Michael Jackson tops last year's internet searches across the three biggest search engines: Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Jackson bumps Britney Spears from the top spot on Yahoo which she has held for the past four years. "When the news of Michael Jackson's death came out the traffic was overwhelming," said Vera Chan, Web trend analyst at Yahoo Inc.

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o Custom made garments worn during recording sessions

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Rumours that pictures of Michael Jackson's autopsy were about to circulate the internet are today quashed.

" The head of the Los Angeles County Coroner's office has denied reports an autopsy photo taken of MICHAEL JACKSON has leaked.

Reports earlier this week (29Oct09) alleged a snap of the star's corpse, taken for the official investigation into his cause of death, was being shopped around to various gossip blogs for as much as $1 million (£625,000) after it was obtained from a police source.

The shot is said to show the singer's shaved head and face without make-up. But L.A. chief coroner Ed Winter insists there is no way his official photos of Jackson could have been leaked, telling AccessHollywood.com the files are securely kept under "lock and key" and could not be "floating around".

The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled in August (09) the star was killed by a cocktail of strong prescription drugs. The full autopsy report has not been released to the public.

GROGGY Michael Jackson killed HIMSELF by MISTAKE by taking an overdose of anaesthetic, his medic Dr Conrad Murray will claim. Dr Murray's legal team will argue that a frail and sleepdeprived Jacko administered himself a KILLER dose of his "milk" - knock-out drug Propofol.

Murder suspect Murray, 56, admitted he hooked the Thriller star up to a drip with the anaesthetic, which is normally used for hospital patients undergoing medical procedures.

Murray claims he set the drip to administer just 25 milligrams of Propofol into the star's bloodstream so he could sleep.

But he will argue that Jackson RE-SET the machine to increase the dosage, and that eventually led to cardiac arrest.

But medical experts last night questioned Murry's line of defence.

They say 25mgs of Propofol would not have been enough to send Jacko to sleep for a few minutes, let alone knock him out.

Dr Kathleen London, a US family practice physician, said: "Murray says he only gave 25mgs of Propofol. I don't believe that. In order to induce sleep, 40mgs is needed."

On Friday, it was confirmed that Jackson died of acute Propofol intoxication mixed with a cocktail of other sedatives.





source - News Of The World on line (30.08.09)




**** The saga continues .............................

Police have found evidence pointing to manslaughter during a search of a clinic used by Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray.

The discovery appeared in court documents unsealed in Houston, Texas, where the late star's personal physician is based.

It was revealed on Monday, when the Los Angeles coroner was also reported to have ruled that Jackson's death was homicide and confirmed the singer had lethal levels of the powerful anaesthetic propofol in his body.

The court documents revealed that Dr Conrad Murray had admitted to detectives that he gave the singer several different drugs in the hours before the star died, after the star repeatedly complained of insomnia.

These included propofol, a powerful anaesthetic usually only used in surgery, which the coroner said had been found in high levels in the body of the "King of Pop".

Forensic tests reportedly showed that propofol, acting together with at least two sedatives, caused his death.

The coroner's findings increase the likelihood that Dr Murray will face criminal charges, police in Los Angeles said.

The cardiologist was reportedly offered $150,000 a month to look after Jackson. He was with the singer at his rented Los Angeles mansion on the morning of his death.

Under Californian law, a homicide does not have to be intentional killing and investigators are understood to be looking at whether the doctor's decision to give propofol to Jackson outside a hospital environment constituted a level of negligence required for an involuntary manslaughter charge.

Since Jackson, 50, suffered cardiac arrest and died on June 25, police have searched Dr Murray's home and his two clinics in Las Vegas and Houston.

According to a search warrant affidavit, Dr Murray told police he had been treating the singer for insomnia for around six weeks and had administered several drugs, including propofol. He claimed Jackson had already been given it by other doctors and referred to the drug as his "milk".

Dr Murray told investigators that he feared that Jackson was becoming addicted to the drug and halved his dosage from 50 milligrams a night to 25 milligrams, administering the drug via an intravenous drip.

On the morning he died, Dr Murray said he gave Jackson a cocktail of drugs, starting with valium at 1.30am, an intravenous injection of lorazepam half an hour later and, when the singer was still awake at 3am, some midazolam.

