“Why Work When You Can Sue Michael Jackson?” – Michael Jackson’S 2005 Trial Lawyer, Thomas Mesereau
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The Michael Jackson Allegations A PDF version of the website https://themichaeljacksonallegations.com/ Condensed version v.2.1. 1 Foreword This document, or e-Book, if you like, evolved from the content of the website https://themichaeljacksonallegations.com. The aim and mission of the document is to give a full representation of the 1993, the 2005, and the posthumous Wade Robson child sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson. There is still a lot of misinformation circulating about those cases and people often make judgments about them based on out of context cherry-picked half-truths, incomplete information or even complete lies. We hope that this document will help to better understand these complicated cases. Previously we have published a longer, more detailed version of this document, but we felt that a condensed version is also warranted for those who do not have that much time to read and explore these cases, but still want to get more insight than what they might get from superficial soundbites or tabloid information circulating on the Internet. This document is that condensed version in which we managed to bring down more than 400 pages to less than 80. If you are interested in the more detailed discussion of these cases then those longer versions are available at https://themichaeljacksonallegations.com/. The longer documents also contain a detailed source list at the end of each chapter, because everything we say in these documents (including this one) is properly sourced from court documents, testimonies and other material. If you truly want to understand these allegations you will have to invest a bit of time in reading. There is no real understanding of these cases in five minutes from media soundbites, out-of-context bits of information, inflammatory tabloid articles or Internet gossip and fallacies, no matter how tempting it may be to jump to conclusions based on such. This document was created with the purpose of commentary, news reporting, education and research. It is not sold commercially, we do not make any income or profit from it. Please be lenient about any grammatical or stylistic error. Hopefully that will not spoil the content. September 23, 2018 Additional credit: Evan and Nathalie Chandler’s divorce documents, Evan Chandler’s Will, the motion by Lisa Marie Presley's lawyer in Evan Chandler's 1996 civil lawsuit against Michael Jackson, and Eric Mason's declaration in Michael Jackson's lawsuit against Victor Gutierrez, were obtained from court by https://turningthetableonthechandlerallegations.wordpress.com/. April 14, 2019 2 Table of Contents Foreword ......................................................................................................................... 2 The 1993 Chandler Allegations .................................................................... 4 Meet the Chandler Family .................................................................................................. 4 Evan Chandler Turns on Michael Jackson ......................................................................... 5 Evan Chandler Starts Plotting ............................................................................................ 7 Jordan Chandler “Confesses” ............................................................................................. 9 Evan Chandler’s Monetary Demands .............................................................................. 11 The Allegations Go Public ............................................................................................... 14 Humiliating Jackson ......................................................................................................... 17 The Settlement .................................................................................................................. 20 The Chandlers’ Selective Publicity-Shyness .................................................................... 22 The Aftermath .................................................................................................................. 24 Jason Francia ............................................................................................................. 28 The 2005 Arvizo Allegations ........................................................................ 34 Michael Jackson Meets the Arvizo Family ...................................................................... 34 Martin Bashir’s Documentary, “Living with Michael Jackson” and the Fallout ............. 36 The Crucial Period: February 7-March 12, 2003 ............................................................. 37 The Conspiracy Charge .................................................................................................... 39 The Changing Content of the Allegations and Contradictions......................................... 40 General Credibility Problems with the Arvizo Family .................................................... 46 Lawyers being hired and the formation of the allegations ............................................... 54 The Wade Robson Allegations .................................................................... 57 A Failed Prophecy ............................................................................................................ 60 Wade Goes into Therapy .................................................................................................. 61 No more dance, films, entertainment? ............................................................................. 66 Robson’s Creditor’s Claim ............................................................................................... 69 The Civil Lawsuit ............................................................................................................. 70 Raising Awareness of Facilitators of Abuse? .................................................................. 74 “How does it feel when you're alone and you're cold inside?” .............................................................................................................................................. 77 3 “Why work when you can sue Michael Jackson?” – Michael Jackson’s 2005 trial lawyer, Thomas Mesereau The 1993 Chandler Allegations On August 17, 1993 the Los Angeles police department opened an investigation against Michael Jackson based on an allegation that he had sexually molested a 13-year-old boy called Jordan Chandler. In the first section of this document we will go through the Chandler case. Meet the Chandler Family Michael Jackson met Jordan Chandler in May 1992, after the star’s car broke down while he was driving on Wilshire Boulvard, Los Angeles and he went to a nearby car-rental agency that was owned by the boy’s step-father, David Schwartz. Schwartz called his wife, June Chandler to tell her of the illustrious client and to ask to bring her 12- year-old son, Jordan (born January 11, 1980) who was a big fan of the entertainer. Schwartz offered Jackson a deal: he would rent him a car for free if Jackson would agree to take Jordan’s phone number and call him. Jackson accepted the deal, kept his promise and called the boy about a month later, according to June Chandler’s testimony in 2005. From then on a friendship developed between the star and the family on the phone. According to the Chandlers’ recollections between May 1992 and January 1993 they talked to Jackson on the June Chandler in 1993 phone about 8-10 times, so approximately once a month. Jordan's biological father, Evan Chandler was divorced from Jordan’s mother since 1985. Evan had a dental practice in Beverly Hills, but he was also an aspiring screenwriter. According to June's 2005 testimony, before Michael Jackson came into their life, Evan did not spend much time with his son, he was rather busy writing screenplays. In August 1993 June even sued Evan for $68,000 in back child support though later she retracted this. There are also several accounts of Evan Chandler having a violent temper and an abusive nature. For example, in September 1993, while they were discussing their lawsuit against Jackson in their civil lawyer Larry Feldman's office, Evan hit David Schwartz. Even Evan's loyal brother Ray Chandler had to admit to this in an article that he wrote for his Evan Chandler website in 2005, although he tried to downplay it as a "one punch fight" in the heat of an argument about the settlement money that they had not even received yet. (Details later in this document.) In a lawsuit that Schwartz later filed against Evan he mentioned more incidents when Evan allegedly physically had attacked him, and in a 1994 deposition June Chandler mentioned an incident where an argument between Evan and his second wife Nathalie had 4 become physical (in some writings the pseudonym "Monique" is used for Nathalie). According to another source, June herself left Evan “because of his temper”. More than a decade later Evan’s physical violence peaked in an attack against his son, Jordan. According to court documents, on July 6, 2005 Evan Chandler “struck [Jordan] on the head from behind with a twelve and one-half pound weight and then sprayed his eyes with mace or pepper spray and tried to choke him”. A judge later “found that the weight could have caused serious bodily injury or death”. On August 5, 2005 Jordan obtained a temporary restraining order against his father, though his request for a final restraining order was dismissed. This was not the end of Evan and Jordan Chandler’s legal disputes. On July 24, 2005 Evan Chandler filed a lawsuit