Last night:
Michael makin the rounds lately....
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Last night:
Michael makin the rounds lately....
DR. CONRAD MURRAY
Sentenced to the Maximum
11/29/2011 7:43 AM PST BY TMZ STAFF
As for restitution, Judge Pastor ordered Dr. Murray to pay "appropriate restitution" to the Estate and to MJ's kids at a later date ... but the judge seemed dubious about the $100 million request by the prosecution.
Judge Pastor ruled Murray must pay an $800 fine, a $30 court security fee, and a $40 criminal conviction assessment.
Judge Pastor said, "There are those who feel Dr. Murray is a saint. There are those who feel he's the devil. He is neither. He's a human being."
Judge Pastor says it's irrelevant to him that Michael might have met this fate with some other doctor. The fact is, Pastor said, Michael Jackson died because of the actions of ... Dr. Murray."
The judge said he looked at Murray's whole life, and he was impressed. But he added Dr. Murray's recklessness with Jackson overshadowed the doc's good deeds, calling the treatment, "a cycle of horrible medicine."
The Judge noted, "Dr. Murray engaged in a recurring, continuous pattern of deceit and lies."
The Judge was incredulous, saying far from being remorseful, "There's umbrage and outrage on the part of Dr. Murray against the decedent." The judge was making note of Murray's critical comments about MJ in his recently-aired documentary -- a documentary which apparently bit Murray in the butt.
In the end, the judge said, "Dr. Murray abandoned his patient," calling his conduct "egregious" and "a disgrace to the medical profession."
Brian Panish, attorney for Jackson family, read a statement: "We still look at each other in disbelief. Is it really possible he is gone?" The statement goes on ... "We are not here to seek revenge. There is nothing you can do here today that will bring Michael back." In terms of the sentence, the family said: "We respectfully request you impose a sentence that reminds physicians they cannot sell their services to the highest bidder."
Prosecutor David Walgren, who asked the judge to impose the maximum, 4-year prison sentence, reminded the judge ... Dr. Murray repeatedly lied to authorities about the events in the bedroom where Michael died. He also noted the recklessness of Murray's medical treatment. Walgren called Murray's treatment a "pharmaceutical experiment." Walgren said, "The defendant was playing Russian Roulette with Michael Jackson's life every single night."
Walgren also asked for $100 million in restitution for MJ's kids, because that's what Michael Jackson would have made in the "This Is It" tour. Walgren also wanted Murray to pay a fair amount for the $1.8 million funeral.
Murray's lawyer, Ed Chernoff, told Judge Pastor, Dr. Murray did not want to address the court, but the lawyer said no doubt Jackson's death is a tragedy that demands punishment, but Murray's "book of life" is much better than this one chapter. Chernoff noted Murray was born "dirt poor" in Grenada and led an exemplary life that made him a cardiologist. But Chernoff noted Murray "will always be known as the guy who killed Michael Jackson." Chernoff did say, "Michael Jackson was a drug seeker, and Dr. Murray was wrong in providing it."
As for restitution ... Chernoff shockingly never addressed the obvious -- that Jackson is worth more dead than alive. All he said was Murray couldn't afford to pay it..
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1619884/
StorylineHmmm..........................
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/peek-jacko-search-warrants
A few things caught my eye...the case number03-5670 = 21 = 777
The amount of electronics and computers confiscated11-18-03 is the date the report was filed
at exactly 12:00 ( weird)
there was previous talk about Mike not using the internet or computers, yet he certainly had ALOT of them at neverland...
if you notice anything else weird..let me know...
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/gallery/conrad-murray-mug-shot/
this made me go....huh?
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9QUQUE02.htm
A consortium led by Sony/ATV, a joint venture between Sony Corp. and the Michael Jackson estate, says it is buying the music copyright division of EMI Group Ltd., for $2.2 billion.Earlier Friday, Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group said it was buying EMI's recording division for $1.9 billion.
Citigroup is selling the British music company after taking it over in February when private equity firm Terra Firma defaulted on its debts.
EMI's copyright division has copyrights to 1.3 million songs and manages the works of such artists as Rihanna, Norah Jones, Beyonce and Alicia Keys.
Sony/ATV, which has a catalog of 750,000 songs, is a 38 percent partner in the consortium, according to a person familiar with the situation. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.
So, yeah Michael is my album choice for today and after listening to MONSTER again, I looked up the lyrics...
(Michael Jackson)
You can look at them coming out the walls
You can look at them climbing out the bushes
You can find them when the letter's bout to fall
He be waiting with his camera on focus
Everywhere you seem to turn there's a monster
When you look up in the air there's a monster
Paparazzi got you scared like a monster, monster, monster
Too bad
Oh-oh Hollywood, it's got you jumping like you should
(Too bad)
It's got you bouncing off the walls
It's got you drunk enough to fall
(Oh oh) Hollywood just look in the mirror
And tell me you like, don't you, don't you like it
Monster
He's a monster (mmm...)
He's an animal
Monster (yea-eah)
He's a monster
He's an animal (Oh-oh-oh)
He's coming at ya, coming at ya rather too fast
Mama say, mama got you in a zig zag
And you're running
And you're running just to escape it
But they're gunning for the money so they fake it
Everywhere you seem to turn there's a monster
When you look up in the air there's a monster
When you see them in the street
There's a monster, monster, monster
(Too bad)
(Oh-oh) Hollywood it's got you jumping like you should
It's got you bouncing off the wall
It's got you drunk enough to fall
(Too bad)
(Oh-oh) Hollywood just look in the mirror
And tell me d'you like what you see
Monster
(he's like an animal)
He's a monster
(just like an animal)
He's an animal
(and he's moving in the air)
Monster
He's a monster
He's an animal
(everybody wanna be a star)
Why are they never satisfied with an all you give, (yeh, yeh, yeh, yeah)
You give them your all
They're watching you fall
They eat your soul
[50 Cent]
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/monster-lyrics-michael-jackson.html ]
Catch me in a bad mood, flippin' you'll take a whippin'
Animal, Hannibal, cannibal addition
Tears appear, yeah, blurring your vision
Fear in the air, screaming, your blood drippin'
Shiver a second, now, now, now, now what is it
Funeral's, cemeteries, don't worry it's time to visit
Broke bones, tombstones, how do you think I'm kidding
Its home, sweet home, the land of the forbidden
All hail, run tell, the King has risen
2010 Thriller, there's nothing iller, it's killer
There vision, the missin' the pack, this is that,
This the bomb, ring the alarm
MJ number 1, it's goes on and on
Its goes on and on
We get to crippin', its running in the early morn'
Keep on dreaming there's nowhere to run
You can drive but you done
I can feel it in the air, hear the monster come.
[Michael Jackson]
(Too bad)
(Oh-oh) Hollywood it's got you jumping (like you should, girl)
It's got you bouncing (ooh off the walls)
It's got you drunk enough to fall
(Too bad)
Oh oh Hollywood
Just making it clearer, and tell me you like
Don't you, don't you like it
Monster
(ah-ah, say you wanna be a star)
He's a monster
(say you wanna go far)
He's an animal
(Why do you keep stalking me)
Monster
(what'd you do to me)
He's a monster
(why did you take, why did you fake it)
He's an animal
(yea-ah, why you haunting me)
Monster
(why you stalking me)
He's a monster
(why you haunting me)
He's an animal
(why'd you do it, why'd you, why you stalking me)
Monster
(why you haunting me)
He's a monster
(why you haunting me)
He's an animal
(Why did you, why did you, oh-oh-oh)
He's dragging you down like a monster
He's keeping you down like a monster
He's dragging you down like a monster
He's keeping you down like a monster
Conrad Murray told TODAY's Savannah Guthrie that he didn't call 911 when Michael Jackson stopped breathing because emergency responders would not have been able to get through the gate to the singer's home.
