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King of Pop Michael Jackson became infatuated with his British god-daughter when she was just five years old, his doctor claims.
By the time she was 12 the twisted Thriller star was so obsessed with the little girl that he was determined to marry her as soon as possible.
But he also fell for movie star Emma Watson when she was an 11-year-old Harry Potter actress – and announced that if he couldn’t have his first choice he’d wed her instead.
The extraordinary claims are made in an explosive new book by the singer’s personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray.
It casts an astonishing light on the bizarre, dark world of the 400million-record selling megastar, who died of a prescription drugs overdose in 2009.
“Michael fell in love with Harriet when she was roughly five years old,” Murray writes in This Is It – named after the concerts at London’s 02 Arena that Jackson, 50, had been preparing for when he died. Then, by age 12, he grew to become fixated on her,” he claims. He wanted me to go with him to visit her father and to discuss plans for matrimony while in London, during the This Is It concerts.
An entire chapter of the book, which will be published on Tuesday, documents Jackson’s sickening obsession with very young girls.
He claims the megastar told him: “You must swear you will never say a word to anyone about this. Only you will know when the time is right.”
Jackson always vehemently denied persistent child sex abuse rumours surrounding him. He paid millions of dollars to settle a number of cases with the families of young boys who claimed to have been abused by him at his Neverland ranch in California.
In 2005 he faced allegations in court, and but a jury acquitted him of each of 14 counts. Jubilant fans released a white dove for each of the 14 verdicts. But the rumours have never gone away.
