New Legal Update in Michael Jackson Case as Allegations Resurface

There's another legal update in another case that we've talked about before, and that is the Michael Jackson case. Now, this family, the Cassios, they've been defending Michael Jackson from the start. Michael Jackson went and stayed with them for three months after 9-11. It's the craziest story. The dad worked, I think, at the palace as chief bellman or some sort of middle-level management, but was dealing with hotel guests, met Michael Jackson, lived in a modest home in New Jersey, but he had a bunch of kids, four or five. It remains unclear to me which one. I think he had just the four. Whatever. I can't remember, but it's irrelevant. Michael Jackson starts coming back to his house. No normal parent would be like, sure, and come sleep over in my kids' rooms. It's just not a good idea, obviously, but it's what happened. He came with his little chimpanzee. If you're the wife and your husband works at the palace and he comes and says, I met Michael Jackson. Cool. The next thing you know, Michael Jackson has moved in with his chimpanzee. He's literally the biggest star on the planet. He's on your little fold-out couch. That happened. That's a real thing. They got very close, the Casios and Michael. He brought all the children on tour with him. He made them feel like special favorites, which they clearly were. In all the years, they've defended Michael Jackson. Never laid a hand on us. Three boys and a girl. Never once. These are lies. Stop it about Michael Jackson. Then we find out that, allegedly, when they saw the Leaving Neverland documentary, which was not a documentary, I've got a lot of issues with how that was done. I know a lot about, in particular, that Wade Robson that I've told the audience about in part. Serious credibility problems by at least the one accuser, none of which were raised. It doesn't mean he's lying about Michael Jackson. As a filmmaker, doing what you call a documentary, you have an obligation to tell the audience. Anyway, they said that that triggered something for them, that it, quote, deprogrammed them, and that now they've realized they were abuse victims. Did they go out to the cameras to just say this happened to us and we want to set the record? No, they put their hands out. They went to the Michael Jackson estate, and they got a payout, multimillion-dollar payout, reportedly. Then in 2026, after or just as the MJ megamovie was coming out, they went back to the till, reportedly wanting more. They wanted the lawsuit to be heard in court because that's where you can get big bucks. Everyone's thinking, if I can just get in front of a jury, I'm gonna win because I'm just gonna tell a sob story about something terrible that happened to me. Here's a little flavor of the Cassios and them alleging the abuse by Michael Jackson in a piece they did in May of 2026, this is just a couple months ago, for 60 Minutes Australia. Feraldo, the family's youngest, at times the fear was overwhelming. Did you find his appearance scary as a kid? Yeah, yeah, especially when you're in bed with him at night and he turns into the zombie and, you don't love me, you don't love me. You know, his eyes were like this. Learning there were other victims meant this was no longer just his secret to keep. And I was like, oh my god, he did this to other kids. That was enough for my courage to just blossom. I was like, no, no, no, no, this isn't made up. This is real. Aldo decided to tell his family of the abuse he'd endured, unaware he would also be opening the lid on the suffering of each and every one of his siblings. I called everyone to meet at my mom and dad's home and I said, I just want you guys to know that everything that they're saying is true because it happened to me too. Aldo's courageous admission led to all his siblings finally sharing what they say Jackson had done to them. It was the hardest thing for me to do was to admit it. Oh yeah. I can't describe the feeling, the range of emotions that I was feeling at the time and coming out. Okay, so they've tried now to crack open this settlement they entered into in 2019 with the Jackson estate and they've filed a lawsuit in California federal court trying to get their day in front of a jury. And the California court just tossed the lawsuit saying you signed, you signed a deal to arbitrate all claims. That's where you're going to have to resolve this. If at all, you're going in front of an arbitrator as you agreed to do by contract back in 2019, which is a very, very good ruling for the Michael Jackson estate. They'd much rather be in front of an arbitrator who will be a somber, serious, probably retired judge who will now find whether this settlement agreement they've reached can be voided. I guess that's what they're asking for because they want more money or what. But this, I tell you, Maureen, I don't know about the Casio family. I got real questions about them and this belated attempt to cash in on Michael Jackson's renewed fame and success. They had no money in the estate for a long, long time. Now they do, and they're back again. This one is so interesting. I watched that 60 Minutes piece when it aired. I am of the belief that Michael Jackson was a pedophile. I think that as you were laying out in the very beginning of this, the father comes home with Michael Jackson and Bubbles and is like, he's