"No one is allowed to come upstairs except for Mr. Jackson," he said.
"You called his bodyguard," Guthrie said to Murray, who was the singer's personal physician when he died in 2009. "Couldn't you have said, 'Call 911, and meet 'em at the gate?"
Murray responded that he didn't want to "leave a full explanation on the phone," and that he didn't think Jackson's employee would return his call. Instead he began giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and a guard at Jackson's rented Los Angeles mansion eventually called the emergency number 20 minutes later.
Guthrie's interview with Murray will air Thursday and Friday on TODAY. The MSNBC documentary "Michael Jackson and The Doctor" will premiere on MSNBC Friday at 10 p.m. ET.
(TODAY.com is powered by msnbc.com, which is a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC Universal.)
On Monday, Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of the pop star. He is now in jail awaiting sentencing on Nov. 29. He faces up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license.
Now, what puzzles me is how did he do this interview when there was a GAG order in place up until the verdict??? WTF??
http://www.whosay.com/TheRealStanLee/photos/89339
November 7, 2011
Yes, Michael Jackson was a friend of mine. Yes, he was one of the nicest guys ever. And yes, he is, and will continue to be, very greatly missed.
BEAUTIFUL photo...
"Michael Jackson and the Doctor" will chronicle the doctor's involuntary manslaughter case from his point of view and reveal personal details of his relationship with the singer.
Not long after Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in relation to the death of Michael Jackson came word that a documentary about the trial is already completed.The doc, directed by Tom Roberts, is from October Films, which spent two years with Murray and his defense team. It also will take viewers behind the closed-door meetings with Murray's attorneys.
On Tuesday, NBC's Today will air a preview of the doc, which will repeat on MSNBC at 9 p.m. ET Sunday.
PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths
Michael Jackson and the Doctor is an October Films and What's It All About? Productions co-production in association with MSNBC.
Zodiak Rights controls worldwide distribution rights to the documentary and has already secured pre-sales with broadcasters around the world, including Channel 4 in the U.K. and Nine Network in Australia.
Zodiak also said Monday that it has acquired international rights to an exclusive news interview with Murray that was conducted by U.K. broadcaster Steve Hewlett on Oct. 30. The company said this is the only interview Murray plans to give.
STORY: What Hollywood Is Saying About the Conrad Murray Verdict
Jackson died June 25, 2009, of acute propofol intoxication after suffering cardiac arrest in his home. Murray, Jackson's personal physician, had been charged with administering the fatal dose.
Following the reading of the verdict, Murray was remanded to custody without bail. He will be sentenced on Nov. 29 at 8:30 a.m. PT and could face up to four years in prison and lose his medical license.
Dr. Murray 1st Meal Behind Bars -- Super Cheeeesy
11/7/2011 5:10 PM PST BY TMZ STAFF
He's barely been locked up a couple hours -- but TMZ has learned, Dr. Conrad Murray has already been offered a delicious sacked lunch behind bars ... including jailhouse-baked cookies.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, Murray's first meal contained a cheese sandwich, some fruit punch, a few carrot sticks, and some homemade Oreo-knockoff cookies ... baked in the jail's own bakery.
No word on whether Murray actually ate any of it, but we're guessing he didn't have much of an appetite.
I don't know if anyone watches, but on Wednesday, Paula's group performed "rhythm nation" , if you watch the monitor, you will see a similarity to Michael's " They Dont Care about Us"...that was shot in the Dome project.
I know I read Michael had planned on doing stuff for X factor UK before he "left" so what do yall think?
If this was discussed, I apologize...
You see them walk into the mausoleum and you don't see them go anywhere near where his "body" is supposedly placed.
also, watch the eyes of all of them when they talk about Forest Lawn, Michael and his death...
I've noticed this alot watching Jermaine interviews, but after watching this clip, its pretty obvious they are lying...
• A person who is lying to you will avoid making eye contact.
• Hands touching their face, throat & mouth. Touching or scratching the nose or behind their ear. Not likely to touch his chest/heart with an open hand.
Emotional Gestures & Contradiction
• Timing and duration of emotional gestures and emotions are off a normal pace. The display of emotion is delayed, stays longer it would naturally, then stops suddenly.
• Timing is off between emotions gestures/expressions and words. Example: Someone says "I love it!" when receiving a gift, and then smile after making that statement, rather then at the same time the statement is made.
• Gestures/expressions don't match the verbal statement, such as frowning when saying "I love you."
• Expressions are limited to mouth movements when someone is faking emotions (like happy, surprised, sad, awe, )instead of the whole face. For example; when someone smiles naturally their whole face is involved: jaw/cheek movement, eyes and forehead push down, etc.
Also see our article on micro expressions & lying.
Interactions and Reactions• A liar is uncomfortable facing his questioner/accuser and may turn his head or body away.
• A liar might unconsciously place objects (book, coffee cup, etc.) between themselves and you.
Verbal Context and Content
• A liar will use your words to make answer a question. When asked, "Did you eat the last cookie?" The liar answers, "No, I did not eat the last cookie."
•A statement with a contraction is more likely to be truthful: " I didn't do it" instead of "I did not do it"
• Liars sometimes avoid "lying" by not making direct statements. They imply answers instead of denying something directly.• The guilty person may speak more than natural, adding unnecessary details to convince you... they are not comfortable with silence or pauses in the conversation.
• A liar may leave out pronouns and speak in a monotonous tone. When a truthful statement is made the pronoun is emphasized as much or more than the rest of the words in a statement.
• Words may be garbled and spoken softly, and syntax and grammar may be off. In other
words, his sentences will likely be muddled rather than emphasized.
• The use of distancing language.
Also see our article on Statement Analysis for a more in-depth look at word analysis techniques used by interrogators.
Other signs of a lie:
• If you believe someone is lying, then change subject of a conversation quickly, a liar follows along willingly and becomes more relaxed. The guilty wants the subject changed; an innocent person may be confused by the sudden change in topics and will want to back to the previous subject.
• Using humor or sarcasm to avoid a subject.
Final Notes:
Obviously, just because someone exhibits one or more of these signs does not make them a liar. The above behaviors should be compared to a persons base (normal) behavior whenever possible.
Most lie detecting experts agree that a combination of body language and other cues must be used to make an educated guess on whether someone is telling the truth or a lie.
Ok, another one of those crazy searches...I didn't see anything on this subject and found it rather bizarre
http://illuminustheo.blogspot.com/2009/07/michael-jackson-is-not-dead-so-who-died.htmlTHURSDAY, JULY 2, 2009
Michael Jackson is not Dead; so WHO died?
Contents copyright June 2009, WNB, at Illuminus Theo
Why and how Dimitrie Draghicescu died in Jackson's place.
[Note: Dimitrie was unrelated to the famous Romanian writer and diplomat who died in 1945; both Dimitrie and Draghicescu are relatively common names in Romania]
Contact: Illuminus.theo@gmail.com
The Truth Behind Michael Jackson Death Hoax
The outpouring of grief over Michael Jackson's death, and the sheer magnitude of the deception that Illuminus Theo (IT) has allowed itself to be a party to, now force me to reveal what many have suspected (and with good reason). Michael Jackson did not die--but someone else did. Who died in Jackson's place, and why did Michael Jackson stage his own death in one of the greatest ruses in history? For that matter, why did my own highly reclusive order help Jackson pull this off? I must share this, and quickly, and hope that this blog is not removed before enough people have learned the truth, because what Michael Jackson has just pulled off is nothing compared to the plans that he has for us during the coming century.
Why Did Illuminus Theo Agree to be a part of the Michael Jackson Death Conspiracy?
