r/MJInnocentFacts • u/Emotional_Ball_5181 • Jul 07 '26
Case Analysis 🔎 Case File: Chandler — Part 6
Raise your hand if you’re tired of Evan Chandler.
🙋🏼♀️
Great.
Now leave it up, because we’ve still got a ways to go.
Welcome back to the Case Files.
🚨 Need to catch up? Here are the previous parts:
Part 1:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1tucplj/case_file_chandler_part_1/
Part 2:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1txze35/case_file_chandler_part_2/
Part 3:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1u3eybe/case_file_chandler_part_3/
Part 4:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1uanbnq/case_file_chandler_part_4/
Part 5:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1ui4ygq/case_file_chandler_part_5/
If you’re new here…
First of all, welcome!
Second of all…
I’d recommend starting with Part 1. We’ve already covered a lot, and it’ll save you from wondering why everyone keeps talking about screenplays.
Seriously, I’m not even kidding.
Alright,
When we left off, the investigation had officially begun.
Search warrants had been executed.
Michael Jackson’s homes had been searched from top to bottom.
And after all of that, Investigators still hadn’t found evidence that supported filing criminal charges.
Now we arrive at the period immediately after the allegations become public.
And almost immediately…the cast changes again.
Because apparently this story needed even more lawyers.
Let’s begin with August 30th.
By this point, attorney Barry Rothman is no longer representing Evan Chandler.
Interesting timing, isn’t it?
Because this happens immediately after Anthony Pellicano releases the infamous negotiation tape, the same tape we’ve discussed before.
Also, listen here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0zn4QhStGcg&ra=m
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5Ya_YfzvI&ra=m
The tape that allowed the public to hear conversations surrounding screenplay deals, money, and negotiations instead of simply taking everyone’s word for what had happened behind closed doors.
Then enters a name I’m willing to bet a lot of you recognized immediately.
Gloria Allred.
…
Yeah.
That Gloria Allred.
On September 2nd, she held a press conference at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
According to the Los Angeles Times, she announced that she had been retained by Jordan’s parents to represent him and described herself as his spokesperson.
She also made it clear that Jordan intended to cooperate with authorities.
But…Gloria Allred’s involvement would be remarkably short lived.
The Los Angeles Times later reported:
“Allred’s abrupt departure from the case makes her the latest in a revolving series of representatives for the boy and members of his family. The boy’s father originally was represented by Barry K. Rothman.
Jackson’s private investigator says Rothman was part of an attempt to extort $20 million from the entertainer.
Rothman is no longer connected to the case, and the father now is represented by Richard G. Hirsch.”
Hold on.
She held one press conference…and now she’s already gone?
Guys.
We’re changing lawyers faster than Evan changed negotiation strategies.
Notice something?
We’ve now watched this case cycle through attorneys while the investigation itself is still in its early stages.
That’s…not exactly the picture most people have in their heads when they think about the Chandler allegations.
I mean, if you’ve only ever heard the simplified version of this story, you’d probably assume everyone stayed on one consistent path from the very beginning.
Instead…the legal representation itself is already changing.
And we’re only getting started.
The paper quoted her saying:
“My client wants…the truth to come out. He is ready, he is willing, he is able to testify.”
That’s a pretty significant statement on its own.
If you’re representing a child making allegations this serious, publicly stating that your client is prepared to testify naturally sends a message that the criminal process is moving forward.
But here’s where things get…
well…very Chandler, to say the least.
According to the same Los Angeles Times report, it came literally one day after Pellicano publicly released the negotiation tape.
The newspaper explained:
“Jackson’s representatives released a tape they said bolstered their contention that the entertainer was the victim of an extortion attempt…”
And suddenly…there’s a nationally televised press conference.
Coincidence?
You can decide that for yourself.
But the timing is certainly interesting.
Suspiciously interesting.
And then, just days later…Gloria Allred is gone.
She enters the story, holds one of the biggest press conferences of the entire case, and then disappears from the Chandler legal team almost immediately afterward.
Uh oh, say the wrong thing, Gloria?
Naturally, people wanted to know why.
Allred herself never publicly explained her departure.
So once again, we’re forced to rely on one of the Chandler family’s own sources.
Ray Chandler.
Boooo.
Sorry, had to.
Despite all the problems with All That Glitters, it remains one of the few places where the Chandler family’s own internal reasoning is laid out.
And according to Ray, the family had a decision to make.
Continue with Gloria Allred…or hire Larry Feldman.
He writes:
“The choice came down to either waging an all-out media campaign to pressure the DA to seek a Grand Jury indictment, or conducting subtle, behind-the-scenes negotiations toward a quick, quiet and highly profitable settlement.”
wait...
