La Toya Jackson: "Michael's death was a conspiracy"
Starlounge, Updated: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:45:45 GMT
La Toya Jackson admits she was shocked by brother Michael's physical decline in the days leading up to his sudden death - which she describes as 'a conspiracy.'
In an interview with the New York Post, the 52-year old
TV personality – currently promoting forthcoming memoir ‘Starting Over’ – describes meeting with the King of Pop while he furiously rehearsed for his ill-fated 50-date farewell show at the 02 Arena in London.
“I saw Michael shortly before he passed on,” she said. “He was in rehearsal for his concert and wasn’t pleased with how things were going. He was very fragile – all bones.
“Michael’s always been thin; he’d eat to live. He’d just move food around. But now he was neglecting himself and working too hard.”
And contrary to public opinion, La Toya remains adamant that Dr. Conrad Murray – Michael’s personal physician and the man accused of administering him with a fatal dose of powerful sedative Propofol – isn’t
entirely to blame for her brother’s death.
“Dr. Murray was the fall guy,” she said. "Authorities should look into this more deeply. I believe it was a conspiracy. Michael told me repeatedly, ‘They’re going to murder me, you don’t understand. They’re trying to murder me.’ He’d tell me again and again.
“He had the world’s largest catalogue – 750,000 songs. People knew how important it was. He’d say, ‘They’re after it…you’ve got to listen to me…they plan to get me…they’re trying to break me…I wanted them out of my life…now they’re back in…I’m afraid to leave my house…they’re going to assassinate me.’ Who is ‘they?’
“Our mother knew Michael was troubled. He told her, too. He was not under drugs when he told her, ‘Bad people keep resurfacing. I want them out of my house, but they won’t leave.’ He didn’t even like that doctor around him.”
Controversially, La Toya believes the people Michael referred to also found their way into his bedroom shortly after he died at a rented property on North Carolwood Drive in Los Angeles on June 25th 2009.
“Look, I’m accusing nobody,” she said. “I’m just putting out what I know. I was in his bedroom right after it happened. That room had been ransacked. Whoever ‘they’ are had gone through everything.”
Murray – who was hired by concert promoters AEG to take care of Michael as he prepared for the London shows – has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
He is scheduled to face trial at Los Angeles Supreme Court in September.
By Jason Chester / Starlounge
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