Los Angeles Times·3 min read·medium

Paris Jackson seeks $600 million from MJ estate for herself, brothers

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Alexandra Del Rosario
Paris Jackson seeks $600 million from MJ estate for herself, brothers
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Paris Jackson has filed a petition against the executors of Michael Jackson's estate, alleging they have failed to fund the family trust as intended. She claims the executors are withholding distributions and maintaining an 'iron grip' over the beneficiaries' finances.

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This highlights ongoing legal disputes regarding the management of high-profile celebrity estates and the rights of heirs to inherited assets.

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Paris Jackson, daughter of late pop icon Michael Jackson, seeks more than half a billion dollars in a preliminary transfer from her father's estate to a trust for his three children. Jackson alleged in a recent court filing that the funds are overdue and under the "iron grip" of the estate's executor. The actor-singer on Thursday accused the executors of her father's estate of failing to fulfill the singer's wishes for Prince, Paris and Bigi to begin receiving income from their family trust. "Michael Jackson's family trust remains unfunded," she said in the petition, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court and reviewed by The Times. According to Paris, executors said in 2011 they would file a petition to begin funding the trust. Allegedly, no such petition has been filed: "Fifteen years later, Michael's beneficiaries are still waiting."

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