A former choreographer for Britney Spears is reversing his prior adamant denials and accusing Michael Jackson of molesting him as a minor. Dancer Wade Robson, 30, is asking a Los Angeles judge for permission to file a late claim against the dead singer’s estate and an order to seal an “unfiled complaint for childhood sexual abuse.”
Howard Weitzman, the lawyer for Jackson's estate, fired back at the accusations and states that Robson's claim is “outrageous and pathetic.”
“This is a young man who has testified at least twice under oath over the past 20 years and said in numerous interviews that Michael Jackson never did anything inappropriate to him or with him,” Weitzman said. “Now, nearly four years after Michael has passed, this sad and less than credible claim has been made. We are confident that the court will see this for what it is.”
Robson, an established choreographer and producer who’s also worked with Justin Timberlake and Demi Lovato, was a regular sleepover companion of the “Thriller” singer in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s after their meeting in Australia when he was just 5 years old.
He testified at Jackson’s 2005 molestation trial that he shared the pop star’s bed a few times as a boy but was “never” sexually abused. Giving uneasy testimony in Santa Barbara County, Robson denied an ex-maid’s claim that she caught Jackson showering naked with him.