{"id":7668889,"date":"2017-01-24T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/?p=7668889"},"modified":"2023-12-07T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T17:30:08","slug":"paris-jackson-michael-death-murder-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/paris-jackson-michael-death-murder-interview-7668889\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Jackson Says &#8216;It&#8217;s Obvious&#8217; Dad Michael Was Murdered: &#8216;Everybody in the Family Knows&nbsp;It&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/artist\/310778\/michael-jackson\/chart\">Michael Jackson\u2019s<\/a> daughter Paris Jackson breaks her silence in a new interview with <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/features\/paris-jackson-michael-jacksons-daughter-speaks-out-w462501\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener\"  ><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, speaking openly about her father\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>In her first-ever in-depth interview titled &#8220;Paris Jackson: Life After Neverland,&#8221; Jackson insinuates that her father was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; she told the magazine. \u201cBecause it&#8217;s obvious. All arrows point to that. It sounds like a total conspiracy theory and it sounds like bulls&#8211;t, but all real fans and everybody in the family knows it. It was a setup. It was bulls&#8211;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson was found unconscious in his bed and was pronounced dead at the hospital later that day. Ultimately, Dr. Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Although Paris didn&#8217;t appear to offer her thoughts on Dr. Murray, when asked who she thought might have wanted her music icon&nbsp;father&nbsp;dead, she replied,&nbsp;&#8220;A lot of people.&#8221; She added that she hopes to one day get answers that will at least provide some justice for her dad.&nbsp;&#8220;I definitely do [want justice], but it&#8217;s a chess game. And I am trying to play the chess game the right way. 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