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Michael Jackson Death Probe: Homicide?
17 July 2009 9:35 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
As the Los Angeles coroner works to determine what killed Michael Jackson, insiders warn that teams of police and prosecutors investigating the death could spend several weeks - if not longer - determining if any doctors should be charged with a crime. "There's a lot that goes into being able to prove whether someone was murdered or not, and that takes a long investigation," Lapd Commander Patrick Gannon tells People. "The death of Michael Jackson is considered undetermined at this point as to whether it was a homicide or accidental or some other cause of death." Still, Gannon's team is
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Howard Breuer
Michael Jackson Death Probe: Homicide?
17 July 2009 9:35 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
As the Los Angeles coroner works to determine what killed Michael Jackson, insiders warn that teams of police and prosecutors investigating the death could spend several weeks - if not longer - determining if any doctors should be charged with a crime. "There's a lot that goes into being able to prove whether someone was murdered or not, and that takes a long investigation," Lapd Commander Patrick Gannon tells People. "The death of Michael Jackson is considered undetermined at this point as to whether it was a homicide or accidental or some other cause of death." Still, Gannon's team is
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Howard Breuer
Why Are Michael Jackson Autopsy Results Taking So Long?
17 July 2009 12:44 AM, PDT | From MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news
'Especially in a case like this, you want to make sure you have it right,' coroner's spokesperson says.
By Gil Kaufman
Photo: ucas Jackson/ Getty Images
Almost a month has passed since Michael Jackson's death, and we still don't have a definitive answer about what killed the 50-year-old King of Pop. After an initial autopsy, the cause of death was deferred in order to complete more toxicology tests. On Thursday, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said it could take another two weeks to get the results of those tests before determining what might have caused the singer to go into cardiac arrest on June 25 at his Los Angeles home.
It's typical for medical examiners to wait up to a month to announce such results in high-profile cases, but why exactly is the Jackson inquiry taking so long?
For answers, we turned to Dr. Joshua Perper,
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When Reality Celebs Show Off Their Kids
13 July 2009 4:21 PM, PDT | From The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news
By Dominic Patten
Reality TV isn’t just for the wannabes. It’s also a refugee for the once-famous seeking a chance to be famous again. However, as parents, these more seasoned celebrities have taken conflicting approaches when it comes to having their children in front of the cameras.
Anna Nicole Smith: The former Playmate seemed clueless and shameless in E!’s “The Anna Nicole Show,” from its debut in 2002. The same cannot be said for her teenage son ...
Lew Harris
Diane Dimond on Locale of Michael Jackson's Body
9 July 2009 12:36 PM, PDT | From TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news
Investigative reporter Diane Dimond, who has covered the life and career of Michael Jackson since 1993, sits down with "The Insider"'s Victoria Recano for the latest on the location of the King of Pop's body. "My best information is that the body is at Forest Lawn waiting for the decision of where his final resting place will be," Diane tells Victoria. "We hear he may be in a crypt at Forest Lawn. We hear he may have already been cremated, but there is no crematorium at Forest Lawn, so the body may have been secretly moved to achieve that. If the family decides to put Michael in Neverland, state law says that he must be cremated. You can't put a body on private land. Will they try to get around that? I think that might be what the hold up is." Sources also tell Diane that there is a faction
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Judge: 'Stern Book Claims Are Preposterous'
8 July 2009 5:01 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
A New York judge has backed Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-lover Howard K. Stern in his legal action against a publishing company - branding allegations in a tell-all book about the star "preposterous".
Stern has filed suit against the Hachette Book Group and TV reporter-turned-writer Rita Cosby, accusing them of libel over a string of accusations made against him in Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death.
The book about the late star makes a series of claims about Stern's sexuality, alleging Smith possessed a sex tape featuring Stern and her boyfriend Larry Birkhead. Stern insists the footage doesn't exist.
