Overview
- Court filings in September 2025 show Wade Robson and James Safechuck demanding $400 million in damages.
- Estate administrators John Branca and John McClain are in a dispute with Paris Jackson over using estate funds for legal defense costs.
- The estate denies the allegations and asserts there is no credible evidence supporting the claims.
- The suits, first filed in 2013 and 2014 and later detailed in the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland, allege repeated abuse in multiple locations and potential facilitation by staff.
- Estate finances face separate pressures from a proposed $600 million rights deal with Sony and an IRS valuation challenge of roughly $700 million.