OK, I got the complaint from Ivy that Ivy will later post on her website. I went through it.
Oh, BTW, the complaint was posted by Robson's lawyers themselves accompanied by another press release. So that proves they fully intend to play the media/bad publicity card in order to try to force the Estate into a settlement.
Highlights.
It is a 120 page document. First part argues why they should be allowed to amend their complaint. At least by their complaint the law sems pretty liberal in allowein amendments in complaints - even at late stages of a process. Even during a trial a complaint may be suggested. So if they are right about that the amendment may be allowed, but let's if the Estate disagrees and they have other legal arguments for it.
Andway Robson's lawyers are still bi***ing about the fact the Defense got its way on the issue of Robson's deposition. So they say this.
Idiotic argument. The Robson deposition's pushing back to October was due to the Estate wanting to have the result of the medical exam. And even if they just weren't prepared, this is a completely different matter here. We are now after demurrer, so Robson's complaint has gone through a demurrer phase and to change means that there would be new allegations added and old old ones taken away and in this form this complaint actually did not go through the demurrer phase. IMO if the Judge allows this the whole thing should start again from the demurrer phase. There are significant changes here.
The main ones are that negligence causes of action had been added. The main argument for duty of care being breached and negligence is the following. They claim MJJP and MJJV, because they organized programs that involved children were organizations that employed people who were mandatory reporters of child abuse by law. In support of that they cite Penal Code section 11165.7 which gives a list of mandatory reporters. These are the specific points they base their claim on that MJJP and MJJV were organizations that employed mandatory reporters:
6) An administrator of a public or private day camp.
(7) An administrator or employee of a public or private youth
center, youth recreation program, or youth organization.
(8) An administrator or employee of a public or private
organization whose duties require direct contact and supervision of
children.
They argue that because MJJC and MJJP organized events that involved children this applied to them. Companies with mandatory reporters are required to inform their employees of their mandatory reporter status in a written form. They claim MJJP and MJJV failed in this obligation (and they say discovery so far supports this) therefore they committed negligence that resulted in Robson's and other children's abuse.
About the control issue: they make totally confusing and contradictory claims about it throughout the complaint.
Just because the companies had control over some of MJ's businesses and personal affairs (at MJ's orders and instructions since hw was the boss) that doesn't mean they controlled MJ. MJJP/MJJV had no control over MJ and over hiring/firing him, placing him in specific positions or removing him from them. Since he was the president/owner, no they did not have that type of control over him. The "some control over his personal/business affaris" are just control about arranging his stuff - as per MJs own orders. That doesn't help them.
Then they make the confusing claim that MJ's companies are not seperate entities, they are identical to him.
How does this make any sense?
All through the complaint they keep deliberately using language as if MJJP/MJJV were schools. They call MJ a "teacher" and "mentor". Robson a "student". Even the companies "school" at one point. They try to make them schools and like it is the school and church cases these lawyers mostly tried but no amount of semantics will make two entertainment companies "schools". They also call MJ an "employee" of the companies and claim he was under the companies' supervision. Obviously this is because ot the control issue. For them to establish the companies had control over MJ they have to say MJ was just an employee that the companies could control, hire, fire, supervise, place into certain positions etc.
LOL, sure the owner and founder of the company is just being "hired" by them like any other employee. Alright.
They totally pretend like MJ was just this employee that the companies "hired" to "teach" and "mentor" children and they "placed him" into certain positions. No amount of pretending will make it true.
Complete idiocy:
The next part is them posting the amended complaint. So we are onto that part now. Mostly they repeat the same allegations as we already had in the previous complaints, but now the graphic details of the alleged sexual acts aren't blocked out any more (which is why, I am sure, they are so happy to distribute this document to the tabloid media). There are also some modifications, additions. Eg. they now include the allegations by the usual suspects in their complaint: Quindoy, Blanca Francia, Charlie Michaels, Orietta Murdock.