And Judge Denny Chin, who is overseeing the case at Manhattan Federal Court, backed Stern in a hearing on Tuesday, telling the court, "One of the parts I find troubling is the story that Anna Nicole Smith used to entertain herself by watching this supposed video. I mean, on the face of it, the story seems preposterous. And the sources are questionable."
The $60 million (£41 million) suit asks for compensatory and punitive damages, according to the New York Daily News.
It's Celeb Fame And Misfortune
6 July 2009 11:18 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news
Michael Jackson was not born black. He was born golden. The Almighty Giver of talent dusted him with a feather. A brilliant en tertainer. A tortured soul.
What is it with celebrity lifestyles? Those who create such pleasure for others bear such seeds of destruction. Michael Jackson? Heath Ledger? Anna Nicole? Elvis?
So many with demons. Mike Tyson a convicted felon. Puff Daddy's problems we've heard about. Winona Ryder a shoplifter. Robert Downey Jr., for a while,
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By CINDY ADAMS
Jackson Doc on the Move Again as Investigation Continues With State Attorney, DEA's Help
2 July 2009 5:46 PM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news
Federal agents and state officials are on board as the investigation into Michael Jackson's sudden death continues. Los Angeles police on Thursday confirmed reports that the Drug Enforcement Administration has joined the investigation, with an Lapd spokeswoman telling E! News that there's nothing she could divulge about the collaboration at this point. The L.A. County Coroner's Office confiscated a number of controlled substances from Jackson's rented Holmby Hills mansion Monday as part of the ongoing Lapd case. The DEA's diversion control program, which also assisted in various investigations related to the death of Anna Nicole Smith, regulates controlled pharmaceuticals. California...
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Feds Join Michael Jackson Drug Investigation
2 July 2009 9:53 AM, PDT | From TheImproper.com | See recent TheImproper.com news
Federal drug enforcement agents have entered the investigation of Michael Jackson’s death suggesting that potential criminal aspects of Jackson’s alleged drug use are being pursued. The Drug Enforcement Administration has jurisdiction over cases involving the illegal use of prescription drugs, but typically focuses on illegal drug operations. The DEA, however, has a sorry record when it comes to cracking the chain of suppliers who feed celebrity abuse of prescription drugs. In the past few years the string of high-profile deaths include Anna Nicole Smith and actor Heath Ledger.
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Celebrity "Roadkill": A Black Box Warning for Physicians
30 June 2009 7:29 AM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news
Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, Anna Nicole, Heath Ledger and now Michael Jackson. All dead at an untimely age. All enormously famous. (Five of the aforementioned also extremely talented.) All tortured souls. All in need of assistance with physical and psychic pain. All victims of enabling, celebrity-obsessed physicians. After reading Deepak Chopra's and Dr. Drew Pinsky's superb blog about celebrity-treating physicians becoming "high" on the fame of their famous clientele, I noted that a critical point was missing. How can a vulnerable physician resist the temptation to "bend the rules" for these "tabloid elites?" A "Black Box Warning" is the highest level of Fda-mandated admonitions for doctors that a particular prescription drug may cause serious or even life-threatening adverse effects. It is so named for the bold type and the black border that usually surrounds the text of the warning. The...
Gary Cohan
Michael Jackson: Full Coverage of His Life & Death
26 June 2009 7:40 PM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news
Michael Jackson's unexpected death continues to transfix the world, and we have it covered from every angle: • An autopsy Friday afternoon was inconclusive, with more tests planned. But the video of Jackson's body being transported by helicopter in downtown L.A. is an image we won't soon forget. •And the chilling 911 tape is not for the squeamish. • A Jackson family attorney suggests the King of Pop was "another Anna Nicole," although Jackson was recently pronounced in tip-top shape. Still, the search continues for Jackson's missing mystery doctor. • Diddy, Chris Brown, Boyz II Men and other stars have recorded a tribute to Jackson and we have the...
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Did Jackson's Family Attempt An Intervention Over Prescription Drug Use?
