspicious as they were always organized around significant times for Estate: right before a new release, around the anniversary of Michael’s death and so on. Along came the new lawyers, who are big fans of press releases for every single motion they file. They love media rounds. All of these suggest they have been trying to pressure MJ Estate to settle.

This is exactly why we feel Wade never imagined that this case will come to the discovery phase and he will have to provide documents to the MJ Estate. When push came to shove, he tried to hide his tracks but got caught red handed. It will be quite interesting to see how this will all play out.

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http://dailymichael.com/lawsuits/robson ... and-emails


Excerpts from Wade and Joy Robson Depositions and Emails

 Admin Robson v. Estate 09 January 2017 





In our first post, we discussed how Wade Robson and his partners in crime are deliberately withholding evidence, or worse, getting rid of evidence and therefore denying the estate from a productive discovery. In this article we are going to review a 264-page-long document that was filed in support of the Estate’s motion.In the document there are 42 exhibits altogether however unfortunately, the majority of the exhibits are sealed. Nonetheless, what we can see already reveals some interesting things. The document includes a couple of emails between Wade Robson, his mother and other parties, extracts from both Wade and Joy Robson’s depositions, some email correspondence between Robson’s and the Estate’s lawyers regarding discovery matters, and a log file Robson’s lawyers provided of Robson’s emails that they consider privileged.

From Exhibits Robson Emails : https://www.scribd.com/document/336110667/Robson-Emails

From Exhibits Excerpts of Wade and Joy Robson Depositions: https://www.scribd.com/document/3361108 ... n-Excerpts

Joy Robson: “Wow. None of that is true…”

In our article about the Estate’s motion to compel we already mentioned an email exchange between Wade Robson and his mother Joy Robson on February 15, 2016. In this email Wade Robson asks his mother about a story by a security guard to which Joy Robson replies “Wow. None of that is true…” This e-mail is included among the exhibits and now we can confirm that our suspicion that it was about Charli Michaels’ claims was correct. Moreover, it is the EXACT same story, almost verbatim, that Robson uses in his latest amended complaint filed in September 2016 as we have shown in our previous post
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You can see Joy Robson’s reply at the bottom of this page. Actually, it is: “Wow. None of that is true. Micha…” - and there the text is cut off.
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The significance of it is, as we said in our article about the motion, that now this is proof about Wade Robson having no qualms about using stories in his court documents that he knows for a fact to be untrue. After all his mother told him in February 2016 that the story was not true, yet he included it in his amended complaint filed in September 2016.

It is also worth mentioning that, according to an email exchange between the Estate lawyers and Robson’s lawyers, these emails were never produced by Wade himself. The first time the email exchanges between Wade and his family members were discovered was when Joy, Shane and Chantal produced them.

We would very much like to see the rest of the e-mail Joy Robson sent to her son, just like the lawyers for Michael Jackson’s companies do, of course, but Robson’s side has still not provided it despite of his lawyer claiming otherwise in an e-mail dated November 4th, 2016. Wade provided 2 new pages however Estate state that Wade still did not provide Joy’s full response. Conveniently, Robson’s team claim that due to technical issues in Yahoo, Joy Robson is unable to find these e-mails as well.
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Note: It may be anecdotal but I have a Yahoo email account for over 10 years and I have never experienced the problems described by Finaldi above. When I go to my “Sent” folder the chains in threaded conversations are intact - whether the posts’ date before or after February 15, 2016. If you click on the header of an e-mail (the first line - in this case where Joy Robson says “Wow. None of that is true. Micha…”) it expands the full reply. If that header is there the full reply is there. At least that is my personal experience.)

Other e-mail exchanges between Wade and Joy Robson

From this document we are only able to see a couple of the e-mails between Wade Robson and his mother Joy Robson, but here are some interesting tidbits.

Remember that Michael first met the Robsons after Wade won a dance competition in Australia in 1987. Then a couple of days later they met with MJ again in his hotel room. Here is Wade’s testimony about it from 2005:


“I met him first when I was five years old. I think it was ‘87. And Michael was touring, he was doing the “Bad” tour. And I was imitating him as a dancer at that point. And he was holding these -- it was in connection with Target or something like that, holding these dance, like, contests all around wherever he traveled. So I entered one of the dance contests and ended up winning it, went on to the finals and won that, and then the prize was to meet Michael. So I met him after one of his concerts in Brisbane, Australia. And it was just like in a meet-and-greet sort of room. And we met, and I was in my whole, you know, “Bad” outfit and everything. He was sort of laughing and tripping out on my outfit and asked if I danced. I said, “Yeah.” And he asked me to perform with him in the show the next night. So after -- it was like the end of the concert, I pulled up, performed in the show with him. The next -- the next -- I think within the next couple of days, my mother and I went to visit him at his hotel room, and we stayed for a couple of hours. It was in Brisbane, Australia. Just talking about what I want to do. And then that was kind of it at first. And then for the next two years, we didn’t have any contact at all. And I continued pursuing my dance career in Australia. And then the company that I was with, the dance company, was traveling to America to do a performance at Disneyland. So we all went. Came out, did that performance. As I said, we’d had no contact with Michael or anything. Somehow my mother got in contact with Michael’s secretary at that time, who was Norma Stokes (sic).“

In an exchange from July 17, 2012 Wade is asking his mother about that meet-and-greet in MJ’s hotel room Australia and how it came about. Joy Robson answers:
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This gets a new significance in 2016 because what Robson is trying to do now in his desperate attempt to portray MJ’s companies as some kind of child sex abuse maffia is to claim that the companies set up these dance competitions to lure unsuspecting children so that MJ can molest them. From Robson’s latest amended complaint:
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But as we can see from Joy Robson’s e-mail after that initial superficial meeting it was never MJ who tried to keep in contact with the Robsons - it was always the other way around. Even back then in Australia when Wade and Joy Robson visited MJ’s hotel room it was initiated by the Robsons. How does that jive with the claim that it was “purposely orchestrated by MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures as a sexual grooming mechanism to acquire minor sexual abuse victims for Michael Jackson”?

Then for the next two years the Robsons did not even have any contact with Jackson and when they did again in 1990, it was again initiated by the Robsons as we discuss in detail in this article - addressing the outrageous suggestion by Robson’s lawyer that Michael Jackson organized this dance competition to lure children and also the lawyer’s untrue claims that “After that Michael Jackson kept in touch in communication with him by sending faxes and letters and gifts from MJJ Productions.”

Wade Robson, of course, knows this, since his mother told him in emails, as we have seen. In other words he makes allegations in his complaint that he knows to be untrue.

Most of the e-mails between Robson and his mother in this document are like this. Robson is asking his mother questions about the circumstances of their time together with MJ. As MJ’s side pointed out in their motion, Robson’s own independent memories of the events seem limited and he relies heavily on his mother.

Joy Robson Deposition: “I don’t consider that my business”

If Joy Robson ever reads Wade’s complaint she might wonder how stories she told him not to be true still ended up being used in them as Wade’s “truth”. But it is possible that she never even read all the things her son claims in his lawsuit. In her deposition that took place on September 30th, 2016, when she was asked about whether or not she has talked to her son about his lawsuit she answered: “Not really. I just… I don’t consider that my business.”
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She does concede that Wade has been asking questions of her in emails, but her stance that this lawsuit is “none of her business” is very interesting considering the fact that if Wade’s allegations were true, she should have been the one bearing responsibility as well. Joy Robson was the one who, at times pretty aggressively, pursued this relationship with Michael Jackson, she also let her son sleep in MJ’s room, not just before but also after the Chandler allegations.

However, in these emails Wade Robson is asking his mother long checklists of questions, without any trace of emotion or unresolved issues between them being attached to the questions. Moreover, none of the questions nor the answers show any anger towards Michael as well. There is no emotion.

For example, Wade asks in a pretty lighthearted tone:: "How did it happen that I ended up staying with Michael and you guys went to the grand canyon?" "You guys came back to the ranch? And then the family left the ranch together?"

There is no accusatory tone, no blame, no anger, nothing like that when Wade Robson asks Joy Robson of an event that in the light of what he alleges now should be seen as gross negligence on the part of his mother (basically leaving him alone for days with a complete stranger) that allegedly lead to his sexual abuse. Instead, any responsibility assigned to his mother is completely missing from Robson’s lawsuit (as well as from these e-mails) and all through his court papers Joy Robson is only superficially mentioned as some distant bystander.

By the way, isn’t it funny that Wade Robson signs some of these e-mails as a “filmmaker” as in his complaint he claims he is "unable to continue performing and directing in any manner or capacity whatsoever" and that is his claim to why he should be compensated for lost future incomes?

