Jermaine Jackson To Courtroom
Throw Out $6.5 Million Judgment in Rape Case!!!
Revealed
Jermaine Jackson is talking out now that he is been ordered to cough up tens of millions to his rape accuser … claiming the judgment is void as a consequence of a slew of errors.
In response to new courtroom docs, obtained by TMZ, Michael Jackson‘s older brother says the default judgment in favor of plaintiff Rita Butler Barrett must be thrown out as a result of she sued him below his out of date former identify and by no means successfully served him the lawsuit.
He argues he was sued as “Jermaine Jackson” … however says he modified his identify legally within the state of California to “Jermaine LaJuane Jacksun” all the best way again in 2013 — so she ought to have figured that out and sued him below his right identify.
Oh, and he says he by no means sexually assaulted Barrett.
As we reported … Barrett claimed in her December 2023 submitting Jermaine unexpectedly confirmed up at her Encino, California residence at some point and “violently” raped her for a number of minutes till he abruptly stopped, leaving her traumatized.
Barrett’s legal professionals failed to trace Jermaine right down to personally serve the go well with, however obtained courtroom approval to execute service by way of authorized discover within the Los Angeles Occasions. Her authorized group says it ran the discover for consecutive weeks between August and September 2025.
Jermaine by no means responded … and a courtroom awarded her $6.5 million in damages and courtroom charges in Might.
However, the singer and actor says there’s much more mistaken with the whole authorized course of, claiming he didn’t obtain precise discover of the summons, criticism, and different authorized filings within the case and subsequently had no significant alternative to reply. He additionally stated he by no means tried to hide himself.
He is now requesting a chance to defend himself within the case.
TMZ has reached out to Barrett’s lawyer … to this point, no phrase again.
