LaToya Jackson claims Michaels death was a conspiracy

During an appearance on NBC’s Today Show to plug her new book, Starting Over, LaToya told host Matt Lauer how the King of Pop had confided in her that he was “terrified” that people wanted to kill him for his multi-million dollar music catalogue.

Pressed by Lauer, who asked her why she hadn’t named the suspects in her book, LaToya said: 'He told me exactly who he was referring to, he was terrified, he had this catalogue that they wanted. You have to remember this catalogue was more than 75,000 songs.

'This was everyone that surrounded him that was involved in that. He was very afraid and said it was just a matter of time. He knew it was going to happen, but when he first told me I was like, 'Come on Michael that cannot be true'.

'I didn't truly understand it in the beginning, but the more he explained it the more I understood. He told my mother as well.'

Lauer then asked LaToya why, if her brother was so afraid of performing because of the threat to his life, was he rehearsing for a world tour at the time of his death.

'He did not lose that fear, but he was in a catch 22 situation,' she said. 'He knew he had to perform and he had to perform 10 dates because he was given so much, he agreed to do 10 dates and that was it.'

Asked again why she had not named names in her book, LaToya told Lauer: 'When you read the book and read between the lines and understand you will know exactly, Michael leads you to that and what was going to take place. Once you read it you will understand.

She also called her brother’s former medic, Dr Conrad Murray, who has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of Jackson, a “fall guy”.

She said: 'I believe Dr Conrad Murray was definitely the fall guy and they need to investigate it a bit more and go deeper into it. [Michael’s] children need to know and want to know what happened to their father.'