Michael Jackson‘s estate is facing a new wave of molestation allegations leveled at the late pop star, this time from four siblings from New Jersey who say they were groomed and abused for years and that the many handlers in Jackson’s entourage willingly enabled it all.
The lawsuit by the four siblings — three brothers and a sister — was filed in February in Los Angeles federal court. It gained attention on Friday after the plaintiffs gave an extensive interview to the New York Times about the alleged abuse and the legal manipulation they claim the endured at the hands of the Jackson estate, long after the superstar’s death in 2009.
The complaint cites the Jackson estate and the attorneys who lead it — John Branca and John McLain — and private investigator Herman Weisberg. The complaint asserts that Weisberg and other lawyers affiliated with Jackson were falsely presented to the Cascio family as representing their interests in negotiating a settlement with the estate. The complaint includes disturbing details of alleged abuse committed while Jackson was traveling in the U.S. and abroad on concert tours. It alleges that Jackson also abused the four siblings in their own home in New Jersey, when Jackson was visiting with his own children.
“Michael Jackson was a serial child predator who, over the course of more than a decade, drugged, raped and sexually assaulted each of the Plaintiffs, beginning when some of them were as young as seven or eight. Jackson’s attacks on these siblings went on for extended periods, including in locations around the world and when Jackson and his children were guests in Plaintiffs’ family home,” the complaint states.
The plaintiffs, who are now adults, are Edward Joseph Cascio, Dominic Savini Cascio, Marie-Nicole Porte and Aldo Cascio. The complaint states the family came into contact with the superstar through their father, who is described as having worked “at a luxury hotel where Jackson frequently stayed.” The siblings maintain the abuse started when they were as young as seven and continued into their teenage years.
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(Pictured: Michael Jackson in 1993)
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