EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Katherine Jackson's Biz Partner: MJ Didn't Invent The Smooth Criminal!
May 28 2018, Updated 10:15 a.m. ET
The man doing business with Katherine Jackson wants a lawsuit tossed out of court because, he claims, the King of Pop did not invent 'The Smooth Criminal' lean -- the world famous anti-gravity dance move.
EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: 'The Smooth Criminal' Legal Papers
"That 'lean' pose in question was NOT invented by, or first introduced to audiences by, Michael Jackson," lawyers for Howard Mann state in court documents, obtained exclusively by Breaking Celebrity News.
The Toronto entrepreneur is being sued the the Jackson Estate, for violating trademarks, copyright and cyber piracy laws, by using the King of Pop's name and image without permission.
But Mann alleges: "It goes back to more than over a half a century in the annals of dance in film (The Band Wagon's Slaughter on Tenth Avenue number) and on Broadway (in the musical Guys and Dolls.)
"It was used by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in one era -- by James Bro