Quite simply, who could turn down Michael Jackson when he asked for help? Even his closest confidantes admitted that whatever Michael wanted, he got. But when he approached our Order four years ago in Naples, Italy, we were overwhelmed by the generosity of his promised reward (which we will yet receive; the reports of his so-called bankruptcy are as fraudulent as his staged death). These funds will enable our order to further the research which we have pursued for almost 700 years--unheralded, unrestricted by the Vatican (they did not even know of us until the 1940s), and unfunded, as we had our own financial resources--at least until the financial fiascoes of 2000. But what does it profit a man if he gain the world and lose his soul? Even Michael's millions would not have been enough if he had not approached us with a golden carrot in one hand and an iron stick in the other.
Michael's Gold Carrot and Iron Stick
Michael warned Illuminus Theo quite plainly that, given the very nature of his proposal, he could not allow us to refuse his generous offer; he threatened to expose to the world the lapses and indiscretions that had brought us to the attention of the Vatican during the 1940s, and thereby destroy the secrecy that we have so carefully guarded for over 700 years.
My superiors will be livid that I have exposed this dark deception. Illuminus Theo will no doubt engineer the erasure of this blog as soon as they discover it, and Jackson may exact his own revenge upon the Order and myself. Yet if he does, I will reveal exactly where Michael Jackson is today--provided I am not first silenced by either Jackson or my own Order. Over the centuries, Illuminus Theo has silenced those it could not buy. I'm not sure about Jackson, but given the desperation that drove him to this great deception, I would not be surprised if Jackson has also sent some detractors on a one way trip to Neverland.
Why Michael Jackson's Staged Death?
Michael had multiple motives for his staged demise, but ironically, it all began over two decades ago with Michael's morbid fear of death itself. His former wife Lisa Presley has recently revealed that even though Michael daily underwent a rigorous regimen to achieve his dream of living to at least 150, he frequently voiced his fears that he would die early, like Lisa's legendary father Elvis Presley. Michael's most bizarre longevity rite was, of course, his sleeping in hyperbaric chambers. These photos were carefully 'leaked' [with instructions to label them as 'bizarre') to heighten the public's fascination with his unusual lifestyle, but this was more than just promotional hype. Jackson laughed it off but it was a true reflection of Michael's deep seated fear of death.
Why Michael's Morbid Fear of Death?
Michael feared death because, quite simply, he had never really lived. As a child he was reportedly abused by a domineering father who drove him to success, denying him a childhood, hence the attempt to recapture his lost youth with Neverland ranch. Jackson's father not only denied Michael his childhood but also, in driving him to success, molded Michael into a compulsive success addict who could never really slow down to enjoy the massive wealth he accumulated. Michael existed, but he never lived. He viewed life from the outside, from the above--as we view the insignificant lives of millions when our plane rises out of Los Angeles airport, cars below buzzing about like bees in futile search for significance or, increasingly, for survival. And it was this godlike perception of the world, and his intoxication with unparalleled success, that gave birth to Michael's belief in his own deity and inevitable immortality--which he sought not just in science but in the occult.
Michael and the Occult
The public had no idea that Thriller, which was released on Nov. 30, 1982, was not just fiction but autobiographical. Jackson was, in a sense, taunting death. But as he worked on Thriller he became even more enthralled with the occult, and given his fear of death, it is not surprising that he sought the secrets of unending life by searching out the undead, the vampire--which led him to Illuminus Theo.
Jackson Discovers Illuminus Theo
If Jackson spent millions on spending sprees, he spent hundreds of millions seeking the holy grail of immortality through science and the occult. Even as Hitler's henchmen searched the planet from Tahoe to Tibet for occult power to insure the Third Reich's success, so Jackson's army of researchers circled the globe. But although Illuminus Theo managed to evade Hitler's henchmen, we could not hide from Michael Jackson, but that is not surprising. Jackson had better resources than the failing feuhrer.
When Jackson learned of Illuminus Theo's centuries of involvement in the occult, in particular our research into alleged (I emphasize "alleged") cases of possession and vampirism, he threatened our order until we allowed him access to archives that have been kept hidden for centuries. We denied, of course, that we had any of the materials that he sought, but he in turn insisted that if we had nothing to hide, we had nothing to fear from him and his assistants browsing our archives. And so Jackson spent weeks at a time in our archives while one of his three lookalike Michaels carried on his public appearances (one advantage of Michael's plastic face was that it was easy to create lookalikes; this helped inspire the staged death scheme--but I'm coming to that).
Wannabe Vampire Michael Jackson
Jackson did not undergo such extensive surgery because he was ashamed of being black but because he was trying to identify himself with the pallid legions of the undead that he believed must still exist on this planet. Jackson produced his hit video Thriller less as a commercial music video than as a secret yet in-your-face tribute and homage to the legions of undead. Michael hoped that by transforming himself into their physical image, he would somehow change his psychic image as well. Farfetched? Of course! But Michael was obsessed with the reality that he had been dying from birth. He often remarked upon rising, "I'm one day closer to the grave." What a way to look at life! But he hoped that through his physical make-over, and the release of Thriller, the undead would sense his desperation and contact him (even as thousands have written Anne Rice, of vampire novel fame, asking her how to meet vampires in New Orleans).
At this point, I dare not reveal the extent of Illuminus Theo's involvement in what transpired after the release of Thriller, and Michael's subsequent transformations, both physical and otherwise.
Plastic Michael Lookalikes
As I noted, it was easy to create Michael Jackson lookalikesbecause Jackson himself was a plastic creation, a construct, who in now way resembled the Michael of two decades earlier. After Jackson's court battles, he withdrew from the world, and retreated to a Neverland that he was creating in a foreign country--a subterranean wonderland free from the DNA-damaging solar rays that so terrified Jackson that he was never out of doors without an over-sized umbrella. But Jackson's ego would not allow him to depart the world as a failure, hence Illuminus Theo's collaboration in his staged death right on the heels of an equally staged comeback.
Jackson's Staged Comeback
Jackson, better than anyone, knew the rigors of dancing, and that his body could never handle a comeback such as he promised the world. But he craved not only immortality of body and soul but of name and fame, and of the love that he felt had eluded him his entire life, even in his so-called marriages (which he was quite serious about, but having never been loved, he found to his dismay that he could not love). Michael set out to show the world that he was as youthful and capable as ever by promising a series of performances that even someone half his age would have found impossible to pull off. That he could even manage a practice session is testimony to his desperation, as well as his genius and determination. But he only planned to perform the practice sessions. He had no intention whatsoever of actually engaging in the performances because, once the world had seen what he was still capable of, he would "die," and then sit back and watch the world mourn him.
Let's set one record straight. Michael was a health fanatic, and did not abuse drugs--at least much. His pleas to doctors for sleeping remedies were ploys to set the stage for his death (which was fitting, as his entire life was a stage). Poor Deepak Chopra was aghast at what he saw as Michael's growing dependence upon prescription drugs, but Michael knew that, once he had "died," Deepak would remember his pleas for drugs, and share them out of sympathy for his extinguished friend--and thus reinforce the fiction that Jackson had died of drugs. To further reinforce this fiction, Jackson phoned other doctors, begging for drugs, and some doctors did provide them, but he never used them. He was too terrified of death to allow anything to weaken his body's tenuous hold upon life.
Jackson's "Death"
The night before Jackson's "death," he danced his heart out, almost literally (which underscored the impossibility of surviving the grueling schedule he'd announced to his public). He returned to his rented home, and was spirited away to a waiting jet at Burbank airport, which transported him to a location in the Southeastern U.S. that I dare not divulge (yet). But I must explain that the man who died of an alleged heart attack under the very hands of his personal physician (get real!) was not Jackson but a 47-year-old Romanian named Dimitrie Draghicescu, whom Illuminus Theo disgracefully dragged into this morbid affair.