going to be living here indefinitely. It is weird, but he's a lowly, he may be the head of the bellhops, but he's a lowly guy compared to now Michael Jackson thinks I'm special? Me? With my two-car garage? Okay. That was the thing with Michael. It was like he had to be around children, but it was always said that it's just because he didn't have a childhood. I went back and watched that Oprah special with him as well, where he's touring her around Neverland. It really does to me, it did look like a pedophile's lair. Now the thing about the Casio story that raises questions for me is that the girl, the sister, the lone sister says he did it to me too. All the allegations, the history of this has been that if you do believe Michael Jackson was a pedophile, he was inclined to little boys, not little girls. For what it's worth, the last reporting I read on this said that Paris Jackson had been in conversation with the Casio family and does believe them. I think this has caused a significant estrangement between Paris and her brothers. I think that's right, but she couldn't know. To be honest, I'm sure she's got a better informed opinion than most of us because she's had access to the estate and she knows all the players and so on. She was too little, in other words, to actually have seen much that would have shown her whether he was or he wasn't. Of course, his entire family says absolutely not. His family has stood by him, except for Latoya, who for a brief time said she believed these allegations, but then recanted that and said her abusive husband kind of made her say it. I think this is a very good ruling for the Michael Jackson estate because they signed a deal, they were trying to get out of it, they wanted to get it in front of a jury, which most plaintiffs think they'll do better in front of. This judge did the right thing by saying, nobody forced you to sign an arbitration agreement for any future claims. You signed it. Honestly, to me, Maureen, if they had just come forward to say this happened, we want to set the record straight, it happened. It would have been a game changer in the whole narratives around Michael Jackson because there's so much he said, she said, or he said, he said. There's so many credibility problems with his accusers that I can see why people are like, absolutely not, I don't believe them. Every plaintiff has had their hand out. I want to get paid, including these four. In this 60 Minutes Australia piece, they seem very affected. The one Aldo who we showed was like, there was no tears. Yes. That was my problem with that too. I'm not sure I buy this. That was my problem with that too. It was very affected. But I will say this, if I say my claim, and let's say I'm coming at this and it absolutely happened to me, I was serially abused by this guy who was like the biggest pop star on the planet. And there was an entire infrastructure around it that allowed it to happen. I would want money. I think that this is also kind of like the Pandora's box that the Michael Jackson biopic opened. That movie has grossed over $1 billion. And that movie was a definite legacy play. And it was restoring Michael Jackson into the pantheon as just an unbelievable artist, a one of a kind. The problem now is that that movie is so successful. They have to make a sequel. They can't leave money on the table. But where do you go with this story when we all know what chapter two is? I have an idea. Tell me. I have an idea. Because in the original, they did reportedly cover the abuse allegations. Obviously, it would have been in a way that was favorable to Michael. And they had to take it out because somebody at the last minute realized that they had signed deals with these accusers who they were featuring in the movie that required them to never speak of these people again. So the estate is bound by those agreements signed by Michael. And therefore, they couldn't do some hit piece on the early accusers in movie form. They would have gotten sued. They would have lost every dollar of that billion. So they lobbed off that portion of the movie and they left it at just like, look at the singing and the dancing. But I think they will do something like fictional. They will say something like, you know, some of these allegations have been fictionalized or these people have been fictionalized. And they'll portray the scandal in a way that's very favorable to him and show that, oh, these are all grifters who try to make money off of Michael, etc., etc., in a way that they think is exonerating but doesn't violate the agreement. They'll find some clever way of like getting around the actual named plaintiffs and their actual stories. I think so cuz my information is they're in the process right now of making part two. But join the community by becoming a subscriber. We really, really value your input and your support. We may not always agree, but we are always gonna talk about it and respect. No BS, no agenda, no fear. For the first time since World War II, our national debt has exceeded the gross domestic product. America's reckless government spending keeps catching up with us. Higher inflation, higher prices, higher cost of living expenses, and higher interest payments on national debt. Every dollar Washington spends on interest is a dollar it has to tax, borrow, or print. 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