Michael Jackson estate sued for child sex trafficking by former friends

Four Cascio siblings, previously staunch supporters of Michael Jackson, claim the alleged \

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Four siblings who were previously staunch supporters of Michael Jackson have sued his companies and estate for allegedly being sex trafficked as children in the 1990s.

Former Jackson family friends Edward, Dominic and Aldo Cascio, as well as their sister Marie-Nicole Porte, filed a lawsuit in California federal court Feb. 27 alleging Jackson's employees facilitated and concealed his alleged abuse. They also claim representatives for his estate compelled them to sign an agreement, which allegedly prevents them "from talking about the years of abuse they endured," under false pretenses.

The lawsuit alleges child sex trafficking, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, breach of contract and fraud and seeks monetary compensation as well as a determination that the signed agreement can be voided.

Jackson, who died in 2009 at age 50, was "a serial child predator who, over the course of more than a decade, drugged, raped, and sexually assaulted each of the Plaintiffs, beginning when some of them were as young as seven or eight," their lawsuit states.