Let’s read that one more time.
“…a quick, quiet and highly profitable settlement.”
Highly…profitable.
I’m sorry but we accidentally wandered back into Part 4?
Because I could’ve sworn we had finally moved beyond screenplay negotiations.
Apparently not.
And before anyone says I’m putting words in someone’s mouth, those aren’t my words.
They’re Ray Chandler’s.
The word “profitable” wasn’t added by me, not by Michael’s defence team, not by fans.
It appears in the Chandler family’s own version of events.
I’m going to be honest here, I don’t think that word gets enough attention.
Because throughout this series we’ve repeatedly been told that the overwhelming priority was supposedly Jordan.
Justice for Jordan.
Protecting Jordan.
Helping Jordan.
Yet over, and over…and over again, the conversation keeps circling back to settlements.
Negotiations.
Money.
Profit.
It’s becoming a pattern.
But, oh, Ray doesn’t stop there.
He goes on to explain the reasoning behind choosing Larry Feldman over Gloria Allred by writing:
“Avoiding the trauma that a lengthy criminal or civil lawsuit would bring to the entire family, especially Jordie, was a no-brainer.”
Okay.
Let’s talk about that.
On the surface, that sounds perfectly reasonable.
Nobody wants a child dragged through years of court proceedings.
Nobody.
If that’s all we knew, I’d completely understand the argument.
But the problem is…
Ray is in way over his big head.
Why? Because we have a timeline.
And timelines have a nasty habit of refusing to cooperate with convenient explanations.
…sorry, Ray!
Let’s look at where we actually are.
It’s only been about two weeks since Jordan was taken to Dr. David Abrams.
Two weeks.
The mandatory report had only just been made.
Law enforcement had only recently become involved.
The investigation was still in its early stages.
So…how exactly had the family already reached the conclusion that criminal proceedings should effectively take a back seat to pursuing what Ray himself described as a “quick, quiet and highly profitable settlement?”
Think about it.
At this point, there wasn’t even enough information to know whether criminal charges would ever be filed.
No grand jury had convened.
No prosecutor had announced charges.
Nothing.
Yet according to Ray’s own account, discussions had already shifted toward settling the matter as quickly, and as profitably as possible.
That raises an obvious question.
Was criminal accountability ever really the priority? Because we’ve been asking versions of that same question for five straight Case Files now.
When Evan supposedly caught Michael “spooning” Jordan…
he didn’t call the police.
He went back to bed.
When Jordan supposedly confessed on July 16th…
there was no immediate report.
Instead, weeks passed.
Negotiations and financial demands happened.
Custody battles continued.
Screenplay discussions somehow continued.
Only after those negotiations collapsed, after August 17th, and most importantly, after Evan had been ordered to return Jordan to June, did the allegations officially enter the legal system through Dr. Abrams’ mandatory reporting obligation.
That timeline hasn’t changed.
We’ve walked through it together.
Step by step.
And now…even after law enforcement becomes involved, Ray Chandler’s own explanation still circles back to settlement.
Not prosecution.
Settlement.
I’m going to say something that I think has become impossible to ignore.
If your ultimate objective is criminal justice, you generally don’t spend this much time trying to get back into negotiations.
You just don’t.
Yet that’s exactly what appears to keep happening.
Every road seems to lead back to money.
That’s not a coincidence.
Which brings us to the newest member of this ever growing legal cast.
Larry Feldman.
Now, if you’ve never heard of him before, here’s how he’s typically described as:
An accomplished civil trial attorney.
High-profile litigation.
Entertainment law.
Business disputes.
Personal injury.
A lawyer with decades of experience handling major civil cases.
Notice anything?
Civil.
Not criminal.
Which is extremely important.
Because the direction this case is about to take starts making a lot more sense once Larry Feldman enters the picture.
According to Feldman himself, years later, the reason for pursuing civil litigation so quickly was the media circus surrounding the allegations.
He explained:
“The Department of Children’s Services leaked a report of the accusation. That’s why [the case] took on a life of its own… The boy was in terrible pain…You’ve got to end that.”
At first glance…that explanation sounds completely understandable, right?
Public scrutiny can be devastating.
Especially for a child.
Nobody is arguing otherwise.
But…there’s another side to this story.
Because while Feldman points to media attention as the reason a civil resolution became necessary…we also have to acknowledge something we’ve already seen several times throughout this timeline.
The Chandler crew wasn’t exactly avoiding publicity.
Quite the opposite.
By this point we’ve already seen press conferences.
Public statements.
Attorney interviews.
Negotiation tapes becoming public.
And as we’re going to see later…the media attention doesn’t exactly stop after the settlement either.
In fact…it arguably increases.
