Jackson accused of hiding Aussie boy in bag

Michael Jackson is facing new allegations of inappropriate conduct with a youngster.

According to Sydney's Daily Telegraph, Jackson's former publicist Bob Jones has claimed that the singer regularly hid a young boy in his luggage in the early nineties.

In a new book, Jones is said to allege that Jackson would sneak ten-year-old Brett Barnes of Melbourne into hotels via his cases to avoid detection by the media.

"All of us, including the State Department official and Jet magazine publisher Bob Johnson saw the boy enter Michael's private bedroom numerous times and remain for a long time," the paper quotes the book as saying. "Characteristically, Michael did whatever he wanted to - and hang the risk."

Barnes recently appeared at Jackson's ongoing molestation trial to testify he had never been molested by the star.