Dimitrie Draghicescu--the Dead Jackson
After fully 3 years of plastic surgery and training, Dimitrie could easily pass for a live Jackson, not to mention a dead one. But unlike the mighty Michael, Dimitrie did die. Dimitrie, not Jackson, was the one whisked to the hospital. Did you not wonder why the man who phoned 911 did not say "Michael Jackson" was the victim? It was not to avoid publicity but to insure that, should the 911 calls be analyzed by voice experts and electronic analyzers, no one could detect the stress from the caller's blatant falsehood.
Dimitrie agreed to die in Michael's place only because he had a terminal illness, and because Jackson had promised a generous reward to his family. And had Dimitrie refused, our Order would have revealed the Draghicescu family secret that had brought them to the attention of Illuminus Theo in the late 1700s (we too are familiar with the gold carrot-iron stick argument).
Why the 2nd Autopsy?
If Jackson's own family could not distinguish a plastic Dimitrie from a plastic Jackson, the doctors who tried to revive "Jackson" certainly had no hopes of penetrating this stupendous ruse. The only difficulty was switching fingerprints, but this was accomplished more easily than you could imagine by a little greasing of palms both in the hospital and the police force. (Though now the police are under suspicion for delaying a search for 4 days, allowing an unsupervised Janet to remove items from a suspected crime scene, etc.).
But while the ruse fooled the world, his family was suspicious. They knew Michael too well to believe that a man so fanatic about health would kill himself with such a dangerous drug. The Jackson family demanded a second autopsy not to determine the cause of death but to determine the true identity of the body. (Which, of course, will never be revealed, for if Jackson is shown to be alive, they will not inherit his estate).
Death by Diprivan
The autopsy will indeed reveal that "Jackson" died of a lethal dose of Diprivan, a dangerous but effective anaesthetic. Jackson's personal doctor will be found guilty of negligence, but his career was on the ropes already. (He said Michael was so delicate he supported his back during CPR--yet Michael was capable of 50 performances?). This desperate excuse for a doctor readily agreed to become a part of Jackson's "death" in return for a 7-figure fee and the best lawyers in the land. You noticed, I assume, how quickly he was in contact with his lawyers? They had a response prepared even before Jackson's double, poor Dimitrie, had breathed his last.
Michael Jackson is alive, and given the information he forced out of Illuminus Theo, and the tremendous resources at his disposal (in spite of rumors of his supposed bankruptcy) he may well reach his goal of living to 150, but I don't think he will enjoy those extra 100 years. But in the meantime, Michael Jackson is enjoying immensely the spectacle of the entire world in tears. He has achieved the fame and even a measure of love and respect, that eluded him in life. His eccentricities are forgiven; those he alienated are reconciled. And perhaps this is not a bad thing. What I fear, personally, is where Michael Jackson is headed now. With the exception of his father, no one could ever say "No" to Michael--and that was to the old Jackson. How will the world handle the Michael Jackson that is to come? Of course, no one will recognize the new Jackson for who he is.
He Did Take It With Him
Sometime within the next two years, the plastic-faced Michael Jackson will emerge onto the world scene again with not only a new, unrecognizable face but a new name. And who says "you can't take it with you?" Michael has taken his, and will enjoy enormous wealth and power, coupled with blissful anonymity, for decades--perhaps even another century. But what on earth will Michael Jackson do the second time around?
I must cut this short. I am posting this via proxies, in the hopes that it will not be easily traced, and using an alias--the name of the Italian Chinese priest who transformed our order after the Vatican penetrated our veil of secrecy in the 1940s. If only Father Fu were still here to help us--though after what I've learned about Michael Jackson's "death," for all I know Father Lingyu Fu may still be around. I will not pursue that line of thought further, lest sleep elude me, as it did the King of Pop during his last decade.
I hopes this avoids deletion long enough for the world to know the truth--that Michael Jackson is alive! Or, more accurately, he is not dead.
Are you?
Father Lingyu Fu
Naples, Italy
[Note: Some have commented that Dimitrie died in 1945 [actually, he committed suicide]. Obviously, in Romania, as in the rest of the world, sometimes more than one people have the same name. The Dimitrie Draghicescu who was the famous writer killed himself in 1945. He was, as far as we know, unrelated to Michael Jackson's Dimitrie.
Illuminus Theo Postscript (July 20, 2009): The Abbot of Illuminus Theo Abbey insists on pointing out that Illuminus Theo did not pressure Dimitrie Draghicescu in any way into an arrangement with Michael Jackson. So I have duly noted this, but based on the information presented above, you can draw your own conclusion.
By the way, he is not, as many websites have claimed, in Hungary (but fairly close).
POSTED BY ILLUMINUS THEO AT 11:08 PM
I found this on a blog, not sure if its posted before
Morphine lyrics – Released May 1997A heart attack baby
I need your body
***
Trust in me
Just in me
Put all your trust in me
You're doin' morphine
***
Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol
Demerol
Demerol
Oh God he's taking demerol
***
You just sit around just talkin' nothing
You're takin' morphine
***
I'm going down bab
Basically, this song says it all. A heartattack...and then suggests that drug use is involved – did he actually predict or plan his death? You should listen to this song again, and you will note that while the Demerol was administered, there is a knocking on the door, and someone says: "The doctor says..." No one can make-out the rest of this conversation, but it sounds eerily similar to the 911 call made to ask for assistance prior to the 'death' of Michael Jackson. Even in that call, you can hear the doctor speaking in the background, but the words cannot be made out. It seems that the death was planned for many years before it even took place.
Blood On The Dance Floor Lyrics – Released May 1997
To escape the world I got to enjoy this simple dance
And it seemed that everything was on my side
Cry lyrics – January 2002
Stories buried and unfold
Someone is hiding the truth, hold on
When will this mystery unfold
And will the sun ever shine
In the blind man's eyes when he cries?
Does this mean that Michael Jackson is hiding the truth, and that one day the mystery will reveal?
Gone Too Soon lyrics – October 2001
Born To Amuse, To Inspire, To Delight
Here One Day
Gone One Night
Little Susie lyrics – 1995
Somebody killed little Susie
The girl with the tune
Who sings in the daytime at noon
She was there screaming
Beating her voice in her doom
But nobody came to her soon...
***
Neglection can kill
Like a knife in your soul
Oh it will
Little Susie fought so hard to live...
She lie there so tenderly
Fashioned so slenderly
Lift her with care
So young and so fair
The lyrics of this song as are quite bizarre and morbid. Is Michael Jackson calling himself Little Susie? So young, slender, fought hard to live, was a singer, neglected (and note that neglection will kill – OH IT WILL), and even died at noon? Is this how he wanted the world to view his death? I mean we heard each of those descriptors in news reports about him, as word of this 'death' broke out. People called him young, he was skinny, neglected, king of pop, etc. Why was he imagining the reaction or response of the public if they found out that he had died?
Money lyrics – 1995
If you know it's a lie
Then you will swear it
***
If it's taking a chance
Then you will dare it
You'll do anything for money...
Anything
Anything
Anything for money
Would lie for you
Would die for you
Even sell my soul to the devil
People would do anything for money, including turning lies into truth and taking chances. They would even be willing to die for Michael Jackson for money? wow...
One Day In Your Life lyrics – 2004
You'll remember me, somehow
Though you don't need me now
I will stay in your heart
And when things fall apart
You'll remember one day
One day in your life
***
Just call my name, and I'll be there
Is he taunting people with this – that we would remember him even though we had almost forgotten him? This will happen when things will fall apart. When will things fall apart, upon hearing about the staged death? Then he concludes with "I'll be there", meaning that he never left.
