14 DAY TRIAL // Shortly after filing a lawsuit against concert organizers AEG Live for not fulfilling their contractual obligation of keeping Michael Jackson healthy and alive, Katherine Jackson says her son knew people wanted him death and that his death was preventable.
In two brand new videos for the Michael Jackson Secret Vault, the late singer’s mom says that she has no doubt that he knew people wanted him dead – and she believes the molestation allegations may have had something to do with it.
According to Mrs. Jackson, her son lived in fear that “people” (she doesn’t say who) wanted him dead because of the allegations made during the trials and what was written in the media about him.
None of these was true, of course, Katherine says, convinced that the same people that wished her son dead might have actually did something in this sense.
“One of the reasons I think that [Michael] knew people didn’t want him around any longer” was because of the “vicious rumors about him molesting children,” Katherine says in a video obtained by TMZ.
“Mean, evil, vicious people didn’t want him around for some reason,” she adds. Then, on second thought, she says she believes it was greed that motivated those people.
In another short clip, also obtained by TMZ, Mrs. Jackson is asked whether she thinks Michael’s death could have been prevented, to which she replies in the affirmative because “he’d hired a personal doctor to take care of him.”
That doctor (Dr. Conrad Murray) turned out to be “negligent,” Katherine says, leaving no trace of doubt about whom she holds responsible for the death of the King of Pop.
In fact, it’s the same thing Katherine claims in court papers filed against AEG: the organizers hired Murray to take care of Michael and both they and the physician failed to do so because he’s now dead.
The lawsuit and the claims made in it are “inaccurate, unsubstantiated and meritless,” AEG says in a statement released the other day to the same media outlet.
“Dr. Murray was Mr. Jackson’s longtime personal physician. AEG did not choose him, hire him or supervise him. That said, and in honor of our professional relationship with Mr. Jackson and his Estate, we will have no further public statements,” AEG also said.