{"id":76268,"date":"2024-03-22T00:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T04:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/03\/22\/michael-jackson-estate-claims-his-mother-has-received-55m-since-his-death\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T00:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T04:02:59","slug":"michael-jackson-estate-claims-his-mother-has-received-55m-since-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/03\/22\/michael-jackson-estate-claims-his-mother-has-received-55m-since-his-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson Estate Claims His Mother Has Received $55M Since His\u00a0Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tMichael Jackson<\/a>\u2019s estate claimed in legal filings Thursday (Mar. 21) that his mother, Katherine Jackson, has received more than $55 million since the singer\u2019s death \u2014 a revelation that came during an acrimonious dispute between the estate\u2019s executors and the elder Jackson.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new filings, obtained by Billboard<\/em>, were aimed at proving that the estate itself shouldn\u2019t have to pay for Katherine\u2019s recent legal bills, which stem from her efforts to block an unspecified business transaction \u2014 believed to be the estate\u2019s recent estimated $600 million catalog deal<\/a> with Sony.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMichael Jackson\u2019s Son Says Estate Shouldn\u2019t Pay Grandmother\u2019s Legal Bills In Dispute Over $600\u2026\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

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\n\tIn making that argument, estate executors John Branca<\/strong> and John McClain<\/strong> argued Thursday that \u201cvirtually no request of Mrs. Jackson for her care or maintenance has been declined\u201d in the years since Michael\u2019s 2009 death.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cContrary to claims made by Mrs. Jackson\u2019s counsel, the executors have in fact provided liberally for Mrs. Jackson\u2019s maintenance, care and well being,\u201d attorneys for Branca and McClain wrote. \u201cSince Michael\u2019s death, the executors have expended for Mrs. Jackson\u2019s benefit more than $55 million.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe elder Jackson allegedly received more than $33 million in cash, including an ongoing allowance of $160,0000 per month, plus a $15 million luxury home, the estate claimed. Branca and McClain also claimed that they provided Katherine with an emergency $3.7 million payment in December to satisfy delinquent income tax liabilities.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt is difficult to imagine that the trustees could provide any more liberally for Mrs. Jackson,\u201d attorneys for the executors wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tThursday\u2019s filing is the latest development in an ongoing feud between Katherine and the executors over her opposition to the unspecified business transaction. While the disputed deal has not been named in court documents, the Jackson estate recently struck an estimated $600 million deal to sell part of the singer\u2019s catalog to Sony, the terms of which were first reported by Billboard <\/em>last month.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the Jackson estate sought court approval for the unnamed deal in 2022, Katherine filed objections with the court. But in April 2023, the judge overseeing the estate rejected those objections and ruled that the deal could move forward. Katherine then filed an appeal, which is still pending.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn December, Katherine filed motions asking that the estate pay for the legal bills she had incurred in making her objections, including the ongoing appeal. In an initial response earlier this month, Branca and McClain strongly opposed the request to pay for what they called her \u201cfailed objection\u201d and \u201cmeritless appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this week, Michael\u2019s son Blanket echoed those objections<\/a>, arguing that his grandmother\u2019s appeal was an \u201cextreme longshot\u201d and that it would be \u201cunfair\u201d to force him and his siblings to pay for that case.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn their new filing on Thursday, Branca and McClain went even further \u2014 claiming that the estate should not have to pay Katherine\u2019s lawyers for filing objections that had caused \u201csubstantial damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cImportantly, this petition is not about Mrs. Jackson\u2019s maintenance, care, comfort and support,\u201d the executors\u2019 attorneys wrote. \u201cThis petition is about payment of attorneys\u2019 fees for an objection filed on Mrs. Jackson\u2019s behalf, which the court overruled, and the subsequent, frivolous and still pending appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAn attorney for Katherine Jackson did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Michael Jackson\u2019s estate claimed in legal filings Thursday (Mar. 21) that his mother, Katherine Jackson, has received more than $55 million since the singer\u2019s death \u2014 a revelation that came during an acrimonious dispute between the estate\u2019s executors and the elder Jackson. The new filings, obtained by Billboard, were aimed at proving that the estate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}