Privacy lyrics – 2001
Ain't the pictures enough, why do you go through so much
To get the story you need, so you can bury me
You've got the people confused, you tell the stories you choose
You try to get me to lose the man I really am
***
'cause you cameras can't control, the minds of those who know
He believes that a picture is enough to bury him – indeed the public saw only ONE picture of 'him' in the ambulance. When he mentions "Losing the man he is", is that his identity as Michael Jackson the King of Pop? And then he believes that despite the pictures and reports, some people will KNOW...know the truth about the 'death'?
Scream lyrics – 1995
Tired of injustice
Tired of the schemes
The lies are disgusting
So what does it mean
Kicking me down
I got to get up
As jacked as it sounds
The whole system sucks
***
Somebody please have mercy
'Cause I just can't take it
Stop pressurin' me
Just stop pressurin' me
Stop pressurin' me
Make me wanna scream
This song provides some insight into the state of his mind, or factors that could have driven him into conceiving this 'death'. He says that the lies and schemes are disgusting, but that he still has to react to them. But why would that sound Jacked, as he states? Isn't it normal to react? Unless he was planning to use the same lies and schemes to react, then yes, it does sound jacked.
Tabloid Junkie lyrics – 1995
Just because you read it in a magazine
Or see it on the TV screen
Don't make it factual
Though everybody wants to read all about it
Just because you read it in a magazine
Or see it on the TV screen
Don't make it factual, actual
***
In the hood
Frame him if you could
Shoot to kill
To blame him if you will
If he dies sympathize
Such false witnesses
Damn self righteousness
In the black
Stab me in the back
In the face
Basically he is saying that whatever news reports suggest is not the truth, and that it cannot be considered to be a fact. He goes on to say that people can be framed and blamed, but then when they die, you will sympathize and witnesses will come out to provide fake accounts of events. Didn't we see this occur? Jordan Chandler came out to say that Michael was innocent, the world sympathized for Michael Jackson, and many people including limo drivers provided accounts of how they met him and what he was like. Then the strange part is – Kick in the back but then in the face? I mean if he had died, and we were doing this then it would be in the back. However, why in the face? Is it because he will see the response to his death on a first-hand basis?
They Don't Care About Us lyrics – 1995
Bang bang, shot dead
Everybody's gone mad
***
You can never kill me
***
I'm tired of bein' the victim of hate
You're rapin' me of my pride
Oh, for God's sake
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy...
Set me free
***
Tell me what has become of my rights
Am I invisible because you ignore me?
Your proclamation promised me free liberty, now
I'm tired of bein' the victim of shame
They're throwing me in a class with a bad name
I can't believe this is the land from which I came
You know I do really hate to say it
The government don't wanna see
***
Everybody litigation
Beat me, bash me
You can never trash me
Hit me, kick me
You can never get me
Don't you wrong or right me
In this song, he basically tells you about how he is treated and what he endures. The intro starts with someone who died, and that now there is chaos. But then a few lines later – You can never kill me. Then he mentions that he prays for death to set him free of his life, but in the end he says that no one can get him and that people shouldn't judge him. Judge him for this 'death'?
Threatened lyrics – 2001
You're fearing me, 'cause you know I'm a beast
Watching you when you sleep, when you're in bed
I'm underneath
You're trapped in halls, and my face is the walls
I'm the floor when you fall, and when you scream it's 'cause of me
I'm the living dead, the dark thoughts in your head
I know just what you said
That's why you've got to be threatened by me
***
You should be watching me, you should feel threatened
Why you sleep, why you creep, you should be threatened
***
You think you're by yourself, but it's my touch you felt
I'm not a ghost from Hell, but I've got a spell on you
In one blink I'll disappear, and then I'll come back to haunt you
***
From a far corner, out of the dark
A nightmare, that's the case
Never Neverland, that's the place
This particular monster can read minds
Be in two places at the same time
This is judgement night, execution, slaughter
The devil, ghosts, this monster is torture
You can be sure of one thing, that's fate
A human presence that you feel is strange
A monster that you can see disappear
***
What you have just witnessed could be the end of a particularly terrifying nightmare.
It isn't. It's the beginning.
This is one of the most bizarre songs that he has written. Apparently he turns into a beast that people should be scared of. But he is not a ghost, he is the living dead. He can see you, knows what you say, and you can feel him. But, he disappears and and comes back to haunt. He can be in TWO places at the same time. Meaning one in disguise and one dead? The closing is the epitome of the song, as it states that the nightmare is just beginning. Beginning of a new start?
Unbreakable lyrics – 2001
Now I'm just wondering why you think
that you can get to me with anything
seems like you'd know by now
When and how I get down
And with all that I've been through,
I'm still around
***
And there's no way you'll ever get to me
Why can't you see that you'll never ever hurt me
'cause I wont let it be, see I'm too much for you baby
***
You can't believe it, you can't conceive it
and you can't touch me, 'cause I'm untouchable
and I know you hate it, and you can't take it
You'll never break me, 'cause I'm unbreakable
***
Now you can't stop me even though you think
that if you block me, you've done your thing
and when you bury me underneath all your pain
I´m steady laughin', while surfacing
***
You can try to stop me, but it wont do a thing
no matter what you do, I'm still gonna be here
Through all your lies and silly games
I'm a still remain the same, I'm unbreakable
With the news of the 'death' – the media went ahead and removed the mask from Michael Jackson's reclusive life. So the initial paragraph begins with him telling us that he knows we now know the 'truth' about him, and that he is still around. But, we will never be able to touch, hurt, or see him. So we will bury our pain of the 'loss' and go on, while he is laughing and surfacing.
Who Is It lyrics – 1991
And It Doesn't Seem To Matter
And It Doesn't Seem Right
'Cause The Will Has Brought
No Fortune
Still I Cry Alone At Night
Don't You Judge Of My Composure
'Cause I'm Lying To Myself
***
I Am The Damned
I Am The Dead
I Am The Agony Inside
The Dying Head
This Is Injustice
Woe Unto Thee
I Pray This Punishment
Would Have Mercy On Me
***
Still I Cry Alone At Night
Don't You Judge Of My Composure
'Cause I'm Bothered Everyday
And She Didn't Leave A Letter
She Just Up And Ran Away
Supposedly, this song is about a girl leaving Michael Jackson. But, again the lyrics are so morbid that they don't actually fit the context of the song. He says that it doesn't seem to matter if it is right or not, and that he is the dead, damned, in agony, and dying. He wishes woe for others and for mercy, that he is bothered everyday so don't judge him. In the end, he says that the 'girl' just left without even a note, while Michael Jackson also suddenly 'died', when it was not even expected.
Cheater lyrics – 2004
I hurt my backbone baby,
I start to give it up,
Life is an aggravator,
Sometimes I part it up,
I broke my radiator,
I live to starve the bone,
I pray to leave my body,
***
I don't care a jack, or about what you do (ho!)
Just sign your name on the line baby, I own you (Daggone it)
(You are a...)
Cheater (oooo0000ooh!, Give it to me, What!, What!, get jack on me...)
***
Somebody said, give up instead on how you feel, (aah-uh)
One blow to the head is all you need,
(I aint takin' it..!)
The song begins with Michael Jackson's reference to 'hurting his backbone' – meaning his pride. It then goes onto say that life is difficult, and that he starves and wishes for death. Someone tells him to sign on a document and now they own him, then they tell him to let go of his reluctances – a blow to the head is all he needs. Is this Michael Jackson's way of telling the world that he sold off his career by staging his death, and that HE is a CHEATER (the title of the song). Did he cheat the world?
