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<\/figure>\nBut he also fell for movie star Emma Watson when she was an 11-year-old Harry Potter actress \u2013 and announced that if he couldn\u2019t have his first choice he\u2019d wed her instead.<\/p>\n
The extraordinary claims are made in an explosive new book by the singer\u2019s personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Murray, 63, claims Jacko confided in him about his crush on little Harriet, the daughter of his close friend, former Oliver! child actor Mark Lester, 58.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael fell in love with Harriet when she was roughly five years old,\u201d Murray writes in This Is It \u2013 named after the concerts at London\u2019s 02 Arena that Jackson, 50, had been preparing for when he died.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, by age 12, he grew to become fixated on her,\u201d he claims.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted me to go with him to visit her father and to discuss plans for \u00admatrimony while in London, during the This Is It concerts.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me Harriet\u2019s father was Mark Lester, his very close friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
An entire chapter of the book, which will be published on Tuesday, \u00addocuments Jackson\u2019s sickening obsession with very young girls.<\/p>\n Telling of his reaction to the star\u2019s bombshell confession, Murray writes: \u201cI was concerned that Harriet was legally far too young for marriage in most of the world.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I asked Michael how old she was, he said he was not sure, but thought she could be about 12 years old. I remembered saying to him in Trinidad and Tobago I\u2019m familiar with some prearranged marriages, especially in the Hindu faith, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s allowed for ages that young.<\/p>\n \u201cIt would be something to carefully scour for the legality of marriage to a minor. I was sure it was statutory rape in America and England.<\/p>\n \u201cHe said he planned to have someone review the legality and ramifications of marrying someone as young as Harriet when he arrived in London.<\/p>\n \u201cHe wanted me to visit Harriet\u2019s father with him so he could discuss the \u00adramifications of marrying someone that young in the western world.\u201d<\/p>\n He claims the megastar told him: \u201cYou must swear you will never say a word to anyone about this. Only you will know when the time is right.\u201d<\/p>\n And Dr Murray has decided the right time is now.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Murray claims Jackson confided his yearnings for little girls after admitting he had never been intimate with his second wife Debbie Rowe.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was then that he told me that he intended to marry someone named Harriet, a blonde on whom he had a terrible crush,\u201d Murray says.<\/p>\n \u201cI was \u00adstartled to later learn that the tall, ultra-thin Harriet was a 13-year-old girl on whom Michael was fixated.\u201d Rowe gave birth to Jackson\u2019s older two children Michael Junior, 19 and Paris, 18, after getting pregnant by artificial insemination. Younger son Blanket, 14, was born by an unknown surrogate mother.<\/p>\n Jackson also talked to the doctor about his hopes of having more children.<\/p>\n King of Pop Michael Jackson became infatuated with his British god-daughter when she was just five years old, his doctor claims.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n But he also fell for movie star Emma Watson when she was an 11-year-old Harry Potter actress \u2013 and announced that if he couldn\u2019t have his first choice he\u2019d wed her instead.<\/p>\n The extraordinary claims are made in an explosive new book by the singer\u2019s personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray.<\/p>\n READ MORE Murray, 63, claims Jacko confided in him about his crush on little Harriet, the daughter of his close friend, former Oliver! child actor Mark Lester, 58.<\/p>\n \u201cMichael fell in love with Harriet when she was roughly five years old,\u201d Murray writes in This Is It \u2013 named after the concerts at London\u2019s 02 Arena that Jackson, 50, had been preparing for when he died.<\/p>\n \u201cThen, by age 12, he grew to become fixated on her,\u201d he claims.<\/p>\n SplashMark and Harriet LesterMark and Harriet Lester \u201cHe told me Harriet\u2019s father was Mark Lester, his very close friend.\u201d<\/p>\n An entire chapter of the book, which will be published on Tuesday, \u00addocuments Jackson\u2019s sickening obsession with very young girls.<\/p>\n Telling of his reaction to the star\u2019s bombshell confession, Murray writes: \u201cI was concerned that Harriet was legally far too young for marriage in most of the world.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I asked Michael how old she was, he said he was not sure, but thought she could be about 12 years old. I remembered saying to him in Trinidad and Tobago I\u2019m familiar with some prearranged marriages, especially in the Hindu faith, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s allowed for ages that young.<\/p>\n SWNSMark Lester and his two daughters Harriet (L) and Olivia with Michael JacksonMark Lester and his two daughters Harriet (L) and Olivia with Michael Jackson \u201cHe said he planned to have someone review the legality and ramifications of marrying someone as young as Harriet when he arrived in London.<\/p>\n \u201cHe wanted me to visit Harriet\u2019s father with him so he could discuss the \u00adramifications of marrying someone that young in the western world.\u201d<\/p>\n He claims the megastar told him: \u201cYou must swear you will never say a word to anyone about this. Only you will know when the time is right.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE 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.<\/p>\n Skyblue NewsConrad MurrayConrad Murray Murray claims Jackson confided his yearnings for little girls after admitting he had never been intimate with his second wife Debbie Rowe.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was then that he told me that he intended to marry someone named Harriet, a blonde on whom he had a terrible crush,\u201d Murray says.<\/p>\n \u201cI was \u00adstartled to later learn that the tall, ultra-thin Harriet was a 13-year-old girl on whom Michael was fixated.