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...OTHER GLOVE FINALLY dropped. Last week representatives of Michael Jackson and the 14-year-old boy who accused him of sexual molestation agreed to settle the boy's civil suit. No promises were put in writing -- and no judge would tolerate such promises -- but it was understood that the boy will not testify in pending criminal investigations of Jackson being pursued by the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara district attorneys. Meanwhile, the star gets to maintain his innocence. The price tag was estimated between $15 million and $50 million -- part paid in cash, part to be fed into a trust...
...Michael that may take a while. His bodyguards, for example, are pressing their own suit against him, and court cases await over the cancellation of his tour. And Los Angeles D.A. Gil Garcetti insisted that his office has not closed the Jackson file. But California law does not allow the state to compel testimony from juveniles in sex-crime cases. Without the boy's evidence, the authorities may have only hearsay testimony -- probably not enough to win or even bring a case against Jackson. So for now his freedom is assured, if not his reputation. Neither...
Time: that was the ace up Feldman's sleeve. He knew Jackson was slated to make a deposition in the civil suit on Jan. 18. The star's lawyers faced three unsavory options: let Michael talk and possibly strengthen the prosecution's case against him; have him take the Fifth Amendment and a severe public relations hit; or pay the king's ransom. All Feldman had to do was let the clock tick and the meter run up. Sure enough, Jackson's team got the deposition postponed for a week, by which time negotiations for a settlement were well advanced...
Packwood Loses Diary Suit...
...RICO had so much momentum that NOW, embarked on a large antitrust case it had first brought in Delaware, changed the suit's focus to racketeering under the direction of Fay Clayton, a Chicago lawyer with RICO experience. The defendant list was amended to include Terry as well as Scheidler, and the alleged rackets grew to include forcible "invasion" of clinics, burglary (a theft from a dumpster of fetal material) and arson...