It’s been almost six months since his untimely death, but the media hype surrounding the King Of Pop,
Michael Jackson, looks set to continue with the release this week of a 679-page FBI dossier about the late “Thriller” star.
Over the next two to three days pages of information about the controversial singer, including information about his 1993 and 2004 child molestation investigations and reported extortion attempts will be made available to the public. Some documents, however – notably those pertaining to his June death from acute poisoning from the anaesthetic drug Propofol – will remain under lock and key.
American human rights advocate Michael Peterlis made the request for the information to the FBI under the Freedom Of Information Act, and says he never even expected a reply. “I expected the agency would reply saying they didn’t locate any such records, or that there were only a handful on pages on the late entertainer. I was wrong,” he blogged. “A letter from the FBI yesterday informs me they’ve located close to 600 pages on him. As I’ve learned from years of filing these sort of FOIAs, it’s going to be a while before anything is released, and, when pages are eventually provided to me, they could be quite mundane.”