2024
July : After receiving consideration from MJ Estate pursuant to the Agreement, Frank Cascio’s lawyer asks for $213 Million more. Respondents threatens that unless they are paid hundreds of millions of dollars, they will go public with bogus, false accusations about Michael Jackson.
August 29 : Frank and the other Respondents try to pressure MJ Estate into submission with a menacing extortionate threat (communicated through his lawyer), asserting, “We expect a substantive response by end of day tomorrow. Otherwise, we will be forced to expand the ‘circle of knowledge’ so my team can prepare a complaint.” The email continues with an ominous rhetorical inquiry whether “the materiality of this claim has been revealed by the estate to the buyer of the catalogue.” This is a transparent threat to go public with spurious damaging accusations in the guise of a sham public lawsuit and to damage the value of the Michael Jackson music catalogue, unless MJ Estate agrees to satisfy the astronomical financial demands, notwithstanding that MJ Estate has already paid Respondents to put an end to the 2019 shakedown in exchange for terms including confidentiality, comprehensive releases, and agreement to mandatory arbitration of all future disputes.
September 17 : As a result of Frank’s threats to breach the Agreement’s binding and mandatory confidential arbitration provisions by threatening a public lawsuit, the MJ Estate files a Demand for Arbitration against Frank asserting claims for civil extortion, anticipatory breach of contract, and declaratory relief.
September 20 : EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jackson’s Thriving Estate Targeted in $213 Million ‘Shakedown’ Effort.
September 23 : Howard King, counsel for Frank, sends a demand letter to one of the Officers of MJC and Co-Executors of the Estate of Michael Jackson, demanding that he issue a public statement refuting certain information published by the media. Implicit in Frank’s legal demand was the threat that unless the public statement requested by Frank was issued, Frank would file a public lawsuit against one or more of the Co-Executors of The Estate of Michael Jackson in a transparent attempt to circumvent the mandatory arbitration provision in the Agreement and as a pretext to disclose confidential information in breach of the Agreement.
September 24 : A Supplemental Demand for Arbitration is filed, adding an additional claim for declaratory relief against Frank Cascio with respect to his alleged defamation claim against against one of the Officers of MJC and Co-Executors of the Estate of Michael Jackson.
October 01 : Frank Cascio’s attorney delivers an envelope to MJ Estate counsel, containing a pair of draft lawsuits riddled with outlandish scurrilous allegations that are completely inconsistent with what Frank and his cohorts had insisted
for years in their unyielding defense of Michael. Ominously, the envelope contains no cover letter or explanatory note. It was apparent that the delivery was a threat to file a public lawsuit in court (and not in confidential arbitration as contractually mandated) containing the incendiary accusations unless Respondents’ demand for hundreds of millions of dollars was satisfied.
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