Michael Jackson last rehearsal photos and private photos with his kids and friends
You know Im bad, Im bad-come on, you know
(bad bad-really, really bad)
And the whole world has to answer right now
Just to tell you once again,
Who’s bad . . .
A pop star abusing prescription painkillers the last six months, an unscrupulous cardiologist who was millions in debt, the Medical Coroner’s office ruling there was no foul play but dragging their feet with toxicology reports and impounding the car of Jackson’s doctor at Jackson’s home hours after Jackson died saying it could contain medication or other evidence. a sleazy rock concert promoter who had Michael Jackson insured up to the hilt, famous civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and national spiritualist Deprak Chopra involved, Michael Jackson’s death has all the scandalous elements as did his life since his downfall as the “King Of Pop.”
And everyone is suddenly asking the big question: what happened to all Michael Jackson’s millions?
“It’s become a culture with celebrity doctors who in one sense get a sense of importance by hanging around with celebrities.” Elvis had one. So did Anna Nicole Smith and Marilyn Monroe. They are the doctors who cater to celebrities, dispensing powerful painkillers and sedatives to some of Hollywood’s best-known entertainers. As police investigate Michael Jackson’s sudden death, questions are swirling around the King of Pop’s personal cardiologist and his actions in the superstar’s final days. Dr. Conrad Murray reportedly was with Jackson when he stopped breathing Thursday and performed CPR until paramedics arrived. An ambulance crew worked on Jackson at his home for 42 minutes before rushing him to UCLA Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Within hours of Jackson’s negligent homicide, the cardiologist hired a Houston-based law firm and on Saturday, an attorney there said he was cooperating.
What else are defense lawyers supposed to say?
The investigation of Conrad Murray fits into a long-standing pattern of celebrity doctors becoming entangled in death investigations involving prescription drugs, recently the tabloid death of Anna Nicole Smith. In most instances, the doctors themselves have questionable pasts like Murray or significant debts, and caring for a celebrity allows them to make large amounts of money, Some of these people, like Murray, might not be the most successful doctors, so the money will also buy their complicity in fueling a drug habit. Over the last 18 months, Murray’s Nevada medical practice, Global Cardiovascular Associates, has been slapped with more than $400,000 in court judgments: $228,000 to Citicorp Vendor Finance Inc., $71,000 to an education loan company and $135,000 to a leasing company. He faces at least two other pending cases. Court records show Murray was hit last December with a nearly $3,700 judgment for failure to pay child support in San Diego, and had his wages garnished the same month for almost $1,500 by a credit card company. Another credit card claim for more than $1,100 filed in April remains open. He also owes $940 in fines and penalties for driving with an expired license plate and for not having proof of insurance in 2000.”
Now, as police reluctantly investigate Michael Jackson’s sudden death, questions are swirling around the King of Pop’s personal cardiologist and his actions in the superstar’s final days. Dr. Conrad Murray reportedly was with Jackson when he stopped breathing Thursday and performed CPR until paramedics arrived. An ambulance crew worked on Jackson at his home for 42 minutes before rushing him to UCLA Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Dr. Murray remains in L.A. since Jackson’s death Investigators who ruled out foul play are now reluctantly admitting Dr. Murray is considered a witness and is not in any way a target of any kind. That’s the politically-correct code for “person of interest” or “suspect.”
Also on Saturday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said the singer’s family wants a private autopsy because of unanswered questions about how Jackson died and about Murray’s involvement. Michael Jackson’s longtime friend Deepak Chopra said he’s been concerned since 2005 that physicians were overmedicating the singer.
The suspicions of Jackson’s friends and family fit into a long-standing pattern of celebrity doctors becoming entangled in death investigations involving prescription drugs. Doctors can become enchanted by the glamour of the celebrity lifestyle and may find it hard to refuse potent painkillers for their cli
ents because of their wealth and power. “It’s a big issue with people who are used to getting what they want. And if someone says no, they can pay someone else to get what they want,” said Karen Sternheimer, a sociologist at the University of Southern California who is writing a book on social problems and celebrity culture.
