On January 25, 1994. An out-of-court settlement was reached in Michael Jackson's civil case. and the family of the boy who had accused him of the crime the previous year. The amount paid was around US$23 million. While it has been made clear that the solution is anything but, many have speculated as to why one person would have to pay the price for Michael Jackson's crimes. The price is so high to avoid the case going to court. Much has been made of the lasting impact these accusations had on Michael Jackson since, arguing that even if the crimes were not proven in court, they had forever tarnished his name and "The King." What sent Jackson into a whirlwind of public and personal image was his "pop" status.
He never fully recovered, leading to his eventual death. What's obvious is the devastating impact the entire saga had on Michael, but what's often forgotten in the public realm is what impact this had on the boy behind the accusations. Jordan Chandler. Escaped from obscurity and plunged headlong into the biggest tabloid scandal of the time. What impact does this have on the law. Crime and the media targeted the then 13-year-old boy and those around him. has become one of the largest companies in the world. Media targets and overnight access to a fortune that many can only dream of? Is that boy, now 42, living an elusive life of luxury? Thanks to the scandal surrounding him all those years ago? Or has traumatic experience forged a path of destruction and personal turmoil that no amount of need can forgive? Here is a detail.
After months of negotiations. The estimated $23 million settlement announced that day requires $15 million in funds to be set aside in trust for children until they turn 18. Then Jordan's long-divorced parents will receive $3 million between them, his biological mother June. and his biological father, Evan Chandler, should each receive $5 million. The remaining $5 million was then given to Chandler's legal team.
However, while the civil case is settled, the criminal investigation into Michael Jackson will continue. Los Angeles District Attorney, Gil Garcetti, insisted that the settlement did not affect the criminal investigation. And I didn't stop Jordan from testifying. However, the problem has since been solved. Jordan Chandler steadfastly refused to cooperate with the criminal case. In the coming months, grand juries in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles held hearings on the Jackson investigation. Both grand juries were dismissed without indicting Jackson. Despite this, investigators refused to close the case and were still trying to persuade Jordan to testify. On September 21, 1994, the Santa Barbara District Attorney.
Thomas Sneddon, as well as the Los Angeles District Attorney, have requested a formal statement on the status of the Michael Jackson case. They informed the public that Jordan Chandler was unwilling to testify, so they could not press charges. Garcetti said the 18-month investigation found no incriminating evidence against Jackson. He also said, quote, Michael Jackson is presumed innocent just like any citizen here if they are not convicted. It's clear that Jordan, now 14, has fully completed his handling of the case after months of probing and unfinished investigations. And just wanted to escape the stress of the legal process. However, while a line can be drawn in light of the civil and criminal trials against Michael Jackson, the dynamics within Jordan have left the family irrevocably changed as a result of the scandal. Prior to these accusations, Jordan's relationship with his biological father, Evan, seemed deeply ambivalent. But during 1993 and with the help of the accusations, he then managed to gain custody of his now millionaire son. Evan soon separated from his second wife Natalie, as did his relationship with his wife. Other children from that marriage were virtually non-existent.
The accusations follow in legal documents related to his second divorce. His estranged wife complained that Evan refused to work. He closed his Beverly Hills dental practice shortly after the settlement, had no support for his minor children, could not provide services to them, and was content to live off his son Jordan's money. David Schwartz, Jordan's mother's now second husband, took action and sued Jordan's father. In August 1994, Evan Chandler had just become a millionaire. That same month, Schwartz sued Michael Jackson as well, claiming damages, claiming that he and his daughter were. Quote, traumatized by the accusations and media siege, the consequences are lasting. Although these cases ultimately went nowhere, June and Schwartz were soon back in court, seeking an annulment from their marriage by the end of 1994. Following the accusations, Jordan appeared to have immediately disowned his mother, as June Childer admitted in court in 2005. She said she had not spoken to Jordan since 1994. Instead, Jordan decided to marry his father's second wife, Natalie, who by this time had divorced Evan and his wife.
In the second marriage, there were two half-brothers and sisters. After their divorce, Natalie later married a Hollywood screenwriter, who raised Evans' two children as his own. As family relations had broken down, July 4, 1995. New reports suggest Jordan Chandler is legally freeing himself. His parents are gone. The act of allowing a minor to gain freedom from the control of a parent or guardian and advance to adulthood so that the child can legally make decisions on their own behalf. It was suggested that 15-year-old Jordan had immediate legal concerns. His parents have their own position when it comes to making decisions about him and his financial situation. At the end of 1995, Jordan Chandler gained the right to be emancipated from his parents. However, despite being emancipated, from the court documents between Nathalie and Evan, it appears that Evan still retained some mental or emotional control over Jordan, as Natalie complained that after a period of time, Jordan lost He refused to contact his siblings and refused to talk or meet with him.
Just like their father, who completely abandoned them. By this time. Evan Chandler will continue to file a civil lawsuit against Michael Jackson on his own behalf , naming Jackson's first wife Lisa Marie Presley. ABC Capitol Cities Broadcasting and others were charged with violating a confidentiality agreement signed in a 1994 settlement when Jackson insisted he was innocent in an interview with ABC. This time, the boy's father demanded more than $60 million from Jackson and a recording contract so that he could release the musical. album about abuse allegations involving his son. However, the lawsuit failed to garner any momentum, and by 1998, it was tossed out of court. In 2001, Tom Snedden was quoted in the New York Daily News as saying that the case against Michael Jackson never actually happened.