Wade Robson Deposition: Wade’s Evolving Memory

Talking about memories, there is an interesting conversation about it in Wade Robson’s deposition as he says his memories have “evolved” throughout the process.
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Our personal belief is that Wade has never had repressed or “evolving” memories of any kind. The examples above have shown that he has no qualms about using stories he knows to be false but of course, Wade has to explain some things with an “evolving” memory.

Having said that, it is important to note that the phenomenon Wade describes here is questionable to say the least. Memory experts would tell you that evolving memories are often suspect of being false memories. Here is how it works - pretty similar to what Wade describes here about others telling him details and those suddenly becoming a part of his own "memories". Link

We realize that about the alleged abuse itself he claims he never “lost” those memories, he just “compartmentalized” them and that it is not a case of repressed memories. Repressed memories have got a bit of a bad reputation in the past few years (too many false memories), so no wonder he is distancing himself from those.

Wade Robson Deposition : Other Tidbits

April 13, 2015 Wade Robson’s written thoughts - The last sentence says “It’s time for me to get mine!”. What do you meant by that Estate lawyer asks. Wade replies he doesn’t know/remember.

Wade refers to himself as “a master of deception” in one writing. Estate lawyer asks “do you believe you are a good liar”. Wade replies “I believe Michael taught me how to lie really well about the abuse I suffered at his hands”.

Wade believed his “story of abuse and its effects will make him relatable/relevant” as a teacher of Vedic meditation.

For a period of time Joy dissassociated from Michael and stopped him from communicating with her family. Estate asks what was the reason. Wade isn't sure but he believes it was something about Pepsi Commercial/ SuperBowl performance and Joy was upset about it.

Wade Shopping a Tell-All Book to Publishers

We already know from the motion to compel that Wade Robson was shopping a book in late 2012-early 2013, before he filed his lawsuit in May 2013. From these documents we get a glimpse into that process. In a privilege log Robson’s lawyers provided, we see 73 emails between Wade Robson, literary agent Alan Nevins and Robson’s lawyer Helen Yu between December 12,2012 and February 22, 2013. Safe to say these e-mails have to do with his book shopping.

In actuality, we do have an e-mail that Eddie Pletzak sent to Alan Nevins (both work at Renaissance Literary & Talent agency) on February 27, 2013 regarding Robson’s book. In that e-mail we can see Robson writing to Nevins and and enquiring about what publishers he contacted for his book. We see that Pan Macmillan and New American Library passed on the book and Harper Collins was still reading the draft at the time. In another email we also see that Wade Robson had a conference call with Harper Collins on January 2013.
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Another lie uncovered: These emails contradicts Wade Robson’s claim in his deposition that no publishing house saw anything he wrote.
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Now, here is the irony: During the now dismissed probate claim, Estate sent Robson interrogatories. One of the questions they asked was : "Aside from conduct by Michael Jackson personally, please identify all persons who engaged in any type of conduct that caused you to delay submitting, or petitioning to submit, a creditor's claim in these proceedings prior to May 1, 2013."

On August 27,2013, Robson replied:
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So because of his alleged “imprisonment of the mind” he was not able to file a lawsuit prior to May 1, 2013, but he was perfectly able to shop a book and exchange over 70 e-mails about it with a literary agent and his lawyer Helen Yu. No wonder that he somehow “forgot” to mention this book during the probate case. Just like he “forgot” to mention his meetings with Estate executor John Branca in 2011 when he made claims about not knowing about the administration of the MJ Estate prior to March 4, 2013.

By the way, as we have seen from this e-mail Wade Robson has had a lawyer way before he met Henry Gradstein and Maryann Marzano on March 4, 2013. His long time entertainment lawyer and family friend, Helen Yu. Helen Yu was pretty much privy to Wade’s allegations way before March 4, 2013 - as she was helping him in shopping his book. On November 25,2009, just five months after Michael’s death Helen Yu posted an article about MJ Estate and Executors on her professional website (Source link: http://yuleseberg.com/news/2015/9/24/mu ... than-alive )

Doesn’t it seem to you that Yu is pretty much aware not only of the existence and administration of the MJ Estate but also keeps a close eye on its dealings? Seeing how close Wade Robson is with Yu and how much they email each other, including Yu’s involvement in Robson’s book shopping, it is very, very difficult to believe Robson’s claims that he did not know about the administration of the Estate before March 4, 2013.

The only reason we bring it up here again is to show how Robson will say just about anything he needs to say to get the monetary “reward” he wants. If he needs to say he did not know about the Estate (despite of evidence to the contrary) he will say that, if he needs to say his memories “evolve” he will say that, if he needs to say he lied under oath in 2005 he will say that, if he needs to say he is unable to work in film, dance and music any more (despite of him still doing so) because they so remind him of MJ he will say that, if he needs to say MJ’s companies are “the most sophisticated child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organization the world has ever known” he will say that, if he needs to say Norma Staikos is a “madame” he will say that, if he needs to say Michael Jackson sexually abused him (despite of saying otherwise for over 25 years, including under oath at a criminal trial) he will say that, if in support of these claims he needs to use stories that he knows to be untrue he will do that. And so on and so forth. What kind of “truth” and “justice” you can get from a person like that?

Joy Robson’s book “A Mother’s Instinct”

The online tabloid Radar Online using this declaration document wrote a story saying that not only Wade Robson, but also his mother Joy Robson has been working on a tell-all book. The book is called “A Mother’s Instinct” and she was working on it in 2011. Radar Online manipulatively called its title “chilling” with obvious suggestions.

It is correct that Joy Robson was writing a memoir called “A Mother’s Instinct” in 2011. The context in which this book is mentioned in this declaration is simply the fact of its existence and nothing is indicated about its content. Therefore based on the court documents, there is no reason to believe that Joy Robson’s book includes anything against Michael Jackson (at least the version she was writing in 2011). It would be strange too, since Wade Robson’s claim is that he first realized and disclosed his alleged abuse in May 8, 2012 in therapy. The fact that Radar Online found this piece of information as the most important in this 264 page document and twisted it tells all you need to know about their reporting of this case.

In actuality, in 2011 Joy Robson contributed with stories to a positive book written by Jermaine Jackson and she also did not seem to have any problems with MJ in this interview she gave to the Infinite Dance Cast radio show at the time (at around 10:45-29:00) (Link: http://infinitedancecast.com/?p=193 )

In this interview she also mentioned the memoir she’s been working on as well as the meaning of the title:


Host: You're busy writing your memoirs.

Joy Robson: I am, I am. I actually started a couple of years ago and then we lost Michael and that was a tough year and then I lost my dad three months after that and I lost heart - but I'm back doing it again now. There's some stories in there... I called it ‘A Mother's Instinct’ because I talk about my decision to leave Australia and to come here and... we don't look 20 years ahead when we make these decisions, and it felt very right at the time, but now I'm looking back and asking questions "were the sacrifices worth all the success that We've had?"

By the way, throughout her e-mails Joy uses the nickname “Joey” and as you can hear in this above linked audio interview (from around 11 minutes) this is a nickname given to her by Michael Jackson.

Final Tidbits

Estate wanted more information about Robson Family’s history of mental illness as it is highly heritable.

Requests for production included any communications with Michael, any person acting on Michael’s behalf, Arvizo’s, Safechuck’s, Chandler’s, Francia’s.

Estate asked Robson if any other abuse claims were made by and/or against his family members. They also asked Wade if he claims to be abused by anyone else including the Johnny Young Talent School.

Our Reaction to Robson’s Damage Control

Soon after our article on DailyMichael, Robson’s team began their damage control round on tabloids like Radar Online and New York Daily News. Once again we are witnessing over the top lawyer arrogance. Wade’s lawyer, Vince Finaldi says that Wade has provided “every discoverable information he possesses.” Wait a minute - discoverable?

By this hasty response, we can probably predict their reply - any other information that wasn’t produced, is either privileged or no longer in Wade’s possession. Even if we assume this is true, it doesn’t change the fact that Wade multiple times stated under oath he produced all the discovery but when challenged by Estate he was able to find other items. Furthermore based on the arguments on the motion to compel, it is hard to believe any email exchange between Wade and his family, friends, or agents,will be considered privileged by law. Moreover, also by law, electronic versions of the documents including the metadata of these emails and book need to be provided.

Finaldi further complains/claims that the Estate is “intimidating a child abuse victim.” A single question has to be asked - how can one possibly see asking for discovery as intimidating? The only way a plaintiff, the person who filed the lawsuit, might be intimidated to show his original data, is if it can reveal his lawsuit is a sham. The child abuse victim intimidation act flew out of the window the moment it was revealed Wade started negotiating with agents and publishers regarding a tell-all book.

