It’s no surprise.

Now Dieter Wiesner, Michael Jackson’s manager from the early part of this decade through his arrest for child molestation, has filed suit against the singer. The many charges of fraud Wiesner claims in his Los Angeles Superior Court action total over $60 million.

Wiesner was one of the five unindicted, unnamed co-conspirators in Jackson’s trial this year. He’s using the same attorney as Marc Schaffel, who’s suing Jackson for much less — just about $4 million — in a separate case.

Wiesner, I reported in December 2003, owns or has owned legal sex clubs in Germany. He has disputed this. But the outcry over our report sent Wiesner running from Los Angeles and Jackson back to Hamburg at that time.

The result, if you recall, was that Michael’s brother Jermaine Jackson moved in with the Nation of Islam and kicked Wiesner and his partner Ronald Konitzer out.

According to Wiesner’s papers, he was still paid $15,000 a month through the summer of 2004. But all of his deals were canceled, and he was out in the cold.

Konitzer is not involved in this suit. My guess is he’ll file his own. So far, that means Jackson is under fire from five different lawsuits, including one for $48 million from Prescient Partners.

For the Schaffel suit, Jackson was deposed in London earlier this fall. He so far refuses to return to the U.S., and you can see why.

Wiesner’s complaint compares Jackson to Max Bialystock, the scheming character from “The Producers,” constantly moving money around, promising to pay one party while borrowing from another.

Source: Roger Friedman / Fox News

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