Thread by @MJJRepository

In total, 29 parties were deposed as part of Wade Robson's litigation. 25 of them were videotaped. MJ's estate recorded 7 and Wade's team recorded 18.

The estate billed Wade's side for the cost of these deposition tapes ($16k) as part of $109k in total bill recovery requests.

Wade's attorneys—in attempts of cutting down the money owed after their failed litigation—hilariously claimed the estate was exaggerating costs and shouldn't had needed these depositions recorded.

But the defense actually used Wade's appointed videographers at the standard rate.

The "star" to Wade's claims was tabloid momma Blanca Francia, who gave 2 days of depositions. The estate sent 2 attys. instead of 1 to depose her.

After the 1st day, estate deemed her testimony so "laughably non-credible" & "internally inconsistent" they sent 1 attorney home.

Another major expense was of the court-approved mental eval (IME) of Wade by expert. This accrued more than $34k (partly due to Wade's own demand for written report and materials from him).

Wade's side tried arguing the estate wasn't "required" to give a mental exam to Wade lol.

In more desperation, Finaldi claimed the estate failed to supply full details of their expenses & that the depositions, IME expert, travel/hotel & higher subpoena costs (including for Wade's evasive Dr.) shouldn't count.

The estate gave row-by-row expense sheet through 12/31/17.

After all of the calculations, exceptions and exclusions were tallied up, the Robson's still wound up owing big time to the estate.

We know that as of February 2019, Finaldi & co. owe more than $70k to MJJ for Wade/James failures.

They'll drag out paying through end of appeal.

In total, the estate wasted more than $193,000 and 6+ years of time and energy on Wade's frivolous and repeatedly failed money-seeking lawsuit.

Until the appeals process fully concludes (including Finaldi's inevitable en banc attempt & SCOTUS plea) these expenses will continue.

Some depos included:

Wade/Joy/Chantel/Shane/Amanda/Koziolas (Family Therapist in Hawaii)
Jason/Blanca/Evangeline/Goforth (Francia BS)
Hearne/Michaels/Thomas/Starks (NL5 BS)
Levine/Coller (Safechuck BS)...
Kane/Branca/Niall/Evvy Tavasci (Legal/Rep)

Many familiar tabloid faces.