Michael Jackson's family, sheriff respond to child-porn allegations

In a statement, police spokesperson Kelly Hoover told the Los Angeles Times and Billboard  that some of the documents featured in the gossip site's story "appear to be copies of reports that were authored by the Sheriff's Office." But she warned the media that their numbered reports are "interspersed with content that appears to be obtained off the Internet or through unknown sources."

Hoover added that her office had not released any of the documents featured in the Radar story to the media, implying Radar had obtained them through less-than-proper channels. Rather,  she explained, "The Sheriff's Office released all of its reports and the photographs as part of the required discovery process to the prosecution and the defense" in Jackson's 2005 sex-abuse trial.

Meanwhile, Jackson's estate accused Radar of trying to exploit the seventh anniversary of the singer's death on Saturday. Jackson died in 2009 from an overdose of the sedative Propofol, which is commonly used by anesthesiologists to put and keep patients under for surgery.

“Everything in these reports, including what the County of Santa Barbara calls ‘content that appears to be obtained off the Internet or through unknown sources’ is false, no doubt timed to the anniversary of Michael's passing,” their statement toBillboard read. “Those who continue to shamelessly exploit Michael via sleazy internet ‘click bait’ ignore that he was acquitted by a jury in 2005 on every one of the 14 salacious charges brought against him in a failed witch hunt.”

The singer's nephew Taj, the son of his brother Tito, registered his disgust with the media via Twitter on Tuesday. "Fake news travels fast," he wrote. "The world picked up this trashy story. There's such a race to be first, only a few checked to see if it's even true."

Not only is there absolutely no truth to this story whatsoever, but I'm truly sick of this crap. #getalife and stop living off ours.

— Taj Jackson (@tajjackson3) June 21, 2016

Fake news travels fast. The world picked up this trashy story. There's such a race to be first, only a few checked to see if it's even true.

— Taj Jackson (@tajjackson3) June 22, 2016