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I didn’t think Justin Baldoni was the worst guy in the world when this suit started, and I still don’t.

But this litigation has changed his life, and it should.

Confronted with complaints about his on set behavior by the actresses in his movie, he ignored them and made smarmy comments about having missed the HR training, **when his entire male feminist schtick was based on his willingness to listen to women.**

Getting feedback he didn’t like and didn’t want to hear from Aleks Saks made him **hit the chair she was sitting next to**.

And when Sony chose Lively’s director’s cut above his own, in part because Lively listened to and made edits to accommodate the feedback of the female book writer, he had a meltdown and hired crisis PR and told his team that he wanted Lively to”to get the Hailey Bieber Treatment.”

He needed to feel like Blake Lively could be buried.

Well, now he’s in Nashville making a new start. Which will undoubtedly involve a pivot to the manosphere and maybe rehabbing the images of men who have been out through the wringer. Undoubtedly he will have many men needing such services given Melissa Nathan’s siren’s call of dick-a-paloosa to Hollywood.

He can **never** return to his old brand of listening to women, now that we know that’s really the last thing he ever does. Now that we have all seen him tell 19 different women’s rights organizations to shut up and that the judge should not hear them.

Good luck with that, my dude. Enjoy Meghyn Kelly and the manosphere.

Over the last year, another case has been brewing that threatens to expose potentially unethical behavior of Baldoni attorney Bryan Freedman from 2019 through 2024. It just came to a head last Friday.

This case involves pop legend Michael Jackson and several members of the Cascio family who Jackson allegedly raped, molested, drugged, and deceived when they were children traveling and visiting Jackson, sometimes when they were as young as eight years old.

In 2019, the Casios watched the HBO film Leaving Neverland (involving two other boys that Jackson allegedly raped and molested). Before the release, each of the involved Casios had believed that s/he had been the only person Jackson had sex with because of his intense love for him/her. After the film, they realized the degree that Jackson had deceived, degraded, and betrayed them. Last Friday, the Cascios filed a complaint against entities and attorneys from the Michael Jackson estate to get them to pay the Cascios a fair settlement and to compensate them for the estate's prior betrayals.

To be clear: Bryan Freedman is not named as a defendant in the Cascio's case and their complaint mostly involves other deceptions and unfair dealings committed by Jackson's estate against them, not least of which was the estate's involvement in employing people who facilitated and permitted Jackson's behavior towards them, which afaik Freedman did not do. However, the Cascios allege that Bryan Freedman was directly involved in deceiving them to agree to an unconscionable contract that paid them comparatively little money (compared to other Jackson victims) while signing away most of their rights.

Freedman's involvement comes from his representation of the Michael Jackson Estate in 2019. According to the Cascio's complaint, Bryan Freedman deceptively hired Herman Weisberg to help him settle the Cascios' claims against Michael Jackson's estate, essentially deceiving the Cascios into believing Weisberg was representing their interests in the contract. The complaint notes that Freedman "had a history of paying Weisberg for services and hired Weisberg on behalf of the Jackson Estate of convince Plaintiffs [the Cascios] to cooperate with the Estate." While the Cascios knew that Freedman represented Jackson's estate, they believed that Freedman was "working in their interests," and more importantly, believed that Herman Weisberg was actually their representative in the transaction promoting their interests, rather than someone hired through Bryan Freedman and Jackson's estate. They believed this so sincerely that when they settled their claims, agreeing to keep quiet forever what Jackson had done to them for $2-3M each to be paid across five years, they each "paid" Weisberg 6% of their settlements which adds up to about $1M.

Moreover, almost unbelievably, in April 2024 when Weisberg contacted the Cascios again to let them know the estate was willing to pay them more money to buy their continued silence, Bryan Freedman allegedly "also contacted Plaintiffs, told them that they needed a lawyer, and tried to induce them to hire him as their lawyer to negotiate with his client, the Estate."

The Cascios specifically include Weisberg as a defendant in their complaint. At least for now, they do not include Freedman (though they do include 20 unnamed Doe defendants, ha). And their complaint specifically lists Freedman's actions and alleged deceptions as part of their fraud claim -- for which they sue the Jackson Estate, on whose behalf Freedman was acting. The Cascios claim that Freedman "falsely and fraudulently represented to Plaintiffs that they were protecting Plaintiffs' interests and negotiating the [Contract] on their behalf, and moreover that he "intentionally and fraudulently concealed from Plaintiffs that Weisberg was working for the Jackson Estate and that Freedman and Weisberg were adverse to Plaintiffs."

