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Post by Vega on Sept 26, 2024 3:50:37 GMT
The Cascio tracks divided the fandom for several years and I don't think I'm alone in having an utter lack of interest in the issue 10 years on. The Estate's incompetence has been well documented and it's not surprising bad actors like the Cascios were able to exploit that early on. kinda can't believe I wrote this as the seeds for the next battle were being planted. 50/50 I guess. |
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Post by pg13 on Sept 30, 2024 10:20:14 GMT
I don't know if the details of the story as reported by Stacy Brown are completely accurate. Like for example about what the original contract was about. Obviously he can't be fully trusted based on his past, however he does seem to be in contact with Branca. You said it, he's praising Branca, that was also the main point of his other article on September 4. That's a dead giveaway that they are in contact. All these articles in the past fed by Branca, for example in the Forbes, have this pattern: praising Branca about how he turned the Estate around. And this extortion story does seem to be fed by Branca as well. Has Brown twisted some details of it (like what the contradiction about what the original contract was for)? Possible. But I doubt he made it all up and this story has nothing real to be based on. So probably there's an extortion going on. As to the details, we will see. I have to admit the way it came out is odd and especially Branca's choice of an outlet. I don't know why Branca chose SB and what it means, but he does seem be the source of the article. I really hope Branca isn't throwing MJ under the bus here to save his own face. What I mean is, that if, for example, the extortion isn't about CSA at all but the songs. That the Cascios threatened Branca to go to Sony to tell them he knew the songs were fake and Branca is making it about something else in public in order to deflect from his own fuck-up. This crossed my mind, but I treat it as very conspiracy level stuff for now. With such an extortion the Cascios would admit that the songs were fake and incriminate themselves as well. (Although since Jason Malachi's attorney already admitted Jason's involvement, maybe that wouldn't be a big step any more.) But I wouldn't be surprised if somehow the fake songs issue is also involved in this and is at least a part of the extortion. Oh, and yes, Stacy Brown broke the story, not the Financial Times. The FT only went after it after Brown published his article. And I don't think they made it up that they too talked to the Estate. A FT level paper wouldn't make something like that up. So again, that confirms the core story is real, or at least, let's put it this way then, that Branca did confirm this story. As to why the media hasn't jumped on it. They usually only jump on stories that come from sides hostile to MJ, not on stories that come from his own Estate. I have to say it's again telling about the incompetence of the Estate's communication that they don't have high profile, decent media contacts. Roger Friedman and Stacy Brown are their go to journalists. Says it all... 🙄 I would keep things as simple as possible and no simpler. 👇 The Cascios aren't criminal masterminds by any stretch and they got too greedy for their own good. Felt entitled to more, wanted more and saw an opportunity to try for more courtesy of the Leaving Neverland shit storm at the time. Then made an extortion attempt that appeared to them to have been modestly successful at first. And believed they were in a position to make further demands without noticing the strategic ground has been massively changed since 2019, i.e., MJ brand is thriving, LN withered away reasonably quickly after an initial blast, situation is vastly different to the then unknown in 2019. Blown up in their faces now the Estate is in a position to bare their teeth and flex their muscles by reporting them to the relevant law enforcement agencies. The Cascio songs has little relevance to this extortion attempt except for the Cascio name. In hindsight, I suppose we can say the Michael Jackson story of befriending families with young boys at a crucial stage of development is very risky business. Those lads grow up to realise the highest point of their lives was when they were friends with Michael Jackson at ages it seems everything is possible, limitless, effortless, etc. Then they grow up to find life is hard, people only cared about their friends with Michael Jackson, they become entitled, some find bespoke employment with MJ, others fail in their efforts to have a career, MJ's encouragement to pursue dreams turns into bitterness as Michael achieved most of his whilst they can't achieve theirs, etc. So, at some point, thoughts turn to how Michael somehow owes them and, if he won't give them money which they never had the balls to demand in while he was alive, they're going to make allegations now he's dead. Michael will never know and they think "it's his fault for encouraging us to stretch beyond our limits!". Michael's relationship with the Chandlers, Cascios, Robsons, Safechucks, Arvizos and Francias is a cautionary tale. On the other hand, he had relationships with families who never betrayed him, or haven't to date. Culkins, Barnes', Agajanians, the German family and others. Michael couldn't have foreseen it, so hindsight really is 20/20. |
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Post by ontime on Oct 1, 2024 16:02:05 GMT
I think the title of this thread should just be Cascios trying to extort the Estate. The allegation part should not be included. According to Stacy Brown, the extortion plot has nothing to do with sex abuse. Brown is a well-known Michael Jackson detractor, and he’s also a compulsive liar. I wouldn’t believe anything that comes out of his mouth. I’m glad that no major news outlet picked up the story.
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