\u201d Rowe gave birth to Jackson\u2019s older two children Michael Junior, 19 and Paris, 18, after getting pregnant by artificial insemination. Younger son Blanket, 14, was born by an unknown surrogate mother.<\/p>\n Jackson also talked to the doctor about his hopes of having more children.<\/p>\n Murray writes: \u201cHe told me that he intended to do further artificial \u00adinsemination.\u201d<\/p>\n Jackson asked to meet child actor-turned osteopath Mark Lester because he had loved his performance as \u00adinnocent orphan Oliver in the film.<\/p>\n The two bonded over their shared experience as child stars. Jackson rose from lead singer in family band The Jackson 5 to pop legend. His album Thriller was the best-seller of all time. And hits like Off the Wall, Bad and Dangerous helped win him 13 Grammies.<\/p>\n But Mark\u2019s showbiz career never again captured the success of Oliver!<\/p>\n The two men became close friends and the singer agreed to become \u00adHarriet\u2019s godfather. The Lesters often travelled to the US as guests of the star.<\/p>\n Photographs of Jacko with young Harriet show their closeness but their friendship remained entirely innocent \u2013 except in his head. In an interview after Jackson\u2019s death, Lester revealed how the singer had offered to invite her on stage at his first This Is It concert. He said: \u201cHe told Harriet he wanted her to come on stage with him when he sang his song Dirty Diana. He was really fired up.\u201d<\/p>\n Lester declined to comment about Murray\u2019s allegations this week.<\/p>\n Murray said Jackson, who was worth \u00a3600million and expected to make an estimated \u00a3250million on the 02 run, wanted to lavish his fortune on Harriet, the unsuspecting object of his twisted love.<\/p>\n The doctor writes in his book: \u201cMichael felt the time was now since he would amass sizable wealth with his concerts, tours, and movie production, and would therefore be able to provide a very comfortable life for his bride.\u201d<\/p>\n In a further extraordinary claim about Jackson\u2019s bizarre world, Murray says the Billie Jean singer had a cardboard cutout of actress Emma Watson in his \u00a360,000-a-month rented home in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Jackson first spotted Emma, now 26, playing child witch Hermione in the Harry Potter films and quickly became infatuated.<\/p>\n Murray says: \u201cMichael told me he was almost as consumed with British actress Emma Watson. He had \u2018fallen in love with her\u2019 when she was in her first Harry Potter film in 2001, when she was just 11. Emma was his second choice for a bride if things did not work out with Harriet.\u201d<\/p>\n Jackson even told Murray he wanted to make his home in London after his planned shows in the capital \u2013 which the frail star was never able to perform.<\/p>\n The incredible plans he was hearing left the doctor questioning Jackson\u2019s motives.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was the closest Michael ever came to answering my own unasked questions about the paedophilia allegations that had haunted him for years,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n \u201cI never challenged Michael. That is because I instinctively knew that when it came to very sensitive subjects, Michael could as quickly shut down, as he had been forthright. But one thing was clear: the way Michael spoke about the young girls was not an innocent crush, but an unrequited love.\u201d<\/p>\n Murray and Jackson first met in 2006 in Las Vegas, when the star enlisted his services to treat one of his three children for a minor illness.<\/p>\n Dr Murray had set up a private practice in Sin City after previously working as associate director of a cardiology fellowship program at Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego.<\/p>\n The pair quickly hit it off, and Jackson would call on the doctor\u2019s services many times over the coming months.<\/p>\n Before long the two became very close, says Murray.<\/p>\n \u201cI was far more than Jackson\u2019s doctor,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI was also one of his closest friends and his only confidante.\u201d Eventually the star hired him on an exclusive basis as his personal physician in the run-up to his ill-fated 2009 run of 50 concerts in London.<\/p>\n Jackson insisted Murray should be paid \u00a3120,000 a month, although the tour\u2019s promoter AEG later claimed there was never a formal contract between themselves and the doctor.<\/p>\n Jackson died from a lethal dose of the anaesthetic propofol.<\/p>\n Murray was charged and convicted for the involuntary manslaughter of the star, and served two years of a four-year prison sentence. However, he has always fiercely denied wrongdoing and insists he still \u201cloves\u201d the entertainer.<\/p>\n Many of the late star\u2019s fans will now consider his decision to release his \u00adextraordinary memoirs a betrayal \u2013 but the medic insists he has Jackson\u2019s blessing to tell the story of his final years.<\/p>\n He explains: \u201cI have decided that the time has come to reveal in this book the untold story of what really happened to Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n \u201cThis book is the last chapter of Jackson\u2019s life, told as no one else even knows it.\u201d<\/p>\n Conrad Murray\u2019s book, out on Tuesday, is available for pre-sale orders at {According to his doctor, the late King of Pop fell in love with the 12 year old daughter of Oliver! star Mark Lester.} King of Pop Michael Jackson became infatuated with his British god-daughter when she was just five years old, his doctor claims. 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\nMichael Jackson plotted to marry famous pal’s 12-year-old daughter says his doctor
\nIt casts an astonishing light on the bizarre, dark world of the 400million-record selling megastar, who died of a prescription drugs overdose in 2009.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe wanted me to go with him to visit her father and to discuss plans for \u00admatrimony while in London, during the This Is It concerts.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt would be something to carefully scour for the legality of marriage to a minor. I was sure it was statutory rape in America and England.<\/p>\n
\nMichael Jackson’s sister La Toya pleads with fans to let him ‘RIP’ on anniversary of his death
\nAnd Dr Murray has decided the right time is now.<\/p>\n
\nIn 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.<\/p>\n
\nbooktopia.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"