Crazy Creditor’s Claim Against Jackson Estate

Posted Jan 14th 2010 5:27PM by TMZ Staff

A woman who claims to have spent 2,000 hours analyzing the extended family of Michael Jackson — including children, birth mother(s), sperm donor claims … and on and on … wants more than $2 million from Michael Jackson’s estate.

Claire McMillan says she’s a “homeschool expert” who did “a thorough analysis” of Jackson’s complete extended family, to determine … well, it’s not clear why she was doing it.

Whatever … she concluded that Katherine Jackson is doing “a poor job outside of the home, related to -  age, grooming and psyc appropriate activities, same-sex, academic & soc interactions w/ non-extended family children …. ” oh, what’s the use? It makes no sense.

McMillan says she also inquired as to whether Dr. Arnold Klein would be interested in obtaining guardianship of the children with McMillan and her husband.

Anyway, McMillan says her time is worth $1,000 an hour, and she wants $2,002,000 for her efforts.

Howard Weitzman, lawyer for the Michael Jackson estate, tells TMZ “To the best of our knowledge, Ms. McMillan never did anything for the estate and the estate owes her nothing.”

Pop star Michael Jackson, shown in November 2007, was under investigation by the FBI for at least 10 years before he faced child molestation charges in 2003. (Danny Moloshok/Associated Press)

Police in the southern California city where pop star Michael Jackson stood trial on child molestation charges called in the FBI because they feared he might become a terrorist target.

The Santa Maria police were afraid the court case would be a “soft target” for terrorism, according to documents released by the FBI on Tuesday after a freedom of information request.

Federal agents had been looking into Jackson’s alleged involvement with young boys for nearly 10 years before that 2003 arrest, the documents show.

They also had looked into death threats against Jackson by a man obsessed with his sister, Janet, as far back as 1992.

The FBI released 333 pages of documents related to the late pop singer on Tuesday that date from 1992 to 2005.

At the molestation trial, FBI eventually concluded there was little risk of terrorism, although they noticed that a Nation of Islam follower and New Black Panther Party member, both unnamed in the files released, sat in the gallery in the early part of the trial. Jackson was eventually acquitted of all charges.

The files show FBI had been tipped off by their London, England, office in 1993 of an alleged inappropriate involvement between Jackson and an underaged male. Over the next 10 years, they made several investigations of the pop star, none of which led to charges.

Death threats against Jackson, president

Federal investigators assisted Santa Maria police in combing through computers at Neverland, Jackson’s California home, in the molestation case. They also helped customs officials investigate a video suspected to be child pornography.

Neither of those investigations yielded substantive evidence, according to the documents.

FBI also interviewed two former Neverland employees in the Philippines over allegations of Jackson fondling young boys.

But the files released Tuesday contain no major revelations about Jackson’s private life and the bureau apparently never developed any solid evidence against him.

They did include death threats against Jackson, then President George H. W. Bush and mob boss John Gotti by Frank Paul Jones, who allegedly was obsessed with Janet Jackson.

Jones was convicted in 1993 in relation to a letter that states: “I decided that because nobody is taking me serious, and I can’t handle my state of mind, that I am going to Washington, D.C., to threaten to kill the president of the United States, George Bush.”

The letter later says, “Michael [Jackson] I will personally attempt to kill, if he doesn’t pay me my money.”

Jones was arrested June 22, 1992, after trespassing in the driveway of the Jackson family compound in Encino, Calif.

Jackson, the singer known as the King of Pop, died June 25 at age 50. His death was ruled a homicide and police are still investigating.

Michael Jackson’s death has been officially ruled as murder, it was revealed today. The cause of death on the 50-year-old’s death certificate has been amended to ‘homicide’ after months of speculation. According to the document the King of Pop died from ‘acute Propofol intoxication’ due to an ‘intravenous injection from another’. On the original certificate issued on July 7 deputy coroner Cheryl MacWillie refused to give a cause of death.

However after further investigations, the certificate was amended and re-released in August by medical examiner Christopher Thomas. It now states the cause of death on 25th June 2009 as ‘homicide’. A source said that the Jackson family are ‘keeping faith with the police’, adding: ‘We still feel that there is more than one person responsible for Michael’s tragic death. Joe won’t give up on getting justice for his son and a lawuit is his focus.’ The news comes after it emerged that the singer’s doctor Conrad Murray is expected to be charged with manslaughter.

Murdered: A coroner has officially ruled that singer Michael Jackson’s death on June 25th 2009 was homicide.

Dr Murray could be prosecuted for ‘gross negligence’ for his treatment of the  pop star during his last hours, police sources said. Murray, a cardiologist, was with the star at his rented Los Angeles mansion in June and tried to revive him when he was found unconscious. Murray already has a Houston law firm building his defence. Police affidavits say he admitted loading up Jackson with Propofol and other drugs in the hours before his death. Miranda Sevcik, a spokeswoman in Houston for Murray and his lawyer, Edward Chernoff, said Friday the doctor had no comment and reiterated that Murray neither prescribed nor administered anything that should have killed Michael Jackson. Jackson died while under Murray’s care as the singer prepared for an ambitious concert schedule. The district attorney’s office is waiting for Los Angeles police to turn over the case before presenting it to a grand jury, the law enforcement source said.

Police are investigating the mysterious deaths of two giraffes from Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch.

Michael Jackson Giraffe

Two more of the animals may now have to be found new homes as their owners face possible eviction – and allegations of ill-treatment.

Freddie and Tom Hancock acquired the giraffes from the singer as part of plans to build a wildlife preserve on 175 acres of city authority-owned property they leased in 2008.

They also intended to house exotic birds, reptiles and camel.

The couple bought about two dozen animals – also including snakes and parrots – from Jackson when he quit his ranch in California to live in Las Vegas, after being acquitted of child sex charges.

But the Hancocks have since become mired in a legal battle over lease terms with officials in the northern Arizona city of Page.

A judge last week ruled in favour of the city, and officials now say a timeline for eviction is being prepared.

Meanwhile, the animal rights group PETA is calling on authorities in Page to confiscate and relocate the remaining giraffes, fearing they are being mistreated.

The group also asked police to determine whether the Hancocks violated animal cruelty laws in relation to the deaths of the other giraffes.

Page police Chief Charlie Dennis said it is unusual to have two giraffes die within a short period – one died on November 20 and the other on January 2 – but nothing at the scene was cause for suspicion.

“There’s nothing for us to give justification to remove the giraffes at this time,” he added.

Freddie Hancock denied the animals were mistreated, saying they were like her children and would be taken care of whether they remained in Page or moved elsewhere.