Chris Wasser

So people might know the Casio family from an Oprah Winfrey interview around 16, 17 years ago following Michael Jackson's death.

And this was a family that was once considered Michael Jackson's second family.

He had a lot of those families where he had made friends with hotel managers and maybe promoters over the years and then subsequently made friends with their families.

But the Casios came out, Dominic and Connie Ocasio, Dominic being the manager of a Manhattan hotel where Michael Jackson used to stay.

And they said on the Oprah Winfrey show with three of their children that Michael Jackson was innocent.

That further allegations, further child abuse allegations had come out and they said, no, he's an innocent man.

Oprah Winfrey asked them at that time, were there any improprieties with you and Michael Jackson?

She asked the adult children at that time and they all said no.

You know, he was just Michael.

He was just our friend.

What happened then was around like 2019 and 2020, now we didn't know this until recently, the Casio family having watched Dan Reed's Leaving Neverland documentary, which documents two adult men discussing an extraordinary detail, how they said that Michael Jackson abused them when they were kids and when they were staying at the Neverland ranch.

The Casio family children, who are now adults, watched that and they started saying to themselves, this sounds a lot like our story.

This is what they say.

So they went to the Jackson estate and they said that Michael Jackson abused them when they were kids.

And there was a settlement there, something around like a $16 to $20 million settlement where they would be paid that amount over five years.

When the payments stopped then, the Casio family went to the Jackson estate and said, we're going to sue you for a further $213 million.

And that is the kind of case that you can't keep quiet.

That's the sort of money that you can't keep quiet.

So it's only coming out now that you have this family of five.

I think four of the five Casio children are involved in the lawsuit.