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"David Gest has strongly suggested that he believes Michael Jackson&amp;#039;s will is a fake. The concert promoter, who was one of the late singer&amp;#039;s closest friends, said that there are &amp;quot;a lot of questions&amp;quot; surrounding the authenticity of the document.   Gest told The Sun: &amp;quot;One of the things people are wondering is how Michael was supposed to have signed that will in LA - when supposedly he was in New York that day. &amp;quot;If he was in New York, how could he have signed it in LA?&amp;quot; Gest&amp;#039;s claims follow accusations made by Jackson&amp;#039;s siblings, who this summer called for the resignation of the late star&amp;#039;s estate executors after dubbing the 2002 will &amp;quot;fake, flawed and fraudulent&amp;quot;.    In July, Janet, Rebbie, Tito, Randy and Jermaine Jackson united over claims that there was &amp;quot;criminal misconduct&amp;quot; involved in the filing of documents, but Tito later withdrew himself from the dispute. &amp;quot;I know the family weren&amp;#039;t happy,&amp;quot; said Gest. &amp;quot;They probably thought they would be running the estate. But it was left to [lawyer] John Branca, who Michael had just gotten back with.&amp;quot; Gest also criticised the family&amp;#039;s decision to deny Jackson&amp;#039;s children contact with their grandmother when she took a trip to Arizona to escape the feuding.  &amp;quot;Was it the wisest decision? No,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;The kids obviously panicked - justifiably so. They should have been able to speak to her.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;The family need to heal and come together as a unit. &amp;quot;I talk to Katherine once a week and I love her. She&amp;#039;s like a second mum to me. She lost her son. Usually a child buries a mother, not a mother burying her son. It affects her deeply. They were very close. &amp;quot;She loves Michael&amp;#039;s children and I think she&amp;#039;s trying to be a good mother to them.&amp;quot; Gest also revealed that Katherine Jackson reached out to the mother of Dr Conrad Murray, the medic who was charged with involuntary manslaughter following Michael&amp;#039;s death in 2009. &amp;quot;Katherine felt very bad for his mum. She told me she knew what she was going through,&amp;quot; the 59-year-old said. &amp;quot;[But] my best friend died because he gave him drugs he wasn&amp;#039;t supposed to give him. So I think he&amp;#039;s getting what he deserves.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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