Michael Jackson’s estate has slammed a new lawsuit filed in Los Angeles claiming that the late King of Pop, who died in 2009, was a “monster” and child molester.
Australian choreographer Wade Robson has filed a claim alleging “childhood sexual abuse,” despite testifying at a 2005 molestation trial that the star never touched him, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Lawyers for Robson, who stayed at the singer’s Neverland Ranch as a teenager, filed the lawsuit on May 1 asking an LA judge to let him make a late claim as creditor in Jackson’s estate, it said.
“Michael Jackson was a monster and in their hearts every normal person knows it,” a lawyer for Robson, Henry Gradstein, told AFP in a statement claiming Robson had a breakdown last year.
“He collapsed under the stress and sexual trauma of what had happened to him for seven years as a child. He lived with the brainwashing by a sexual predator until the burden of it all crushed him,” he said.
Jackson, dogged for years by child molestation charges, was acquitted after a high-profile trial in 2005. But his career never recovered, and he died in 2009 while rehearsing for a doomed comeback tour.
