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Michael Jackson’s Companies Had No Duty to Protect Boys, Judge Rules
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variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA judge on Monday ruled that Michael Jackson’s companies had no legal obligation to protect boys from sexual abuse, and dismissed a long-running lawsuit against them.Wade Robson, one of the subjects of the 2019 HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland,” first filed the lawsuit in 2013.
Robson alleges that Jackson began sexually abusing him when he was 7 years old, in 1990, and continued to do so for seven years.The suit was first dismissed on statute of limitations grounds, but was revived in 2020 after California amended its state law to give plaintiffs in child sex abuse cases more time to sue.Robson had accused Jackson’s loan-out companies, MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures, of facilitating the singer’s abuse.
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