“The physician is not immune to that heady feeling of being in a celebrity’s inner circle.”
In other instances, the doctors themselves may have questionable pasts or significant debts, and caring for a celebrity allows them to make large amounts of money, said Julie Albright, a sociologist at the University of Southern California. “Some of these people might not be the most successful doctors, so the money will also buy their complicity in fueling a drug habit,” said Albright.
Records reveal years of financial troubles for Murray, a 1989 graduate of Meharry Medical College in Nashville who prac
tices medicine in California, Nevada and Texas. Over the last 18 months, Murray’s Nevada medical practice, Global Cardiovascular Associates, has been slapped with more than $400,000 in court judgments: $228,000 to Citicorp Vendor Finance Inc., $71,000 to an education loan company and $135,000 to a leasing company. He faces at least two other pending cases. Court records show Murray was hit last December with a nearly $3,700 judgment for failure to pay child support in San Diego, and had his wages garnished the same month for almost $1,500 by a credit card company. Another credit card claim for more than $1,100 filed in April remains open.
He also owes $940 in fines and penalties for driving with an expired license plate and for not having proof of insurance in 2000.
Best-selling author Deepak Chopra, a longtime friend of Michael Jackson and a licensed medical doctor, said he first became concerned about the pop star’s 
prescription drug use in 2005, when Jackson visited him shortly after his trial on sex abuse allegations. Chopra said Jackson asked him to prescribe painkillers and already had a bottle of Oxycontin.
“I was kind of a bit alarmed. I said, ‘Why are you taking that. You don’t need that,’ and then I started to probe a little further, and after I grilled him a little bit, he admitted he was getting them from a bunch of doctors. The nanny of Jackson’s four children called Chopra repeatedly concerned that Murray was overmedicating Jackson. “This is a strange addiction. You cannot get these pills or injections unless a physician prescribes them, and he had this bunch of enabling doctors who were in a sense criminals. And they get away with it half the time — and I hope they don’t this time.”
MICHAEL JACKSON DEATH PICTURES AND VIDEO!
Anna Nicole Smith, was an American model, sex symbol, actress and television personality. She first gained popularity in Playboy, becoming the 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modeled for clothing companies, including Guess jeans and st
arred in her own reality TV show, The Anna Nicole Show. She died at age 39, apparently as a result of an overdose of prescription drugs. In the months before her death, she was the focus of renewed press coverage surrounding the death of her son, Daniel Smith. Daniel died while visiting his mother Anna Nicole along with Julia at the maternity ward in Doctors Hospital in Nassau, The Bahamas, on September 10, 2006, days after she had given birth to his half-sister, Dannielynn Hope. Cyril Wecht, an American forensic pathologist, stated Daniel Smith accidentally overdosed on methadone and escitalopram. It is not known how he came into the possession of either drug. On September 11, 2006, Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, told reporters Daniel Smith was found sitting upright in a chair after going to see his mother and his new half-sister in a private Doctors Hospital in Nassau. “It would appear from our report that the mother had gotten up, saw him in the chair and he appeared to be sound asleep. She tried to wake him up, he was unresponsive and she sounded the alarm.”
Elvis Presley’s autopsy commissioned immediately after his death involved draining all body fluids, removal of all vital organs, and sent to a pathology lab for testing to ascertain the cause of death. The coroner, Dr Jerry Francisco, who with Dr Eric Muirhead and Dr Noel Florredo attended the autopsy on Presley… they initially concealed the facts by attributing the cause of death to a massive heart attack. The fact is, Vernon Presley upon receiving evidence that a mixture of addictive-drugs was indeed the cause of his beloved son’s death, panic and quickly paid off officials to keep the document a secret. Elvis Presley, who died in 1977 at 42, was known to travel with George Nichopoulos, a former physician who overprescribed drugs to clients. Nichopoulos lost his medical license but was acquitted of criminal charges related to Elvis’ death.
