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LOS ANGELES. — WHEN Vincent Amen, a crisis PR manager, was brought in to rebuild Michael Jackson’s image after allegations of child abuse, he was eerily handed a bag of evidence from a former child pal of the King of Pop.
Inside was a disgusting magazine that Amen believes proved Jackson was guilty.
Now, more than two decades later, Amen wants President Trump to open a federal investigation into the hit maker, as he exclusively tells the Sun about the pop star’s network of “enablers” that allowed an other “Epstein-style situation”.
Amen is alleging ”systematic sexual abuse” of minors by the Thriller singer over many years.
He says he is also willing to assist law enforcement authorities in a probe and has volunteered to help in a lawsuit filed last month by the Cascio family.
He is a long-term friend of Frank Cascio, who last month filed a motion against Jackson’s estate alongside four of his siblings.
Frank, Edward, Dominic, Aldo Cascio, and Marie-Nicole Porte grew up around Jackson and were previously staunch supporters of him.
But they have now accused the star of being a “serial child predator” who sex trafficked them as children in the 1990s.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Amen says: “This should fuel an investigation on a federal level, like in the Epstein situation.”
Amen first started working with Jackson in 2003, when he was brought in as a crisis PR manager by Frank.
Frank, who had spent time around Jackson as a child, was then in his early 20s and working for the pop star.
At the time, Jackson was being investigated for various crimes relating to children, following the release of the bombshell ITV documentary Living with Michael Jackson, where he admitted to sharing beds with children.
Despite publicly maintaining Jackson never did anything wrong, Frank gave Amen a bag of evidence, which included a magazine full of naked people and forms filled in by Jackson ordering child sexual abuse images.
Amen feels “if Michael were still alive, all of this would be brought to light,” because the Cascios’ claims would prompt “others coming forward.”
He also alleges that Jackson was aided by enablers to have intimate time with children.
“This was systematically covered up so that Michael would not be caught, as a result of how much money and power were involved in being around Michael Jackson.
“I was privy to people providing him with business opportunities to be around children.
“I believe there was a circle, a group of people that had knowledge of this and that systematically assisted him in this not being brought to light.”
Amen believes that children in Jackson’s orbit, including Frank, were “brainwashed” to encourage others to come for sleepovers at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.
While he adds Frank and other victims are “absolved of any wrongdoing”, he says there was a “systematic mechanism that was covered”.
“I believe other people knew they were assisting him,” Amen tells the Sun.
“You had Frank, who was a child at the time, travelling across state lines like in the Epstein situation, going to Euro Disney, travelling around the world, sleeping in bed with him.
“So there was systematic sexual abuse across state lines that was never brought forward to the public. That was never investigated.
“Who’s supposed to investigate it? The government.
“Someone’s supposed to come forward, the government investigates it, and then that’s what opens up the core or the world of Michael Jackson.”
Amen adds that New York Southern District officers would see similarities in their successful conviction of rap mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, who was jailed for four years for prostitution-related offences last year.
Timeline of abuse accusations against Michael Jackson
August 1993 – Jordan Chandler, 13, accuses Jackson of sexual abuse, and the LAPD launch an investigation. Later the same month, two other children, Wade Robson, 10, and Brett Barnes, 11 , defended Jackson at a press conference, saying he was never inappropriate, despite sharing a bed with him
November 1993 — Blanca Francia, Jackson’s former maid, tells police he molested her son and was inappropriate towards children
January 1994 — Jackson settles out of court with Chandler family for $22m. Prosecutors drop the case because Chandler won’t testify in court
February 2003 — Martin Bashir’s ITV documentary Living with Michael Jackson airs. It features Gavin Arvizo, a former cancer patient who says he shared a bed with Jackson but defends him
June 2003 — LAPD reopen the investigation into Jackson after Arvizo claimed Jackson molested him
December 2003 — Jackson is charged with partaking in lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14, seven counts of child molestation and two of intoxicating minors
February 2005 — Trial against Jackson begins. Gavin Arvizo and his brother both claim under oath that Jackson showed them pornography and gave them alcohol. adding that he masturbated in front of them and molested Gavin.
Wade Robson says he was never molested.
June 2005 — Jackson is found not guilty on all counts
June 2009 — Jackson dies, aged 50
May 2013 — Wade Robson claims he was molested from the age of 7 to 14, in a U-turn from his previous testimony. He sues the Jackson estate. It is dismissed in 2015.
August 2014 — James Safechuck, who starred as a child alongside Jackson in the Pepsi Superbowl ad, sues the Jackson estate and claims MJ abused him on hundreds of occasions between 1988 and 1992. It is dismissed in 2017
January 2019 — Leaving Neverland airs, where both Robson and Safechuck reignite claims against Jackson
February 2026 — The Cascio family allege abuse against Jackson
Bombshell evidence
Amen was hired by Jackson’s team on Frank’s recommendation, as he was a long-time friend of the Cascio family.
At the time, Frank was working for Michael and stood by him amid others’ claims of abuse.
But after Frank revealed he too had been abused, Amen was convinced Jackson, who died in 2009, was guilty.
Amen also says he has a bombshell Polaroid photo from 1996 of Frank, which was taken while he “was smashed drunk”, at 15 or 16 years old.
Amen, from Jersey City, sees parallels between Epstein and Jackson.
Epstein died in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking of minors.
In a cruel twist of fate, Amen’s wife, Rina Oh, 42, was a victim of the late sex trafficker.
Rina has alleged Epstein and Maxwell groomed her as early as 2000 when he faked an interest in her art.
She has previously claimed Epstein had a tiny and “extremely deformed” manhood that looked like a lemon – and speculated that Epstein’s sick crimes were driven by his tiny manhood.
Amen has already approached New York authorities and federal investigators, urging them to examine Jackson.
He says that Santa Barbara prosecutor Tom Sneddon, who charged MJ with molesting another accuser, Gavin Arvizo, of which he was later acquitted, should have delved deeper into persuading other child pals to come forward. — Sun Club