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Messaggio da soulmum » 21 gennaio 2017, 9:17

Robson filed his opposition to the Motion to Compel.

01/20/2017 Opposition (TO MTN TO COMPEL ) Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

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Messaggio da soulmum » 13 febbraio 2017, 9:52

http://dailymichael.com/lawsuits/robson ... y-a-thread

At the end of January 2017, Judge Beckloff ruled on Estate’s demurer to Safechuck’s second amended complaint. Judge granted Estate’s demurrer but gave Safechuck another chance to amend his complaint. Although we have been through this successful demurrer by MJ Estate followed by another amendment dance before, this time is significant because this is the first time that the judge evaluated the new claims by the new lawyers. Beckloff’s ruling sounds so promising as he questions almost everything Safechuck and his new lawyers claimed. Simply put, Judge Beckloff isn’t buying any of it.

Judge’s ruling on MJ Estate’s demurrer to Safechuck’s second amended complaint: https://www.scribd.com/document/3391740 ... -Complaint

A summary of the judge’s ruling can be found below:

Ruling shows that Judge Beckloff mainly focused on is the issue of control. According to the law, Safechuck is required to show that the MJ Companies had control over Michael and prior knowledge of wrongdoing. MJ Estate demonstrated that Michael was the 100% shareholder/ owner/ president of the MJ Companies. Safechuck admitted this was the case and Michael had control over the companies’ activities.

Judge points out that there were no claims in Safechuck’s complaint that someone controlled the 100% shareholder / owner/ president Michael. Judge states although some of the MJ Companies employees were mentioned, none of them were alleged to have control over Michael. For example Jolie Levine was mentioned as a managing agent of the MJ Companies but there was no allegations that she had the ability to control Michael. Furthermore the complaint did not allege that she had any knowledge of any “abuse”. In his ruling Judge repeatedly brings up the control issue and states as a matter of law the MJ companies did not have the ability to hire, fire or supervise their sole shareholder / owner and president Michael.

Judge Beckloff isn’t also convinced that Safechuck was placed to the custody of the MJ Companies. Judge states according to Safechuck’s allegations Michael was inviting him to places and that would place Safechuck into Michael’s care. Judge points out that there were several times while Safechuck's parents were present and this means he would be in his parent’s custody. Furthermore Judge states MJ Companies arranging and paying for the trips doesn’t mean that they owed Safechuck a duty or that Safechuck was in their custody.

Safechuck’s attempts to portray MJ Companies like a school creates nothing but confusion. Judge comments while some claims seems to be geared towards a school or youth program, some aren’t. Beckloff questions if Safechuck is alleging that MJ Companies were offering some sort of a youth program.

As for Safechuck’s allegations that MJ Companies were mandated reporters, Judge Beckloff flat out states that nothing supports that claim. Plain and simple, nothing to back that up.

Another significant difference this time around, Beckloff gave Safechuck only 15 days to amend his complaint. Sure, Safechuck can still amend his complaint and allege the things he did not allege before and perhaps survive demurrer. But it is promising to see that Beckloff isn’t really buying it. Let’s hope third time is the charm and this case gets dismissed at the next demurrer round.

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Apparently Robson filed the documents and asks for them to be sealed.

03/20/2017 Notice of Lodging
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

03/20/2017 Declaration (OF VINCE W. FINALDI )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff


03/20/2017 Notice of Lodging (OF DOCUMENTS AND EXHIBITS )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff


03/20/2017 Notice of Motion (FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER )
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http://dailymichael.com/lawsuits/robson ... d-jane-doe

Another round of demurrers for Safechuck and Jane Doe. Will this be the end of this saga?
13 April 2017
The last time we reported on Safechuck case, judge had granted Estate’s second demurrer but have given Safechuck 15 days to amend his complaint. (Link) Not surprisingly Safechuck amended his complaint. At that time Jane Doe’s case was recently filed and had to go through a review by the judge. After that happened Jane Doe named MJ Companies as defendants and amended her complaint to copy the latest Safechuck complaint. So this prompted another set of demurrers for both of these cases. Estate have filed the demurrers on April 3rd and a hearing is set for May 31st.

Although this will be first demurrer for Jane Doe, it would be the 3rd civil case demurrer for Safechuck (and 5th demurrer overall for Safechuck if you add the probate claim). We have been reporting on those demurrers for quite a while so we won’t do another summary post as the main arguments stay the same. Rather we will simply point out the new and interesting developments. You can find the demurrer motion documents below:

MJ Estate First Demurrer to Jane Doe - https://www.scribd.com/document/3450868 ... o-Jane-Doe

MJ Estate Third Demurrer to Safechuck - https://www.scribd.com/document/3450869 ... -Safechuck

MJ Estate reserve the right to challenge Jane Doe using a pseudonym

MJ Estate questions if Jane Doe was right to use a pseudonym when she filed her lawsuit. Both Robson and Safechuck were able to file lawsuits under their own names. Given how public and accessible Robson is on social media, it is safe to assume he isn’t receiving any serious backlash from MJ fans. If the most visible and well-known Robson doesn’t need to go into hiding, it is curious why Jane Doe needed to file her lawsuit anonymously. MJ Estate is reserving their right to challenge this.

A little note: Due to a slip up by Robson/Safechuck and Doe lawyers, we here at Daily Michael have some idea about Jane Doe’s identity. However we weren’t able to independently confirm or deny our suspicions. Therefore we won’t be disclosing any unconfirmed suspicions we have.

Jane Doe refuses to dismiss MJJ Ventures from her complaint.

Jane Doe claimed that her abuse started in 1986 and continued until 1989. In her copy/paste complaint she included both MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures as defendants. However the MJJ Ventures didn’t exist until 1991. So it makes no sense to make claims against a company that didn’t even exist at the time of the alleged abuse.

Safechuck and Doe now alleges that MJ Companies were created in part to “provide for welfare and the safety of the minor children”.

If you are keeping track over the last few months, these lawyers keep changing their claims about the MJ Companies. First the companies were loan out corporations established to act as Michael’s primary business entity. Then they had “youth programs” that Michael served as a mentor to train minors in entertainment industry. Later they claimed the companies were “most sophisticated child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organization”. Now the latest claim is that they were created in part to “provide for welfare and the safety of the minor children”. Their desperation and willingness to make blatantly untrue claims have no bounds. What’s next? Will they claim the MJ Companies were child day care centers and Michael worked there as a nanny? Totally absurd.

Safechuck and Doe alleges that the unnamed board of directors and officers of MJ Companies had authority on Michael.

Another blatantly untrue claim. In their opposition to Robson amending his complaint, MJ Estate provided information about the history of MJ Companies. MJJ Productions were incorporated in 1979 and MJJ Ventures were incorporated in 1991. Michael was appointed as the sole director of the companies at their incorporation. Michael had 100% of stock in both companies at all times. In June 1994, as the sole shareholder Michael expanded the size of Board of Directors for both companies from one to four. He appointed John Branca, Sandy Gallin and Marshall Gelfand to the Board of Directors and they remained on Board of Directors until 1997.However the board of directors had no power over Michael. Michael as the 100% shareholder could have fired the board of directors at any time.

Even if we assume the board of directors had authority and control over Michael and could fire him, this doesn’t help Jane Doe or Safechuck. Jane Doe claims to be abused between 1986 and 1989. Safechuck claims to be abused between 1988 and 1992. At those time periods Michael was the sole director of the companies. He didn’t appoint Branca, Gallin and Gelfand as board of directors until June 1994. So it’s no surprise that Doe and Safechuck couldn’t name the non-existent board of directors.

Safechuck and Doe alleges that Norma Staikos and Jolie Levine’s primary responsibilities were “safety, welfare and well-being of all minor children” entrusted to MJ Companies.

One minute Staikos was like madame running the “most sophisticated child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organization”, the next her duty was to protect children from Michael. It makes no sense. Also another fun fact; Jane Doe doesn’t even claim to meet or speak to Staikos or Levine.



Tidbits
•- In a copy/paste fail, Jane Doe’s amended complaint claim MJ Companies placed Michael “in charge of young boys”. MJ Estate shades this mistake by saying “but not young girls like Ms. Doe apparently”.
•- MJ Estate also points out another copy/paste claims of Michael mentoring and training minors for the music and entertainment industry. There are no claims that Jane Doe was ever involved or mentored /trained in the entertainment industry.
•- MJ Estate mocks the “most sophisticated child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organization” claims by providing a link to a UNICEF website and inviting the judge to read it to “learn about the nonfictional child sex trafficking rings”. All through out the documents they make subtle jabs to the fictional claims of Safechuck and Doe.
•- In Robson’s case, the online case summary system show an opposition to “non-party deponents motion for protective order”. Jordan Chandler’s sister and girlfriend had filed a motion for protective order not to be deposed. It looks like Robson/Safechuck/Doe are still trying to depose the Chandlers. A hearing on this matter is set for July.

