Jermaine Jackson Held Back Revealing Book About Michael

Jermaine Jackson wrote one hell of an outline for a family tell-all book that was shopped to publishers but then withdrawn only weeks after his brother Michael's November 2003 arrest for child molestation.

The New York Daily News obtained an eight-page outline of Legacy: Surviving The Best And The Worst, where Jermaine revealed shocking insights into his 47-year-old brother's lifestyle and his uncertainty regarding Michael Jackson's innocence in his child molestation trial. A jury found the eccentric entertainer not guilty last June.

Jermaine claimed that Michael has "a thing for young children" as well as a drug and alcohol problem that included a preference for Vicodin, Demerol, codeine, Percocet, cocaine, Jack Daniels and wine.

"Does he really know what he does with these kids?" Jermaine asked in the proposal. "I don't want to tell you my brother's innocent. I am not certain that he is."

Among the other allegations made in the proposal for the book, which was to have been ghostwritten by author Stacy Brown, are that Michael changed the colour of his skin, hated Jewish people and held back his brothers' solo music careers. His brothers thought that Michael was gay when he was younger, and Jermaine claimed that the former "King Of Pop" paid former wife Debbie Rowe "several million dollars" to bear two children fathered by a "sperm donor."

Jermaine, 51, didn't just single out his younger brother for criticism. He also claimed that their father Joe molested his sisters Rebbie and La Toya when they were children.

The proposal was withdrawn after Jermaine and other Jackson family members met to discuss its content and the effect that its publication could have. When Michael found out about the book, Brown said he threatened to sue Jermaine and throw him out of the home he owns in Encino, Calif. where Jermaine lives with his mother Katherine, brother Randy and his ex-wife Alejandra, who has children by both Jermaine and Randy.

Jermaine was convinced that Michael "couldn't survive one day in prison... he'd commit suicide," so he gave into pressure and joined his other family members in supporting his brother after his arrest.