Re: [Discussion] Wade Robson files claim of sexual abuse against MJ-Estate
My only loyality is to Michael Jackson. Not Weitzman, not Branca, not the Estate, not the Jacksons. I agree with Bonnie Blue and Soundmind that I do not have huge confidence in how the Estate will handle this. Especially after their reaction to the fake FBI files article. Taj Jackson was told not to file a complaint because they would do. They did but only to not to follow it up then. If they had no intention to follow it up at least they should have let Michael's family to do so. So this was pretty lame and disappointing by the Estate.
This little episode made me worried about how they will handle the case if the Judge happens to let it go ahead and seeing Weitzman not being confident in Michael's innocence does not make me more confident about the Estate (re. that quote Soundmind posted from 2005).
I also have to say that the way the Chandler case was handled by Michael's lawyers was poor. And Weitzman was one of the people who was responsible for that, no matter how much he says he was against the settlement (I'm not sure I believe it). The Chandlers and Larry Feldman make fun of the "kid's moves" MJ's lawyers, including Weitzman, made throughout the case. For example, as you know the settlement came about because the Chandlers managed to get the civil proceedings get ahead of the criminal. They achieved this citing Jordan's age. Feldman is gloating in the Chandler book about how stupid MJ's lawyers have been in their handling of this:
"So where do we go from here?"
"On Monday we'll file a motion to compel his testimony, because he won't show up as planned, and a motion for priorities."
"Because Jordie's under fourteen?"
"Right. And if Weitzman or Fields had a ****ing brain in their heads and knew anything about how to litigate, they would have delayed this till Jordie's fourteenth birthday. Because then we'd be ****ed, because I wouldn't get this motion."
"What makes you so sure you'll get it?"
"Oh, it's an absolute right. Jordie is entitled to a trial within one hundred and twenty days, There's absolutely nothing anybody can do to stop it, I mean, I don't know if there's a case where that right has come up against the Fifth Amendment, but there's no question it's our statutory right. There's no discretion, the judge has to do it. He has to find us a courtroom. We're gonna argue to the court that we want a trial date by January tenth.
"They're out of control, Evan. They don't know what the hell they're doin'. If they were smart they would have ****ed around with me on jurisdiction and kept delaying this as much as they could to prevent themselves from having to answer. And they only had to **** around for a couple of months!"
"Then why did they choose to go ahead with this?"
"I don't think they know what they're doin'. They're kid's moves! But we'll know in three weeks if we get our motion. The worst is if they're granted a stay, then we go to the court of appeals. You think the Supreme Court is going to let this criminal stop this case for six years! No ****ing way!
So excuse me if I'm not that confident in Weitzman. Maybe he's a great business lawyer but this is a totally different matter. These allegations are very complicated it takes time for someone to fully see them through and I'm not sure at all the people at MJ's Estate see it through at the moment. If Weitzman saw it through he would be more like Mesereau in his confidence about Michael's innocence.
All I can say this is the most important "project" of the Estate to me. Michael's reputation is more important than any upcoming album or release, but it makes me worried that sometimes it seems to be the other way around for Michael's Estate.
Since he takes so much pride in the fact that he was adamantly against any settlement in 1993 , I highly doubt he was engaged in any "hush " contracts.
Of course, he wasn't. There was no settlement with anyone in 1992. That story was invented by a con-woman and tabloid broker called Taylea Shea. There was no basis to it. It would have been easy for Weitzman to shoot it down. That's why it is disappointing that he did not bother. If he does not bother to shoot down a rumour that is as easy to prove it's not true, what will he do when this case goes ahead and there will be all kind of allegations made by Wade?
In 2005 , Geraldo Riveria: " Howard, is Michael Jackson a pedophile ? did he molest these boys?" . Howard: " I was not in that room in 1993, I was not in 2003 , I don't know, I choose to believe he did not, but I was not there. "
Mez: " Michael Jackson is an innocent man, Michael Jackson never molested any child, Michael Jackson is not a pedophile"
Sums up everything
Or when Mez was asked in that Jordan radio podcast by a caller about if he believed MJ was innocent. His answer was: "I do not
believe Michael Jackson was innocent. I
KNOW he was innocent."
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