A strange lawsuit filed by a young man who alleged he was molested as a boy by Michael Jackson and who also claimed he fathered the singer’s two oldest children and saw him dine with Fidel Castro was dismissed today by a judge in Loas Angeles (USA).

Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu granted a motion by Michael Jackson’s lawyer, Thomas C. Mundell, to throw out the case after the plaintiff (22), Daniel Kapon, failed to show up for the scheduled start of the trial. Mundell said outside the courtroom:

“I think the judge realized how crazy the lawsuit was.”

The lawyer added that Kapon never visited Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara County as he claimed, and that the entertainer did not know him. In court papers filed December 17, Mundell said Kapon made a series of unusual statements during his December 11 deposition that undermined the validity of his case:

“These are not good-faith deposition answers. They are the ravings of an unbalanced celebrity stalker.”

Kapon’s lawsuit alleged Jackson “repeatedly and forcefully sexually molested” him starting in 1987, when he was 2, and lasting until he was 14. He also claimed his mother married Michael Jackson multiple times, and testified that the ceremonies were attended by Elizabeth Taylor, Celine Dion, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Beyonce Knowles, and Diana Ross. Kapon also testified that his mother “was in Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ music video. She helped Michael with a lot of his material, his songs, his music videos. Michael Jackson was madly in love with my mom.”

Kapon also claimed he fathered Michael Jackson’s two oldest children by masturbating into a jar so his semen could be used to impregnate Jackson’s ex-wife Deborah Rowe.

And according to additional Kapon deposition testimony, he said he saw Michael Jackson dining with Fidel Castro in New York City.

The case was originally filed in Orange County, but a judge transferred it to Los Angeles County in March 2006 at the request of Michael Jackson’s lawyers.

On Thursday, the judge in the case had granted a motion filed by Kapon’s most recent attorney, Barry Fischer, to be relieved as counsel. Fischer said that he hadn’t heard from Kapon since November and didn’t know whether he is “ill, dead or simply refusing to respond.” Kapon’s mother had stated that her son was homeless and living in a car. The lawyer filed a missing persons report with the L.A. Police Department on January 3 and attached it to his request to step down.

Source: The Daily Breeze, E! Online, MJFC-USA

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