“Other provisions in the Agreement require HBO to notify and consult with Jackson and Optimum Productions if it wishes to air additional programming about Jackson.” “In those non-disparagement provisions, HBO promised that ‘HBO shall not make any disparaging remarks concerning Performer or any of his representatives, agents, or business practices or do any act that may harm or disparage or cause to lower in esteem the reputation or public image of Performer,'” states the complaint. The year was 1992, and many media outlets were said to be chasing Jackson’s televised concert at that time.
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The law may give no recourse to dead individuals when it comes to reputation, but those managing the Jackson business have found a way to haul HBO into court over Leaving Neverland.Īfter going through attacks on Jackson’s two accusers - Wade Robson and James Safechuck, plus filmmaker Dan Reed and HBO - for failing to meet with them to address concerns about what the estate sees as a one-sided propaganda film, the plaintiffs discuss the old contract that HBO made to air a first-ever televised concert after the release of Jackson’s album Dangerous. Michael is an easy target because he is not here to defend himself, and the law does not protect the deceased from defamation, no matter how extreme the lies are.” Ten years after his passing, there are still those out to profit from his enormous worldwide success and take advantage of his eccentricities.
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“In 2005, Michael Jackson was subjected to a trial - where rules of evidence and law were applied before a neutral judge and jury and where both sides were heard - and he was exonerated by a sophisticated jury. Period,” begins the complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. On Thursday, Optimum Productions and the two co-executors of the Jackson estate sued HBO and parent company Time Warner claiming the documentary constitutes a breach of a non-disparagement clause in an old contract.
The Michael Jackson Estate is hardly letting go of Leaving Neverland, the documentary about the late pop star’s alleged sexual abuse that is set to air next month on HBO.
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