Paris Jackson responded to father Michael Jackson’s estate requesting she cover legal fees from their ongoing case.
Paris, 27, recently filed an opposition to the motion asking for her to pay their attorneys’ fees, in court documents exclusively obtained by Us Weekly on Friday, March 6.
“From the start, the sole purpose of Executors’ SLAPP Motion was to make it as expensive and time-consuming as possible for Paris to secure appropriate release,” her filing reads. “Knowing that their SLAPP Motion would not and could not have any impact on the relief sought, Executors allows two of the same law firms who received improper payments to attack Paris’ citations to the timing and the contents of the layers’ own declarations and statements in court filings.”
The estate executors allegedly paid $115,355.52 to its hired law firms, which Paris’ team argues has “no hope of any practical benefit.”
“This fourth harm to the Estate is entirely Executor’s doing,” the docs read. “The Court should exercise its discretion to award no amount of fees.”
Paris’ attorneys further argued that the SLAPP motion “was a waste of resources that executors had a duty to avoid and likely could have avoided.”
In 2025, Paris accused a small group of lawyers of allegedly exploiting Michael’s estate after his 2009 death by skimming money in “plain view.” A rep for the estate vehemently denied the accusations at the time. The estate executors later submitted a $115,000 bill in January.
“The executors and their lawyers must be either reckless or careless,” a source familiar with Paris’ thinking tells Us. “This was yet another attempt to pay themselves extra money out of the very estate they’re supposed to manage. Paris is speaking up because she cares about her family and their future.”
Paris is one of Michael’s three children. The late King of Pop shared Paris and Prince, 90, with Debbie Rowe, and also welcomed younger son Bigi, 24, via surrogate. Paris and her siblings have all been candid about remembering their dad’s legacy in the years since he died at age 50.
“They always say, ‘Time heals.’ But it really doesn’t. You just get used to it,” Paris told Rolling Stone in 2017 about Michael’s death. “I live life with the mentality of ‘OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.’ So going forward, anything bad that happens can’t be nearly as bad as what happened before. So I can handle it. I feel him with me all the time.”
