I'm not going to visit any of those trash websites, but if someone is debating with commenters there here are some talking points:
1) The supposed $200 million hush money for 20 fantom victims.
- There was NEVER any such evidence of secret hush money payments to 20 boys offered by the prosecution or the FBI, so it was not a case of such evidence being "excluded" from court in 2005. Such evidence simply did not exist and never was offered by the prosecution.
- In this Robson case Robson was required to amend his complaint against Michael Jackson's companies. The reason for that is because while he claims that MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures are somehow responsible for his alleged abuse, he could not make a viable claim in his first complaint about
how they are responsible. For a company to be responsible for alleged abuse the law requires that the company knew or had a reason to know about the alleged abuse or about previous criminal activities of the accused. Well, such evidence of serial pay-offs would be badly needed for Robson, because that way he could make a lot better argument for how MJ's companies "had a reason to know". Yet, in his complaint there is not any such allegation about hush money. Nothing! Nada! If there was this huge evidence about 20 victims being paid off it would be right there in their court papers. But it isn't.
- The Chandlers' book (MJ's first accusser in 1993) proves pretty well that MJ never paid hush money to anyone. The boy's father, Evan Chandler virtually begged him to pay him off, but MJ refused. So why did not Michael pay him off if it was such a routine for him to pay off boys left and right?
Quote from the book:
On the morning of August 17, 1993, as he negotiated with Barry Rothman, Anthony Pellicano had in his possession a copy of the psychiatrists report with the names omitted. He held in his hand the future of the most famous entertainer in human history. Yet the tape is replete with examples of Pellicano refusing to compromise on what would amount to chump change to Jackson. Why take the chance of Michael’s name ending up on that report and triggering an investigation?” [1; page 138]
- It's idiotic to think that had the FBI or the prosecution in 2005 really had such an evidence of huge hush money payments they would not have used it. This was a prosecution very much hostile to MJ and which went desperate measures to try to throw everything but the kitchen sink at him, yet they would not use such a huge evidence?
- Paying $200 million to 20 victims would mean an average of $10 million to every victim. There is no way such a huge amount of money would not show up in some sort of accounting, ledgers, bank accounts etc. That sort of money would have left its traces somewhere. But there is nothing.
Tabloids should let go this myth of huge phantom pay-offs already. They do not exist.
2) Safechuck's parents supposedly receiving $1 million hush money.
It's not even consistent with Safechuck's own claims. His claim is that his parents never knew about his alleged abuse until recently (or until he told some vauge thing to his mother in 2005). He never claims any hush money was given to his parents.
3) The original National Enquierer article even rehashes that misinformation by RadarOnline that Katherine supposedly asked Safechuck about whether MJ molested him, when there is no such a claim in Safechuck's actual declaration. That part is about his own mother, not Katherine. But this just shows what kind of copy-and-paste "journalism" we are talking about here. Where no one even bothers to click on that damn court document. If it's salacious enough for the headlines and clicks they just run with any slander as if it is fact. Sad.
