Katherine Jackson May File Wrongful Death Suit

While the dust seems to have finally settled on Michael Jackson and his family after the singer’s June 25 death, his mother Katherine is reportedly mulling over filing a wrongful death suit in connection with the singer’s fatal cardiac arrest.

If a wrongful death suit is filed, it will more than likely be against Dr. Murray, who has admitted to injecting Jackson with the powerful hospital-grade anesthetic drug Propofol just hours before the singer suffered a heart attack and died.

Katherine Jackson’s lawyer, Burt Levitch, said in a statement today:

“The possibility of a wrongful death action has been floated. In that regard, no decision has been finalized.

“Dr. Murray’s name has been floated [as a possible defendant in the potential lawsuit] because he is under investigation.”

At this stage in the investigation into Jackson’s death, his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, is still the prime suspect in any manslaughter charges that may be brought against those medicos who had provided the King of Pop with dangerous anesthetics to use in his home.

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Dr. Murray Admits Injecting Jackson With Propofol

While Dr. Conrad Murray’s lawyer insists his client had nothing to do with the Propofol that is believed to have killed Michael Jackson, law enforcement officials have revealed that they have a very good reason to suspect the physician’s involvment in the pop star’s June 25 death.

Their reasoning? Dr. Murray told the police he did.

According to unnamed sources within the LAPD, two days after Jackson’s death, Murray told detectives he was the one who had administered the Propofol to the King of Pop just hours before he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest.

Dr. Murray alleges that he “found” Jackson without a pulse in his bedroom on the morning of June 25 a few hours after administering the powerful anesthesia drug to the singer through an IV drip; however, the LAPD have a different theory.

The police believe that Dr. Murray “wasn’t paying attention” when Jackson’s heart stopped beating, and have even hypothesised that the doctor may have “fallen asleep” during the time the drug was administered, and woke to find the singer already dead from heart failure.

Other doctors in the medical community have said that the use of Propofol – or even drugs of a similar capacity – in the home is “reckless.” For the drug to be used safely, they said, the patient must be monitored by an EKG, which would then sound an alarm when the patient’s pulse drops to dangerous levels.

There was no EKG found in the raid on Michael Jackson’s house.

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LAPD Search Home & Office of Jackson’s Doctor, Manslaughter Charges Pending

Dr. Conrad Murray is now likely to be convicted in the death of Michael Jackson, as Dea agents, LAPD and Las Vegas police descend on his Las Vegas home and office, armed with more search warrants.

A law enforcement official told FOXNews.com that the gated community of Jackson’s personal physician, and his office Global Cardiovascular Associates, were searched early Tuesday morning in the hopes of finding the evidence needed to formally charge him with manslaughter.

The day before, another law enforcement official told the news network that investigators in the case believed Murray was the one who had given Jackson the fatal dose of Propofol, just hours before his cardiac arrest on June 25. It is this dose the powerful sedative that is thought to have been the primary cause of death, which means that Murray, being the doctor who prescribed and administered it, would be liable for a manslaughter charge.

Murray’s lawyer, however, has said that the doctor “didn’t prescribe or administer anything that should have killed Michael Jackson.” When asked about the LAPD’s anonymous statements to the contrary, lawyer Edward Chernoff added: “We will not be commenting on rumours, innuendo or unnamed sources.”

However, while Chernoff remains adamant that his client isn’t any more of a suspect in the death of Michael Jackson than any of the doctors the late singer had in his service over the years, the lawyer did confirm that there had been multiple searches carried out by both police and agents alike at the doctor’s home and office.

“The search warrant authorized investigators to look for medical records relating to Michael Jackson and all of his reported aliases,” Chernoff’s statement read. “Dr. Murray was present during the search of his home and assisted the officers. Investigators left Dr. Murray’s home around 12 noon, seizing cell phones and a computer hard drive.”

Murray’s office in Houston was searched prior to his home in Las Vegas, with the search warrant stating that authorities on the scene were to look for “property or items constituting evidence of the offense of manslaughter that tend to show that Dr. Conrad Murray committed the said criminal offense.”

Both warrants were said to have been granted based on the preliminary toxicology reports, which at this stage have pinpointed Propofol as a contributing factor in Jackson’s death.

While the official toxicology findings are still days – maybe weeks – away, investigators are “working under the theory” that the sedative caused Jackson’s heart to stop, a source revealed. At this stage, law enforcement officials have been able to determine that the King of Pop had been using the powerful drug – hospital grade, and never intended for home use – for about two years. Since Dr. Murray only cam into Jackson’s service in May of this year, investigators are busily trying to find out how many other doctors illegally prescribed and administered the drug to the singer.

From the court documents, which label Dr. Conrad Murray as the prime suspect in the manslaughter investigation, Jackson “relied on Propofol like an alarm clock,” and would have the drug administered in an IV drip by a physician when he went to sleep. The IV drip would be stopped when it was time for the singer to wake up.

