La Toya Jackson: ‘Michael Was Murdered’

La Toya Jackson is adamant her brother, pop superstar Michael Jackson, was murdered.

Although Michael’s death was ruled a homicide, La Toya believes he was killed by someone who would benefit from his demise.

“When I found out he had actually passed, I said, ‘No. I wasn’t an accident. Michael was murdered’,” La Toya, 53, told Barbara Walters.

“I don’t think we’ll find a person as talented, a person who thought the way he thought… a person with the heart that Michael had,” she addeed. “People aren’t that way anymore. He was special. He wasn’t God, but he was certainly god-like. He was the closest thing to a god that I knew.”

The King of Pop — who died June 25, aged 50 — was laid to rest last week at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, Calif. “He was dressed in all white pearl beads going across, draped across… and a beautiful big gold belt,” La Toya said, adding that Jacko’s makeup and hair were done “beautifully.”

La Toya also explained that Michael’s three children, now being raised by their grandmother Katherine, have a good relationship with grandfather Joe Jackson. “They love their grandfather,” she said. “They… like the fact that he’s very outspoken. And they say that, ‘Grandpa, he tells you like it is.’”

She added that Prince Michael, Paris and Blanket will continue home schooling.