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Four adult siblings have filed a lawsuit against the estate of Michael Jackson, claiming the late pop star sexually abused them for more than a decade beginning when some were as young as 7 or 8, according to People. Edward, Dominic, Marie-Nicole and Aldo Cascio filed the complaint on Friday, claiming Jackson “groomed and brainwashed” them by leveraging his celebrity status, wealth and staff to isolate them, supply drugs and alcohol, and sexually assault them.
“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,” the 23-page lawsuit states, according to People.
The siblings said they first met Jackson in 1984 through their father, who managed a luxury New York hotel frequented by the musician. According to the complaint, Jackson earned the family’s trust through gifts and attention before the alleged abuse began. The lawsuit claims assaults occurred in multiple locations worldwide, including at Neverland Ranch in California and at the family’s home in New Jersey.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Aldo Cascio, now 35, claimed the abuse began when he was 7.
“He would train me to say no to any authority and the police,” Aldo claimed. “He would say that people think this is wrong, but they’re wrong. This is real, this is love.”
Marie-Nicole Cascio claimed Jackson abused her after staying with the family for several months following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Marty Singer, an attorney for the Jackson estate, denied the allegations in a statement, calling the lawsuit “a desperate money grab by additional members of the Cascio family.” Singer said the filing represents “a transparent forum-shopping tactic in their scheme to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars from Michael’s estate and companies.”
Singer also said the Cascio family publicly defended Jackson for more than 25 years and cited statements from Frank Cascio’s 2011 book and interviews, including with Oprah Winfrey, that he said contradict the current claims. He further claimed that the family had previously threatened to go public unless they were paid “staggering sums of money.”
The complaint was filed roughly a month after the siblings appeared in a Beverly Hills courthouse in a related matter, where they described a prior financial settlement with the estate as “an unlawful agreement to silence victims of childhood sexual abuse,” People noted.
A follow-up hearing is scheduled for March 5.
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