On the day of Jackson’s death, Dr. Murray was staying in singer’s Los Angeles mansion and “happened to find” an unconscious Jackson in his bedroom. Chernoff, Murray’s lawyer, said the doctor “tried to revive” the pop star by “compressing his chest” with one hand while supporting his back with the other.

His revival attempts were in vain, and Jackson died of a drug-assisted cardiac arrest on June 25.

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Jackson’s Death Will be Ruled a Homicide

Michael Jackson’s death will “almost certainly” be ruled as a homicide, according to gossip site TMZ.com.

The reports suggest that the L.A. County Coroner is “scheduled” to release the autopsy results pertaining to Jackson’s June 25 cardiac arrest mid-next week, after the coroner receives the final toxicology report from an “outside consultant.” Although the results are yet to be finalized, law enforcement sources have revealed that all causes other than homicide – natural, accidental, accidental overdose, and suicide – have been ruled out in the case of Michael Jackson.

Last week’s double raiding of the offices of Dr. Conrad Murray (who was with Jackson when he died) led the media to believe that the LAPD were treating Jackson’s death as a homicide, and with the news from the County Coroner’s office today, it is highly likely that one or more persons will be charged in connection with the King of Pop’s death.

At this stage, Dr. Murray is the prime suspect, and is “actively being investigated” as the person who administered Propofol, the powerful anesthesia that the LAPD suggest caused Jackson’s heart to stop.

Jackson’s sister, La Toya, has been adamant from the very beginning that her brother’s death was no ordinary accident – labeling his shock passing as “murder” – and when the L.A. County Coroner’s ruling comes out next week, the Jackson family are expected to launch a law suit (or suits, depending on the outcome) against those responsible for his death.

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La Toya Jackson: “Michael Was Murdered”

La Toya Jackson has revealed that she believes her younger brother, Michael, was murdered, and has vowed to bring those responsible for the singer’s shock death to justice.

While Los Angeles police have only just confirmed that homicide is still very much a possibility in Jackson’s suspected cardiac arrest on June 25, La Toya has told U.K.’s Mail On Sunday that she knew from the get-go her brother had been killed by members of his “shadowy entourage.”

“I believe Michael was murdered,” La Toya explained. “I felt that from the start. Not just one person was involved, rather it was a conspiracy of people. He was surrounded by a bad circle. Michael was a very meek, quiet, loving person. People took advantage of that. People fought to be close to him, people who weren’t always on his side.”

La Toya also believes that this “bad circle” her brother was surrounded by was the reason he was hooked on prescription drugs, and blamed members of his entourage for supplying the Thriller singer with dangerous medications.

“They got him hooked on drugs,” she said. “He was pure and clean and then drugs came back into his system. I think it shocked his system so much it killed him.”

The results of Jackson’s toxicology tests are still weeks away, and even though police have refused to reveal what they believe to be the popstar’s cause of death, La Toya is certain the results will mirror what she has believed from the very beginning.

La Toya said: “[Michael] had needle marks on his neck and on his arms and more about those will emerge in the next few weeks. I cannot discuss that any further as I may jeopardise the investigation. I can, however, say that I have not changed my mind about my feeling that [my brother] was murdered.”

“It will all come out,” she added. “You will be shocked.”

As well as breaking her silence on what she believes to be a conspiracy surrounding her brother’s murder, La Toya Jackson has spoken out against the cruelty of forcing Michael into doing a mammoth 50 concerts in London, saying it was “impossible” and labeling the 50-year-old as the “loneliest man in the world.”

“[It was] impossible even for a healthy person to do that many shows,” she said. “Michael was fragile. He always wanted to believe the best of people. But he was meek. In the last few months, he became isolated. I believe the staff were given strict instructions that if any of the family called, not to tell him. And if any of the family came by, not to let them in.”

At the time of Michael’s death, it was rumoured that the King of Pop had turned to heavy narcotics in order to make himself sick so that he would not be forced to play the concerts he’d never wanted to do, yet still reep the financial rewards of those concerts due to a clause in the contract. La Toya’s claims that Jackson’s people were forcing him into the London tour have certainly now put weight behind those rumours.

Whatever the outcome of Michael’s autopsy, La Toya has vowed that she will get to the bottom of it all, and plans to file a civil lawsuit against anyone involved in his death – which may include Jackson’s doctor at the time, Dr. Conrad Murray – as well as pushing the investigating officers to serve criminal charges.

“I am going to get down to the bottom of this,” the 53-year-old promised. “I am not going to stop until I find out who is responsible. Why did they keep the family away? It’s not about money. I want justice for Michael. I won’t rest until I find out what – and who – killed my brother.

“I’m doing what I can to find out how he died. If he died of a drug overdose, then I want to find who supplied him the drugs and who first introduced him to them.”

La Toya added: “Michael didn’t have to die. We are all mourning his loss, more than anyone can ever know. But we are also determined to get to the bottom of what happened to him.”

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Jackson Was a Drug Addict, Says Former Employee

The autopsy results haven’t been finalised yet, but it’s looking more and more like Michael Jackson’s drug dependency played a large part in the June 25 cardiac arrest that claimed his life.

