Witness says mom angry boys kept from Jackson

SANTA MARIA, Calif. – The mother of Michael Jackson’s accuser complained that she and her children were being kept away from the pop star during the time period prosecutors say one of her sons was being molested, a witness testified Thursday.

The testimony came after the judge refused to allow the defense to call CNN’s Larry King as a witness. The talk show host was in court but left without taking the stand.

The defense wanted to present testimony by King that attorney Larry Feldman, who once represented the accuser’s mother, had told him the mother was “wacko” and out for money.

The highlight from Thursday’s testimony was that of Azja Pryor, a Hollywood casting assistant and the girl-friend of movie star Chris Tucker. She told the jury that the accuser’s mother complained to her in early March 2003 that two German associates of Jackson had stepped in to keep her family away.

“I asked, ‘Does Michael know anything about this?’ She said, ‘They won’t let us around him because they know the children tug at his heart strings,’ ” Pryor testified.

The time period she cited is critical because prosecutors allege Jackson molested the then-13-year-old accuser between Feb. 20 and March 12, 2003.