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Jacko family promised to ‘slice my neck’ if I spoke out

MAID ABUSE CLAIM

- By JAMES CAVEN and MARK JEFFERIES james.caven@dailystar.co.uk

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MICHAEL Jackson’s former maid claims she was told she would have her throat cut if she ever spoke about his alleged child abuse.

Adrian McManus said she saw the singer “kissing and petting” young boys at his Neverland ranch but was too afraid to speak out.

She told US TV’s 60 Minutes: “There was a kind side to him, and yet there was a dark side.

“They told me if I ever came up on TV that they could hire a hitman to take me out, slice my neck, wouldn’t ever find my body.”

Adrian claimed to have seen youngsters walking around Neverland barely clothed.

The maid, 56, who worked there for four years, said she often found the singer’s and children’s underwear in the Jacuzzi and baths.

Jackson, who died in 2009 aged 50, has been dubbed a “sexual predator” by the director of a shocking new film which alleges that he was a child abuser.

Dan Reed spent four years making the documentar­y Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson And Me, to be shown on Channel 4 next month. He told Vice magazine that after interviewi­ng alleged victims Wade Robson and James Safechuck he is in no doubt Jackson abused kids.

The director said: “The majority of Jackson fans are people who will be really shocked to hear this very compelling case of abuse by Jackson, as I was.”

Jackson’s estate has denied all allegation­s against the star.

 ??  ?? AFRAID: Maid Adrian McManus
AFRAID: Maid Adrian McManus

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