Michael Jackson went from being a client to a friend of attorney THOMAS MESEREAU when he showed his famous compassion as the lawyer's sister was on her deathbed.

Mesereau admits he was both stunned and thrilled when Jackson put his own legal woes aside to offer his thoughts and prayers to Mesereau's dying sibling.

The attorney's 53-year-old sister lost her battle with lung cancer in February (05), prompting Jackson's child molestation trial to be halted, while Mesereau attended to her funeral plans - and the singer went out of his way to be supportive.

Mesereau recalls, "Michael was not only compassionate, he sent her the most beautiful and the largest bouquet of flowers you've ever seen.

"He wrote a little poem for her - it came from him and his children and it was one of the most meaningful things he could have done for her during her final days."

Mesereau admits his dying sister knew her brother's client would be vindicated: "One of her last messages to me was that she thought we were gonna win and I thought about her throughout the trial."

16/06/2005 09:11