Post by Admin on Aug 3, 2016 8:30:50 GMT -4
Taj Jackson, Taryll Jackson and TJ Jackson are suing celebrity gossip site radar Online that published stories alleging they were sexually abused and bribed by their uncle Michael, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Taj, TJ and Taryll Jackson filed a $100m libel lawsuit against Radar Online on Wednesday. The suit comes after Radar Online wrote multiple stories last month stating Michael Jackson stockpiled “images of pornography, animal torture, S&M and gore in a bid to seduce innocent young boys”, based off of a 2003 police search of his Neverland ranch home. “The detectives’ report cites Michael even used sexy photos of his own nephews in their underwear to excite young boys,” one article on the site alleged, referring to the three Jackson nephews. “Radar has tried to profit by launching a vicious and unrelenting attack on [Jackson] based on claims that, years ago, he was guilty of sexual abuse, even though, at the time, he was found ‘not guilty’ of that very charge,” entertainment lawyer Bert Fields, who represents the Jacksons, wrote in the suit. “Radar represents its ‘reports’ as ‘new’ and based on official ‘Detective Reports’. Not only have those Detective Reports been available to the public for many years, Radar has misrepresented what the Reports say,” Fields continued. The suit claims the stories are false and defamatory, spawned similar reports about Jackson and his nephews by other news outlets and damaged Taj, TJ and Taryll Jackson “personally and professionally”, according to the Los Angeles Times. The family members said the “sexy” photos were from an album photo shoot and denied that the images were used to “excite young boys” or that they were bribed to stay quiet about it, according to the Times. “None of them was ever sexually abused by Michael Jackson or ever had any sort of sexual contact with him,” Fields wrote in the complaint. “None of plaintiffs ever, in any way, resisted any effort by detectives to inquire about Michael Jackson’s supposed criminal conduct.” The Jacksons requested the stories be corrected, but were denied, according to the suit.
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