MICHAEL JACKSON’s one-time confidante and spiritual advisor RABBI SHMULEY BOTEACH has grave doubts his former friend is happy with his burial site - because the King of Pop wanted to be laid to rest among children.

Jackson was buried in a mausoleum, surrounded by other dead celebrities, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California on 3 September (09), but newly-released taped conversations between the singer and Boteach reveal it’s perhaps not a location he would have chosen.

Boteach has released extracts from the 30 hours of interviews he recorded with Jackson between 1999 and 2001 to promote his new book The Michael Jackson Tapes, and, appearing on America’s Today show on Friday morning (25Sep09), he played one very telling line.

Jackson could be heard saying, “I want to be buried right where there’s children… I would feel safer that way. I want them next to me. I need their spirit.”

The King of Pop also told Boteach that he feared growing old: “When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it’s so bad… I don’t want to grow old.”