A 33-year-old choreographer who alleges he was sexually abused by Michael Jackson from the age of seven has claimed that the late pop icon’s companies MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures were fronts for the “most sophisticated public child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation organisation the world has known”.
Wade Robson, who was five years old when he first met MJ through a dance competition in Australia, made the claims in a recently amended lawsuit originally filed in 2013.
“The thinly-veiled, covert second purposes of these businesses was to operate as a child sex abuse operation, specifically designed to locate, attract, lure and seduce child sexual abuse victims.” Robson’s lawyer Vince Finaldi wrote in the court papers filed last week.
Wade Robson, 33, says he was sexually abused by the late star from age seven
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Robson and his family were invited to the Thriller singer’s Neverland Ranch in California and the two slept in the same bed, where MJ allegedly sexually abused him.
Robson says the abuse ended seven years later, only when he “began showing signs of puberty” and the singer was “no longer attracted to him sexually”.
The dancer didn’t come forward with his claims until after MJ’s death, and only discovered he’d been molested after entering psychotherapy for a nervous breakdown in 2012.
In a separate court case filed by 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo in 2005, Robson was called upon to testify but denied any sexual abuse by MJ at the time.
