Wade Robson and James Safechuck Received No Payout for Leaving Neverland

Holly Boyer, an attorney for Robson and Safechuck, told the Associated Press in response that the men, as boys, “were left alone in this lion’s den by the defendant’s employees”. “An affirmative duty to protect and to warn is correct,” Boyer said. The release of Leaving Neverland in 2019 sparked the first debate around Jackson’s legacy since the #MeToo movement, which saw a reckoning around sexual abuse in Hollywood and other industries.

He added: “And as far as the money goes, [director] Antoine Fuqua reportedly earned $25m for making Michael. Obviously, the [Jackson] estate is going to make a huge amount of money. Everyone’s going to make money except – guess who? – Wade and James.

In a bid for positive counter-programming, Jackson's estate releases the 1992 film on YouTube at the same time as Leaving Neverland's broadcast premiere. "In producing this fictional work," the suit continues, "HBO ignored its contractual obligations to Michael and his companies by disparaging both him and the Dangerous World Tour that HBO had previously profited from immensely." The estate also calls Robson and Safechuck "two admitted perjurers," and accuses them of "practicing their stories and rehearsing their lines ...

Then and now: a young James Safechuck with Michael Jackson, and the tech VP today. Photos: AP, Getty Images ... Director Dan Reed recently released Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson, a follow-up production to his bombshell 2019 documentary about the men the late pop star had allegedly sexually abused as children, including Wade Robson and James Safechuck.

In 2023, an appellate court overturned the decisions and allowed both cases to move to a jury trial. In their combined lawsuits, Safechuck v. MJJ Productions, heading to trial in November 2026, the men demanded $400 million in damages from the estate. Leaving Neverland was conceived by Channel ...

Michael Jackson accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck are seeking a $400 million payout in damages over sexual abuse allegations made against the pop star, who died in 2009. Should Michael's executors not continue paying the legal fees for ...

The Jackson estate was quick to ... and Safechuck’s claims “dated and discredited.” (Jackson denied all allegations of abuse against him when he was alive.)...

Executive summary Courts have sent Wade Robson and James Safechuck’s claims on a legal roller coaster: initial filings were dismissed by lower courts, inc...

In short, Leaving Neverland claims Michael Jackson sexually abused Wade Robson and James Safechuck as children through repeated encounters embedded in a pattern of grooming; the film presents sustained testimony and evocative detail but does not settle legal questions already litigated, and ...

Si alguien está ganando dinero, ... Dan Reed defendió a Wade Robson y James Safechuck, y afirmó que no recibieron compensación económica por denunciar al cantante (AP)...

Reed critica la explicación central ... tiene ningún sentido”. El documentalista subraya que Robson y Safechuck “jamás recibieron un centavo” por contar su historia, ni han buscado acuerdos económicos....

Los herederos de Jackson, además, intentan averiguar si Robson y Safechuck recibieron alguna retribución económica por su participación en el documental, aunque según aseguró en varias entrevistas el director de la cinta, Dan Reed, ninguno había sido compensado económicamente.