Aussie fights ‘to access Michael Jackson nude photos’

Michael Jackson’s production company is fighting to throw out legal proceedings that could allow two men, including Aussie Wade Robson, to access sealed records including naked photos.

Michael Jackson’s production company is fighting to throw out legal proceedings that could allow two men, including an Australian, to access sealed police records.

Court documents filed this week in Los Angeles reveal the late singer’s company, MJJ Productions, wants the subpoenas to be quashed as they believe the pair is looking to access photos of Jackson’s naked body, taken by police during the original investigation.

Lawyers said the case raises serious privacy concerns, arguing in court documents that there’s a reason the photographs remain protected by a strict court order.

Australian choreographer Wade Robson, 41, and American actor James Safechuck, 46, both claim they were repeatedly sexually assaulted as children during the 1980s and 1990s.

The pair, who were featured in the bombshell documentary Leaving Neverland, have filed multiple subpoenas since 2018, attempting to gain access to records regarding historic paeodophilia charges — however, all have so far been quashed.

They say Jackson’s production company was liable for allowing the alleged abuse to occur.

“The photographs plaintiffs seek were not taken willingly by Mr Jackson; they were the result of a court-ordered search based on a false statement in what became a discredited criminal investigation,” lawyers for Jackson’s estate argued in court filings.

“To allow plaintiffs to exploit that series of circumstances to their benefit by obtaining those photographs now adds a second defilement to the first.”

Mr Robson and Mr Safechuck have sued MJJ Production and MJJ Ventures for negligence, breach of duty and “intentional infliction of emotional distress”.

They successfully combined their lawsuits into a single case in February and hope to go to trial early next year, before a new film about the singer is released.

“They want the Michael Jackson biopic to come out before the trial. That’s what I think,” their lawyer, John Carpenter, told Rolling Stone.

“These corporations that facilitated the abuse in the first place, they’re rewriting the history.”

However, a lawyer for Jackson’s companies said it won’t be ready until December 2026.

Originally published as Aussie fights ‘to access Michael Jackson nude photos’