{"id":628519,"date":"2026-03-03T05:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/628519\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T05:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:53:15","slug":"michael-jackson-abused-boy-at-homes-of-elton-john-elizabeth-taylor-lawsuit-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/628519\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson abused boy at homes of Elton John, Elizabeth Taylor, lawsuit says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Four siblings who were part of Michael Jackson\u2019s secret \u201csecond family\u201d<\/a> have filed a lawsuit revealing the depths of the alleged sexual abuse they suffered as children, including claims that the singer molested one of the boys at the homes of Elton John and Elizabeth Taylor.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, filed against Jackson\u2019s estate in California Central District Court on Friday, accuses the late singer of grooming, drugging, raping and sexually assaulting four of the Cascio children \u2014 Edward, Dominic, Marie-Nicole and Aldo \u2014 over the course of more than a decade, beginning when some of them were as young as 7. A fifth sibling, Frank Cascio, is not a plaintiff in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

The pop icon used code phrases such as \u201cCan I have a meeting,\u201d \u201cYogi Tea,\u201d \u201cNeverland,\u201d and \u201cGo to Disneyland\u201d to encourage the children to engage in \u201cextreme sex acts\u201d with him, the suit alleges. He plied them with wine \u2014 \u201cJesus Juice\u201d \u2014 and hard liquor \u2014 \u201cDisney Juice \u201c \u2014 and used drugs to make them more compliant, according to the lawsuit. <\/p>\n

The \u201cThriller\u201d singer\u2019s connection to the Cascio family began in the 1980s when he met their father, Dominic Cascio Sr., at a luxury hotel in New York where the father worked. <\/p>\n

The lawsuit accuses Jackson of \u201cinsinuating himself\u201d into the Cascio family by using \u201cobsessive attention, lavish gifts, access to his celebrity lifestyle, and declarations that he loved and needed each of them.\u201d He invited them to travel around the world with him and celebrated Thanksgiving, Christmas and his own birthday with them. He often spent long periods of time at their New Jersey home, where he also brought his own children, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

The chart-topping artist is accused of raping and molesting Edward \u201cEddie\u201d Cascio at Elizabeth Taylor\u2019s house in Switzerland as well as at Elton John\u2019s home in the United Kingdom. Representatives for Jackson\u2019s estate, Taylor\u2019s estate and John did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n

The complaint alleges that the late singer abused the four siblings at international and national tour stops as well as at his Santa Barbara County estate, Neverland Ranch. That property became a central focus of the 2019 documentary \u201cLeaving Neverland\u201d<\/a> in which two of Jackson\u2019s accusers, Wade Robson and James Safechuck<\/a>, detail the abuse they suffered as children. <\/p>\n

The complaint states that Jackson\u2019s staff would help conceal and normalize his abuse of the Cascios; employees would deliberately book the parents hotel rooms away from their children, the suit says, so they could not tell how much time Jackson was spending with them.<\/p>\n

The entertainer showed the siblings pornography and naked photos of children to desensitize them, the complaint alleges. He told them that his life, their lives and that of their family members would be destroyed if people knew what was going on.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told them to stay away from therapists and to avoid women, who he told them were \u2018evil,\u2019 \u2018sneaky,\u2019 \u2018liars,\u2019 and could \u2018smell\u2019 if something sexual had happened,\u201d the complaint states.<\/p>\n

For decades after the initial 1993 sexual assault claim <\/a>against Jackson surfaced, the Cascio family did not speak up against the singer. <\/p>\n

The performer convinced the parents to withdraw Aldo Cascio and Marie-Nicole Cascio from school on two occasions to \u201cprevent disclosure of the abuse and gain more access to them,\u201d the complaint alleges. The second time was shortly after authorities raided Neverland Ranch<\/a> in 2003.<\/p>\n

The Cascios\u2019 longtime relationship with the superstar became known to the public when they appeared on Oprah<\/a> in 2010. <\/p>\n

During the appearance, they were billed as Jackon\u2019s secret \u201csecond family\u201d and said that they were reluctant to come forward but wanted to \u201cshow the world who Michael really was.\u201d At the time, the family said that the siblings were never abused and that they didn\u2019t believe the accusations against Jackson. <\/p>\n

As the four siblings aged and expos\u00e9s such as \u201cLeaving Neverland\u201d came out, their statements about their childhood relationship with the pop star shifted. In 2019, several members of the Cascio family entered a confidential settlement agreement with Jackson\u2019s estate agreeing to remain silent about their relationship to the singer. <\/p>\n

That agreement provided for Jackson\u2019s estate to pay each sibling five annual payments of about $690,000 as compensation \u201cfor the many years that Jackson abused each of them and that the Jackson Organization enabled and covered up the abuse,\u201d according to the complaint. The Cascios say that this amount is \u201cwholly inadequate,\u201d noting that the singer reportedly paid $25 million<\/a> in 1994 to settle the abuse allegations made against him in 1993. <\/p>\n

Now, the four siblings are challenging the agreement as part of their recently filed lawsuit, alleging that that they were coerced into signing it without understanding their rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuried within the Document\u2019s legalese was a purported release of the Estate from liability for Jackson\u2019s crimes, and language that prohibited Plaintiffs from reporting Jackson\u2019s crimes to law enforcement or anyone saying anything negative about Jackson, or holding the Estate accountable in court for its and Jackson\u2019s wrongdoing,\u201d the complaint alleges.<\/p>\n

Marty Singer, an attorney for Jackson\u2019s estate, decried the lawsuit as \u201ca desperate money grab\u201d in a statement to People<\/a>. A representative for Singer did not immediately respond to The Times\u2019 request for comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe family staunchly defended Michael Jackson for more than 25 years, attesting to his innocence of inappropriate conduct,\u201d Singer told People. \u201cThis new court filing is a transparent forum-shopping tactic in their scheme to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars from Michael\u2019s estate and companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The four Cascio siblings are asking a jury to award them financial damages \u2014 including some potentially tripled damages because they were abused as children \u2014 over their allegations of sexual abuse and cover-up. They are also asking the court to throw out the 2019 agreement they say was used to silence them and are also seeking a ruling that the estate cannot force their claims into private arbitration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four siblings who were part of Michael Jackson\u2019s secret \u201csecond family\u201d have filed a lawsuit revealing the depths…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":628520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[567,1582,276,268182,268183,4471,28126,39148,35466,614,316,13819,2961,379,224,5337,268184,1018,62379,15164],"class_list":["post-628519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-abuse","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-cascio-family","tag-cascios","tag-child","tag-complaint","tag-elizabeth-taylor","tag-elton-john","tag-estate","tag-home","tag-jackson","tag-la","tag-lawsuit","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-marie-nicole","tag-michael-jackson","tag-sibling","tag-singer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116163694584689214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}