Michael Jackson’s former manager has handed over a ‘secret’ £3.4million windfall to the executors of the star’s will.
Dr Tohme Tohme claims he was given the cash by Jackson so that he could buy a dream home in Las Vegas.
He admitted he had the money after the administrators of Jackson’s estate said they ‘recovered’ the cash from an unnamed ‘former financial adviser’.
Jackson’s sister La Toya told The Mail on Sunday this month that she believed her brother was effectively murdered as part of a conspiracy to steal his fortune and that at least £1million went missing from his home after his death.
John Branca and John McClain, executors of Jackson’s will, are trying to unravel his financial affairs. He left debts of around £240million but Branca and McClain said in court papers released on Friday that they believed his assets would pay off his debt and leave his children Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and Blanket, seven, with a £100million fortune.
Tohme said yesterday: ‘It was not recovered. I had the money and gave it to them.
‘It was a secret between Michael and me...But when he passed away I told them I had this money and I gave it to them.’