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Messaggio da soulmum » 22 maggio 2017, 16:24

Jane Doe case got dismissed at Plaintiff's request.

05/16/2017 Request for Dismissal (WITHOUT PREJUDICE AS TO ENTIRE ACTION OF ALL PARTIES AND ALL CAUSES OF ACTION )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

Case Number: BC638405
JANE AA DOE VS DOE 1, ET AL.,
Filing Date: 10/26/2016
Case Type: Other PI/PD/WD (General Jurisdiction)
Status: Dismissed - Other 05/16/2017

Here is an article Ivy wrote about it: http://dailymichael.com/lawsuits/rob...-got-dismissed

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http://dailymichael.com/lawsuits/robson ... -dismissed
ivy Robson v. Estate 31 May 2017
Today – May 31st 2017– is the latest demurrer hearing for Safechuck. (3rd in civil case and 5th overall if you consider the probate claim). With Jane Doe unexpectedly dismissing her case, all eyes are now on Safechuck. (Previous post about demurrer can be found here)

Unlike Jane Doe, Safechuck is still fighting to survive demurrer. However each new argument by Safechuck and his lawyers get more desperate than the last. In this post I will focus on Estate’s reply in support of their demurrer and their brilliant job in highlighting the stupidity of Safechuck’s claims. If you take the time to read the document, you will realize that this case has reached a dead end and now Safechuck and his lawyers are desperate trying to twist the law by making absurd arguments to survive another day.

Link to the document: https://www.scribd.com/document/3499758 ... rrer-Reply

The death knell of the case – Safechuck admits MJ Companies had no control over Michael’s access to children.

This is a previously known information and MJ Estate had demonstrated that Michael was the sole shareholder/owner of the MJ companies at all times. However Safechuck argues that it wasn’t needed for MJ Companies to have control over Michael. Estate presents a lengthy legal argument to disagree with this.

As Safechuck knows no company can control their sole shareholder/owner, he resorts to desperate arguments. He argues that it doesn’t matter if no one can hire or fire the president, they have the duty to supervise the president. The absurdity is that this argument requires Michael to supervise himself. In other words, according Safechuck Michael or anyone who “reasonably suspects they have criminal tendencies”, should not allow himself to work at his company, fire themselves and warn others about their criminal propensities. Try to imagine this actually happening in a real life to fully realize the absurdity.

Throwing shade at the newly made nonsense of “objective” and “subjective”

In his documents Safechuck claims despite “subjective” organization of MJ Companies, there is an “objective” duty to supervise the company president. Estate has quite the shade with their reply – we don’t know what subjective and objective means in this context but the companies were objectively organized per law and Michael was objectively president.
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Desperation shows and obvious lies

In his latest document, Safechuck claims he was an employee of the MJ Companies “at all relevant times”. His previous more detailed and specific claims claimed his employment was at 1994-1995 – after any alleged abuse ended.

Criminal background check on Michael in 1992

Safechuck argues that he was under the custody & control of MJ Companies. Estate had previously disagreed with this argument as almost at all times Safechuck’s parents were present. Anyway, this time around Safechuck extensively relies on a newly decided case. The interesting thing in that case was the court found that a sports organization for children should have run criminal background checks on the coaches.

For a moment even if we assume this also applied to MJ Companies back in the day, it still would mean nothing. Safechuck claims to be abused between 1988 and 1992. So if Michael Jackson the sole shareholder and owner of the MJ Companies decided to run a criminal background check on himself before he hired himself at his own company (yes that’s their illogic) or even at 1992 , the background check would reveal nothing.

Negligent hiring, supervision and retention claims should all fail.

Regardless of the why companies were established or whether they can control Michael or not, all the negligent hiring, supervision and retention claims should fail. The simple reason is Michael and Safechuck’s contact did not arise from any employment relationship between Michael and Companies or Safechuck and Companies. Safechuck’s employment claims is dated 1994/1995- after any abuse. However as everyone knows Safechuck’s friendship with Michael developed outside any involvement of the MJ Companies. So he cannot really claim his alleged abuse would be any different if the MJ Companies did not exist.

Beckloff is known to take a few weeks before he rules so most likely we will have to wait to hear his decision. Let’s hope this will be the end of Safechuck case as well.

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It looks like the Estate has filed its Motion for Summary Judgement.

06/26/2017 Miscellaneous-Other (COMPENDIUM OF EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF MOTION AND MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, SUMMARY ADJUDICATION OF ISSUES; DECLARATIONS OF JOHN BRANCA AND JONATHAN STEINSAPIR AND EXHIBITS 1)
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06/26/2017 Proof of Service
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06/26/2017 Notice of Filing (DOCUMENTS CONDITIONALLY UNDER SEAL IN CONNECTION WITH DEFENDANTS' MOTION AND MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE SUMMARY ADJUDICATION OF ISSUES )
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06/26/2017 Separate Statement of Und. Facts (REDACTED - IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANT MJJ PRODUCTIONS' AND MJJ VENTURES' NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, SUMMARY ADJUDICATION OF ISSUES)
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06/26/2017 Request for Judicial Notice (IN SUPPORT OF MOTION AND MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, SUMMARY ADJUDICATION OF ISSUES )
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06/26/2017 Notice of Motion (AND MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, SUMMARY ADJUDICATION OF ISSUES; AND MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT THEREOF (REDACTED VERSION))
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James Safechuck case dismissed on June 28, 2017: http://dailymichael.com/lawsuits/robson ... -is-doomed


Only the Wade Robson case remains where Summary Judgement phase began in June 2017 with the Estate filing a Motion for Summary Judgement. Hearing about it is scheduled for September 14, 2017. :)




Safechuck case dismissed for good, Robson case is doomed

 ivy Robson v. Estate 08 July 2017
Finally some excellent news to report. According to the case summary, on June 26th MJ Estate filed their summary judgment motion to dismiss Wade Robson’s case. When we went to the court to get the Robson documents, we also asked about any filings at Safechuck case and we found out that Judge Beckloff ruled on June 28th on the Estate’s demurrer and dismissed Safechuck’s case for good. Time to celebrate.



I want to briefly comment on the Judge’s ruling as well as what this means for Robson case. Judge's full ruling can be found here: https://www.scribd.com/document/3532197 ... -Dismissal



Keep in mind that for the purposes of demurrer, the judge is required by law to accept all the claims by Safechuck as true and only determines if there is a legal basis for the lawsuit. Also I want to emphasize that judge summarizing Safechuck allegations in his ruling doesn’t mean he believes them. In fact, the Judge even notes the requirement on page 9 of the ruling: "Accepting plaintiff's allegations as true (as the court must on demurrer except to the extent such factual allegations are contradicted by prior pleadings or judicially noticeable facts)...". Estate is also limited as they cannot present any new evidence at the demurrer phase. They can only argue against Safechuck’s claims using the law and the precedent cases.



Now according to the law, sexual abuse cases against nonperpetrator entities – MJ Companies in this instance- can be brought prior to plaintiff’s 26th birthday. Safechuck was 36 years old when he filed this complaint. There is one exception to the 26th birthday rule. This exception requires that (a) entity knew or had reason to know of any unlawful sexual conduct of employee and (b) failed to take reasonable steps to prevent or avoid such unlawful conduct.



In the latest amended complaint by the new lawyers, Safechuck also made several negligence claims – negligent hiring, retention, supervision, failure to warn etc. According to the law for any negligence claim Safechuck needs to demonstrate the MJ Companies had a legal duty towards Safechuck. This requires to demonstrate (a) special relationship between the MJ Companies and Safechuck and (b) “ability to control the person that needs to be controlled”. A Supreme Court ruling said “the entity defendant must have some ability to control the sexual abuse perpetrator”. This means Safechuck needed to demonstrate that MJ Companies had control over Michael.