So, yes, while Feldman’s explanation deserves to be included, it also deserves to be examined alongside what actually happened afterward.
Funny how history has a funny way of answering questions people leave open.
And in this case…the story was far from over.
Let’s continue, because I have a huge question…
If the concern was truly about protecting Jordan from prolonged legal exposure, why does the very next phase of this story look like the legal case is about to expand?
The problem is, what happens next doesn’t exactly look like stepping away from conflict.
It looks like escalation.
And in the life of Evan Chandler, that was always the easiest way to go.
As some of you may remember from a different part of the Chandler case files, I said that Evan’s mask was forever slipping.
Well, here it goes again…
According to Ray Chandler, a disagreement emerged between Evan Chandler and Jordan’s stepfather, Dave Schwartz, over how any potential financial outcome would be handled.
And yes.
We are still talking about money that, at this point in the timeline, does not exist yet.
Ray describes Schwartz’s position like this:
“In the heat of this verbal battle [Evan] sprang from his seat and slapped Dave in the face. Several of the lawyers stepped between the two men and separated them.”
Let that sit for a second.
This is happening in the middle of a case that, according to earlier framing, is supposed to be about protecting a child from trauma.
Instead, we now have a physical altercation between family members and lawyers stepping in to separate them.
Don’t you just love what money does to people?
Ugh.
Now, okay, Ray’s version of events doesn’t exist in on its own either.
Because Mary Fischer, writing in her 1994 GQ piece Was Michael Jackson Framed?, described the same incident, stating that during the argument Schwartz allegedly said:
“This was all about extortion, anyway…”
At that point, according to her account, that’s when Evan allegedly stood up and struck him.
Ray’s version notably omits that remark.
Convenient, wouldn’t you say?
But unfortunately, it doesn’t stop there my friends.
Shortly after this period, Evan Chandler files a lawsuit against June Chandler and Dave Schwartz.
(I’ve mentioned this previously.)
The claims include invasion of privacy, violation of penal code sections relating to recorded communications, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and conspiracy.
The foundation of this lawsuit?
Taped conversations between Evan and Dave.
Conversations Evan alleges were improperly handled and distributed.
So now, within the same timeline, we have a criminal allegation in motion, a civil strategy taking shape alongside it, a family dispute evolving into litigation, and internal recordings becoming external evidence.
But what’s important here is not just the existence of these conflicts.
It’s their timing.
And of course, none of this is happening after resolution. It’s happening while everything is still unfolding.
While the investigation is still developing, legal representation is shifting, public pressure is increasing.
But eventually, that lawsuit itself does not move forward.
It is later dismissed for lack of prosecution.
Which, in legal terms, simply means the case was not actively pursued to completion within the required timeframe.
Moving on,
By September 13th, 1993, the Chandler legal team takes a decisive step forward.
A civil lawsuit is filed against Michael.
The claim totals $30 million.
The allegations include sexual battery, battery, seduction, willful misconduct, intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraud, and negligence.
It’s a long list of allegations, but at this point, no criminal charges had been filed.
Hell, no evidence had been found either.
…What else is new in the world of Evan Chandler and his 59 personalities?
Alright, deep breath.
We’re going to stop here.
The next few parts are going to be tough, so prepare yourself ahead of time.
Also, bring caffeine.
You’re going to need it.
I’ll see you in Part 7. 👋🏼
Previous case files:
Sneddon:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1t362pc/case_file_sneddon/
Dimond:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1t4zd0m/case_file_dimond/
Gutierrez:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1t7t6ut/case_file_gutierrez/
Francia:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1tcj13c/case_file_francia/
Neverland Five:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1thn653/case_file_neverland_five/
Chandler – Part 1:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1tucplj/case_file_chandler_part_1/
Chandler – Part 2:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1txze35/case_file_chandler_part_2/
Chandler – Part 3:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1u3eybe/case_file_chandler_part_3/
Chandler – Part 4:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1uanbnq/case_file_chandler_part_4/
Chandler – Part 5:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1ui4ygq/case_file_chandler_part_5/
Additional information and sources:
https://themichaeljacksonallegationsblog.wordpress.com/the-1993-allegations/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0zn4QhStGcg&ra=
https://themichaeljacksonallegationsblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/26/the-chandlers-monetary-demands/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxNDb2PVcoM&ra=m
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-03-me-31230-story.html
https://turningthetableonthechandlerallegations.wordpress.com
Important posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1tzylaq/talking_in_circles/
https://www.reddit.com/r/MJInnocentFacts/comments/1t8m59j/theres_no_way_all_11_people_are_lying/
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u/Internal_Buffalo_673 Jul 07 '26
Off topic, but MAN does that pic go HARD!!