Michael Jackson: Grooming Victims or Fortune Seekers?
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Wade Robson told a jury under oath that Michael Jackson never touched him. He was twenty-two years old, a professional choreographer, and by every measure a credible witness. His testimony helped acquit Jackson. Then he suffered two nervous breakdowns, filed a lawsuit, and said he’d been abused since the age of seven. James Safechuck told a nearly identical story — same pattern, same defense of Jackson, same reversal after his death, same lawsuit.
This is part four, and it’s the episode where this series confronts the most divisive question in the Michael Jackson saga: what do you do with accusers who lied under oath for years and then changed their story?
Trauma experts say delayed disclosure is consistent with grooming. Compartmentalization, loyalty to the abuser, and the normalization of boundary violations during childhood can keep victims silent for decades. But the same behavioral pattern that experts describe as consistent with abuse could also be reverse-engineered by someone who wants to construct a convincing allegation. The pattern validates the possibility without confirming the reality. This episode presents the psychology, the evidence, the factual problems with the accusers’ accounts, and the financial stakes of the upcoming trial — and lets you sit with the tension.
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| 1:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 1:07.0 | Welcome back to our conversation, digging into the history and the story and the |
| 1:18.0 | accusations that have existed for decades against Michael Jackson. |
| 1:24.1 | This is part three. |
| 1:25.6 | He was a little kid from Brisbane, seven years old. |
| 1:28.3 | He could dance like nobody else's age. And when he won a Michael Jackson dance contest in Australia, |
| 1:35.5 | the cameras couldn't get enough of him. Michael Jackson couldn't get enough of him either. |
| 1:39.3 | Within a few years, Wade Robson's mother had moved the family to Los Angeles at Jackson's |
| 1:47.6 | encouragement. The boy was in Jackson's orbit in his home, in his studio, in his bed, |
| 1:58.6 | by his own later admission, dozens of times. |
| 2:01.9 | In 1993, when the first allegations hit, |
| 2:04.7 | 10-year-old Wade went on television and said Michael Jackson |
| 2:07.6 | had never done anything wrong. |
| 2:08.9 | In 2005, Raid Robson, now a grown man, |
| 2:11.9 | a successful choreographer, |
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