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A lawyer who has represented Michael Jackson's accuser and his mother told talk show host Larry King and another man that he considered the mother "a flake" and didn't believe the boy, according to a report of a witness interview filed by Jackson's investigator.

The memo, filed Monday and released by the court Wednesday, was offered by the defense to attack the earlier testimony of attorney Larry Feldman in Jackson's child molestation trial.

In the memo, investigator Scott Ross said he interviewed publisher Michael Viner on April 26 about a breakfast meeting with Feldman and King about six months before the trial began. The memo was offered in support of a defense request that Viner testify in the trial.

According to the memo, Viner said the three men met at a Beverly Hills deli along with other friends. He said Feldman wanted to talk about becoming a commentator on King's show during the Jackson trial.

"Viner recalled that Feldman had referred to the mother as 'a flake' and said he did not believe the boy," the memo said. "Feldman added that he sent the mother and boy out to 'another expert and they failed the smell test.'"

"Feldman added that he did not believe them and they were into this case for one reason, 'money,'" Ross wrote. "When I asked Viner if Feldman actually said that, he replied, 'Absolutely.'"

Ross said he advised Viner that Feldman had testified he did not know the publisher.

"Viner said that was not true, that they had met several times.... Viner has no idea why Feldman would say such a thing," the memo said.

King has been subpoenaed to testify at the trial; the defense is fighting an effort to exclude Viner's testimony as hearsay.

During his testimony, Feldman said he has never met Viner but did remember meeting with King and "six of his pals" at the Beverly Hills deli. He denied making the comments in question, and denied that the singer's molestation trial was part of a plot to get money.

Feldman testified he was first contacted by the accuser's family because of a dispute over the boy's appearance in a documentary about Jackson, and that he referred the family to a psychologist.

It was the psychologist who reported suspicions of molestation to authorities after interviewing the family.