Paris Jackson is escalating her fight over her father Michael Jackson’s estate, accusing the two men running it of using their positions to enrich themselves instead of protecting her father’s legacy. The 27-year-old filed a new objection in Los Angeles court on November 18th, challenging the estate’s long-delayed accounting for the year 2021. She and her brothers, Prince, 28, and Bigi, 23, did not receive that financial breakdown until this past September, nearly four years late.
In the filing, Paris says she is alarmed by the “enormous sums of cash” that the co executors, John Branca and John McClain, are keeping idle rather than investing. She claims their decisions show they are no longer acting in the best interest of her family. Her lawyers wrote, “Paris is increasingly concerned the Estate has become the vehicle for John Branca to enrich and aggrandize himself, rather than serve the beneficiaries’ best interests and steadfastly preserve her father’s legacy.”
Sources close to the estate pushed back, calling her objection “another misguided attempt” by her attorneys and insisting that “all the beneficiaries are well taken care of by the Estate.”
Paris says the numbers tell a different story. She alleges the executors collected more than ten million dollars in compensation in 2021 alone, which she says is “more than double the amount distributed to any beneficiary from the family allowance.” Her filing estimates that the executors have received roughly 148.2 million dollars in total compensation through 2021, which she argues “dwarfs any amount distributed to Paris or her siblings.”
Her objection also points to more than 464 million dollars in cash being held with returns of less than 0.1 percent. Paris claims that if invested responsibly, the money could have generated forty one million dollars in profit. She also criticizes what she calls “risky” entertainment investments, including the upcoming biopic Michael, where Branca is an executive producer and reportedly cast Miles Teller to play himself. Her filing argues the estate has “morphed into a private entertainment investment fund.”
She also notes that the executors still have not provided accounting for 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025, claiming the delays are intentional to keep the estate open “indefinitely.”
The executors previously argued that Paris has received about sixty five million dollars in benefits from the estate and said they transformed a half billion dollar debt into a “powerhouse and a force in the music business.”
Paris is now asking the court to reject the 2021 accounting and require new records showing their “true acts.” A hearing is set for January 13, 2026.
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