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Britney Spears' book 'The Woman In Me' makes private details public, and public events personal
Read full article: Britney Spears' book 'The Woman In Me' makes private details public, and public events personalBritney Spearโs highly anticipated memoir โThe Woman in Meโ will be released Tuesday.
Michael Jackson's employees were not legally obligated to prevent sex abuse, lawyer argues in court
Read full article: Michael Jackson's employees were not legally obligated to prevent sex abuse, lawyer argues in courtA lawyer for the estate of Michael Jackson argued at a court hearing that employees of corporations owned by the pop star could not be legally obligated to protect children from him.
Appeals court sends 'Leaving Neverland' fight to arbitration
Read full article: Appeals court sends 'Leaving Neverland' fight to arbitration(AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)PASADENA, Calif. โ A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a lawsuit filed by the Michael Jackson estate over an HBO documentary about two of the late pop star's sex abuse accusers can go forward in private arbitration. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with two lower courts and ruled in favor of the Jackson estate in its decision on โLeaving Neverland." Unless there are further appeals, the case will go to a private arbitrator, which the Jackson estate argued was required by the 1992 contract at the center of the lawsuit. HBO has also more generally defended โLeaving Neverlandโ as a valid and important piece of documentary journalism. โLeaving Neverlandโ director Dan Reed has been filming the hearings in those cases for a follow-up documentary.
Lawsuit of Michael Jackson sexual abuse accuser dismissed
Read full article: Lawsuit of Michael Jackson sexual abuse accuser dismissedLOS ANGELES โ A judge has dismissed the lawsuit of one of two men who alleged that Michael Jackson abused them as boys in the HBO documentary โLeaving Neverland." Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark A. โWe are pleased that the court dismissed Mr. Safechuckโs case by ruling that he had no grounds to pursue such a lawsuit,โ Jackson estate attorneys Howard Weitzman and Jonathan Steinsapir said in a statement. A judge dismissed it in 2017, but an appeals court revived it early this year after California Gov. The similar lawsuit of Safechuck's fellow accuser and โLeaving Neverlandโ subject Wade Robson, which was also revived by the appeals court, remains alive.
Michael Jackson fans sue singer's alleged abuse victims
Read full article: Michael Jackson fans sue singer's alleged abuse victims"It is not about money, it is an affair of the heart," said Emmanuel Ludot, the lawyer representing the fans. Walter, president of one of the groups, MJ Community, which has 600 members, attended the first court hearing. In 2013, Jackson was acquitted of abusing another child, also 13, who had cancer at the time of the alleged offense. Ludot said the legal battle has the full support of the Jackson family, who have previously called the film a "public lynching." Ludot says he has been approached by Jackson fan groups from Switzerland, Sweden, Italy and elsewhere, to clear the pop legend's name via the French legal system.