ABC News correspondent Mar tin Bashir, whose blockbus ter 2003 documentary “Living with Michael Jackson” sparked the child-molestation case against the pop star, is waiting for the other shoe to drop now that Jackson is off the hot seat.
Jackson’s lawyers may revive a 2003 breach-of-contract lawsuit against Bashir and the producers of his documentary – the film in which Jackson admitted to sharing his bed with young boys. The case was suspended pending the outcome of the singer’s trial.
Jackson filed the suit in England shortly after the film aired there on Britain’s ITV and claimed that Bashir and producers at the studio, Granada, had broken the terms under which they had agreed to make the film.
“I trusted Martin Bashir to come into my life and that of my family because I wanted the truth to be told,” Jackson said in 2003.
“I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before; that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program.” Bashir and producers spent more than eight months with Jackson.
After the film aired on ABC, Bashir, a well-known British TV reporter, joined ABC News full time.
ABC has declined to make Bashir, who testified for the prosecution at Jackson’s trial, available for interviews since the trial ended Monday.

