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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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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Debbie Rowe Denies Custody Deal

The great custody battle between Jackson matriarch Katherine J and her onetime daughter-in-law is still very much alive, with Debbie Rowe revealing she is continuing her bid for parental rights, and has no intention of ever selling her children.

It was reported yesterday that the former dental nurse had relinquished her parental rights to the two elder Jackson kids in exchange for a lump sum payout of around $4 million – a near identical amount to the cash payment Rowe received for handing over her custodial claims in 2005 during the King of Pop’s very public child molestation trial.

However, Rowe has denied that any monetary settlement has taken place, and insists that the custody hearing scheduled for July 20 is still very much on.

Rowe’s lawyer, Eric George, has sent an open letter to the press, demanding an “immediate retraction” for the falsities that were published globally on his client’s apparent sell-out.

“There has been no agreement reached between Ms. Rowe and the Jacksons,” the letter states. “Ms. Rowe has not and will not give up her parental rights. No determination has been reached concerning custody or visitation. And Ms. Rowe has not accepted and will not accept any additional financial consideration beyond the spousal support she and Michael personally agreed to several years ago.”

No comment has been made by the Jackson camp in regards to this latest statement from Debbie Rowe and her lawyers, which makes it all the more likely that the Jacksons put the offer on the table, and the former wife of the Thriller singer declined it.

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Heidi Klum Sues Out Of Work Butcher

Heidi Klum has hit an unemployed butcher with a $3,000 bill for using her image without her permission.

Heinz Frank, 45, who survives on unemployment benefits, claims it was a simple mistake when he used Klum’s image in flyers he was distributing to promote a local restaurant, saying he had no idea who Klum was and that he simply downloaded the image from the Interent, because he thought she looked nice and would be appealing on the flyer.

Klum’s lawyers thought otherwise, hitting him with a cease and desist order along with the fine.

Harsh.