As the fall out from the sexual abuse allegations levelled against the late pop king, Michael Jackson, by two former protegees, Wade Robson, 36, and James Safechuck, 40, continues, his niece Brandi Jackson, 37, has called his accusers liars.
Robson and Safechuck made the allegations in HBO’s Leaving Neverland documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 25 Jan 2019. They said late Michael Jackson sexually abused them as children.
Now, according to SoundCity TV, Brandi Jackson claimed to have dated one of the alleged victims, Robson, and accused him of lying about the allegations made against her uncle.
Speaking on Australia’s The Kyle and Jackie O Show on March 11, Brandi claimed she met Robson in “approximately” 1991 when they were both nine years old and did the LA Gear photo shoot and MJ’s Black or White music video together. She further alleged that her uncle was the one who set up their relationship, and claimed Michael invited Robson and his family to his Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara about three years later.
As it were, the documentary did not mention Brandi and so these claims are news to anyone who has watched the documentary.
When asked if she heard “any of these accusations” from Wade as teenagers, she tells radio host Kyle Sandilands, “not at all,” and even claimed that she was always at Wade’s house.
“You get this impression from the documentary that Wade was always with my uncle for these long spurts of time. But I can tell you that from the time that I met Wade that wasn’t the case.”
“Wade and I were together for over 7 years, but I bet that isn’t in his ‘documentary’ because it would ruin his timeline,” Brandi had tweeted on 11 Feb.
Brandi is the daughter of Michael Jackson’s brother, Jackie Jackson. Jackie, now 67 years old, was a part of the Jackson 5 and is the eldest of the Jackson siblings.
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