Posted by Adam

Sunday June 28, 2009

Michael Jackson was so broke, he was once forced to bed down in the New Jersey basement of one of his former employees, it has been claimed.

Jackson’s former nanny, Grace Rwaramba, claims that Jackson’s financial situation was so dire, he didn’t have anywhere to live.

“We were running out of friends,” said Grace. “But we suddenly showed up at the home of Frank Tyson. Now Frank’s family isn’t rich. They have a small house. But we stayed there for weeks. I felt so bad.”

Speaking to a British tabloid, Grace said she feared the pressure of his forthcoming London O2 comeback tour had taken its toll on Jackson.

She believed he was in such a state that he did not even realize he had signed up for 50 dates.

The tour had been eagerly awaited as the King of Pop had not set foot on stage since a disastrous appearance at the World Music Awards in 2006, when he managed to sing only two lines of We Are The World.

“Fifty performances!” Grace said. “I said, ‘What are you doing?’ He said ‘I signed only for 10′. He didn’t know what he was signing. He never did.”

“The truth is Michael didn’t have money,” Grace added. “One day out of the blue he received some cash but instead of buying a house somewhere so we didn’t have to keep moving from one hotel to another or stay with friends, he told me, ‘Go to Florence and buy antiques.’

“He asked me to spend £600,000. But we didn’t even have a home so we had to put them all into storage.

“Michael just did not have a clue about have money.

Jackson died Thursday after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles. He was 50.

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