Michael Jackson Ordered To Pay

Michael Jackson has been told to pay more than $256,000 in legal fees to a firm that handled some side issued during the 2005 child molestation trial. A Superior Court judge signed a judgment that awarded $216,837 along with $39,177 in interest to the Torande firm of Ayscough & Marar, according to court records. The law firm sued the 48 year old pop star for failing to pay legal fees for preventing the release of some information to the public and to lawyers in civil cases during his 2005 criminal trial in Santa Barbara County. Jackson was eventually acquitted of child molestation charges. Jackson countersued the law firm but that case was dismissed.