26 June 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | From x17online.com | See recent x17online news
Los Angeles, California (X17online) - With reports surfacing that an overdose of the prescription drug Demerol may have led to the sudden death of Michael Jackson, People magazine is reporting his family may have once tried to have an intervention in Las Vegas. According to the magazine, back in 2006 Jackson family members gathered in the hopes the pop star would seek treatment for his reported dependence on prescription painkillers. "The family believes Michael was addicted," People reports. "There was an intervention in Las Vegas. Janet was on the phone, but Randy, Jackie and Rebbie were there in person," a source said. Michael reportedly became angry at the family's accusations, saying "he wasn't on drugs." At the time of the intervention, the family feared a Jackson confidant was providing him powerful prescription drugs obtained from several doctors. Jackson reportedly regularly consumed alcohol and took morphine, Demerol and opiates like Oxycontin,
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The Death of Michael Jackson: Time for Compassion Not Vilification
26 June 2009 8:24 AM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news
By now you'd have to be living under a rock not to know that legendary pop icon Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50. So I will skip the details. I know an awful lot about sudden, premature death given that my wife -- the actor, writer, director Adrienne Shelly (Waitress) was brutally murdered in November 2006. But the tragic irony is that Adrienne died at the absolute happiest point in her entire life. Michael Jackson, like Elvis, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Anna Nicole Smith and countless others before him, were extremely tortured souls. They died miserable. Lonely. Drugged. Hating life. And for this they deserve our compassion, not our scorn. Now is not a time to vilify Jackson for his alleged child molestation crimes. We should have it in our hearts to forgive his past...
Andy Ostroy
Family Attorney: Michael Jackson Another Anna Nicole?
26 June 2009 7:29 AM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news
What killed Michael Jackson? That's the question taken up by the Los Angeles coroner, police detectives and family associates after the iconic entertainer died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest Thursday at age 50. The autopsy on Jackson will be performed today, although the exact time has not been set, according to Lt. Brian Elias of the county coroner's office. Elias also said the type of toxicological tests that will be ordered on Jackson is dependent on what the coroner finds during the autopsy. Toxicology test results can take up to two months. Meanwhile, the Lapd is looking into the death. "An investigation is still ongoing," a police spokesman tells E! News. "This is standard...
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Drugs and Alcohol: Jackson Family Attempted Vegas Intervention
26 June 2009 7:15 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
As far back as 2006, members of Michael Jackson's family were terrified that his escalating dependence on prescription drugs had become a danger to his life - and attempted an intervention in Las Vegas. "The family believes Michael is addicted," a family insider told People. "There was an intervention in Las Vegas. Janet was on the phone, but Randy, Jackie and Rebbie were there in person," the source said, referring to several of Michael's eight siblings. "Michael got p---ed off. He said he wasn't on drugs. But they didn't believe him."Jackson suffered cardiac arrest at his rented home in
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Final Days: The Mystery of Michael Jackson's Death
26 June 2009 5:40 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
It should have been the opportunity of a lifetime for a Michael Jackson fan: a behind-the-scenes invitation to a rehearsal for the superstar's upcoming concert tour in the United Kingdom. But when the fan got to the stage, she was horrified. "He is a skeleton," she wrote Monday in an email to other Jackson fans. Worse, she said, was seeing her idol surrounded by people she deemed too frightened to say anything. "I have to say: He may die." Three days later, Jackson, 50, collapsed in his rented Holmby Hills mansion - with his personal physician on the premises. His heart stopped; he wasn't breathing.
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Final Days: The Mystery of Michael Jackson's Death
26 June 2009 5:40 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
It should have been the opportunity of a lifetime for a Michael Jackson fan: a behind-the-scenes invitation to a rehearsal for the superstar's upcoming concert tour in the United Kingdom. But when the fan got to the stage, she was horrified. "He is a skeleton," she wrote Monday in an email to other Jackson fans. Worse, she said, was seeing her idol surrounded by people she deemed too frightened to say anything. "I have to say: He may die." Three days later, Jackson, 50, collapsed in his rented Holmby Hills mansion - with his personal physician on the premises. His heart stopped; he wasn't breathing.
