Ex-wife tells Jackson trial of ‘vultures’ circling star

‘MICHAEL Jackson’s ex-wife told jurors yesterday that the entertainer was surrounded by “opportunistic vultures” out to take advantage of a man she knew privately to be kind, selfless and “generous to a fault”.

The testimony by Debbie Rowe, the mother of Jackson’s two oldest children, was a setback to prosecutors who had called her as a witness to link the 46-year-old entertainer to an alleged conspiracy to imprison the family of a then-13-year-old boy who accuses him of sexual molestation.

Ms Rowe’s testimony resumed for a second day under a cloud as Judge Rodney Melville considered an unexplained defence request to strike her testimony.

But after a session of more testimony favourable to Jackson, the defence lawyer, Thomas Mesereau, suddenly withdrew the request.’

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