Beckloff expressed his concerns about Safechuck’s employment claims. Safechuck alleged he was employed back in 1988 and was compensated with travel, lodging, clothing etc. Beckloff was sceptical about that employment claims. Beckloff noted the internship Safechuck did in 1994/95 – after alleged abuse ended- was more traditional and formal employment. But despite his scepticism, for the demurrer purposes Beckloff accepted Safechuck’s claims that he was employed back in 1988 and considered it enough to demonstrate a special relationship between MJ Companies and Safechuck. This is once again because on demurrer he is required to accept anything plaintiff claims as true and therefore, as he notes on page 11, he treated those claims of employment by Safechuck liberally for demurrer purposes: “Considered liberally and read together, the court assumes for purposes of this demurrer that these allegations are sufficient to demonstrate a special relationship between the then minor plaintiff and the entity defendants.” It does not mean he personally believes Safechuck, or that he believes he was indeed employed by the MJ Companies since 1988, or makes any judgement about the truthfulness of his claims at all. He simply has a requirement to treat Plaintiff’s claims as true on a demurrer.



In his complaint Safechuck’s had claimed that Norma Staikos told an employee “not to leave children alone in a room with Michael Jackson”. As the judge was required to accept these claims as true in demurrer, he classified this as Safechuck being a foreseeable victim.



After that it went downhill for Safechuck. The control issue ended it for him. Judge stated that there must be an ability or right to control. As we explained before, Michael Jackson was the sole shareholder and only owner of MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures. This meant Michael had absolute control over the MJ Companies and everyone employed by them. This alone meant Safechuck cannot succeed in satisfying the legal requirements so the judge dismissed his complaint with no chance to amend.



Sure, Safechuck can appeal this decision but the odds of being successful is slim. This ruling also signals that Robson won’t be able to succeed in the control aspect as well.



A few tidbits:



During the hearing for demurrer, Judge Beckloff asked Safechuck’s lawyers about the control issue. They argued that an employee of MJ Companies should have refused to make travel arrangements for Safechuck. In his ruling Judge says this doesn’t establish control requirement.



Legal side aside think about this for a second. Safechuck’s “genius” lawyer basically argues that Michael asks Norma to make travel arrangements for Safechuck and Norma could have said no and refuse to do the reservations. That would “control” Michael and stop any alleged abuse in their minds. Realistically though Norma would have gotten fired and someone else, even an outside travel agent could have done reservations.



Finally this gem:


Immagine
During demurrer hearing Robson and Safechuck lawyer argued that Safechuck and Robson cases are basically the same thing and they cannot be separated. Judge commented that Estate lawyers also agree with that. Estate lawyer stated that they agree and they believe they will succeed in Safechuck demurrer and Robson summary judgment. “We’ll see about that” Robson / Safechuck lawyer said.



Yeah we saw about that. Estate DID succeed in their Safechuck demurrer. This also might be the one and only time that we at Daily Michael agree with Robson/Safechuck lawyers. It’s the same claims about the same entities, so you cannot separate these cases. That’s why according to us Safechuck’s loss in control issue means Robson will lose in the control issue as well. Suddenly Robson’s recent “healing” and going back to dancing in the entertainment business makes sense. He should know that he ain’t getting a dime from The Bank of Michael Jackson.



Next week we will have several posts about Estate’s summary judgment motion in Robson case as well as the Joy Robson deposition. As a teaser, I will say that in their summary judgment Estate heavily relied on Joy Robson deposition. Mommy dearest wasn’t much of a help, especially when she called her son Wade an Oscar worthy liar.

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From the NYPost.

The lawyers bringing a $100 million sex-abuse lawsuit against Michael Jackson’s former companies are on a worldwide manhunt, searching for the late pop star’s first molestation accuser in hopes of convincing him to testify.

After scouring the U.S., investigators have turned to the UK and other European locales trying to track down Jordan Chandler, who in 1993 received a $20 million payoff after his father brought a suit alleging that Chandler, then 13, had been molested by Jackson at the singer’s Neverland Ranch.

Lawyers for Wade Robson and Jimmy Safechuck, who, as children, were companions of Jackson, and now claim they were sexually abused by the singer, say that they believe Chandler has left the U.S. to avoid them, according to a source close to the case.

Robson and Safechuck believe that if they can find Chandler — who’s never spoken about his experience with Jackson — they can convince him to end his silence, says the source.

Wade and Jimmy want to look Jordie in the eye and talk to him about what they suffered,” said the source. “They feel that they may appeal to him to finally tell his story.”

Speaking from his office in Irvine, California, lead attorney Vince Finaldi confirmed that his investigators are on the hunt for Chandler.

“He’s a key piece of the puzzle surrounding this case, and we’re not going to stop until we find him,” said Finaldi, whose team has tracked down dozens of former members of Jackson’s staff and entourage, including maids, security guards and Neverland office staffers.

Insiders say they have trekked to Greece to find *****’s ex-chief of staff Norma Staikos, who oversaw provisions and contracts for many of Jackson’s child companions and their families.

Wonder if this was before Safechuck's case was thrown out? Sheer desperation now. :???:

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http://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-n...ustice-prevail

Michael Jackson £77m case: Lawyer warns 'justice will prevail' as he talks 'brutal' abuse

WADE ROBSON’S lawyer has spoken out about the £77 million Michael Jackson sex-abuse case, with him insisting that he “will not stop fighting until justice is received”.

Lead Attorney Vince Finaldi claims that Robson was “brutally abused” as a child by Jackson for many years and he is now on the lookout for the musician’s “missing” first accuser Jordan Chandler, who received a £16 million ($20 million) payoff back in 1993 after he accused the singer of molesting him; something which Jackson had always denied.

Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Finaldi said of the case, which is set to go to trial early 2018: “Wade Robson was brutally abused sexually, as a child, by Michael Jackson for many years, and we will not stop until we find justice for him.
"Undoubtedly, the Jackson camp will file a motion attempting to dismiss the case on procedural grounds other than the merits."


He continued: "If the motion is granted, we will immediately appeal, as we are doing in the [Jimmy] Safechuck case, because both of these cases are just, procedurally proper, and should easily survive procedural challenges under California law.
“If we need an appellate court to affirm that, or the California Supreme Court for that matter, then we will, as we have done before in other cases. One way or another, justice will prevail and we will not stop until such is achieved.”
Finaldi then warned: “As the adage goes, you can run but you can't hide. Your day of reckoning will eventually come.”

Running scared to the tabloid press now. Disgraceful. :???:

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As expected, Safechuck filed an appeal. They also hired an appeal specialist (which is common in appeals).





Holly Noelle Boyer Esner Chang & Boyer 234 East Colorado Blvd., Suite 975 Pasadena, CA 91101

Alexander Edward Cunny Manly Stewart & Finaldi 19100 Von Karman Ave. - Ste. 800 Irvine, CA 92612
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James Safechuck filed an appeal.

Joining his lawyer team is an appeals specialist Holly Noelle Boyer of the Esner Chang & Boyer law firm plus Alexander Edward Cunny of his old law firm Manly Stewart & Finaldi.

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Thanks to respect77 from mjjcommunity for the following information.


09/15/2017 Opposition (TO NON-PARTY JONATHAN SPENCE'S MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff


09/15/2017 Declaration (OF VINCE W. FINALDI )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

This confirms that it is Robson's side against whom Spence filed a protective order.

There is also this. I don't know if it is connected to the above or something else:

09/19/2017 at 08:30 am in Department M at 1725 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401
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08/31/2017 Notice of Motion (AND MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER AND REQUEST FOR MONETARY SANCTIONS IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,135.00; MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES AND DECLARATION OF SEAN M. HARDY IN SUPPORT THEREOF)
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09/15/2017 Opposition (TO NON-PARTY JONATHAN SPENCE'S MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER )
Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

09/15/2017 Notice of Motion (FOR ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE: CONTEMPT BY JONATHAN SPENCE FOR REFUSAL TO APPEAR FOR DEPOSITION, AND REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST SPENCE AND HIS COUNSEL FREEDMAN, TAITELMAN LLP AND SEAN M. HARDY,)
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Thanks to Ivy from mjjcommunity for this.

Hearing date for Summary judgment has been moved to December. I'm assuming it's by Wade's lawyers- as Estate have already filed their motion long ago and Wade needs to respond to it.

12/05/2017 at 08:30 am in Department M at 1725 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401
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Now they are also harrassing Jonathan's mother who is like 80 years old.

10/18/2017 Notice of Motion (FOR ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE: CONTEMPT BY MARION FOX FOR REFUSAL TO APPEAR FOR DEPOSITION, AND REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST FOX AND HER COUNSEL FREEDMAN + TAITELMAN LLP AND SEAN M. HARDY) Filed by Attorney for Plaintiff

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LAWSUIT DISMISSED 8-)

https://apnews.com/1ce56c5dc248457ba6c1 ... WestRegion
APNewsBreak: Michael Jackson sex abuse lawsuit dismissed
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Tuesday dismissed the lawsuit brought by a choreographer who alleged Michael Jackson molested him as a child, resolving one of the last major claims against the late singer’s holdings.

Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff’s summary judgment ruling against the now-35-year-old Wade Robson found that the two Jackson-owned corporations, which were the remaining defendants in the case, were not liable for Robson’s exposure to Jackson. He did not rule on the credibility of Robson’s allegations themselves.

Robson’s attorney, Vince Finaldi, said he strongly disagrees and plans to appeal.
Robson, a native of Australia who has worked with Britney Spears and NSYNC, met Jackson when he was 5 years old.

He testified in Jackson’s defense at the singer’s 2005 criminal trial, saying he had spent the night at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch more than 20 times and usually slept in Jackson’s room, but Jackson never molested him. Jackson was acquitted in that trial.

Then in 2013 about four years after the singer’s death, Robson sued the Jackson estate for what his attorneys described as molestation that spanned a seven-year period.

A court ruled in 2015 that Robson had filed his lawsuit too late to get any of Jackson’s estate. That left two remaining defendants, both corporate entities owned by Jackson in his lifetime: MJJ Productions, Inc., and MJJ Ventures, Inc.

The judge ruled Tuesday that those two corporate defendants could not be held responsible for Robson’s exposure to Jackson, the way a school or the Boy Scouts can be found liable for bringing together an abusive adult and a child victim.

Finaldi said the reasoning sets a dangerous precedent.

“What the judge is saying is that you if own a corporation or a company, you can hire people, use these people to facilitate your sexual abuse, use them to facilitate victims,” Finaldi told The Associated Press by phone. “So long as you’re the sole owner of that corporation, the corporation can’t be held liable.”

Jackson estate attorney Howard Weitzman said in a statement that he “believes the court made the correct decision in dismissing Wade Robson’s claim against it. “In my opinion Mr. Robson’s allegations, made 20 plus years after they supposedly occurred and years after Mr. Robson testified twice under oath — including in front of a jury — that Michael Jackson had never done anything wrong to him was always about the money rather than a search for the truth.”
Finaldi replied that the Jackson camp’s interest in the truth was “hollow.”

“If someone’s trying to search for the truth, why not let the lawsuit proceed?” Finaldi said. “Why not exonerate him and let a jury decide.”

During the criminal trial, Robson bristled at testimony by other witnesses that they had seen Jackson molest him.

“I’m telling you nothing happened,” Robson testified at the time when a prosecutor challenged him.

Another Robson attorney said when his lawsuit was filed that stress and sexual trauma led Robson to finally accept that he had been molested by Jackson.

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APNewsBreak: Michael Jackson sex abuse lawsuit dismissed
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A judge has dismissed the lawsuit brought by a choreographer who alleged Michael Jackson molested him as a child.

The summary judgment ruling Tuesday against Wade Robson resolves one of the last remaining major claims against the late singer's holdings.


Robson, who is now 35, testified at Jackson's criminal trial in 2005 that he had spent many nights in Jackson's room, but Jackson had never molested him.

Robson later sued Jackson four years after the singer's death, saying a breakdown had led him to accept that he had been molested over a seven-year period.

The judge Tuesday found that Jackson's two corporations that were the remaining defendants in the case were not liable for Robson's exposure to Jackson.

Robson's attorney Vince Finaldi says he strongly disagrees and plans to appeal.

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LOS ANGELES — A judge on Tuesday dismissed the lawsuit brought by a choreographer who alleged Michael Jackson molested him as a child, resolving one of the last major claims against the late singer’s holdings.

Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff’s summary judgment ruling against the now-35-year-old Wade Robson found that the two Jackson-owned corporations, which were the remaining defendants in the case, were not liable for Robson’s exposure to Jackson. He did not rule on the credibility of Robson’s allegations themselves.

Robson’s attorney, Vince Finaldi, said he strongly disagrees and plans to appeal.

Robson, a native of Australia who has worked with Britney Spears and NSYNC, met Jackson when he was 5 years old.

He testified in Jackson’s defence at the singer’s 2005 criminal trial, saying he had spent the night at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch more than 20 times and usually slept in Jackson’s room, but Jackson never molested him. Jackson was acquitted in that trial.


Then in 2013 about four years after the singer’s death, Robson sued the Jackson estate for what his attorneys described as molestation that spanned a seven-year period.

A court ruled in 2015 that Robson had filed his lawsuit too late to get any of Jackson’s estate. That left two remaining defendants, both corporate entities owned by Jackson in his lifetime: MJJ Productions, Inc., and MJJ Ventures, Inc.

The judge ruled Tuesday that those two corporate defendants could not be held responsible for Robson’s exposure to Jackson, the way a school or the Boy Scouts can be found liable for bringing together an abusive adult and a child victim.

Finaldi said the reasoning sets a dangerous precedent.

“What the judge is saying is that you if own a corporation or a company, you can hire people, use these people to facilitate your sexual abuse, use them to facilitate victims,” Finaldi told The Associated Press by phone. “So long as you’re the sole owner of that corporation, the corporation can’t be held liable.”

Jackson estate attorney Howard Weitzman said in a statement that he “believes the court made the correct decision in dismissing Wade Robson’s claim against it. ”In my opinion Mr. Robson’s allegations, made 20 plus years after they supposedly occurred and years after Mr. Robson testified twice under oath — including in front of a jury — that Michael Jackson had never done anything wrong to him was always about the money rather than a search for the truth.“

Finaldi replied that the Jackson camp’s interest in the truth was “hollow.”

“If someone’s trying to search for the truth, why not let the lawsuit proceed?” Finaldi said. “Why not exonerate him and let a jury decide.”

During the criminal trial, Robson bristled at testimony by other witnesses that they had seen Jackson molest him.

“I’m telling you nothing happened,” Robson testified at the time when a prosecutor challenged him.

Another Robson attorney said when his lawsuit was filed that stress and sexual trauma led Robson to finally accept that he had been molested by Jackson.

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https://www.bet.com/music/2017/12/20...dismissed.html

Michael Jackson Is Finally Free Of All Sex Abuse Cases

Michael Jackson can now rest easy without the burden of his sex abuse cases lingering over him. A judge reportedly dismissed Jackson’s final sex abuse lawsuit filed by choreographer Wade Robson on Tuesday (Dec. 19), according to USA Today. The dismissal comes nearly eight years after the King of Pop passed away in 2009.

Robson reportedly filed the suit in 2013, alleging the singer molested him as a child. Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff reportedly ruled against the now-35-year-old due to the two corporate defendants in the case. Beckloff stated that the remaining defendants were not liable for Robson’s exposure to Jackson, USA Today reports. He did not rule on the credibility of Robson’s allegations however.

Robson's attorney, Vince Finaldi, strongly disagrees with the judge’s ruling and says it sets a dangerous precedent. "What the judge is saying is that you if own a corporation or a company, you can hire people, use these people to facilitate your sexual abuse, use them to facilitate victims," Finaldi said. "So long as you're the sole owner of that corporation, the corporation can't be held liable."

Jackson’s estate attorney Howard Weitzman said in a statement, that he believes the court made the right decision. "In my opinion Mr. Robson's allegations, made 20 plus years after they supposedly occurred and years after Mr. Robson testified twice under oath — including in front of a jury — that Michael Jackson had never done anything wrong to him was always about the money rather than a search for the truth,” Weitzman said.

Michael Jackson was plagued with accusations of sexual abuse for most of his career. The first allegations were made in the summer of 1993. Robson’s dismissed case is the final sex abuse suit brought against the entertainer.








http://dailymichael.com/lawsuits/robson ... -explained

In his civil case Robson has sued two of MJ’s companies – MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures. According to the law, a person can bring a childhood sexual abuse case against non perpetrator entities until their 26th birthday. However there is an exception. This exception allows lawsuit against third party entities (MJ Companies), if they knew or had a reason to know about the unlawful sexual conduct of their employee/ representative/ agent (MJ) and failed to take reasonable steps to prevent it. A Supreme Court ruling also says that “the entity defendant must have some ability to control the sexual abuse perpetrator”.



Robson has been claiming this exception while Estate was arguing against it. After several rounds of revised complaints and demurrers, it was finally time for summary judgment.



On December 19th 2017, Judge Beckloff ruled in favor of MJ Estate and dismissed Robson’s lawsuit. Below you will find the ruling document and a discussion about what this means. Keep in mind that during both demurrer and summary judgment, the judge is required to treat Robson’s claims as true and only determine if there is a legal basis for the lawsuit. So the judge summarizing the allegations doesn’t mean they are actually true or the judge believes them.



