By the summer of 2009 Jackson was caught in a maelstrom of money and specialist pressures: by his advisers, who ended up progressively striving to bring him back down to reality by the myriad lawsuits that dogged him and periodically caught him (in just one he was hit with a $20 million judgment) by Sony, which was loaning him revenue, slyly employing yet a different chunk of his new music catalogue as collateral his ludicrous family members,.