Insurers had forced MJ to pay off child molestation accuser, says book

Washington, July 09: Michael Jackson`s insurance company had forced the King of Pop to pay 20 million dollars to his first child molestation accuser to get rid of the charges, according to a new book. Although the cash deal had left many people believing the singer to be guilty, investigative journalist Ian Halperin claims in his new tome `Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson` that the singer was not a paedophile who preyed on children.

"The book shows documents proving that Michael`s insurance company forced the (Jordy) Chandler settlement on him against his will and against the advice of his lawyers. He collapsed in hysterics when he found out he had to do that," Contactmusic quoted an insider, who has read the upcoming book, as telling In Touch magazine. The book also suggests that Jackson was secretly gay and once picked up a construction worker in Las Vegas. ANI