Los Angeles law enforcement is preparing for the possibility that Michael Jackson's death could turn into a criminal case, pending results of the coroner's official report. The Los Angeles Times reported that Jackson’s medical files and records have been subpoenaed from several of the singer's more than dozen doctors who have cared for him since 1993. Authorities are especially concerned with the types of prescription drugs found at the rented home where Jackson died. While it's too early to determine whether crimes have been committed, CNN reported that the Jackson family has been made aware that there is the possibility of a criminal investigation.
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While the doctors bear some responsibility, the blame rests with Michael. But if there is money to be had, the Jacksons will sue someone else.
The Jacksons are criminals. They should look in their own closets first.
While the doctors provided Michael Jackson with various prescription drugs at HIS request and insistance and must have some accountability; ultimately, it was Michael Jackson’s CHOICE to use these heavy-duty drugs. Please allow him the dignity for the responsibility of his own demiss..if the drugs indeed killed him. This case is very much like Nicole’s. These two were obvious drug addicts; the doctors and people around them were the enablers. It is time to stop making excuses for those entertainers who are highly addicted to prescription drugs.
If it turns out that MJ died from taking Diprovan, then whoever provided him with that drug, which is not legal for use at home, is culpable in his death whether it was an accident or not, and if they can figure out which doctor or nurse it was, they will be arrested. It is not a narcotic, not a prescription pill, it is a strong anesthetic administered by I.V. and only intended for use during surgery. As for Joe Jackson’s “foul play” comment, he is one of those people who makes provocative comments to get himself in the news. And although Joe says he and Katherine should raise those children, he doesn’t even live with her; he lives here in Las Vegas. And that’s a good thing, cause I don’t think MJ who have wanted his father to raise his pets, much less his kids.
I KNEW IT! I told you all this last week! We can pin the blame squarely on the corrupt One-Termer for the ease of access to prescription drugs. That’s what you get with socialized medicine! Impeachment now!!
I hope the Obama comment was you having a laugh…if you think you can blame him for what appears to be a condition going back to a time probably before Obama was even a Senator, than you confirm my suspicions about the simple and single-mindedness of most people. Of which you seem to be in the forefront. Sort of how people want to lay all the blame of 9/11 at Bush’s feet, even though only some of the blame is his. There was easily two administrations before his that were culpable too…
People are now blaming even Michael Jackson’s decades-long prescription drug addiction on Obama??? This whole country has gone stark raving stupid.
“We told Mike month after month, year after year, to stick with weed! With so much primo smoke out there, it made no sense to get low with all that crapola that the docs gave him.” — Phineas, Freewheelin’ Franklin, and Fat Freddy
I’m sorry, but although MJ may have played a part in what drugs he may have been taking that may have lead to his death, the ultimate responsibility for PRESCRIPTION drugs lies with the DOCTOR who prescribed them. Until the doctors are held accountable for what they give these star patients, we will continue to mourn the deaths of people like MJ, Heath Ledger, etc. The doctors are not being punished for their irresponsible behavior with these celebrity patients. Any of us can ask a doctor for a drug. The doctor does not have to say yes, and shouldn’t always say yes especially when the drug isn’t being used appropriately. Until other doctors and pharmacists see someone being held accountable and severely punished for the death of a celebrity due to prescription drug abuse, this repulsive and unethical behavior in the medical community will continue. I do not agree with those who want to blame MJ for this problem. His doctors should simply have said NO.
Please find something better to report on. Nobody cares. Get over it. He’s dead.
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In my wildest imagination I cannot imagine why someone anyone would be so tormented and tortured in life and soul that they would load up on hundreds, maybe thousands of prescription pills. What if there were no pharmacies? I guess he would be a street drug addict, homeless and begging for another fix? Nobody is to blame but MJ, and I’m tired of people pointing to his father for all his problems. As you get older, when you mature, you get over that B.S. If he went through life tormented because of some childhood whippings and couldn’t move on with his life, then he was 1/2 the person we thought he was. We all have family and psychological problems. Unless your are diagnosed schizo or paranoid — GET OVER IT!
“…I’m tired of people pointing to his father for all his problems. As you get older, when you mature, you get over that B.S.”
-easy for you to say, i don’t think ANY of us will ever know the horrors he had to endure being Joe Jackson’s son. To NEVER having a childhood and the pressures of being the most famous man on the planet! MJ gets a pass in my book for becoming what he did.
Sally, not everyone has the same life and not everybody copes with things in the same way. None of us know everything he had to cope with because we didn’t know him. If this is the case, then these doctors need to be held accountable because they have no business giving out things like this to anybody. Another poster had said it, we’re gonna continue losing alot of these celebs if somebody doesn’t start cracking down on this prescription drug ring that’s happening in hollywood. It’s dangerous and it’s sad!
You don’t get over it jerk. But life is worth living. I take pills; lots of them. They happen to be legal. Yeah. I have a psychiatrist. So what, I’m alive, have a daughter, not a bad life.
I just wonder if he had gotten the right kind of help, the right doctors, not the aholes he got. I do think things could have been different. He had a mental illness or mental problems. I think. I work. I have a daughter. Life is hard, but it’s hard for a lot of people. And I’m damn happy to be alive.
