Woman Sues Michael Jackson Estate for Allegedly Sexually Abusing her in Encino

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Two of the late Michael Jackson's companies were sued Tuesday by a woman who alleges she was molested over a period of several years by the singer when she was a young girl in the 1980s.

Neither the accuser nor the Jackson companies are named in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit, which alleges intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence. The plaintiff, now an adult, is identified only as Jane A.A. Doe.

She is seeking unspecified damages.

Howard Weitzman, an attorney for the Jackson estate, released a statement saying the lawsuit "is yet another attempt to hit the lottery by suing the estate of Michael Jackson more than seven years after Michael's death and close to 30 years after these incidents supposedly occurred.

We believe this claim was created from whole cloth and is without any merit," he said. "It's also no coincidence that this woman is represented by the same attorneys involved in two other frivolous claims against the estate."

The suit states that the plaintiff met Jackson in 1986, when she was 12 years old. Her parents stopped outside the Jackson compound in Encino to sightsee and the singer himself drove up and saw the girl, according to the complaint.

The plaintiff's parents accepted Jackson's invitation, made through one of his security guards, to visit the mansion grounds, the suit says.

Jackson introduced himself to the girl and her family and invited only her and her mother into his home to see his "candy area," the suit alleges.

Jackson's sexual abuse of the girl began that year and continued until 1989, when she was almost 15 and going through puberty, according to the complaint. He fondled her, gave her what he called "movie kisses" and committed other acts for sexual gratification, the suit alleges.

Attached to the complaint are copies of letters allegedly handwritten by Jackson, including one that states, "I love you and miss you very much."

Also attached are copies of checks that prove Jackson paid the plaintiff hundreds of thousands of dollars in the early 1990s "to compensate her for the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of Michael Jackson," the suit alleges.

Jackson died on June 25, 2009, at age 50 of a drug overdose.

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