There Must Be More To Life Than This lyrics – 1991
There must be more to life than killing
There must be more than meets the eye
What good is life, if in the end we all must die
There must be more to life than this
Again this song talks about life and death, but he writes that there has to be more than meet the eye. We know that he loved disguises, so is there more than meets the eye with regards to his 'death' as well? Is he again telling people to be skeptical about what they see?
Xscape – 1995
Everywhere I turn, no matter where I look,
The systems in control, it's all ran by the book,
I've got to get away so I can clear my mind,
Xscape is what I need, away from electric eyes
***
Don't have a place to run, but there's no need to hide,
I've got to, find a place,
So I won't hide away
***
Xscape, got to get away from a system lose in the world today
Xscape, the pressure that I face from relationships that go away
Xscape, the man with the pen that writes the lies that hassle this man
Xscape, I do what I wanna cause I gotta face nobody but me
***
When I go, (oh, go) this problem world won't bother me no more
(This problem world won't bother me no more)
(problem world, bother me, yeah, oh, yeah, hoo)
***
Xscape, got to get away
(I've got find a way)
Xscape, the pressure that I face
(can't take it no more)
Xscape, the man with the pen
(I can't take this no more)
Xscape, I do what I wanna cause I gotta face nobody but me
Xscape (auow!)
(You ain't my mother)
Xscape
Got to get away
****
Xscape
(what for? I can't take this kind of shit no more!)
Xscape till fade
You Want me? Come and get me.
In this song, Michael Jackson is desperately searching for an escape. He wants to get away – but he doesn't want to hide. He feels guilty for wanting to do this, but says that he has to face no one other then himself, and that you aren't his mother. Then he says that he will escape until he fades, and if you want him then go get him.
Im going through the ones that we may not have seen...bear with me...
On the Michael album cover, you can see Michael holding a camera...down where the "leave Me Alone" montage is, there is the Weekly World News paper...
found some interesting articles, I know its a tabloid but thought there might be possible connections:There have been persistent rumors since Michael Jackson's death in 2009, that he is NOT dead, but rather that he disappeared to an island in the Caribbean or to a suburb in New Jersey.
A number of people who attended the trial today said they saw MJ outside the courthouse AND inside.
"He was definitely here," said Moira McMahon, a dear friend of Michael Jackson. "We saw him walk in behind his family. It was definitely him."
"He's not dead. I've seen him about a dozen times in L.A. since 2009. He's either a ghost or there's something funny going on," said Donnie McCreary of Bellflower.
"I saw Michael. No doubt about it," said Cassandra Wilkins of West L.A.
The highly-publicized trial against late pop icon Michael Jackson's personal physician Conrad Murray opened Tuesday in Los Angeles, with prosecutors and defense attorneys fought with each other and came up with a large number of testimonies and evidences.
A seven-men and five-women jury which was sworn in last Friday heard the case while a prosecutor, in his opening statement, accused Murray for acting with negligence and incompetence while caring for Jackson, 50, by ignoring all standards of medical care while giving the singer heavy doses of a powerful sedative that killed him.
Deputy District Attorney David Walgren told the panel that evidence would show Murray, a cardiologist who was hired by Jackson for 150,000 U.S. dollars a month to care for him, "repeatedly acted with gross negligence, repeatedly denied care, appropriate care to his patient,Michael Jackson, and that it was Dr. Murray's repeated incompetence and unskilled acts that led to Mr. Jackson's death on June 25, 2009."
To illustrate his case, Walgren showed a picture of what appears to be Michael Jackson's lifeless body on a gurney.
Jackson, 50, was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. on June 25, 2009 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The coroner's office determined that Jackson died of acute Propofol intoxication and classified his death as a homicide.
Murray, 58, who is free on 75,000-dollar bail, faces up to four years in prison if convicted of the involuntary manslaughter charge.
According to Walgren, at around 5 a.m. on the day when Jackson died, the King of Pop told Murray that he needed to sleep and they agreed Propofol was the answer. Murray said he gave the singer 25 milligrams of the potent drug, but that would only put him to sleep for minutes.
Much more Propofol was administered, prosecution alleged.
Murray sent e-mails and made eight phone calls after administering the drug on Jackson for about 45 minutes. The last call was made at 11:51 to a girlfriend when Murray realized there was an emergency.
When paramedics arrived at the scene, the singer was dead. However, Murray never told the EMTs he had gave the pop singer Propofol, although they asked if Jackon had had any drugs.
At the insistence by Murray, Jackson's body was transferred to UCLA, where Murray once again failed to mention the drug.
Walgren told jurors that between April 6 and June 10, 2009, Murray ordered 255 vials of Propofol, totaling 4.09 gallons of the "general anesthetic agent."
Murray and his teams of defense attorneys contended that Jackson swallowed Lorazepam pills and gave himself a lethal dose of Propofol while Murray was out of the pop icon's bedroom.
Defense attorney Edward Chernoff contended that Murray agreed to administer a small amount of Propofol, then monitored Jackson's pulse and breathing before leaving the singer's bedroom.
After he left, however, a frustrated Jackson woke up and swallowed Lorazepam pills, then somehow gave himself the fatal dose of Propofol, Chernoff claimed.
"The evidence will show you ... that when Dr. Murray left the room, Michael Jackson self-administered a dose of Propofol that, with the Lorazepam, created a perfect storm in his body that killed him instantly," Chernoff said. "When Dr. Murray came into the room and found Michael Jackson, there was no CPR, there was no doctor, no paramedic, no machine that was going to revive Michael Jackson.
"He died so rapidly, so instantly, he didn't even have time to close his eyes."
The attorney insisted that Murray was weaning Jackson off Propofol, a drug the singer told the doctor he had been taking for years — calling it his "milk" that he could not sleep without. He had been unable to sleep for 10 hours before Murray administered Propofol on him.
As the prosecution's first witness, Kenny Ortega — the creator and co-director of the ill-fated "This Is It" concert series — testified that Jackson was "completely" involved in the process of preparing for the London concerts.
According to him, Jackson, although "very excited "about the London show, missed several rehearsals in late June, shortly before his death. He noticed that the singer wasn't right on June 19, six days before his death, as the singer seemed lost and was "incoherent."
Ortega was confronted by Murray during a meeting between Jackson, his doctor, Phillips and Jackson's manager at the singer's rented home the following day. Murray told him he was upset Ortega didn't let him rehearse, berating him for acting like a doctor.
Fans from around the world are now headed for the trial – now that there have been multiple sightings of the King of Pop.
I dont know if this was posted before, just ran across it...was written back in 2009...some of this story doesn't make any sense now that the trial is 1/2 over...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196009/Im-better-dead-Im-How-Michael-Jackson-predicted-death-months-ago.htmlAiling: Michael Jackson may have worn a mask in public to protect his diseased lungs
Michael knew it and his advisers knew it. Anyone who caught even a fleeting glimpse of the frail old man hiding beneath the costumes and cosmetics would have understood that the London tour was madness. For Michael Jackson, it was fatal.
I had more than a glimpse of the real Michael; as an award-winning freelance journalist and film-maker, I spent more than five years inside his 'camp'.
Many in his entourage spoke frankly to me – and that made it possible for me to write authoritatively last December that Michael had six months to live, a claim that, at the time, his official spokesman, Dr Tohme Tohme, called a 'complete fabrication'. The singer, he told the world, was in 'fine health'. Six months and one day later, Jackson was dead.
Some liked to snigger at his public image, and it is true that flamboyant clothes and bizarre make-up made for a comic grotesque; yet without them, his appearance was distressing; with skin blemishes, thinning hair and discoloured fingernails.