God bless his family and his children and may he rest in peace. To all these lets blame Joe Jackson people get out of this mans business. I dont know anyone who has had perfect parents and what he had to endure was no different then the average african american child during that era. Dont judge Joe Jackson for thing you “believe to be true” you were not there and you dont know so get over yourself and keep his name out of your mouth! This is a man who wanted to make his children strong and be the best they could he may have went about it the wrong way but none of them would have what the have without Joe Jackson! Let the man grieve. First we talked bad about Michael and since he is gone were going to talk about his father?? you people need to get on your kness and ask the heavenly father to forgive you because that is disgusting that people wont just let the man live and grieve the death of his son!
News flash just in… Michael Jackson is still dead… Details at 11.
I think MJ’s Doctors should be charged for filling him full of drugs. What kind of decent, I repeat decent Dr. would do that. No doubt he was payed handsomely.
All of you. The doctors really cannot be held accountable. I have enough medicine to off myself if I wanted to. I just don’t do it.
If somebody really wants to…they can.
But this is wierd. I don’t think he wanted to. It’s an accident maybe. Negligence is my best guess. Look at how he was working so hard for his comeback. It doesn’t make sense. Not at all.
Let us stop being judgemental. The more I read about what has been going on in his life, the more I question his judgement. With that said, I have to remind myself that MJ has been a celebrity since he was a child. When you are that well known, your life has a tendency to create a protective bubble around you. This bubble is to protect you from adoring fans and irrational weirdos. When a celebrity like MJ lost his anonymity, he lost his freedom. The simplest part of life like going to the grocery has to be “staged” for him so he can know what that feels like. He has to disguise himself so that he can experience simplest of feelings like meeting people/strangers without the experience feeling contrived because he “is” Michael Jackson. I don’t know how I could possibly psychologically, on a normal basis without experiencing the simplest and most common things in life. There are days when I feel vulnerable and I want my privacy and I want to be alone. I can do that, I can heal spiritually
Well first of all I have mixed emotions about Joe Jackson. I believe that if it was not for Joe…. Michaels career would not have taken off. You are so right about their business and whatever has happened in the past well Michael is the one that knows. I guess the will explained Michaels feelings (Joe got nothing). My only disappontment about Joe is during the BET Awards when Joe promoted his own recoding studio that was tastless. Here I am an emotional wreck over his son and Joe is getting a free commercial. I feel more bad for the children and Katherine and hope that Joe becomes a great grandfather…in Vegas
I think,MJ wap died because of taking unappropriate drugs.That is why we should not blame the doctors.cause,MJ was an intelligent man.He should be careful about taking drugs.
you’re all a bunch of idiots.
I think if anything good at all can come from Michael’s death, it’s what’s happening here. People need to talk about issues.
The biggest issue I can think of is child abuse. I definitely think it has a detrimental effect on children. How could it possibly have a good effect?
But is their any way in hell to take better care of our most famous and talented celebrities? They might have money, but a lot of their lives suck and they end on drugs. I don’t think so. This isn’t going to change.
And I hate to say it. People will continue to abuse children, just as they always have.
Also see his **leaked autopsy** here, both pics and videos of the procedure at
http://celebbnews.blogspot.com/
You have to do a little survey then it takes you right to the autopsy files. Be strong… it’s kind of scary.
You can see the memorial service again at
http://celebbnews.blogspot.com/
it worked for me! Just have to do a little survey but it’s worth it! RIP MJ.
How tormented and tortured can one be when you are worth a billion dollars? The beatles didn’t have fathers, some of their fathers left their moms, they went on and lived a full life and made millions of dollars. I can point to several entertainers who had overbearing fathers; missing fathers; alcoholic fathers, and they didn’t become pill addicts and semi-suicidal. Did MJ ever see a psychiatrist about his problems? nowhere in any book can I see that he went to a psychiatrist to solve his problems; no, he went straight to the cosmetic surgeon.
I had alcoholism in my family, a negligent mom, a negligent father, and I went to a psychiatrist to solve whatever probs I had. MJ came from an entertainer’s family. Stevie Wonder was a child entertainer — he’s normal. I think MJ was an extremist and he enjoyed the thrill of it and he took it a little too far.
Now having written the above, he was indeed a great entertainer and songwriter. Now in death we hear his songs again and remember his talent and quality. He was a perfectionist, but people — let’s don’t blame others for MJ’s problems that he dragged all over the world, living like a homeless kid. One of those doctors should have told him, MJ go see a psychiatrist. He didn’t need a dermatologist, a this or that specialist, he needed counseling.
To Howard: I totally agree. Joe may have been a cold SOB (and he’s proving it now), but none of his kids were DUIs, drugs dealers, went to jail (like the Debarges). The worst you can point to is multiple divorces. So the parents did something right for most of their children’s lives. I haven’t heard bad things about the grandkids of all the Jacksons. A couple of them have been married for 30+ years in happy marriages.
Something went right with that family.
Now, I’m going to write something that people are not going to like, but maybe MJ was runnng from something other than family problems and his overbearing father. Maybe the overbearing father was an excuse for something that was bothering him deep deep down and he couldn’t “come out” like he wanted. There’s a rumor on the internet that he, as a child, was sexually molested by a roadie. Who knows, maybe that’s the cause.
You think?
I think that something happened to his voice when he was a teenager, but it wasn’t the typical thing that happens (and what happened to his brothers). I’ve been listening to some of the old records, and there seems to be a transition between how he sounded as a child and how he sounded as an adult, but never is there a recording with anything in between. Do you think that MV could have been the last living
castrato?