This case seems to potentially share similarities with Bryan Freedman's settlement of Travis Flores' claims against Baldoni, Wayfarer, et al for the screenplay related to Baldoni's Five Feet Apart, where Freedman allegedly induced Flores to settle for little to no money although his claims were thought to be reasonably strong. As we know, in that case, Freedman went on to directly represent Baldoni and Wayfarer after Flores died; whereas here, Freedman allegedly fraudulently induced the Casios to settle for less than their claims were worth while he already represented the opposing party in the deal. (Is that bad?? It seems bad lol.)

There are a few additional issues here:

The Cascio's federal court complaint from last week is preceded by a CA state court complaint filed by the Jackson estate last July 9th, 2025, against Frank Cascio to require Cascio to take his claims to arbitration. Frank Cascio was originally represented in that state court case by ... longtime Bryan Freedman litigation pal Mark Geragos, who in 2003-04 also represented Michael Jackson ~~2019~~ ~~also represented the Michael Jackson Estate~~*,* and apparently at the time was involved in settling the re claims of other people who had alleged that Jackson had raped and violated them as children. Geragos' involvement in this state court case with his co-counsel Tina Glandian is interesting given Geragos' involvement with the estate:

Looking at the declarations filed by some of the Cascios, it's possible that Geragos got involved in part to try to clear his own name of involvement, since two Cascio declarations make a point of stating "visibly surprised" Geragos was to learn that the Cascio children were actually present but hidden when Geragos had meetings with Jackson and that Jackson "had intentionally kept us separate and hidden from" Geragos.
It's also possible that Geragos could have intended his involvement as a "fuck you" to the people on in the Jackson estate who permitted and induced the Cascios settlements, as though he might have objected.
If Geragos agreed to represent Frank Cascio against the Jackson estate in this state court complaint in part out of legitimate self-righteousness, it's interesting to look at the timing of what was happening in the Baldoni case at the same time: On June 19, 2025, Geragos and Tina Glandian started representing James Vituscka, who previously had complained that Bryan Freedman used his name and texts without permission in Baldoni's complaint, and also that this information had been used misleadingly by Freedman. However, only a month later on July 18th -- just over a week after the Jackson estate filed its state court complaint against Cascio -- Glandian and Geragos had withdrawn from representing Vituscka and Jonathan Borsuk was taking over instead. Is it possible that Geragos withdrew from whatever Vituscka shenanigans were being plotted out of frustration with Freedman's apparent antics in the Cascio case? I believe that since that time, Freedman and Geragos appeared together on TMZ so maybe not, but I thought the timing was interesting.
Geragos was replaced in the state court litigation in early February 2026 by Howard King, the same attorney/firm who filed the Cascio's federal complaint last Friday. Good.

The Cascios note (p.15 of their federal complaint) that the Jackson estate's reason for filing the state court complaint against them was to keep them quiet while also using the litigation privilege disclose the terms of their settlements while also accusing them of extortion and essentially defaming them. The Cascios explain the Jackson estate "engaged in a public 'blame the victim' campaign to intimidate Plaintiffs and their counsel," publishing false and defamatory statements about the Cascios and the settlements. Does this intimidation campaign sound familiar also? It's not clear whether Freedman or any of the rest of his team were involved in this PR campaign, but it sure sounds familiar.

TLDR: A family of siblings who were allegedly raped and molested by Michael Jackson as children settled with the Jackson estate for pennies on the dollar, supposedly in part because Bryan Freedman induced the family into believing that a guy he hired himself was actually representing the Cascios interests in the deal. Bryan Freedman (allegedly) strikes again. A++ no notes.

THE PICS ABOVE:

The first 12 pages are the Cascio's entire federal court complaint.
The remaining pics are from a few of the state court filings, mostly declarations from Geragos and some of the Cascios.

LINKS:

Court Listener docket for federal Cascio case brought 2/27/2026: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72344672/cascio-v-the-michael-jackson-company-llc/

Complaint in same: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.1008804/gov.uscourts.cacd.1008804.1.0.pdf

LA County state court docket sheet access -- for Jackson estate case against Frank Cascio, enter case number 25SMCP00385: https://www.lacourt.ca.gov/pages/lp/access-a-case/tp/find-case-information/cp/os-civil-case-access

Geragos/Glandian riding in to rep former Daily Mail reporter James Vituscka on 6/19/2025: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69510553/362/lively-v-wayfarer-studios-llc/

Only to ride back out a month later: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69510553/488/lively-v-wayfarer-studios-llc/

Good source of information on the history of the Michael Jackson scandal here is the reddit sub Leaving Neverland HBO

Here is a good post from just today which summarizes and discusses the allegations about Bryan Freedman in the federal complaint;
Here is a deeper look into the Cascio case so far;
Here is a megathread with dozens of links about the larger case against Michael Jackson.

Are the pro-Baldoni CCs doing okay?

He is doing GrEaT, guys.

Another bombshell case where Baldoni's attorney Bryan Freedman's ethics are questioned