Report: Michael Jackson Paid Out $200 Million In Hush Money To Up To 20 Victims
Posted on Mon Apr 6th, 2015 12:30pm PDT By X17 Staff
Two men who have claimed that Michael Jackson molested them as children will find out on Tuesday if they can sue the late singer and be awarded money from his $1.5 billion estate.
Tomorrow, choreographer Wade Robson and another of Jackson's alleged victims, James Safechuck, will have a hearing with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff to decide if their respective claims will proceed.
The two missed a statutory deadline by filing their claims more than a year after Jackson's death in 2009.
If the judge Beckloff allows the two to proceed with their civil claim, it is believed that new allegations of child molestation against Jackson will arise.
Their lawyers are also claiming that the legendary singer paid out almost $200 million to 20 victims, reports the New York Post. One specific suit from Jordan Chandler alone is believed to cost more than $40 million.
The estate has requested that the claims be rejected since Robson waited too long to file and because Jackson, who has been dead for more than five years, is the only person who has knowledge about the alleged incidents.
Robson, who was a key witness in Jackson's acquittal in 2005, has since changed his story and said that Jackson first molested him when he was seven years old at the Neverland Ranch, as his sister slept in a separate bed.
Safechuck, who states that he met the King of Pop in 1987 when he was eight, claims in court papers that the molestation began a year later and was molested a year later. Shockingly enough, the 36-year-old says Jackson made him take part in a secret wedding ceremony in which the boy was his bride.
Safechuck's lawyers said at the time of filing, "Jackson was successful in his efforts to the point that my client endured repeated acts of sexual abuse of a heinous nature and was brainwashed... into believing they were acts of love and Âinstigated by James himself."
If the claims are true we hope Safechuck and Robson get all the money they're asking for ...
Tomorrow, choreographer Wade Robson and another of Jackson's alleged victims, James Safechuck, will have a hearing with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff to decide if their respective claims will proceed.
The two missed a statutory deadline by filing their claims more than a year after Jackson's death in 2009.
If the judge Beckloff allows the two to proceed with their civil claim, it is believed that new allegations of child molestation against Jackson will arise.
Their lawyers are also claiming that the legendary singer paid out almost $200 million to 20 victims, reports the New York Post. One specific suit from Jordan Chandler alone is believed to cost more than $40 million.
The estate has requested that the claims be rejected since Robson waited too long to file and because Jackson, who has been dead for more than five years, is the only person who has knowledge about the alleged incidents.
Robson, who was a key witness in Jackson's acquittal in 2005, has since changed his story and said that Jackson first molested him when he was seven years old at the Neverland Ranch, as his sister slept in a separate bed.
Safechuck, who states that he met the King of Pop in 1987 when he was eight, claims in court papers that the molestation began a year later and was molested a year later. Shockingly enough, the 36-year-old says Jackson made him take part in a secret wedding ceremony in which the boy was his bride.
Safechuck's lawyers said at the time of filing, "Jackson was successful in his efforts to the point that my client endured repeated acts of sexual abuse of a heinous nature and was brainwashed... into believing they were acts of love and Âinstigated by James himself."
If the claims are true we hope Safechuck and Robson get all the money they're asking for ...