After giving various drugs over the next few hours, Dr Murray told officers he finally gave in to Jackson's repeated demands for propofol and administered 25 milligrams.

Returning from making phone calls to find his patient not breathing, he told police he tried to resuscitate him and one of Jackon's staff called for an ambulance. Jackson was later declared dead at hospital.

Dr Murray's lawyer has previously said he never administered anything that "should have" killed Jackson.

In a statement, a representative of the Jackson family said its members have "full confidence in the legal process, and commends the ongoing efforts of the LA County Coroner, the LA District Attorney and the LA Police Department."


Source Telegraph on line (26.08.09)

Michael Jackson was killed after being given a deadly cocktail of drugs to help him sleep, court papers revealed last night.

Among the powerful sedatives found in the singer's body during a post-mortem examination was a lethal dose of the hospital anaesthetic, propofol.

The Los Angeles coroner has now ruled the 50-year-old star's shock death on June 25 was homicide.

A law enforcement official, who wished to remain anonymous, said the coroner determined a fatal combination of drugs was given to Jackson hours before he died in his rented Los Angeles mansion.

Forensic tests found the powerful anesthetic propofol in Jackson's system along with two sedatives, the official said.

'The Los Angeles Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, Dr Sathyavagiswaran, indicated that he had reviewed the preliminary toxicology results and his preliminary assessment of Jackson's cause of death was due to lethal levels of propofol (diprivan),' according to a search warrant affidavit for Murray issued by California.

The document was released by the Harris County District Clerk in Houston, where Dr Murray has offices, which U.S. Agents raided on July 22, looking for evidence of manslaughter.

Under California law, homicide is not necessarily equivalent to murder and can include manslaughter charges.

The police investigation is reportedly focused on whether Dr Conrad Murray was sufficiently negligent in administering propofol to Jackson to face an involuntary manslaughter count.

Involuntary manslaughter, also known as criminally negligent homicide, occurs where a death is the indirect result of recklessness or negligence.

The long-awaited outcome of the post-mortem examination make it more likely that Murray, the star's personal doctor who was with him when he died, will face criminal charges.

Police refused to make any official comment on the reports last night.

But a search warrant issued to detectives who raided Murray's clinic in Houston, Texas, revealed new details of Jackson's last hours and his desperation to get some sleep that ultimately appears to have cost him his life.

Murray is said to have told detectives investigating the death that he had been treating Jackson for insomnia for about six weeks by giving him nightly doses of 50milligrams of propofol through an intravenous drip.

The singer is said to have referred to the sedative as his 'milk'.

Fearing Jackson was becoming addicted to the sedative - normally restricted to hospital use - Murray told investigators he was trying to wean him off the drug.

He cut the dose by half and mixed it with two other sedatives, lorazepam and midazolam.

The warrant highlighted Jackson's increasingly desperate attempts to get to sleep after an exhausting rehearsal for his planned string of concerts at the O2 in London.

Murray told police he gave Jackson valium at 1.30am and when that didn't work, he gave the star an intravenous injection of lorazepam 30 minutes later.

At 3am, when Jackson was still awake, Murray administered midazolam, according to the Los Angeles Times, which obtained a copy of the search warrant issued in Houston.

Over the next few hours, Murray allegedly gave Jackson various drugs before giving him 25milligrams of propofol at 10.40am after the singer repeatedly demanded the drug, says the warrant.

Murray said he left Jackson alone to make some calls on his phone to family members and his clinic and discovered on his return that the singer had stopped breathing.

In the ensuing investigation, police found about eight bottles of propofol in Jackson's rented mansion in Holmby Hills, as well as vials and other pills prescribed by Murray and two other doctors, Arnold Klein and Allan Metzger, according to the court papers.

Other drugs that were confiscated in the search included valium, tamsulosin, lorazepam, temazepam, clonazepam, trazodone and tizanidine, according to reports.

Officers also found propofol in Murray's medical bag. However, Murray told police he wasn't the first doctor to administer propofol to Jackson.

Murray said he noticed injection marks on Jackson's hands and feet. When he asked about them, the singer said he had been given 'a cocktail' to help him sleep. 

