SHOOT: I wonder if he was facing financial ruin too.
The father of a boy who accused Michael Jackson of sexual abuse has committed suicide.
Evan Chandler - whose son Jordy was 13 when he claimed in 1993 the pop star had molested him - was discovered in bed holding a firearm with a gun shot wound to the head. He was 65
It comes just five months after his son's alleged abuser Michael Jackson died at his Los Angeles home from acute Propofol intoxication.
The case never reached court after Jordy was given a $22 million settlement and signed a contract agreeing never to talk about the allegations.
Jordy - now 29 and living in Long Island, New York, under an assumed name - had fallen out with his father.
He took out a restraining order against him in 1996 claiming his dad had attacked him with a dumbbell weight.
In the same year, Evan filed a $60 million lawsuit against Michael and his then-wife Lisa Marie Presley for talking about the case - allegedly breaching the confidentiality contract.
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clipped from tvnz.co.nz
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