The FIVE children from one family who claim Michael Jackson brainwashed and abused them for 25 years… without each other knowing: Siblings now suing the disgraced popstar’s estate for £160million https://t.co/UzriCj4D4Q
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) October 11, 2025
• The Cascio siblings- who were close friends of the late Michael Jackson for over 20 years- have now accused him of grooming, brainwashing and abusing the entire family of five children over a period of more than 25 years.
• After watching the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland about two other victims, the siblings were horrified to find similarities to their own cases.
Court documents detail “the Cascio siblings’ shock and trauma upon realising this had happened to all of them, unbeknownst to each other […] following the release of the documentary Leaving Neverland and the Cascios’ subsequent disclosure of their shared experiences with each other for the first time.”
• The filing at the Los Angeles County Superior Court says: “From the early 1980s until at least 2009, Michael Jackson had intimate contact with the Cascio children. This abusive contact occurred over a span of decades and involved hundreds of instances.
Each of the Cascio children were groomed, brainwashed and severely manipulated to believe that each was uniquely “special” to Michael and that their relationship with him was exclusive. This emotional manipulation was designed to secure each family member’s loyalty and ensure their silence, making them feel indebted to Michael and isolated from any source of protection or perspective.
Through years of psychological conditioning, Michael cultivated dependence and fear in the Cascios, making respondents believe they had no choice but to comply and no safe way to break free. The effects of this conditioning persisted into adulthood, leaving respondents with a deeply ingrained belief that speaking out would constitute betrayal – a dynamic the estate has continued to exploit in its dealings with them.”
• Frank Cascio wrote a book on MJ about their friendship and claimed Jackson told him his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley after settling molestation allegations was a business decision and Presley was jealous that Jackson preferred to hang out with the Cascio siblings rather than her.