Four Cascio siblings, part of Michael Jackson’s “secret family,” accused the late pop star of grooming and sexually abusing them as children in a "60 Minutes Australia" interview Sunday.
Eddie, Aldo, Dominic and Marie-Nicole filed a lawsuit in February, claiming he was a serial child sex predator who abused them at homes of Elizabeth Taylor and Elton John.
Their father, Dominic Sr, met Jackson in the 1980s at the Helmsley Palace Hotel in New York. This led to family holidays at Neverland Ranch, world tours, private jet trips, and meetings with diplomats.
Eddie, now 43, first met Jackson at age 2 during unannounced late-night home visits, where videos showed Jackson's chimpanzee, Bubbles, with the kids.
The star won them over with lavish gifts, making them feel special. “My parents were young. For them to have such a big celebrity want to be friends with them… they definitely felt special, and so did we,” Eddie said, as quoted by New York Post, citing "60 Minutes Australia." “He made us feel like we were his family, his kids, his everything.”
The siblings said abuse spanned 25 years, including at Neverland and on tours. Eddie claimed it started at 11 during the “1993 Dangerous tour,” with Jackson abusing him every night in bed and well into his adulthood. “We were on tour, and that’s when Michael started to get closer and started rubbing me on my legs. I was sitting on his lap, and that’s when the first kiss happened, where he kissed me on the lips.”
Dominic described a “booty rumble” game, “He would lay me on top of him with my genitals up against his. While he would shake, he would kind of push up against me.”
He added, “He would [also] drink my urine and tell me, ‘This is how much I love you.’ I’m maybe 12 years old at the time. Like, I’m a child who’s seeing this man do this. And I said, ‘Oh, I guess he really does love me. I mean, I would never want to drink someone’s urine, so he must really love me.’”
Marie-Nicole said Jackson made her undress at 12 while he masturbated looking at her. Aldo claimed Jackson pulled down his shorts during bed video games and gave oral sex, saying, “‘Doesn’t that feel good? See, I love you. I love you.'”
Jackson also supplied young kids with “Jesus juice” (wine), “Disney juice” (hard liquor), Xanax, and Vicodin. “He gave me Xanax and Vicodin at 11 years old and told me I’d be floating and I would love it,” Marie-Nicole said.
He trained them to deny abuse to police and parents. “When you have the biggest superstar in the world in the 80s that wants to be your friend, you’re vulnerable and easily manipulated,” Dominic said.
“He’s a monster, he’s evil, what he did was evil. And he’s tricked the whole world to think he’s this innocent, perfect human being, and he’s not,” Dominic told "60 Minutes."
Jackson’s estate lawyer Marty Singer dismissed it as a “money grab.” “Notably, these shakedown attempts come more than 15 years after Jackson’s death, thus carrying no risk of being sued for defamation. Sadly, in death just as in life, Jackson’s talents and success continue to make him a target.”