Summary judgment ruling : https://www.scribd.com/document/3676391 ... ent-Ruling



MJ Companies had no ability to control Michael Jackson

Michael had been the 100% sole shareholder of the MJ Companies during his lifetime. Based on the Corporations Code, no one other than Michael Jackson had the legal ability or authority to control Michael Jackson. Furthermore Neverland Ranch and all of the other residences were owned by Michael personally. This means that the MJ Companies couldn’t control who visited Michael at his homes.



Robson’s “evidence” that the MJ Companies could control Michael is a joke



Robson argued the MJ Company board of directors (Branca, Gallin and Gelfand) could have fired Michael. Even if they did, Michael as the sole shareholder could have fired all the board of directors and reinstate himself. In his ruling, judge points this reality out.



Using a single security guard’s deposition Robson claimed Staikos’ orders trumped Michael’s at Neverland. Judge states he wasn’t impressed with this so called evidence. He writes while the high-level employees (such as Norma Staikos) might have authority and control over low-level employees (such as Neverland staff), there is no evidence that these high-level employees had any control over Michael.



In a very common sense manner judge writes, “as a practical matter, everyone involved worked for Michael Jackson and he held the ultimate control.”. Arguing people like Norma Staikos, Jolie Levine or John Branca who were hired and were paid by Michael and could have been fired by Michael at any time, could somehow have controlled Michael in his personal life is just plain absurd.



The alter-ego argument actually hurt Robson’s case



Robson argued that the MJ Companies were Michael’s alter egos. Judge states if MJ Companies and Michael were one and the same, then only Michael could had complete control over the MJ Companies. This actually supports MJ Estate’s position.



It was Joy Robson who established contact with Michael



Robson won a dance contest sponsored by Pepsi, Target and CBS records - not MJ Companies. It was Joy Robson who reestablished contact with Michael through Staikos at MJJ Productions. It was Joy Robson who asked Michael to sponsor their immigration to US - which Michael did so through MJJ Ventures. So Wade Robson wasn’t exposed to Michael Jackson through the MJ Companies. He was exposed to Michael because of his mother.



Robson’s lawyers are being absurd



Last night Robson’s lawyer Finaldi commented to an AP article stating “Finaldi said he reasoning sets a dangerous precedent. “What the judge is saying is that if you own a corporation or a company, you can hire people, use these people to facilitate your sexual abuse, use them to facilitate victims. So as long as you’re the sole owner of that corporation, the corporation can’t be held liable.”



It’s amazing that this statement came from a lawyer because it’s plain absurd. Let’s be clear that the only reason they sued MJ Companies is because they had no other choice and Wade Robson is no “poor victim” that didn’t have his chance in court.



First of all Robson had this chance in 1993 and in 2005. In 2005 as an adult he denied any and all abuse. He could have sued Michael when he was alive. However when Michael was alive and even shortly after Michael’s death, Wade was trying to make money using his connection to Michael. Wade could have sued the MJ Companies before he turned 26. The only reason this exception rule even applies is because Wade waited until he was 30. Perhaps more importantly, per Beckloff’s probate ruling Wade could have filed a creditor claim against Michael Jackson’s Estate until July to November, 2012. (Link) However Robson spent this time trying to shop a book instead.



So to recap. Wade didn’t need to sue MJ Companies. He could have sued Michael when alive and he could have sued MJ Estate if he filed his claim timely. The only reason MJ Companies were sued was because Michael was deceased and it was too late to sue MJ Estate. So they tried to circumvent the law and it failed miserably. Deal with it.



Let’s be clear - Wade Robson is a liar



Given how Wade has both claimed he was abused and he wasn’t abused and how it both cannot be correct, Robson is a liar. He either lied in 2005 or he is lying now. Estate repeatedly said they believe Robson is lying now for money. This also shows that Wade has no problems with lying under oath.



This lawsuit has shown us multiple examples of Wade’s blatant lies. For example in an attempt to save his probate claim, Robson claimed he didn’t know MJ Estate existed. It turned out Robson himself reached out to Branca and went to meeting in Branca’s office wanting to work on Cirque projects. Not only Wade knew about the Estate but he knew about the executors - but he lied to save his probate claim.



In his civil complaint Robson included a story by Charlie Michaels even though his mother told him it's not true. And finally Wade extensively lied during the discovery process, hiding his emails and the book he was shopping around. (Link) There's no ifs or buts about it, Robson blatantly lied during this lawsuit.



“Why not exonerate him and let a jury decide”



Another priceless gem by Robson’s lawyer Finaldi. First of all, Michael isn't here to defend himself. News flash, it already happened, in 2005. Where Robson took the stand and denied any abuse under oath. During his recent deposition, Robson repeatedly stated that he lied during his testimony in 2005. So again, Robson had his chance to let a jury decide.



What’s next?



An appeal is very likely. Given how unrealistic Robson and his lawyers have acted throughout this process and they appealed Safechuck ruling, they will probably file an appeal in this case as well. The appeal would last 1-2 years, technically keeping this case alive. However odds of any appeal being successful is very low. They can’t win against Corporations Code, they will never be able to show that MJ Companies or anyone worked for Michael could have controlled Michael's personal life.



Robson has already started the next chapter of his life. He magically healed and went back to dancing - something he claimed he could never ever do and reminded him of his so called “abuse”. Robson is also getting ready to play the professional victim, motivational speaker, vedic meditation guru and so on. He might try to get his book published again. So in my personal opinion, neither Robson nor his abuse allegations are going anywhere soon.



During their opposition Robson lawyers filed a bunch of exhibits - some sealed, some publicly available. We are aiming to look back to those exhibits over time, especially some depositions. It’s always fun to see Wade constantly changing positions and how Wade and Joy can’t get their stories straight.



P.S.



As Robson’s lawyers continue to misrepresent the case and the ruling in the media, let us address another comment that one of them, Vince Finaldi made to E! News.



Finaldi’s comment: "We strongly disagree with the court's ruling, as we firmly believe it is contrary to established California law and sets a dangerous precedent that endangers the State's vulnerable children. For these reasons, we will be vigorously appealing this decision so that Wade's case can be decided on its factual merits before a jury of his peers. The days of Hollywood legal teams' usage of threats, bullying, intimidation, and disingenuous arguments to convince judges to dismiss cases are numbered."



First, the ruling is totally in accordance with California law. Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff is a very meticulous judge who gave Robson all the opportunities in the world to make his case. Among other things, throughout the four and a half years that this case has been going on, the Judge gave Robson four opportunities to amend his complaint, discovery opportunities and everything that is imaginable. So if Finaldi thinks they had a case then they had plenty of time to make it during the court proceeding. They did not.



It does not endanger vulnerable children to say that companies who were incidental to the relationship between the Robson family and Jackson are not to be held responsible for Robson’s alleged abuse. If what Wade claims is true (and we are convinced it is not, but for arguments sake) then it is his mother's behavior that endangered him as a facilitator of abuse, not Jackson's companies. So why doesn't he sue his mother? Of course, there is no big money in suing his mother.



Second, Finaldi has some nerve talking about "threats, bullying, intimidation, and disingenuous arguments" as their side is the one which is guilty of all of the above.



Considering that Wade claims that his lawsuit is also for helping other victims of child abuse, and especially other "victims" of Michael Jackson, his treatment of those other alleged victims is certainly inconsistent with that. At his 2016 deposition he was asked whether he had ever attempted to reach out to Gavin Arvizo, the boy at the center of the 2005 trial. Wade’s answer: "No. Not that I recall, no." So despite of his claim that he is doing this lawsuit, not for money but as some sort of advocacy for Jackson’s other “victims”, he never bothered to reach out and apologize to the boy whose justice he had obscured if we believe the current version of his story that he falsely testified at that trial.



He did “reach out” to Jackson’s 1993 accuser, Jordan Chandler, but not in the way one would expect from a compassionate fellow “victim”. His “reaching out” only meant that he was trying to depose Jordan in support of his lawsuit, despite of Jordan obviously being opposed to it. Jordan, as he always does whenever it is time to tell his allegations in a court, ran away once again and refused to be served with the subpoena. As Wade’s legal team could not find him, they tried to depose his sister and his fianceé, who filed motions making it very clear that they do not want be dragged into Wade’s case. Instead of respecting the Chandlers’ obvious wish to stay away from the case, Wade’s legal team aggressively pursued them, filing counter-motions and trying to force them to testify. They even bragged in a tabloid article that they were trying to “hunt down” Jordan wherever he is hiding.



