Overview
- The civil complaint, filed February 27 in Los Angeles Superior Court, names The Michael Jackson Company and estate entities.
- Plaintiffs identified as siblings Edward, Dominic and Aldo Cascio and Marie-Nicole allege Jackson groomed, drugged and sexually abused them when they were children.
- The filing claims he used gifts, alcohol, prescription drugs including Xanax and Vicodin, and pornography to normalize abuse, with assaults alleged over years in multiple locations including international travel and Neverland.
- The plaintiffs seek to void prior post-2019 payments reportedly worth $690,000 per person annually for five years and demand roughly $200 million in damages.
- Estate attorney Marty Singer rejects the allegations, citing the family's past public defenses of Jackson and calling the case a bid for money, with a court hearing scheduled for March 5.