Jackson Reportedly Joins Nation Of Islam

"The King of Pop is restyling himself Jacko X," said the tabloid.

"High-ranking members of Nation of Islam (NOI) have been working to bring Jackson into Reverend Louis Farrahkan’s flock – and Jackson’s conversion is now well-known in the NOI community," said the report.

When contacted by Agence France-Presse (AFP), Farrakhan’s controversial organization would not comment on the report.

Fox News reported Wednesday that Jackson’s brother Jermaine Jackson had brought Farrakhan’s chief of staff Leonard Muhammad into Jackson’s inner-circle as "a bodyguard".

According to Fox, Jermaine Jackson, another ex-member of the Jackson Five family group, converted to Islam in 1989.

The television channel’s report said Jermaine Jackson and Leonard Muhammad were "making the case to Michael that he was a victim of racism and that only the Nation of Islam could save him."

Jackson’s spokesman, however, told AFP that the pop megastar is not believed to have joined the black Muslim organization NOI.

"I don’t know where, how and what they’re talking about," Jackson spokesman Stuart Backerman said of the report published Thursday in the New York Post.

"I haven’t been told that, I haven’t heard that. All I can say is, as far as I’m concerned, that’s untrue," he said stressing, however, that he had not yet spoken to Jackson about the report.

"But I just imagine can’t imagine it," he told AFP.

Jackson, 45, is on three million dollars bail after being accused of multiple counts of child molestation against a boy aged under 14.

Jackson and his lawyers have strongly denied the accusations, calling them "a big lie".

The singer was formally charged Thursday night with engaging in "lewd acts" with a boy under age 14 at the entertainer’s Neverland Ranch between Feb. 7 and March 10, and twice supplying the boy with "intoxicating agents".

Moreover, the complaint accuses Jackson of having "substantial sexual conduct" with the victim.

Under California law, Jackson could face 3 years to 8 years in prison if convicted of just one count of sexually molesting a children under age 14. In theory, the prosecution could call just one witness to testify – the boy – and then rest his case.

There are plenty of cases in California legal textbooks in which defendants were convicted and sent to prison based on nothing more than a complaining witness’s testimony and the belief by jurors that the child was telling the truth.