TROUBLED Michael Jackson sent a chilling prediction he would be murdered in letters to a pal just weeks before he died from a drug overdose.

The singer sent 13 letters in total declaring: “They are trying to murder me” and “I am scared about my life”.

Michael Jackson died at the age of 50 ahead of a high-profile comeback

Jackson’s daughter Paris and sister La Toya have always argued the King of Pop was unlawfully killed following his d3ath in 2009 at the age of 50.

The harrowing messages emerged after close friend Michael Jacobshagen spoke to broadcaster Daphne Barak for Australian TV show Sunday Night.

He claims Jackson once called him in tears from a Las Vegas hideaway begging the businessman to fly from his native Germany to be with him.

After several attempts to resuscitate him Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009

Jacobshagen said: “He was in emotional meltdown saying ‘they are going to murder me’.”

The friend then spent three days with the singer when he was handed the chilling letters.

Although the notes never specified who “they” were, some made reference to concert promoters AEG, who at the time were organsing gigs in London for Jackson.

One said: “AEG. Make so much pressure to me… I’m scared about my life.”

Jackson was found d3ad just weeks later in Los Angeles while under the care of his personal physician Conrad Murray.

His official cause of d3ath was given as an overdose of sedative propofol and Murray served half of a four-year jail sentence for involuntary manslaughter for administering the lethal drug.

Jacobshagen has now claimed the troubled star was using the drug for more than a decade to treat his insomnia.

Paris claimed her father was killed in what she says was a “set up”

He says he has gone public with the notes to back accusations made by Paris that her dad was murdered.

The interview will be broadcast next month in Australia, the US and other markets to coincide with the anniversary’s of the star’s d3ath.