More than seven months after Michael Jackson's death, Conrad Murray, the physician who was with the 50-year-old singer when he died June 25, pleaded not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the case.

Murray, 56, appeared at an arraignment hearing in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday afternoon. Members of Jackson's family, including mother Katherine, father Joe, sister La Toya and brother Jermaine, also were there. Prosecutors say the doctor "did unlawfully, and without malice.

Michael Jackson's sister La Toya believes her brother was murdered.

"I am thankful to the investigators for uncovering the truth to the world," she said in the statement released Tuesday to ABC News. "And I look forward to the day that justice will be served to all the parties involved in my brother's homicide."

La Toya Jackson, 53, spoke out a day after it was revealed that the Los Angeles County Coroner ruled the King of Pop's death a homicide.

THE mystery over Michael Jackson's death deepened yesterday amid claims from one of his sisters he was murdered and new revelations about money-driven hangers-on who seemingly held the singer under their spell.

Claiming to have foreseen his death just weeks before it happened, Jackson's older sister La Toya, 53, accused unnamed members of his "shadowy" entourage of deliberately getting him hooked on drugs so that they could milk him financially.

La Toya Jackson reportedly believes her brother Michael was "murdered."

In new reported interviews with Britain's News of The World and the Daily Mail's Sunday edition, Michael's older sister allegedly told the publications that she believes several people were involved in her brother's death.

"Michael was murdered," La Toya, 53, reportedly told the News of the World. "And we don't think just one person was involved.

LONDON: In a new twist to thecontroversy surrounding Michael Jackson’s death, his sister La Toya hasclaimed that the ‘King of Pop’ was murdered for his £1 billionfortune as “he was worth more dead than alive”.

Her claimcomes just two days after the chief of Los Angeles police admitted they wereinvestigating Jackson’s death as possible homicide.

La Toyasaid she and the family are convinced her brother’s apparent drugsoverdose was “foul play” by a shadowy group out to get their handson his £1 billion fortune, News of the Worldreported.

LONDON (AFP) – Michael Jackson was killed by a band of greedy hangers-on, his sister La Toya alleged in interviews with British Sunday newspapers.

The King of Pop's sister spoke about her younger brother's death and the aftermath with The Mail on Sunday and the News of the World weeklies.

"I believe Michael was murdered, I felt that from the start," the 53-year-old said.

"Not just one person was involved, rather it was a conspiracy of people. He was surrounded by a bad circle. Michael was a very meek, quiet, loving person. People took advantage of that.

MICHAEL Jackson's sister La Toya believes the King of Pop was effectively "murdered" for his money by a manipulative entourage, it emerged last night.

La Toya said of her brother's sudden death: "We don't think just one person was involved in the murder. It was a conspiracy to get Michael's money."

La Toya, 53, accused a "shadowy" group of hangers-on of cutting him off from his family and friendADVERTISEMENT

Michael Jackson's grieving sister La Toya said in an extensive interview that there were four fresh needle marks on the King of Pop's neck when he died - and that she believes her brother was murdered.

"Less than a month ago, I said I thought Michael was going to die before the London shows because he was surrounded by people who didn't have his best interests at heart," La Toya Jackson, 53, told the Daily Mail.

After appearing with their family at the Michael Jackson memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, the singer's sisters - Janet, La Toya and Rebbie - also addressed the fans at the Nokia Theater nearby, where several thousand fans who did not receive tickets to the Staples Center watched the tribute to the late King of Pop.

The oldest Jackson child, Rebbie, thanked the crowd for all the support they've showed the Jackson family since Michael's unexpected death nearly two weeks ago.

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Several carloads of people, Michael Jackson's sister La Toya among them, came and went from a heavily secured Los Angeles cemetery after sunset Monday, but it was not immediately clear whether they were there for a private viewing.

Shortly before the cars began arriving, a hearse drove up to the Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn cemetery with at least five police cars.