Jermaine Jackson has reportedly been ordered to pay more than $6.5 million to a woman after she claimed he forced his way into her home and raped her in 1988.
The alleged victim, Rita Butler Barrett, accused Jackson in a December 2023 complaint of sexually assaulting her in 1988.
The former Jackson 5 member and brother of late pop star Michael Jackson mow has to pay the damages and other costs to Barrett, according to a default judgment filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, obtained by People.
In the complaint, Barrett claimed that Jackson arrived at her home uninvited in or around the spring of 1988, at which point he forced his way inside and violently sexually assaulted her, only deciding to leave once he was “satiated.”
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Barrett added that she knew the singer-songwriter through her husband, Ben Barrett, who worked closely with Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown Records, the complaint
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