According to a number of former employees, Jackson took more than 10 Xanax pills per night, and was often “asking his employees to get the prescription sleep medicine under their names.”

The report of his over-use of Xanax is a true one, obtained by the media from the 2004 Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department documents that were used as part of the King of Pop’s 2005 child molestation trial.

In the documents, one staff member of Jackson’s – a security guard – expressed his concern to another staffer about Jackson’s 10-pills a night Xanax addiction.

The documents state that the second staff member wasn’t worried, as: “Jackson was doing better because he was down from 30 to 40 Xanax pills a night.”

Many of Jackson’s staff members at the time admitted to picking up prescriptions in theirs and other people’s names on instruction by the popstar. One staffer added that Jackson often appeared “out of it and sedated.”

The guard who provided the majority of the information, according to the documents, quit after Jackson “fell on his face” in a hotel room and hurt himself. He said he was never comfortable getting prescriptions for the singer under false names and from different states.

From those same court documents, Michael Laperruque – part of Jackson’s security detail and a former L.A. County Sheriff’s deputy – revealed that the singer’s doctors were trying to him off Demerol, and were “upset with Jackson because he had been self-injecting.”

At this stage, dectectives are thoroughly investigating the Thriller singer’s history of narcotic painkiller addiction and are in the process of speaking with a number of Jackson’s former doctors and medical staff. Police are not ruling out foul play as yet, but are anticipating the toxicology reports to hold the information they’re looking for.

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Jackson’s Autopsy Leaked; Results Shocking

The first autopsy on Michael Jackson completed by the L.A. County coroner has been leaked to the public, and the results reveal that the singer was “in a shocking state of decline.”

The leaked report suggests the King of Pop hadn’t eaten in some time, and had a cocktail of partially-digested pills in his stomach when he died. Jackson was so emaciated that he weighted just 51kg in the end, despite his height of 178cm, UK’s The Sun has reported.

There is proof of his addiction to narcotic painkillers as well, with the singer’s shoulders and thighs covered in needle marks from his three-times-daily injections. As well as the addiction scars, Jackson was also virtually bald, with little more than a “peach fuzz” covering a scalp.

The singer’s stomach was empty, save for the handful of partially dissolved pills he’d downed shortly before the painkiller injection that sent him into cardiac arrest on Thursday. His face was covered in scars from the numerous sessions under the knife, and the bridge of his infamously disfigured nose had caved in, the pathologist said.

There were also post-death injuries that Jackson suffered at the hands of his would-be rescuers: several broken ribs from the force of the CPR, and four injection wounds near his heart from failed attempts to inject adrenaline directly into the organ.

At this point in time, police have not named Dr. Conrad Murray – the cardiologist Jackson had hired just weeks ago and who was at the scene when the popstar died – as a suspect. They have announced his testimony didn’t “raise any red flags,” and have since turned their investigation towards Jackson’s access to prescription drugs.

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Jackson Son Thought Father’s Death a Joke

The eldest son of Michael Jackson, Prince Michael Jr., thought his pop star father was simply joking around when he collapsed on the living room floor and went into cardiac arrest, a source close to the family has revealed.

PMJ – Prince Michael Jr., 12 – reportedly watched Dr. Murray’s frantic attempts to revive his father while “in a trance,” believing up until the last minute that it was all just a big joke orchastrated by his father, who loved to clown around with his children.

Jackson family biographer Stacey Brown explained:

“The horror of it all is that Prince thought his dad was just being his dad and clowning, but it was real, and he watched as they worked on him.

“Prince was stunned — in a trance — just watching.

“There was no movement, just looking around and not really processing what was really happening.”

At the time of his death, Jackson was staying in a $120,000-a-month L.A. rental home with his three children, his personal cardiologist, Dr. Conrad Murray, a security guard and his manager, Frank DiLeo. Prince Michael Jr. was the only child present for Jackson’s death; the other two children, Paris and ‘Blanket,’ were in another area of the house at the time of their father’s collapse.

It was left up to DiLeo to tell the other children that their father had died, a task the manager labeled as the “single most painful moment of [his] life.”

DiLeo said: “Whatever anyone thought of Michael, he was loved by those children, truly loved. They were — and are — in pieces.”

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Jackson Unable to be Revived, Says Source

The reports are now rolling in on Michael Jackson’s unconfirmed death.

US gossip site TMZ.com has “unofficially” confirmed the news that the iconic pop star died in the ambulance on the way to UCLA Medical Centre, after suffering a cardiac arrest. Ambulance officers were “unable to revive” the Thriller singer, after receiving a 911 call to his house at around 5:30 a.m. (AEST).

Jackson’s father, Joe, told the website earlier that his son “wasn’t doing too well,” but he didn’t know the cause at that stage.

“I am not sure what’s wrong,” he said to TMZ. “I am waiting to hear back from [the doctors].”

According to officials on the scene, paramedics found Jackson without a pulse in his home, and were unable to revive him during the drive to the hospital.

News of Jackson’s death comes just hours after Charlie’s Angels actress Farrah Fawcett lost her long battle with cancer.

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