Celebrity choreographer Wade Robson, 33, has claimed that late pop icon Michael Jackson operated “the most sophisticated public child sexual abuse organisation the world has known”.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Robson made the claims in an amended complaint to his 2013 lawsuit against MJJ Productions, the late musician’s entertainment company, and MJJ Ventures. Two months ago, the choreographer brought attorney Vince Finaldi on board, who filed the motion to amend after reviewing the case file.
“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,” wrote Finaldi in the complaint filed on 9 September, 2016.
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Robson first met the pop icon when he was five years old, after winning a “dance-a-like” competition run by MJJ Productions in Australia. Following that, two years later, Robson and his family took a trip to California because Robson’s dance company was performing at Disneyland.
Robson’s mother had allegedly contacted Jackson’s assistant Norma Staikos to set up a meeting. “Make no mistake, Neverland Ranch was nothing but a well-orchestrated trap. It was custom-built to attract kids so he could groom them and decide which to sexually abuse,” Finaldi told New York Daily News newspaper.
The family was subsequently invited to stay at Neverland Ranch, where Robson slept in Jackson’s bed while his family stayed in separate guest quarters. Robson, who was seven years old at the time, claimed that Jackson sexually abused him, beginning with French kissing to penetrative sex. Robson claims the abuse continued until he was 14. It dwindled when he grew up with Jackson “no longer as interested in him sexually”.
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Robson said he loved Jackson like a father and did not realize he was being sexually abused until he entered psychotherapy following a nervous breakdown in 2012. In 2013, Jackson estate attorney Howard Weitzman dismissed Robson’s original complaint as “outrageous and pathetic” in an interview with TMZ. A judge threw the case out of court in May 2015.
Currently, with the help of Finaldi, Robson seeks to add several negligence claims to the suit, arguing that MJJ companies “breached their duty to take reasonable protective measures to protect minor children in their charge.” Finaldi is 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.
A trial has been scheduled for 13 March next year.
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