Michael Jackson was a predatory paedophile who sexually abused dozens of children, filmed his sick encounters and kept the footage in a secret library hidden at his Neverland ranch.

In an exclusive interview with Daily-MailTV Jackson’s former personal maid Adrian McManus has lifted the lid on the sick behaviour she allegedly witnessed during the four years from 1990 she worked at the Neverland ranch. McManus, 56, claims she often fished Jackson’s and children’s underwear from Jacuzzi and baths at the home, and witnessed kids walking around barely clothed. She found Vaseline and tampons next to Jackson’s bed and scattered around the house and recalls the singer having a strange obsession with photos of children.

“I didn’t question it, because he was my boss and you just do what you’re supposed to do, but I would wonder. And they had it all over in the main house, there was a rose room, it was up there. They had it in train room, which was kind of like an attic; they had that up there. It was in every room, the soldier room. It was in drawers. Sometimes it was on counters. Sometimes they would find it on the golf carts that Michael would take out to drive around,” she said.

The maid claims she also saw books on masturbation in the bedroom and one time Jackson asked her to laminate photos of naked babies and put them in his room for “decoration”. But most disturbing was a large collection of VHS cassettes McManus believes contained intimate footage the star filmed with children in the 1990s. She believes the singer – who died a decade ago from drug abuse – hid the damaging material from police by storing it in a movie projection theatre away from the main house on the sprawling Neverland ranch.

While McManus admits she never actually saw the contents of the tapes, she says Jackson’s behaviour and the shroud of secrecy placed on the tapes left her convinced of their sinister nature. “The way he was and what I saw and then hearing what I heard, I believe it to be true He always had a camera on him taking pictures of the boys, kids. It was always the boys. That’s all that’s really there.”

Her claims come in the wake of the release of Leaving Neverland – an HBO documentary detailing Wade Robson and Jimmy Safechuck’s allegations of long term abuse by Jackson. Producers of the show also claimed they were made aware of potential tapes, but never found them.

She says as details emerged Jackson could face criminal charges when former child companion Jordan Chandler alleged abuse, the tapes were hidden. “I don’t know where they went, but I did hear that one of the nephews of the man who ran the theatre had got a hold of a lot of the videos and hid them,” she recalls. “The rumour was the projectionist said they were very damaging to Michael. His nephew would run the theatre when the older man wouldn’t. And rumours were he packed them up in the trunk and took them off the ranch.”

In 1993, 13-year-old Jordan Chandler brought charges of sexual abuse against Jackson that ended in a reported $20 million cash settlement. And a 2003 criminal case spurred by 13-year-old cancer survivor Gavin Arvizo’s accusations led to Jackson’s arrest, trial and 2005 acquittal.

McManus claims Jackson’s private security team issued death threats and intimidated staff and children. And the King of Pop himself issued threats to staff who questioned his behaviour.

“I was told by Michael’s bodyguards they could hire a hit man to take me out, they could have somebody slice my neck and you’d never find my body.”

McManus thinks he knew she was on to him, and he wanted to see if I was stupid enough to say that.

“I think anybody who came into contact with him [Jackson] has been destroyed, and they suffered, because there was something not right with him. He was a paedophile. I am happy the world is now questioning Michael, but there will still be unbelievers.”

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