I had established beyond doubt, for example, that Jackson relied on an extensive collection of wigs to hide his greying hair. Shorn of their luxuriance, the Peter Pan of Neverland cut a skeletal figure.
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It was clear that he was in no condition to do a single concert, let alone 50. He could no longer sing, for a start. On some days he could barely talk. He could no longer dance. Disaster was looming in London and, in the opinion of his closest confidantes, he was feeling suicidal.
To understand why a singer of Jackson's fragility would even think about travelling to London, we need to go back to June 13, 2005, when my involvement in his story began.
As a breaking news alert flashed on CNN announcing that the jury had reached a verdict in Jackson's trial for allegedly molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch in California, I knew that history had been made but that Michael Jackson had been broken – irrevocably so, as it proved.
Nor was it the first time that Michael had been accused of impropriety with young boys. Little more than a decade earlier, another 13-year-old, Jordan Chandler, made similar accusations in a case that was eventually settled before trial – but not before the damage had been done to Jackson's reputation.
Frail: In a wheelchair last year, Michael Jackson looked in no state to perform 50 tough gigs
Michael had not helped his case. Appearing in a documentary with British broadcaster Martin Bashir, he not only admitted that he liked to share a bed with teenagers, mainly boys, in pyjamas, but showed no sign of understanding why anyone might be legitimately concerned.
I had started my investigation convinced that Jackson was guilty. By the end, I no longer believed that.
I could not find a single shred of evidence suggesting that Jackson had molested a child. But I found significant evidence demonstrating that most, if not all, of his accusers lacked credibility and were motivated primarily by money.
Jackson also deserved much of the blame, of course. Continuing to share a bed with children even after the suspicions surfaced bordered on criminal stupidity.
He was also playing a truly dangerous game. It is clear to me that Michael was homosexual and that his taste was for young men, albeit not as young as Jordan Chandler or Gavin Arvizo.
In the course of my investigations, I spoke to two of his gay lovers, one a Hollywood waiter, the other an aspiring actor. The waiter had remained friends, perhaps more, with the singer until his death last week. He had served Jackson at a restaurant, Jackson made his interest plain and the two slept together the following night. According to the waiter, Jackson fell in love.
The actor, who has been given solid but uninspiring film parts, saw Jackson in the middle of 2007. He told me they had spent nearly every night together during their affair – an easy claim to make, you might think. But this lover produced corroboration in the form of photographs of the two of them together, and a witness.
Other witnesses speak of strings of young men visiting his house at all hours, even in the period of his decline. Some stayed overnight.
When Jackson lived in Las Vegas, one of his closest aides told how he would sneak off to a 'grungy, rat-infested' motel – often dressed as a woman to disguise his identity – to meet a male construction worker he had fallen in love with.
Jackson was acquitted in the Arvizo case, dramatically so, but the effect on his mental state was ruinous. Sources close to him suggest he was close to complete nervous breakdown.
Death scene: The rented home in Bel Air where Michael Jackson passed away
The ordeal had left him physically shattered, too. One of my sources suggested that he might already have had a genetic condition I had never previously come across, called Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency – the lack of a protein that can help protect the lungs.
Although up to 100,000 Americans are severely affected by it, it is an under-recognised condition. Michael was receiving regular injections of Alpha-1 antitrypsin derived from human plasma. The treatment is said to be remarkably effective and can enable the sufferer to lead a normal life.
But the disease can cause respiratory problems and, in severe cases, emphysema. Could this be why Jackson had for years been wearing a surgical mask in public, to protect his lungs from the ravages of the disease? Or why, from time to time, he resorted to a wheelchair? When I returned to my source inside the Jackson camp for confirmation, he said: 'Yeah, that's what he's got. He's in bad shape. They're worried that he might need a lung transplant but he may be too weak.
'Some days he can hardly see and he's having a lot of trouble walking.'
Even Michael Jackson's legendary wealth was in sharp decline. Just a few days before he announced his 50-concert comeback at the O2 Arena, one of my sources told me Jackson had been offered £1.8million to perform at a party for a Russian billionaire on the Black Sea.
'Is he up to it?' I had asked.
'He has no choice. He needs the money. His people are pushing him hard,' said the source.
Could he even stand on a stage for an hour concert?
'He can stand. The treatments have been successful. He can even dance once he gets in better shape. He just can't sing,' said the aide, adding that Jackson would have to lip-synch to get through the performance. 'Nobody will care, as long as he shows up and moonwalks.'
He also revealed Jackson had been offered well over £60million to play Las Vegas for six months. 'He said no, but his people are trying to force it on him. He's that close to losing everything,' said the source.
Forced: Michael Jackson thought he was agreeing to 10 concerts at London's O2 Arena not 50
Indeed, by all accounts Jackson's finances were in a shambles. The Arvizo trial itself was a relative bargain, costing a little more than £18million in legal bills.
But the damage to his career, already in trouble before the charges, was incalculable. After the Arvizo trial, a Bahraini sheikh allowed Jackson to stay in his palace, underwriting his lavish lifestyle. But a few years later, the prince sued his former guest, demanding repayment for his hospitality. Jackson claimed he thought it had been a gift.
Roger Friedman, a TV journalist, said: 'For one year, the prince underwrote Jackson's life in Bahrain – everything including accommodation, guests, security and transportation. And what did Jackson do? He left for Japan and then Ireland. He took the money and moonwalked right out the door. This is the real Michael Jackson. He has never returned a phone call from the prince since he left Bahrain.'
Although Jackson settled with the sheikh on the eve of the trial that would have aired his financial dirty laundry, the settlement only put him that much deeper into the hole. A hole that kept getting bigger, but that was guaranteed by Jackson's half ownership of the copyrights to The Beatles catalogue. He owned them in a joint venture with record company Sony, which have kept him from bankruptcy.
'Jackson is in hock to Sony for hundreds of millions,' a source told me a couple of months ago. 'No bank will give him any money so Sony have been paying his bills.
'The trouble is that he hasn't been meeting his obligations. Sony have been in a position for more than a year where it can repossess Michael's share of the [Beatles] catalogue. That's always been Sony's dream scenario, full ownership.
'But they don't want to do it as they're afraid of a backlash from his fans. Their nightmare is an organised 'boycott Sony' movement worldwide, which could prove hugely costly. It is the only thing standing between Michael and bankruptcy.'
Legacy: Michael Jackson wanted to ensure the future of his children by leaving them 200 unpublished songs
The source aid at the time that the scheduled London concerts wouldn't clear Jackson's debts – estimated at almost £242million – but they would allow him to get them under control and get him out of default with Sony.
According to two sources in Jackson's camp, the singer put in place a contingency plan to ensure his children would be well taken care of in the event of bankruptcy.
'He has as many as 200 unpublished songs that he is planning to leave behind for his children when he dies. They can't be touched by the creditors, but they could be worth as much as £60million that will ensure his kids a comfortable existence no matter what happens,' one of his collaborators revealed.
But for the circle of handlers who surrounded Jackson during his final years, their golden goose could not be allowed to run dry. Bankruptcy was not an option.
These, after all, were not the handlers who had seen him through the aftermath of the Arvizo trial and who had been protecting his fragile emotional health to the best of their ability. They were gone, and a new set of advisers was in place.
The clearout had apparently been engineered by his children's nanny, Grace Rwaramba, who was gaining considerable influence over Jackson and his affairs and has been described as the 'queen bee' by those around Jackson.
Rwaramba had ties to the black militant organisation, the Nation of Islam, and its controversial leader, Louis Farrakhan, whom she enlisted for help in running Jackson's affairs.
Before long, the Nation was supplying Jackson's security detail and Farrakhan's son-in-law, Leonard Muhammad, was appointed as Jackson's business manager, though his role has lessened significantly in recent years.