Suspended and may reopen at any time. Sneddon was also quoted as saying that the statute of limitations for Jordan Chandler's testimony had not expired because Michael Jackson had lived abroad for so long. When Martin Bashir's "Life with Michael Jackson" documentary aired in the United States on February 6, 2003. On the same day, the full text of Jordan Chandler's 1993 statement was leaked to the media. Chapter The 23-year-old Jordan himself has never spoken publicly about the accusations again and has always kept a low profile, reportedly living independently from his family. New York City study. In September 2004, on the eve of Michael Jackson's criminal case against Ray Chandler, Evan, after a second set of charges were brought against him. -Chandler's brother and Jordan, Chandler's uncle, is releasing a book called "All That Glitters
" that chronicles every detail when it comes to the show from an insider's perspective. charges in 1993. The book was long overdue for Ray Chandler because within days of the 1994 settlement, Jordan's uncle reportedly began shopping for a book detailing the case.
The publisher initially turned him down, fearing legal repercussions because the settlement said no one involved was allowed to talk to the media about the case, book publisher Judith Regan said in a serious XM Radio interview. I asked him how he was going to do that, given the fact that the Chandler family had actually signed a nondisclosure agreement and he said Jordan's father had given him what he needed for the book. All information he believed was outside the scope of the NDA as he would be the author
at the time. My impression was that the Chandlers were shameless opportunists and I found out that their uncle was the one who brought it up.
The suggestions were disgusting, according to Michael Jackson's FBI files when prosecutors in the Arviso case asked Jordan Chandler to testify in the 2005 China-U.S. The young man refused, telling them he would legally fight any attempt to get him to testify against Jackson. Jackson's attorney, Thomas Mesereau, later said they had witnesses who would testify if Jordan did. They were called. These witnesses were all people who knew Jordan personally, and according to Mesereau, Jordan confided to them that Jackson never did anything to him, even though Jordan Chandler was never asked to appear before the jury. It didn't take long for Michael Jackson to go to court in a different case, when on July 24, 2005, Evan Chancellor sued Jordan, which was related to his son's trust fund, which Jordan later obtained against his father. The temporary restraining order claimed that while they were living in the same home, Evan, cited, hit him in the head from behind with a 12.5-pound object and then sprayed him in the eyes with mace.
Then tried to strangle him. The judge also found that the weight could easily cause serious bodily harm or death. Although the judge in the case claimed that he saw no evidence against the defendant. Evan Chandler, displayed, quote, a pattern of abusive and controlling behavior. And on this basis, he requested final restrictions on Jordan. The order and his father's court action against his son were dismissed. On November 5, 2009. Just four months after Michael Jackson's own sudden death, Evan Chandler was found. A bullet was lodged in his head in his New Jersey home.
The 65-year-old left no note and apparently died as a lonely man suffering from bipolar disorder. and beset with severe and painful illnesses. A family source told the New York Post that Chandler had undergone plastic surgery and had regular Botox injections. Injections into his face rendered him nearly unrecognizable. The charges against Jackson were first made about 16 years ago. In his will, Evan decreed that his family would not be informed of his death until after his funeral.
He also stated that he did not wish to leave anything to any of his three children for reasons best known to us. I intentionally do not provide in this my last will and testament for any of my children or their descendants. Since the death of Michael Jackson and his father, Jordan Chandler has not retreated from the public eye, but seems to have completely disappeared.
He is said to have changed his name and is living somewhere in New York. Possibly Long Island, which Jackson's accusers were unable to locate by any means. When Wade Robson made new accusations against Michael Jackson in 2013. The former choreographer made several attempts to talk to Jordan in the hope of getting his help. He will prove his claims in court. Jordan could not be found. Robson's legal team then questioned his biological sister Lily Chandler. Hopefully she will provide a testimony. Information about what happened in Neverland or the whereabouts of her brother. His sister said she and her mother had no contact with him and that her brother had completely disappeared.
Lily also wishes not to get involved in the legal proceedings because she fears it will upset her family. Among Jackson's legions of fans, the Chandler family has received a barrage of abuse from Jackson in the past. Lily testified that she had no memory of any inappropriate behavior because she was only five years old at the time. She has filed a request asking a judge to block the discovery. Attached were several threatening emails sent to her family. Years later, Dan Reed. The director of the documentary Leaving Neverland, which included Wade Robson and James Suffolk amid new accusations against Michael Jackson, has taken it upon himself to try to get in touch with Jordan Chandler again. and Gavin Arvizo, another Michael Jackson accuser. I wrote a very long, carefully worded letter to Gavin about the film. I still desperately wanted to hear from him, but he never responded. Jordan is not that easy to access. We did some research to try and find him, but decided not to push the matter further. Because it looks like he wants to stay hidden. For now. Although Dan Reed's quest to corroborate Michael Jackson's accusers in his documentary first failed, the director later stated that after the release of Leaving Neverland he wanted to continue telling the story of those who had raised concerns about the "King of Pop" The person who accuses.
Reed told Business Insider that he would be interested in doing a follow-up to Leaving Neverland. But only if he can talk to Jordan Chandler and Gavin Arvizzo. The two men accused Michael Jackson while he was still alive. The story of Wade and James has not been explored until now. But charges were not filed while Jackson was alive, Reed said. So they never felt the brunt of the attack on the Jackson couple's machine, Jordan Chandler and Gavin Arvizzo. They feel this power fully. The Leaving Neverland director was later quoted as saying to Variety. If Jordan Chandler stepped up, if I could sit down with him and have a conversation with him like I did with Wade and James, that would, I think, be the core story of a very interesting movie. Although for now Reed says a sequel is only in the idea stage. Chandler and Arvizzo did not contact him about telling their stories. Thank you for watching.
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