Michael Jackson Criticizes Settlement Terms Leak

Michael Jackson issued a statement Thursday criticizing whoever was responsible for leaking documents that disclosed the settlement terms in a 1993 civil case accusing him of child molestation, which was settled for $15.3 million according to records obtained by Court TV. “I respect the obligation of confidentiality imposed on all of the parties to the 1993 proceedings. Yet, someone has chosen to violate the confidentiality of those proceedings,” Jackson said in the statement. “Whoever is now leaking this material is showing as much disrespect for the Santa Maria court’s gag order as they are a determination to attack me.”