In her first deep-dive interview, Michael Jackson’s 18-year-old daughter Paris-Michael has said she believes her father was murdered.

During her interview with Rolling Stone for the publisher’s February cover feature ‘Paris Jackson: Life After Neverland’, Paris spoke candidly of her father’s 2009 death.

Paris told Rolling Stone writer Brian Hiatt: “It’s obvious. All arrows point to that. It sounds like a total conspiracy theory and it sounds like bullshit, but all real fans and everybody in the family knows it. It was a setup. It was bullshit.”

“But who would have wanted Michael Jackson dead?” Hiatt writes. Interestingly, Paris didn’t name Dr. Conrad Murray, who was treating Michael Jackson before he was found unconscious in his bed. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on November 7, 2011.

“A lot of people [might have wanted him dead],” Paris said. “I definitely do [want justice], but it’s a chess game. And I am trying to play the chess game the right way. And that’s all I can say about that right now.”

Paris called out Murray over Twitter last year following the release of his book ‘This Is It! The Secret lives of Dr. Conrad Murray and Michael Jackson’ last July.

“The fact that people are actually listening to and believing a cold blooded murderer is honestly beyond me,” she tweeted.

According to the Rolling Stone article, Paris does blame Murray for Michael’s dependency on the anesthetic drug Propofol that ultimately lead to his death.

The 63-year-old physician has become an unwanted presence in Paris’ life however. Last month, in an exclusive interview with BANG Showbiz, Murray said he knew ‘the truth’ about the Jackson children’s parentage:

“Here is my statement. I am very respectful of the children. I am also sensitive to any information that could damage the children. I will say this; I know the biological grasp of every one of Michael’s children. I also know the biological grasp of Blanket’s mother.

“However, I reserve that statement, that explanation, for those children,” he added. “If they came forward to me one day when they are adult and they are prepared and they are not tainted as they are now and they wanted the truth, then we can have that conversation and they can know whatever they want. But I won’t put it in the book or any report. But, I do know.”

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