This too is total idiocy:
So Robson's mother calls Norma Staikos but it makes Norma the "madame" and "this event was purposely orchestrated by Ms. Staikos, MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures as a further means for Michael Jackson to acquire another sexual abuse victim and grooming him and his parents for such." How could MJ, MJJP or MJJV "purposefully orchestrate" Robson's mother to call them after two years of not having met them? Through telepathy? Black magic? Or what? Pure, utter lunacy.
Another contradiction that he claims that MJ started losing interest in him sexually when he reached puberty at 13, yet he claims the anal penetration happened at 14, "but while penetration occured, the attempt was unsuccessful" - whatever that means.
They completely changed the narrative on Norma. Before she was portrayed as an employee who might have suspected something, but now she is being portrayed as an active and deliberate enabler of MJ sexually abusing Robson. I wonder if they approached her and she sent them to hell. LOL.
Now look at this:
So they claim that MJJP/MJJV paid Joy's salary. But according to her own 2005 testimony this is only technically true. In reality she was paid by a cosmetics company that she worked for. And MJ did not start to sponsor them until they were already in the US for six months...
9 Q. Now, when you came here in September, you
10 also went to work for MJJ Productions, correct?
11 A. No.
12 Q. You -- let’s see if I get this right. You
13 had a job in a -- cosmetics?
14 A. Yes.
15 Q. And because you were here on a certain kind
16 of visa, they couldn’t pay you; is that correct?
17 A. They did pay me, but they paid me through
18 Michael Jackson’s company.
19 Q. So your checks were from MJJ Productions?
20 A. Well, that makes it sound like MJJ
21 Productions was paying me. They were not.
22 Q. I just -- the question was, the checks came
23 from MJJ Productions?
24 A. They were diverted through Michael Jackson’s
25 company.
26 Q. In other words, your company would pay them
27 the money, and then Mr. Jackson’s company would pay
28 you the money? 9251
1 A. Yes.
2 Q. Just in all fairness. I’m not trying to
3 trick you.
4 A. Okay.
5 Q. And that arrangement was worked out with the
6 approval and the help of Mr. Jackson, correct?
7 A. I think so. I’m -- I mean, I didn’t speak
8 to him about it. I spoke to Norma Stakos about it.
9 Q. Do you recall telling and testifying to the
10 fact that what actually happened in September of
11 1991 is that Mr. Jackson was your sponsor when you
12 came to the United States with your son?
13 A. Not initially. We were here for six months
14 and then he offered, he offered to sponsor after we
15 arrived.
BTW, the complaint says Joy was employed as Wade's manager. So wouldn't that give HER a duty of care? And funny how they quote Murdock on Norma allegedly telling her never to leave her son alone with MJ, but they "forget" to quote him on saying that Robson's mother kept calling their office and kept pushing for the green cards every day.
In order to elevate his "credibility" as a victim of child sexual abuse Wade inserts a story of bedwetting (which is typical of abuse victims and of course he would have read about it in the books he was reading about the subject when he prepared his lawsuit). But his story is constructed so that it would also quickly explain why no one ever realized this bedwetting problem. Because MJ cleaned him and dressed him in clean clothes while he was a asleep. How much more contrived a story can be?
They are so trying to make a square shape fit into a triangle - ie. make MJ look like some regular employee whom the
companies could hire and fire and place him or remove him to/from certain positions. That they keep repeating this mantra
won't magically make it true.
What sexual abuse had "already occured" that the companies knew about?
Did they copy&paste this one below from some school case they had? This was not a school and MJ was not an employee. SMH.
They keep repeating the companies had control over MJ but instead of saying how they just keep pretending he was some regular employee.
Next:
They still keep spouting this lie, despite of the fact that Robson has directed several music and dance videos and short films since 2013. BTW, Robson deleted his latest about a music video that he was gonna direct that he posted on his FB the other day. I guess these new lawyers are a bit more conscious about the contradictions between his claims in his complaint and his actual behavior.
What is it that they don't understand in MJ being the sole owner/founder of these companies and not some employee that his companies could supervise, hire or fire? SMH.
According to them the companies negligently hired MJ - their founder and sole owner. LMAO. This cannot be real life!
What prior criminal history? Jesus! They make up things as they speak.
