The estate of Michael Jackson is hoping to stop HBO from airing the upcoming documentary Leaving Neverland by hitting the company with a $100 million lawsuit
That filing, which was obtained by DailyMail.com, accuses HBO of breaching a contract that was signed by the King of Pop back in 1992 when his Dangerous World Tour aired on the premium cable channel
The film does this by suggesting that Jackson molested children while he was on the Dangerous World Tour
'It is hard to imagine a more direct violation of the non-disparagement clause,' declares the suit
It also calls the two men at the center of the documentary, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, 'admitted perjurers,' and mocks current HBO president Richard Peppler, calling him a 'failure
' Leaving Neverland is set to air on March 3 and 4. 'Michael may not have lived his life according to society's norms, but genius and eccentricity are not crimes
Nothing and no one can rewrite the facts which show that Michael Jackson is indeed innocent of the charges being levied at him by HBO in its "documentary" Leaving Neverland,' states the lawsuit, which opens with a lengthy, and unorthodox, introduction
'No one-sided "documentary" can substitute for a real documentary, or for a trial where both sides are heard, competent evidence is presented, and witnesses are cross-examined
' The introduction then goes after HBO, stating that the network is so 'desperate for eyeballs that its growing irrelevance to the cord-cutting generation
'Wade Robson and James Safechuck, the two men at the center of the documentary, are described as 'two admitted perjurers, one of whom is a selfdescribed "master of deception," whose litigations have played out in the courts as a failed melodrama for more than five years
'The filing goes on to state: 'With more holes in their stories than anyone can count, both view Michael Jackson, the man who they previously swore was an inspiration and did nothing to them, as a lottery ticket through accusations never brought during Michael's life
'They never brought these claims during Michael's life, because they knew Michael would have held them both legally accountable for their defamation, just as Michael had held the "reporter" Victor Gutierrez—who seems to be the true author of these two men's fictional tales—liable before a jury for millions of dollars when he falsely made similar claims about Jackson
' The documentary is also bias ad one-sided according to the co-executors of Jackson's estate, John Branca and John McClain, who filed the suit along with Optimum Productions
'[Producer] Dan Reed made no attempt to review the legal records from Robson's and Safechuck's litigations with the Estate, where the judge found that Robson had lied under oath during the litigations on key issues; and where Robson was caught red-handed hiding crucial evidence from the court, from the Jackson Estate, and even from his own lawyers,' states the court record
'Reed even ignored the fact that these men are still pursuing claims against the Jackson Estate for hundreds of millions of dollars so they have hundreds of millions of reasons to lie
'Robson, Safechuck and Reed are not named in the suit as defendants.'Dan Reed is an award-winning filmmaker who has carefully documented these survivors' accounts,' siad HBO in a statement
'People should reserve judgment until they see the film.'
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