In late 2008, a shadowy figure who called himself Dr Tohme Tohme suddenly emerged as Jackson's 'official spokesman'.
Tohme has been alternately described as a Saudi Arabian billionaire and an orthopaedic surgeon, but he is actually a Lebanese businessman who does not have a medical licence. At one point, Tohme claimed he was an ambassador at large for Senegal, but the Senegalese embassy said they had never heard of him.
Misguided: Michael Jackson showed no sign of understanding why anyone might be legitimately concerned about him sharing a bed with young boys
Tohme's own ties to the Nation of Islam came to light in March 2009, when New York auctioneer Darren Julien was conducting an auction of Michael Jackson memorabilia.
Julien filed an affidavit in Los Angeles Superior Court that month in which he described a meeting he had with Tohme's business partner, James R. Weller. According to Julien's account, 'Weller said if we refused to postpone [the auction], we would be in danger from 'Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam; those people are very protective of Michael'.
He told us that Dr Tohme and Michael Jackson wanted to give the message to us that 'our lives are at stake and there will be bloodshed'.'
A month after these alleged threats, Tohme accompanied Jackson to a meeting at a Las Vegas hotel with Randy Phillips, chief executive of the AEG Group, to finalise plans for Jackson's return to the concert stage.
Jackson's handlers had twice before said no to Phillips. This time, with Tohme acting as his confidant, Jackson left the room agreeing to perform ten concerts at the O2.
Before long, however, ten concerts had turned into 50 and the potential revenues had skyrocketed. 'The vultures who were pulling his strings somehow managed to put this concert extravaganza together behind his back, then presented it to him as a fait accompli,' said one aide.
'The money was just unbelievable and all his financial people were telling him he was facing bankruptcy. But Michael still resisted. He didn't think he could pull it off.'
Eventually, they wore him down, the aide explained, but not with the money argument.
'They told him that this would be the greatest comeback the world had ever known. That's what convinced him. He thought if he could emerge triumphantly from the success of these concerts, he could be the King again.'
The financial details of the O2 concerts are still murky, though various sources have revealed that Jackson was paid as much as £10million in advance, most of which went to the middlemen. But Jackson could have received as much as £100million had the concerts gone ahead.
It is worth noting that the O2 Arena has the most sophisticated lip synching technology in the world – a particular attraction for a singer who can no longer sing. Had, by some miracle, the concerts gone ahead, Jackson's personal contribution could have been limited to just 13 minutes for each performance. The rest was to have been choreography and lights.
'We knew it was a disaster waiting to happen,' said one aide. 'I don't think anybody predicted it would actually kill him but nobody believed he would end up performing.'
Their doubts were underscored when Jackson collapsed during only his second rehearsal.
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'Collapse might be overstating it,' said the aide. 'He needed medical attention and couldn't go on. I'm not sure what caused it.'
Meanwhile, everybody around him noticed that Jackson had lost an astonishing amount of weight in recent months. His medical team even believed he was anorexic.
'He goes days at a time hardly eating a thing and at one point his doctor was asking people if he had been throwing up after meals,' one staff member told me in May.
'He suspected bulimia but when we said he hardly eats any meals, the doc thought it was probably anorexia. He seemed alarmed and at one point said, 'People die from that all the time. You've got to get him to eat.''
Indeed, one known consequence of anorexia is cardiac arrest.
After spotting him leave one rehearsal, Fox News reported that 'Michael Jackson's skeletal physique is so bad that he might not be able to moonwalk any more'.
On May 20 this year, AEG suddenly announced that the first London shows had been delayed for five days while the remainder had been pushed back until March 2010. At the time, they denied that the postponements were health-related, explaining that they needed more time to mount the technically complex production, though scepticism immediately erupted. It was well placed.
Behind the scenes, Jackson was in rapid decline. According to a member of his staff, he was 'terrified' at the prospect of the London concerts.
'He wasn't eating, he wasn't sleeping and, when he did sleep, he had nightmares that he was going to be murdered. He was deeply worried that he was going to disappoint his fans. He even said something that made me briefly think he was suicidal. He said he thought he'd die before doing the London concerts.
'He said he was worried that he was going to end up like Elvis. He was always comparing himself to Elvis, but there was something in his tone that made me think that he wanted to die, he was tired of life. He gave up. His voice and dance moves weren't there any more. I think maybe he wanted to die rather than embarrass himself on stage.'
The most obvious comparison between the King of Pop and the King of Rock 'n' Roll was their prescription drug habits, which in Jackson's case had significantly intensified in his final months.
'He is surrounded by enablers,' said one aide. 'We should be stopping him before he kills himself, but we just sit by and watch him medicate himself into oblivion.'
Jackson could count on an array of doctors to write him prescriptions without asking too many questions if he complained of 'pain'. He was particularly fond of OxyContin, nicknamed 'Hillbilly heroin', which gave an instant high, although he did not take it on a daily basis.
According to the aide, painkillers are not the only drugs Jackson took.
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'He pops Demerol and morphine, sure, apparently going back to the time in 1984 when he burned himself during the Pepsi commercial, but there's also some kind of psychiatric medication. One of his brothers once told me he was diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was younger, so it may be to treat that.'
His aides weren't the only ones who recognised that a 50-concert run was foolhardy. In May, Jackson himself reportedly addressed fans as he left his Burbank rehearsal studio.
'Thank you for your love and support,' he told them. 'I want you guys to know I love you very much.
'I don't know how I'm going to do 50 shows. I'm not a big eater. I need to put some weight on. I'm really angry with them booking me up to do 50 shows. I only wanted to do ten.'
One of his former employees was particularly struck by Jackson's wording that day. 'The way he was talking, it's like he's not in control over his own life any more,' she told me earlier this month. 'It sounds like somebody else is pulling his strings and telling him what to do. Someone wants him dead.
'They keep feeding him pills like candy. They are trying to push him over the edge. He needs serious help. The people around him will kill him.'
As the London concerts approached, something was clearly wrong. Jackson had vowed to travel to England at least eight weeks before his first shows, but he kept putting it off.
'To be honest, I never thought Michael would set foot on a concert stage ever again,' said one aide, choking back tears on the evening of his death.
'This was not only predictable, this was inevitable.'
On June 21, Jackson told my contact that he wanted to die. He said that he didn't have what it would take to perform any more because he had lost his voice and dance moves.
'It's not working out,' Jackson said. 'I'm better off dead. I don't have anywhere left to turn. I'm done.'
Michael's closest confidante told me just two hours after he died that 'Michael was tired of living. He was a complete wreck for years and now he can finally be in a better place. People around him fed him drugs to keep him on their side. They should be held accountable.'
Michael Jackson was undoubtedly a deeply troubled and lonely man. Throughout my investigation, I was torn between compassion and anger, sorrow and empathy.
Even his legacy is problematic. As I have already revealed, he has bequeathed up to 200 original songs to his three children, Prince Michael, aged 12, Paris Katherine, 11, and Prince Michael II (also known as Blanket), seven. It is a wonderful gift.
Yet I can reveal that his will, not as yet made public, demands that the three of them remain with Jackson's 79-year-old mother Katherine in California. It promises an ugly row.
Ex-wife Deborah Rowe, the mother of the eldest two, has already made it clear to her legal team that she wants her children in her custody, immediately.
The mother of the third child has never been identified. I fully expect that it will emerge that the children had a 'test tube' conception, a claim already made by Deborah Rowe.
Michael Jackson may very well have been the most talented performer of his generation, but for 15 years that fact has been lost to a generation who may remember him only as a grotesque caricature who liked to share his bed with little boys. Now that he's gone, maybe it's time to shelve the suspicions and appreciate the music.