In a statement released tonight, the Jackson family said it had 'full confidence in the legal process, and commends the ongoing efforts of the LA County Coroner, the LA District Attorney and the LA Police Department'.

The statement added: 'The family looks forward to the day that justice can be served.'

Jackson suffered cardiac arrest and died on June 25 at age 50.

Since then, police have probed his death in an investigation that appears focused on the use of prescription drugs and the role of doctors who treated him, including his personal doctor.

An autopsy report in to Jacksons' death remains sealed while police complete their investigation into the role prescription drugs may have played in his death and the actions of his doctors.

source Daily Mail (25.08.09)

Michael Jackson will not be buried on what would have been his 51st birthday as originally planned, a spokesman for his family has confirmed.  Michael Jackson's burial postponed

Michael Jackson will not be buried on what would have been his 51st birthday as originally planned, a spokesman for his family has confirmed.

The late King of Pop was due to be interred on August 29 during a private ceremony at the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles.

But in a brief statement it was announced that the date had been put back to September 3. No reason was given for the changed arrangements.

The statement added that the ceremony would be limited to family and close friends.

Jackson died on June 25 at his rented property in Los Angeles. He had been rehearshing for his 50-date This Is It residency at London's O2 Arena, which was scheduled to get under way last month.

Investigators are working on the theory that the singer's heart stopped hours after he was given a heavy sedative to help him sleep.

Jackson will be buried at Forest Lawn's Glendale site, around eight miles north of downtown Los Angeles.

It boasts a mausoleum with replicas of the work of Renaissance greats, including Michelangelo's David and Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper recreated in stained glass.

Others stars believed to be buried at Glendale, which opened in 1906, include Hollywood actors Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn and Clark Gable.

Details of the burial place and the original date were released earlier this week, following speculation over his final resting place.

* source msn (22.08.09)

The horrifying state of pop superstar Michael Jackson in his final days can be revealed - 8st 1oz, no food just pills in his stomach, bald, bruised, his ribs broken by CPR, 4 needle wounds near his heart...

The Sun on-line continues ......

Harrowing leaked autopsy details show the singer was a virtual skeleton — barely eating and with only pills in his stomach at the time he died.

His hips, thighs and shoulders were riddled with needle wounds — believed to be the result of injections of narcotic painkillers, given three times a day for years.

And a mass of surgery scars were thought to be the legacy of at least 13 cosmetic operations.

Experts found the distressing evidence of Jacko’s physical decline while investigating his startling death in Los Angeles last week.

The examination showed the 5ft 10in star — once famed for his on-stage athleticism — had:

PLUNGED to a “severely emaciated” 8st 1oz. It is understood anorexic Jackson had been eating just one meagre meal a day.

Pathologists found his stomach empty aside from partially-dissolved pills he took before the painkiller injection which stopped his heart. Samples were sent for toxicology tests.

LOST virtually all his hair. The pop pin-up was wearing a wig when he died and pathologists said little more than “peach fuzz” covered his scalp.

A scarred section of skin above his left ear was entirely bald — apparently the result of a 1984 accident when his hair caught fire as he filmed an ad for Pepsi.

SUFFERED several broken ribs as frantic rescuers pumped his chest after he collapsed in cardiac arrest. Four injection sites were found above or near to Jacko’s heart.

All appeared to result from attempts to pump adrenaline directly into the organ in a failed bit to restart it.

Three of the injections had penetrated the heart wall — causing damage — but a fourth missed and hit one of the 50-year-old star’s ribs.

The autopsy also found unexplained BRUISING on Jackson’s knees and on the fronts of both shins. And there were CUTS on his back, indicating a recent fall.

The King of Pop’s once handsome face bore a network of plastic surgery scars, while the bridge to his nose had vanished and its right side had partially collapsed.

As inquiries into the tragedy last night focused on the star’s personal physician Dr Conrad Murray, a source close to the Jackson entourage said: “Michael’s family and fans will be horrified when they realise the appalling state he was in.

“He was skin and bone, his hair had fallen out and had been eating nothing but pills when he died. Injection marks all over his body and the disfigurement caused by years of plastic surgery show he’d been in terminal decline for years.

“His doctors and the hangers-on stood by as he self-destructed. Somebody is going to have to pay.”