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A Cocktail of Prescription Meds Said Leading to Michael Jackson's Cardiac Arrest
26 June 2009 1:28 AM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news
A new updated news has been brought forth by Life and Style concerning the cause of Michael Jackson's death. The publication claims a source close to the late music performer has confirmed that he consumed a cocktail of up to seven prescription drugs in the past few months which might cause him suffering cardiac arrest that then led to his death on Thursday, June 25.
Among the prescription medications that he consumed were anti-anxiety drugs Xanax, Zoloft and painkiller Demerol, says the source. It is suspected that Michael took an overdose of those drugs on Thursday morning, which led to his suspected respiratory and cardiac arrest.
Brian Oxman, lawyer for the Jacksons, chimes in that Michael might have had trouble with prescription drugs as he was preparing for his upcoming London show. "This was something which I feared and something which I warned about," Brian is quoted as telling CNN.
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Jackson Was On A Cocktail Of Drugs For Months - Report
26 June 2009 1:06 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
A cocktail of seven prescription drugs triggered Michael Jackson's cardiac arrest on Thursday morning, according to new reports from Los Angeles.
The pop superstar, 50, was pronounced dead at 2.36pm local time after falling into a deep coma at his home in Holmby Hills, California.
Reports suggest paramedics who were called to his home found Jackson unconscious and unable to breathe, and rushed him to UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
And now, celebrity magazine Life & Style reports Jackson was hooked on prescription drugs in the months before his death.
A source tells the publication Jackson had been popping pills, including anti-anxiety drugs Xanax and Zoloft and painkiller Demerol, for weeks before his death.
And an insider tells Life & Style Jackson took a suspected overdose of drugs on Thursday morning, which caused respiratory and cardiac arrest.
The report follows comments made by Jackson family lawyer, Brian Oxman, after learning of the pop star's death.
He hinted the icon was killed by an abuse of prescription drugs in an interview with CNN, and likened the pop star's death to that of tragic star Anna Nicole Smith.
He is adamant the Thriller singer's death is down to the people who surrounded the star, and he believes an "abuse of medications" is the reason for Jackson's untimely demise.
He explains, "I believe (his manager) Frank Dileo was with him at the time (of his heart attack), that is what I have been told.
"This family has been trying for months and months and months to take care of Michael Jackson. The people who have surrounded him have been enabling him.
"If you think the case of Anna Nicole Smith was an abuse, that is nothing compared to what has taken place in the life of Michael Jackson.
"I do not know what medications he was taking, but the reports that we have received within the family are that they were extensive.
"I don't know the cause of all this. But this is something that I feared. This is a case of abuse of medications, unless the cause is something else.
"This was something which I feared and something which I warned about. Where there is smoke there is fire."
Forensic Expert Brought In to Examine David Carradine's Body
8 June 2009 8:07 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news
In their bid to get the answers behind David Carradine's sudden death in Thailand, the family of the kung fu star have reached out to U.S. forensic expert Dr. Michael Baden. To Radar Online, the famed forensic pathologist confirmed his involvement, saying that Mark Geragos, the lawyer representing David's brother Keith Carradine, has contacted him and asked him for his help.
"The body has been flown back to Los Angeles," the former chief forensic pathologist for the New York State Police added. "I'll soon be leaving New York for L.A. to conduct the forensic examination." Baden, who hosts the HBO series "Autopsy", has been involved in the investigations of countless celebrity deaths including Nicole Brown Simpson and Anna Nicole Smith.
Earlier, Geragos himself told the Associated Press that David's family will ask Baden to investigate whether another person could have been involved in the actor's death. "It's
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