They also aggressively pursued Jonathan Spence, a man who befriended Jackson in the 1980s as a child. Spence never accused Jackson of any wrongdoing and he still says that Jackson never did anything wrong to him, but he was one of those boys that the prosecution at the 2005 trial tried to represent as a “victim” despite of him claiming otherwise. Spence called out Robson's lawyers for bullying him in one of his motions. "Plaintiff's bullying behavior toward a non-party is inexcusable and speaks for itself", his motion said.



And the real disingenuous argument here is to blame Jackson’s companies and people employed by it for Robson's alleged sexual abuse. Those companies were incidental to the relationship between the Robsons and Jackson, as one could clearly see from the deposition of Wade’s mother, Joy Robson. Despite of that Wade was suing them instead of his mother who was the one seeking contact with Jackson, who was the one allowing her son sleep in Jackson's room even after the Chandler allegations, who was the one pursuing Jackson to help them move to the United States from Australia. This mother is only mentioned as some distant bystander in Wade's complaint. Meanwhile employees of Jackson's companies, such as Norma Staikos, are called a "madame" or "procurer of child sexual abuse" - that for things like putting the Robsons on the phone with Jackson when they went to Staikos and asked to meet Jackson. There is nothing more disingenuous than Robson's arguments in this case.

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people think going after a dead man for a quick buck is an easy and good idea but homie if you’re tryna tarnish the rep of a pure angel what makes you think you won’t get fucked up somehow along the way

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MJ Estate is asking Wade Robson to pay them $111,465.10 in legal costs. Make him pay.

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Messaggio da soulmum » 11 gennaio 2019, 10:55

So, Robson and Safechuck plan to make their money through a film.... I guess they have timed this conveniently before their appeal is (hopefully) thrown out.

https://pagesix.com/2019/01/09/sunda...kson-accusers/

LOS ANGELES — Sundance said Wednesday that a documentary about two boys who accused Michael Jackson of sexual abuse will premiere at its film festival later this month, while the Jackson estate called the film “just another rehash of dated and discredited allegations.”

The Sundance Institute announced the addition of “Leaving Neverland” to its festival lineup along with “The Brink,” a documentary about former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon.

The Jackson estate promptly denounced the “Leaving Neverland.”

“This is yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson,” an estate statement said.

A description of “Leaving Neverland” says it will tell the story of two men who are now in their 30s and began long-running relationships with Jackson at ages 7 and 10 when Jackson was at the height of his fame.

The names of the accusers in the documentary were not released. Jackson was acquitted of molestation charges in 2005.

The film is produced and directed by BAFTA-winning director Dan Reed. A representative for Reed did not immediately reply to an after-hours email seeking comment.

The Sundance Film Festival kicks off on Jan 24 and runs through Feb. 4.

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MJ Estate Statement:

“This is yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson. Wade Robson and James Safechuck have both testified under oath that Michael never did anything inappropriate toward them. Safechuck and Robson, the latter a self-proclaimed ‘master of deception’, filed lawsuits against Michael’s Estate, asking for millions of dollars. Both lawsuits were dismissed. This so-called ‘documentary’ is just another rehash of dated and discredited allegations. It’s baffling why any credible filmmaker would involve himself with this project.”

Unfortunately, anyone can release a documentary and they do not have to secure permission to do so. The only time the Estate has any potential recourse is when a documentary or other film uses intellectual property such as music or video that is owned by the Estate and is not protected under “fair use” claims, which of course the Estate is monitoring. You may recall the Estate filed litigation against Disney earlier this year for violating its intellectual property rights.

As the Estate said, the individuals featured in this documentary have had their claims rejected in court.

Furthermore, Michael was declared innocent in the criminal case against him. No documentary can change that.

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Wade Robson appeals update: His attorneys have filed a third extension request of 60 days. Now the deadline for him to file a response will be August 23 instead of June 24. This represents a total of 120 days they have extended the original deadline for Wade’s side to respond.

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Wade Robson Appeals Update: The judge has PARTIALLY GRANTED Wade’s request for a third extension, but only for 30 DAYS instead of Wade’s requested 60. The judge further ordered that there will be no further extensions granted to Wade’s side.
New filing deadline: 07/24/19.

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We could have predicted this happening right at this time. :???:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/11 ... mourn-ptsd
Michael Jackson sex abuse victims mourn king of pop they say gave them PTSD
TWO men who accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them as children will mourn his death on the 10th anniversary of his fatal drug overdose on Tuesday.
By MIKE PARKER
PUBLISHED: 15:14, Sun, Jun 23, 2019
Wade Robson and James Safechuck, whose ordeals were revealed in the documentary Leaving Neverland earlier this year, still grieve for the “King of Pop”, according to their lawyer.

In a world exclusive interview, lawyer Vince Finaldi said: “They have both been diagnosed with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) so theirs will not be the kind of mourning most of us might understand.

“People should realise that James and Wade were cynically and systematically groomed for years to absolutely adore Michael Jackson – and they did, despite everything that followed.

“They are still trying to come to terms with a myriad of feelings they had for their abuser. This is a very conflicting time for them and I don’t think many can imagine what will possibly be going through their hearts and minds on Tuesday. I very much doubt they will be lighting any candles or joining any vigils but, in a way that might be hard for outsiders to understand, they will be mourning the man who became their abuser as well as their friend and father-figure for many years.”

Dancers and former child stars Safechuck, now 41, and Australian-born Robson, 36, are now both married with children of their own.

In Leaving Neverland, Safechuck told for the first time how, at the age of 11, Jackson staged a mock wedding ceremony with him in his master bedroom at the sprawling ranch in California.

Following outrage over the HBO documentary – which aired worldwide in March – Mr Finaldi said more than a dozen previously unknown victims of the Thriller star had come forward.

These include a woman who claims to have been repeatedly molested by Jackson when she was aged 13 and 14.

The lawyer, based in Irvine, California, who specialises in child sex cases, said: “I have copies of cheques to her from Jackson’s music production company that he personally signed. There is zero doubt in my mind that she is telling the truth.”

Mr Finaldi now believes the singer may have molested “more than 100 children across the United States over the course of many years”.

He added: “There is also no doubt in my mind he was a serial predator.”

In a scathing attack on Jackson’s former aides, household and security staff, he went on: “Not one of them lifted a finger to help a single child. Some of them must have known about the groping and the fondling in tents, hot tubs and elsewhere on the estate.

“One of them could have called the police or the FBI, even anonymously. But they didn’t. They did whatever Michael Jackson told them to do and ignored the greater responsibility they should have had to ensure those kids’ safety.”

Mr Rinaldi added: “You have to have the intestinal fortitude to act in situations like this, whether it’s a co-worker or an employer. But, again, they didn’t.”

Later this summer, he aims to launch a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Jackson’s estate – which earned more than £300million last year – on behalf of Robson and Safechuck.

A judge previously ruled so much time had elapsed that their original lawsuits were outside the statute of limitations.

But a recent change in California state law means judges can now overrule the statute in cases where adults can show they are still suffering as a result of childhood abuse.

In the cases of Robson and Safechuck, who claim Jackson started molesting them when they were seven and eight respectively, their PTSD proves the “lifelong psychological damage Jackson inflicted”, said Mr Finaldi.

And their legal action will open the floodgates for countless others, according to the lawyer who confirmed: “I think there is little doubt there will be other cases.”

Asked if he believes an onslaught of multiple lawsuits could bankrupt Jackson’s estate, he replied: “I’m not going to speculate on that. But I do believe we are talking about litigation that could last for decades rather than years.”

Meanwhile, thousands of diehard fans of the singer are expected to be commemorating Tuesday’s 10th anniversary of his death on June 25, 2009, at the age of 50 from an accidental overdose of the hospital-strength anaesthetic Propofol.

Many are expected to hold a vigil outside the gates of Neverland, the 2,700-acre one-time fantasy estate in Los Olivos, 125 miles north of Los Angeles in the heart of California wine country, which is now on the market for £31million – less than a third its original asking price.
Police say they will ensure that nobody trespasses on the property, which has been renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch in a bid to woo buyers likely to be put off by the child-abuse stigma attached to it.

Security personnel will also stand guard outside the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, just outside LA, where Jackson’s sarcophagus rests.

And police will also mount a “low key” operation in Gary, Indiana, where fans are expected to gather outside the home where he was born and raised.

John Branca, co-executor of Jackson’s estate, declined to discuss individual points but said in a statement issued through his own lawyer: “Leaving Neverland is a discredited infomercial for a failing lawsuit.

“It was done in secrecy, is one-sided, untruthful and does not meet any journalistic standard known to mankind.

“Any story in this infomercial that can be objectively verified has been found to be false.”

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Now we know why they suddenly decide to say they have PTSD - the law has changed. Absolute disgrace.

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