{"id":898636,"date":"2026-09-17T02:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898636\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T02:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:20:15","slug":"michael-jackson-estate-fighting-daughter-paris-demand-for-1-million-in-legal-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898636\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson Estate Fighting Daughter Paris&#8217; Demand for $1 Million in Legal Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260916_e1c14febf8174a55b384168b5fa1b096\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:c8c91b07-b1b1-4be0-8070-c71bb235325a\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/e1c14febf8174a55b384168b5fa1b096_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-paris-jackson-michael-jackson-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/michael-jackson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Michael Jackson<\/a>&#8216;s estate is responding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/paris-jackson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Paris Jackson<\/a>&#8216;s request for over $1 million in legal fees &#8230; and they think she won&#8217;t stop &#8217;til she gets too much!<\/p>\n<p>The executor of Michael&#8217;s estate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/john-branca\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Branca<\/a>, filed legal docs objecting to Paris&#8217; request Monday &#8230; claiming her ask for the estate to fork over $1,165,481.90 in legal bills just isn&#8217;t reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260407_5869e27deb004b70963a5a030f16322c\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:c8c91b07-b1b1-4be0-8070-c71bb235325a\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/5869e27deb004b70963a5a030f16322c_md.jpg\" alt=\"paris jackson getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve reported &#8230; Paris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/16\/paris-jackson-legal-fight-on-michael-jackson-estate-continues\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disputed<\/a> $625,000 in bonuses paid to attorneys of her late father&#8217;s estate back in 2018 &#8230; and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/13\/paris-jackson-court-victory-over-michael-jackson-estate\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">court sided with her<\/a> in April of this year, ordering the money to be returned to the estate.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Because Paris was able to secure the dough for the benefit of the estate, the judge ruled the estate had to pay her &#8220;reasonable&#8221; legal fees in securing the benefit &#8230; and Paris requested a whopping $1.16 million.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the estate is arguing these fees are way too high, insisting she is trying to collect fees for unrelated legal battles in the case and claiming she is exaggerating how much she actually saved the estate, noting that some of the money she&#8217;s counting was actually voluntarily returned to the estate.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260527_b57a2529f36f453b946b1478eac57a29\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:c8c91b07-b1b1-4be0-8070-c71bb235325a\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b57a2529f36f453b946b1478eac57a29_md.jpg\" alt=\"John Branca getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bottom line &#8230; Branca is fine with Paris getting paid, just for the fights he says she won and for the benefits she actually got for the estate&#8217;s beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep you posted on how this legal thriller turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson&#8216;s estate is responding to Paris Jackson&#8216;s request for over $1 million in legal fees &#8230; and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-898636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}