Paris Jackson has made a Paris Jackson 600 million request in Los Angeles County Superior Court, asking for a preliminary transfer from Michael Jackson’s estate to the trust for his three children. The filing puts a hard number on a dispute that has lingered since 2011: when Prince, Paris and Bigi should start receiving trust money and principal distributions.
June 2009 to 2020
Michael Jackson died in June 2009, and Paris says the executors told her in 2011 they would file a petition to begin funding the trust. She says no such petition was filed 15 years later, even as the estate began generating liquidity in 2011 and sold Neverland Ranch in 2020. Paris says Michael wanted his children to begin receiving money on each child’s 21st birthday, with outright principal distributions at age 30.
Prince, Paris and Bigi
Prince is 29, Paris is 28 and Bigi is 24, so the filing turns on timing as much as money. Paris says the trust remains unfunded and that the funds are overdue under the executor’s iron grip, while the estate says it cannot fully fund the trust until several legal matters are resolved, including the IRS case.
Paris also says the estate’s value is now between $2 billion and $3 billion and points to the $750 million deal with Sony for intellectual property assets. She argues that the beneficiaries are still waiting for distributions, while the estate says it secured a ruling to significantly reduce the IRS amount and denies holding back or reducing payments to the three children.
IRS case at Los Angeles
The estate’s position leaves the court with a narrow question: whether a preliminary transfer should move ahead before the rest of the legal cleanup is finished. Paris says the beneficiaries should not remain in limbo while the estate keeps control of the money; the estate says it still needs room to finish resolving several legal matters before it can fully fund the trust.
That clash is the real test for the court. If the judge grants the request, Prince, Paris and Bigi move closer to the payment schedule Michael Jackson described. If not, the trust stays tied to the estate’s unresolved litigation, and the beneficiaries keep waiting.