Cardiologist Dr Murray was thought to have given Jackson the final injection of painkiller Demerol.

He is facing serious questions about his resuscitation attempts, which began when he started CPR as Jacko lay unconscious on a bed. Basic first aid guidance says patients must be face-up on a hard surface before compressions.

Experts yesterday expressed amazement that a trained cardiologist could have made such an error, potentially wasting vital minutes.

Additional damage was believed to have been caused by oxygen masks and tubing inserted during resuscitation attempts. But in an ironic twist, the probe found Jacko was recovering well from skin cancer — with an op to shave cells from his chest a total success.

A second autopsy demanded by the Jackson family was carried out at a secret location on Saturday after the first ruled out foul play.

Family friend Rev Jesse Jackson said the family were deeply suspicious about what caused his death.

Dr Murray was hired just 11 days ago by AEG Live — the firm masterminding Jacko’s 50-date residency at London’s O2 Arena, which was due to start next month.

Sources claimed the family were preparing a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the cardiologist.

Detectives were unable to find the doctor at Jackson’s home and his car was taken away for analysis as police sought him for questioning. He surfaced late on Friday and was quizzed over the weekend.

The Sun told on Saturday how Jacko had developed stage fright for the first time and was terrified of performing the comeback gigs.

Aides claimed the ailing star even believed he would be KILLED if he pulled out on health grounds. We also revealed he was taking a potentially toxic cocktail of drugs.

Sources last night said prescriptions for drugs for patients other than Jacko were found at his home. Those patients were due to be quizzed.

Michael Jackson will be buried on what would have been his 51st birthday, publicists for the Jackson family said on Tuesday.  The publicity firm Sunshine, Sachs & Associates announced that Mr. Jackson would be buried on Aug. 29 at 10 a.m., at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, above, in Glendale, Calif.  The firm said that the burial ceremony would be private — limited to the Jackson family and close friends — but that there would be nearby accommodations for the news media.

The Jackson family, the announcement said, “once again wishes to express its gratitude to Michael’s fans around the world for their support during these difficult times.” Also on Aug. 29, The Associated Press reported, the film maker Spike Lee,  will host a block-party-style celebration in Brooklyn to commemorate Mr. Jackson’s birthday. Mr. Jackson died on June 25 after suffering cardiac arrest; the Los Angeles County coroner’s office has not released the results of its investigation into his death. He was honoured at a public memorial on July 7 at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles.

source nytimes (19.08.09)

LOS ANGELES — A judge has approved a deal that will bring Michael Jackson merchandise to store shelves.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff approved the deal during a court hearing Monday. Beckloff heard from attorneys for Jackson's mother, Katherine, the current administrators of Jackson's estate and a newly appointed attorney for the singer's three young children.

The merchandise agreement allows for items such as trading cards, clothing and digital goodies to be sold. The judge had delayed approval of the agreements after Katherine Jackson had raised objections to the contracts with concert promoter AEG Live and merchandiser Bravado.

Those objections were withdrawn, but the lawyers raised new objections to AEG's involvement in a proposed memorabilia tour, which is still awaiting approval. Beckloff scheduled an evidentiary hearing for Friday on whether the tour is the best deal for Jackson's estate.

Kathy Jorrie, an attorney for AEG, said the exhibition faces a tight deadline and its interest might wane if the tour isn't approved soon. She said the company was not interested in renegotiating the deal.

AEG wants the memorabilia tour to open at the same time as a movie using footage of Jackson's final rehearsals for a series of London concerts. The deal is expected to generate about $7 million for the estate, said Howard Weitzman, an attorney for the current administrators of the estate.

One of the concessions Katherine Jackson is apparently seeking is the authority to sign off on the deal. Beckloff said he was inclined to reject that argument.

"She doesn't own the property," Beckloff said. "There's no reason to make her a signatory to those agreements."

Burt Levitch, an attorney for Katherine Jackson, said there was more than money at stake: He said the singer's legacy is on the line and that there is concern Jackson's estate isn't receiving the best deal from AEG.

Beckloff said he was in a difficult position and was concerned that delays in approving the deal — which was first proposed nearly two weeks ago — are hurting the estate.

"I see the delay as a real problem for the estate," Beckloff said.




Source Associated News (18.08.09)