US television host Larry King is set to take the witness stand at Michael Jackson's child molestation trial in California on Thursday, according to a spokesperson for the singer.
The defence is expected to ask King about a claim that a lawyer who once represented the singer's young accuser and his mother told him he didn't believe their claims against Mr Jackson.
The defence has claimed in a memo to the court that publisher Michael Viner heard attorney Larry Feldman make the comments about the boy and his mother during a 2004 breakfast meeting at a Los Angeles cafe.
In earlier testimony, Feldman denied ever making the comments and said he had never met Viner, who claims he sat with King and Feldman at the breakfast meeting.
But the defence memo said that in an interview with an investigator "Viner recalled that Feldman had referred to the mother as 'a flake' and said he did not believe the boy."
"Feldman added that he did not believe them and they were into this case for one reason, 'money'."
Yesterday Mr Jackson's legal team tried to dismiss the claim that the singer and his aides held the family captive in order to silence them.
The jury heard that the boy's mother did not call for help when she took her two sons to an orthodontist or when she went for a full-body waxing at a time when she claims she and her family were held captive at Mr Jackson's Neverland Ranch.
In other evidence, Maria Gomez, who has worked as a maid at Neverland for 10 years, said the woman told her that the singer had "been a blessing for us and that he was like a father to our children".
But the housekeeper also said that in February or March 2003, the mother talked "about being held there against her will" and asked for help to leave.
She added that at the same time the mother complained that the singer's aides were "interfering" in her relationship with the star and keeping her away from him.
The jury also heard from a detective who told of a 1994 meeting he had with two former Neverland guards who told him they might have information about the singer allegedly molesting a young boy.
But Detective Russell Birchim said the two indicated they feared for their safety and did not volunteer further information.
