Michael Jackson 17 years ago, it has been claimed. The journalist had viewers hooked with his explosive fly-on-the-wall series of interviews with the King of Pop in 2003.
But now he has been accused of setting him up. The Daily Star reports that the Smooth Criminal star's former confidant and lawyer Brian Oxman said Bashir wanted him "brought down" on TV like Princess Diana.
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