Paris 'knew Michael was overworked'

Michael Jackson's daughter Paris has allegedly blamed the late singer's looming 'This Is It' tour for killing him.

The 11-year-old is believed to have told her aunt La Toya that her father was being pressured into working "non-stop" for the 50-date London residency.

La Toya told The Paul O'Grady Show: "Paris asked me in the hospital, 'How could this happen? The cardiologist was the best, so how could this happen?'

"She said, 'You know, auntie La Toya, they worked him too hard. He never got the chance to rest, it was just non-stop work'. I said, 'You're kidding', and she said, 'You don't understand. They just worked him constantly and daddy didn't want that'."

The Thriller star was taking part in a heavy schedule of rehearsals before he died in June.

She added: "I thought that from day one. You must understand something Michael always told me. He said, 'If anything happens to me, if I die, it's because someone murdered me. They're trying to kill me'. It wasn't that he was being delusional, they did this over the catalogue.

"He owned The Beatles' catalogue. Most entertainers out there, he owned their music. He would say, 'They're going to kill me over that catalogue. It's dangerous'. Look what happened."