A second alleged victim is ramping up his claim Michael Jackson and his inner circle operated the most elaborate child sex syndicate “the world has known.”
James Safechuck, 38, filed an amended complaint in Los Angeles Monday alleging the King of Pop’s companies MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures negligently enabled Jackson’s abuse of underage boys.
The new filing which a Jackson source dismissed as “ludicrous” comes just days after a similar revised complaint was filed by the same lawyers on behalf of accuser Wade Robson, 34.
“Jackson was a pedophile who consumed children, and in order to do that he needed money and help. What he got from MJJ Productions was a cadre of willing accomplices who looked the other way and allowed him access to children,” John Manly, one of the new lawyers for both Safechuck and Robson, said Tuesday.
“There’s evidence that certain MJJ Productions personnel would tell their own staff, ‘Don’t bring your children here,’ and then they would make arrangements for other children to be there constantly,” he told the Daily News. “That’s malicious. How can you in good conscience bring other children in for the slaughter?”
Manly’s southern California law firm has represented hundreds of victims of clergy sex abuse around the country.
Robson and Safechuck first stepped forward in 2013 and 2014 with lawsuits targeting Jackson’s megabucks estate.
When the lawsuits were thrown out for being too late, the plaintiffs later switched course and went after the companies instead.
Safechuck, a 36-year-old father of two, starred with Jackson in a Pepsi commercial when he was 10 years old.
His suit alleges Jackson began molesting him in a Paris hotel room at the start of his “Bad” tour in 1988 and that the sexual abuse continued for years.
It describes how Jackson allegedly developed code words and gestures to control Safechuck and safeguard their secret.
Jackson taught Safechuck to refer to an erection as “bright lights, brick city,” the lawsuit states. It also alleges that while holding hands with Safechuck, Jackson would scratch the inside of the boy’s hand as a signal he wanted to have sex.
The paperwork claims Jackson plied Safechuck and his parents with cash, gifts and first-class travel to Hawaii, New York and Europe to slowly gain their trust.
On one occasion he flew them to New York, put them up in Trump Tower and brought them to see “Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway. He introduced them to Liza Minnelli and the show’s star Michael Crawford, the filing claims.
The complaint alleges Jackson induced Safechuck to testify on the singer’s behalf in the 1993 investigation of the alleged sexual abuse of Jordan Chandler. That case was dropped following a private settlement.
Safechuck further claims Jackson contacted him in 2005 with a request he give “false testimony” at Jackson’s criminal trial in Santa Barbara.
Jackson turned “angry” and threatening when Safechuck declined, he claims. A jury ultimately acquitted the singer.
Safechuck claims it wasn’t until Robson first stepped forward in 2013 that he began seeing a psychiatrist and came to believe his anxiety and panic attacks stemmed from Jackson’s alleged abuse.
