Michael Jackson

A housekeeper who once described seeing Wade Robson in the shower with Michael Jackson may be the key to the former's claims of molestation.

Robson, 30, recently accused Jackson of sexual abuse in a claim against his estate, then defended himself on Today, calling Michael a pedophile.

Blanca Francia's testimony during Jackson's 2005 child molestation trial included a graphic account of MJ showering naked with a young Wade Robson.

Francia described seeing Michael's underwear on the floor outside the Neverland Ranch shower, as well as Wade's child-sized neon green underwear.

She said she couldn't see exactly what the King of Pop was doing in there because the shower door was fogged up, but said she heard him laughing.

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Add Debbie Rowe to the loud, growing chorus of Wade Robson critics.

The former wife of Michael Jackson does not believe for a second that he molested Robson when he was a child, as the choreographer now claims.

"I was angered that Wade Robson reversed his sworn testimony from court in 2005, and now claims to be a victim of sexual abuse," she tells TMZ.

"His publicity-seeking attempt is opportunistic and just oozes falseness."

Debbie Rowe says this will do nothing to ruin MJ's legacy in the end.

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Michael Jackson's nephew Taj has come forward to say HE was molested as a child - by a family member on his mother's side of the family, not a Jackson.

Taj Jackson, the son of Michael's brother Tito Jackson, says that Michael personally consoled him after the incident, and that Wade Robson is a liar.

Taj, 29, claimed on Twitter that he's in a unique position to judge Wade's sexual abuse allegations against Michael because he knows what it's like:

"That is how I KNOW Wade is lying. Because I AM a survivor. I was sexually abuse (sic)."

"By [a family member] on my mom's side of the family when I was a kid."

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Wade Robson's interview on Today this morning, in which he said Michael Jackson is a pedophile who abused and brainwashed him, was pretty compelling.

Compellingly atrocious, according to Tom Mesereau, the attorney who repped MJ in his 2005 molestation case and scoffs at Robson's sex abuse claims.

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  Mesereau and Jackson in '05.
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  Wade Robson Today Show Interview

"This is a pathetic and an obvious grab for publicity and an attempt to put pressure on [Michael Jackson's] Estate to pay him money," he tells TMZ.

Mesereau says that Wade Robson is flat-out lying when he says this is not about money, saying, "Why call yourself a creditor if it's not about money." 

Robson has filed a belated creditor's claim with the estate.

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Wade Robson opened up on Today this morning about his claims that Michael Jackson sexually abused him and forced him to keep quiet about it.

Wade Robson Today Show Interview

Robson told Matt Lauer there is no repressed memory of what happened, as has been reported, nor is he coming forward now just for money.

“I never forgot one moment of what Michael did,” he said. “but I was psychologically unable and unwilling to understand that it was sexual abuse.”

Asked to spell out what that means, he didn't hesitate.

The choreographer claims that the King of Pop "performed sexual acts on him and forced me to perform sexual acts on him" when he was a child.

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Wade Robson is ready to break his silence on the Michael Jackson sex abuse allegations, and does not sound like a man who's ready to duck and cover.

Robson surfaced at NYC's JFK airport today, where he was accosted by paparazzi about his accusations that Michael Jackson sexually abused him.

Choreographer Wade, 30, said that the late King of Pop abused him for years when he was a kid, and that he was a monster and everyone knows it.

As for why he didn't come forward until now, he says he blocked out the memories and recently suffered a breakdown due to the repressed trauma.

That breakdown, he claims, torpedoed his career and cost him millions, which he is hoping to recoup in his lawsuit against the music icon's estate.

The estate believes Wade is completely lying, while MJ's former lawyer suggests that AEG could be behind Robson's curiously timed allegations.

Robson says he'll open up later this week. Think he's telling the truth?

In addition to Wade Robson's allegations, Michael Jackson's life is back in the news this week because of his family's wrongful death lawsuit against AEG Live.

Then again, MJ's former attorney suggested this week that Robson may have been motivated to come forward by AEG, his former concert promoter.

In any case, days before his death, the King of Pop told Kenny Ortega, the producer of the ill-fated This Is It tour, that "God keeps talking to me."

Ortega and associate producer Alif Sankey testified that they became increasingly alarmed at Jackson's frail appearance during his final rehearsals.

Sankey was so worried that at one point she began crying.

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Wade Robson's new sex abuse accusations against Michael Jackson shocked the world, but MJ's former attorney has a theory on why he came forward now.

The timing is so curious, Tom Mesereau suggests it may be the work of AEG - the company at the center of the Michael Jackson wrongful death lawsuit.

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  Tom Mesereau and MJ in 2005.
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  Renowned choreographer Wade Robson.

The legal battle currently raging between Katherine Jackson and Michael's children and AEG could cost the concert promoters BILLIONS of dollars.

With that much at stake, and Michael's reputation possibly their best line of attack, would they go so far as to pay Wade Robson to come forward against MJ?

Mesereau doesn't know anything for a fact, but wouldn't doubt it.

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Wade Robson, through his attorney, is elaborating on his recent sexual abuse claim against the late Michael Jackson, who he calls an abusive monster.

One who threatened and brainwashed him, no less.

Henry Gradstein tells TMZ that Wade Robson, 30, was molested by the King of Pop at Neverland Ranch and his other homes between ages 7 and 14.

As for why Wade didn't come forward until now - and even testified under oath that Michael was innocent, as Jackson's lawyers pointed out immediately?

"Last year, on a career trajectory that was off the charts, he collapsed under the stress and sexual trauma of what had happened to him for seven years as a child."

The attorney adds that Robson carried the weight of long-repressed, emotional "brain washing by a sexual predator until the burden of it all crushed him."

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Wade Robson is blatantly lying in claiming Michael Jackson molested him as a child, according to past and present attorneys for the late King of Pop.

Robson, a 30-year-old choreographer, knew Jackson well as a young boy, and says in a just-filed legal claim that the King of Pop sexually abused him.

In response, Howard Weitzman, the attorney for Jackson's estate, hit back hard, telling TMZ that "Mr. Robson's claim is outrageous and pathetic."

"This is a young man who has testified at least twice under oath and said in numerous interviews that Michael never did anything inappropriate to him or with him."

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