La Toya Jackson: Michael was murdered

Earlier we reported LAPD chief William Bratton confirmed that investigators had not ruled out homicide in their investigations into the death of Michael Jackson.

Last night, his sister La Toya Jackson, in a moving interview blamed ‘a shadowy entourage’ of manipulative hangers-on for effectively ‘murdering’ the King of Pop.

She claimed Michael’s hangers on cutted him off from his family and friends and forcing him, largely against his will, to sign up for the 50 concerts at London’s O2 arena.

La Toya also said that she believes her brother was fed addictive drugs by the money hungry people who wanted to control his moods. So that they can exploit him at every turn. As the results of this, she believes, that led directly to her brother’s sudden death.

Here are the highlights of her interview: “I believe Michael was murdered, I felt that from the start. Not just one person was involved, rather it was a conspiracy of people.

He was surrounded by a bad circle. Michael was a very meek, quiet, loving person. People took advantage of that. People fought to be close to him, people who weren’t always on his side.

Less than a month ago, I said I thought Michael was going to die before the London shows because he was surrounded by people who didn’t have his best interests at heart.

Michael was worth more than a billion dollars. When anyone is worth that much money, there are always greedy people around them. I said to my family a month ago,

‘He’s never going to make it to London.’ He was worth more dead than alive. By the end, Michael was isolated from his family. He had no real friends. He was the loneliest man in the world. I knew something terrible was going to happen.”

She said reports Michael was bald and looked terrible without make-up were ‘plainly false’.

“He had no make-up on but he looked fine. He just looked like Michael.”

She went on to reveal that Michael will never be buried at Neverland Ranch:

“Michael hated that place. After the second [child abuse] trial, he said to me, “I will never come back to this place again. I hate it. This place helped destroy me.””

With the formal state coroner’s report due in two weeks along with the results of a second autopsy, which La Toya recieved last Friday, she said:

“We want to sit down and compare the two reports before anything is made public. I have a strong idea of what the outcome will be but I cannot say anything at this stage.

He had needle marks on his neck and on his arms and more about those will emerge in the next few weeks. I cannot discuss that any further as I may jeopardise the investigation. I can, however, say that I have not changed my mind about my feeling that Michael was murdered.”

On Michael’s finances, La Toya said the people around him didn’t care about him as a person, but as someone who could make them alot of money.

“Michael didn’t keep a close eye on his finances. A lot of people made a lot of money out of Michael. The house he was renting at the end is a classic example. It would cost £15,000 a month to rent but he was charged £60,000 a month because he was Michael Jackson.

As a family, we tried to get involved. We wanted to stage an intervention. But we couldn’t get near Michael. I knew something terrible was going to happen.

I believe he was cut off from the real world and the drugs were a way [for his hangers-on] to get in there. They got him hooked on drugs. He was pure and clean and then drugs came back into his system. I think it shocked his system so much it killed him.”

On reports that Grace was Michael’s girlfriend, she said

“I heard Grace liked Michael but he didn’t like her. He let her go last Christmas. I have a lot of questions about Grace. She was instrumental in keeping the family away. All of a sudden she is back, listening and watching the family. I think her behaviour is odd.”

On Debbie Rowe, who is expected to begin her fight for custody of the two oldest children in the Los Angeles courts next week. La Toya said:

“These are not Debbie’s kids. They don’t even know she’s their mother. Like everyone else in his life, she was motivated by money. She has always said she’s not their mother.

My understanding is that she will now go after the kids. I know a few things about Debbie and I will prevent that from happening.

Debbie has only seen the children a handful of times. Michael never introduced her as their mother.”

And she confirmed that Blanket, the youngest child, was created from a donor egg and donated sperm:

“Michael didn’t want to know who the biological parents were. They took eggs from a donor and I believe the sperm came from one of five donors picked from a book. Michael didn’t know who the mother and father were. I don’t know who carried the child and if the surrogate knew whose child she was carrying. Those children were his greatest joy. He was a superstar but the only people who loved him unconditionally were the children.”

La Toya last saw Michael three weeks before he died at an Indian restaurant, Chakra, in Beverly Hills celebrating their parents 60th wedding anniversary.

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