Michael Jackson's Pepsi co-star James Safechuck claims abuse. THE child who featured in Michael Jackson’s 1987 Pepsi commercial has joined a lawsuit against the singer’s estate saying he was sexually abused for years.
Lawyers for James Safechuck, 36, filed the documents on Friday alleging that Jackson started grooming him for sex when he first appeared in the ad at age 10.
In the commercial, Safechuck plays a boy who sneaks into the singer’s dressing room and starts imitating his idol before Jackson walks in on him.
Safechuck has joined the lawsuit filed by Australian choreographer Wade Robson, 31, who says Jackson made him perform sexual acts on him.
Both boys had denied that Jackson ever sexually abused them. Safechuck is now married with two children of his own and is a computer programmer.