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 into the hitmaker, as he exclusively tells the Sun about the popstar’s network of “enablers” that allowed another “Epstein-style situation”.
Michael Jackson’s former spin doctor has called for an Epstein-style inquiry into abuse claims surrounding the starCredit: Getty
Vincent Amen, pictured, worked for Michael Jackson from 2003Credit: Channel 4
Amen is alleging ”systematic sexual abuse” of minors by the Thriller singer over many years.
He says he is also willing to assist 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 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 documentary Living with , 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 and power were involved in being around Michael Jackson.
“I was privy to people providing him with opportunities to be around children.
A group of people that had knowledge of this and that systematically assisted him in this not being brought to light
“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 , 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 Southern District officers would see similarities in their successful conviction of rap mogul , who was jailed for four years for prostitution-related offences last year.
Jackson pictured after being acquitted on all 10 charges in his child molestation trial in Santa Maria in 2005Credit: Getty
Aldo Cascio and his siblings have accused Michael Jackson of abuse in a recent lawsuitCredit: Erbil Gunasti 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, , 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” penis that – 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, , of which he was later acquitted, should have delved deeper into persuading other child pals to come forward.
The Cascio family pictured with Jackson L to R – Dom Sr (dad), Michael Jackson, Aldo, Connie (mum), Dominic Jr, Omar (family friend), Marie Nicole and EddieCredit: CREDIT: ERBIL GUNASTI
3.8 million files related to Epstein have been released by US authorities as part of their probeCredit: Getty
Amen’s wife Rina Oh is a victim of Epstein’sCredit: Not known clear with picture desk
Amen became MJ’s PR strategist after Frank, who co-ran their endorsement business, called him in to provide urgent support with looking after the Arvizo family, after they were interviewed for a bombshell
In the infamous 2003 documentary, a then-12-year-old Gavin Arvizo revealed he often shared a bed with Jackson when he was at his Neverland Ranch from the age of 10, after he had cancer.
His family appeared alongside them and said they were grateful for the attention Michael had paid them.
While in the documentary, they claimed no wrongdoing, the broadcast led to an investigation by child welfare officers in .
It was then that Gavin told cops that Jackson had molested him several times, which then led to the singer’s 2005 trial for ten different charges against children. He was found not guilty on all counts.
At the time, Frank was adamant that his singer pal was innocent and wanted Amen to keep the Arvizos away from the media.
However, Amen’s support for MJ changed when Frank handed him the bag containing a book with naked children and a video order for child sexual abuse footage.
Frank publicly supported Jackson, but when it emerged that accusers James Safechuck and Wade Robson were filing lawsuits over abuse, he confided secrets to his long-term friend – and showed him the bag.
Amen says: “He came forward to me and said, ‘Michael Jackson asked me to group masturbate with other boys, with other children.
“Inside the bag was something indicating that there was an inappropriate behaviour going on.”
Gavin Arvizo, aged 14, who accused Jackson of molesting himCredit: Granada Television
Michael Jackson with accuser Wade Robson’s family in 1990Credit: Channel 4
In the lawsuit filed last month, Frank’s siblings made similar claims – alleging they were “drugged, raped and sexually assaulted” by Jackson from the age of seven or eight, and the star also exposed them to pornography.
Amen had previously approached authorities to pursue a case, but Frank denied his claims.
He says: “I wanted to put together something meaningful to prove to the public at one point my story, the circumstances that surrounded me.
“I’ve been to the authorities twice about it. I’ve actually been to the authorities about Frank’s abuse, even though he’s denied it over the years.
He was in situations where there were very powerful people around him and he would have been very scared to come forward
“I was privy to lots of physical evidence, documents, pictures, and little pieces were revealed to me by Frank over the years.”
Amen, who says he has had breakdowns from his experience, doesn’t blame Frank for being scared to go public in 2005, saying: “I felt sincere hurt for him. I know about sex abuse victims that are silenced.
“He was in situations where there were very powerful people around him and he would have been very scared to come forward.
“I did my best to bring this to light in a respectful manner where I didn’t go public with this.
“I went to the authorities and I said, ‘You’re going to have to take care of this.”
Amen believes that Jackson’s estate will never buckle on denying that the singer committed any crimes.
“This is very characteristic of a sex abuse model in general,” he said.
“Paedophiles use the same types of methods to abuse their victims.
“There are certain deviations, little deviations in the story between other accusers like Robson, Safechuck and the Casios.
Left to right Robson, director Dan Reed and fellow accuser James Safechuck made allegations against Jacko in Finding NeverlandCredit: Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP
“However, the ultimate model, how he did it, leads the estate to say, ‘You’re just a copycat’. They say they’re just copying the story of the other alleged victims. It’s all about money.
“ opened up a two-year window after Frank went to the estate and had his settlement, which was unfortunate.
“The government says, society, community based on law says, ‘if you are a victim, you could be a hundred years old and you’re still alive, you can file a claim against your abuser.’
“We find that acceptable in our community and our society that you should receive justice, and if you don’t receive criminal justice, you receive civil justice, and hopefully that helps and heals you, and you can move on with your life.”
Amen recently appeared on Channel 4’s The Trial, which examined the key players involved in the 2005 criminal trial.
When approached for comment on Amen’s claims, Attorney Marty Singer, who is representing the Jackson estate in its current lawsuit filed by the Cascios, tells The Sun: “This is just another in a long line of attention-seeking opportunists who, 16 years after Michael’s death, keep looking for angles to benefit themselves and damage Michael’s estate, the beneficiaries for which are his children.”
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