The deaths of Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, Elvis Presley and other’s were all negligent homicides- “murder” performed by doctors who cater to celebrities, dispensing powerful painkillers and sedatives, fueling the celebrities drug habits for large amounts of money. In other words, “murder for profit.” In none of the cases involving celebrity homicides have the attending doctors like Conrad Murray ever been convicted or served time in a penitentiary. Celebrity doctors know they can commit murder for profit and get away with it. Los Angeles County prosecutors charged a psychiatrist and a doctor with conspiring to provide Anna Nicole Smith with thousands of prescription pills.
In the few cases that the attending physician has been charged, the celebrity doctor hires a high=priced mouthpiece (lawyer) and walks with no more than a slap on the wrist. The case of Conrad Murray will be no different. Celebrity doctors and murder for profit have become ingrained in the Hollywood, rock-n-roll culture in America.
As the Jackson family gathered at his parents’ suburban Los Angeles home on Saturday to make funeral arrangements for the troubled King of Pop amid reports that they are seeking a second, independent autopsy, the entertainer’s father, Joseph Jackson, issued a statement calling his son’s death “one of the darkest moments of our lives.” The celebrity website TMZ.com reported that a second autopsy was underway at an undisclosed location in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon, on the orders of the Jackson family. The outcome of any further autopsy’s will only confirm for the Jackson family what close friend and spiritual advisor Deprak Chopra and the jackson family already know, that Jackson;s death was induced by abuse of prescription drugs, pain-killers, or daily injections of the synthetic narcotic Demerol.
As for Dr. Conrad Murray- his high-priced Houston law firm will get him off with a slap on the wrist- just one more tragedy involving the Hollywood, entertainment culture. After the LAPD lost the MJ child-molestation trial and with Jackson leaving the country, it’s doubtful that the LA prosecutor’s office will zealously prosecute Murray.
As the Jackson family gathers to decide whether to have a private or public funeral for Michael- my advice would be, after all the scandals and Michael having lived his life under a microsope, that his funeral should be a private, family and close friends only event. Motown in Detroit who signed Michael when he was 9 years of age plans to have a huge public memorial. I say let this be enough. Let us all remember Michael Jackson and the effedt he had on our own lives in our own way.
In his song, I Want To Rock With You, Michael said:
when the groove is gone you know that love survives
It would be nice to know that with Michael’s negligent homicide that the justice system in America will finally crack down on celebrity doctors who get away with murder for profit and that we will hold doctor’s accountable. I suspect Michael, if he is looking down is not seeking revenge – just thinking what a horrible mistake his death was. He had the comeback of a lifetime scheduled. 50 sold out concerts which would not only eliminate his massive debt but put reinstate Michael once again as the King Of Pop. That will never happen now. Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans. What we can all take away from Jackson’s tragic death is the love that Michael gave us while he was with us. In the 1970’s, when Michael sang with his brother’s, the Jackson 5, I grew up very poor. All I had the summers of 1970. 71, and 1972 was an AM radio to keep me company. Michael kept me company with his songs ABC, Ben, I’ll Be There, and Never Can Say Goodbye.” Michael was the close friend I never met.
The groove is gone now but the love survives and I will miss my friend Michael and always remember those days on May Street when I hear one of the Jackson 5 songs.
KH
Dr. Murray should be held accountable for gross negligence. Not calling 911 for 30 minutes. No excuse. Michael could possibly have been saved with the life-saving drug NARCAN, had paramedics arrived right away. Murray robbed MJ of a chance at survival. As for CPR on a bed, simply outrageous. Dr. Murray should voluntarily stop practicing medicine.
I am so saddened by all of this. This death did not have to happen.
I am a nurse and I know this was handled incorrectly.
He was such a gentle person and did not deserve this.
P.