Conrad Murray… the infamous physician who administered the fatal injection of the drug propofol to Michael Jackson and then left his patient’s bedside to go to the bathroom and make a few calls… is set to resume office hours on Monday at the Armstrong Medical Clinic, located on W. Montgomery Rd. in Houston, Texas.   The full address and phone and fax numbers are easily found online, we suppose.

His attorney, Edward Chernoff told the Associated Press

“He (Murray) has not been able to earn a living since the death of Michael Jackson.  His legal fees are enormous and his debts have mounted to the point where it is unclear whether he will be able to keep his house or support his family.  His intentions are to attend to these patients who have continued to support him, despite the attention and despite the threats.”

Meanwhile, Michael Jackson’s children, family, friends and fans continue to comfort one another while coping with Michael’s untimely and unnecessary death.

Source: mjfanclub.net

The latest bombshell in the investigation of Michael Jackson’s final hours came when it was discovered that Dr. Conrad Murray delayed a call for help for over an hour when he discovered that Michael was no longer breathing.

In a document that police filed in support of their request to search a Las Vegas pharmacy in August, police say that the personal physician told authorities in interviews days after the death that he had administered propofol following many attempts at medicating Michael to induce sleep and following “repeated demands/requests for the powerful drug.

It appears that Michael went into cardiac arrest within 20 minutes of that injection while Murray stepped out to use the bathroom, failing to monitor his patient.

By Murray’s own admittance to police, he did not summon 911 assistance until 12:22, more than an hour after he realized Michael was not breathing.  Telephone records show that Murray made three different mobile calls for 47 minutes with three different callers from 11:18 to 12:05.  This was during the period in which Murray claims he was conducting CPR on Michael.

In the police document, it is stated that

“Murray did not mention this to the interviewing detectives.”

Police have not disclosed to whom they believe Murray spoke in those calls.

Investigators found pill bottles for at least eight different sedatives by Michael’s bed or in the home and, in following through on pharmacy warrants, have traced the origin of the propofol to a purchase made by Murray at Applied Pharmacy Services in Las Vegas on May 12.

So far, Murray has not been charged with a crime.  However, details contained in the unsealed documents show that authorities were suspicious of his behavior even as they took Michael to UCLA Medical Center in attempts to revive him.  Murray was asked to sign the death certificate, but had vanished from the hospital premises.

“Upon arrival at UCLA Medical Center, neither the coroner’s investigators nor detectives could locate Murray to re-interview him,”

according to the documents, and repeated attempts to contact him were unsuccessful.

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Clearly Michael Jackson’s This Is It has a life of it’s own. I  (Trey Borzillieri) saw this movie at 10:30am and boy did I get a surprise. I was expecting an empty theatre this early in the morning. It was packed. I also expected the audience to begin dancing in the aisles from the onset. Not the case.

My expectations were way off. A few minutes into this unbelievable, one of a kind film, tears welled up in my eyes and began streaming down my face. I put my half eaten bag of popcorn to the side and my napkins turned into tissues.

I know I’m not alone when I say Michael Jackson had been absent from my life… a life he had been very much a part of many years ago. I remember being put in a long time-out in 3rd grade for wearing a green and purple sequined version of his glove, homemade by my mother. A “long time out” is good way to describe what Michael Jackson has been in for many of us.

In the documentary This Is It, he is back! Wow! From the films first song, Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’, the talent, emotion and love of Michael Jackson strikes you, no matter what age you are. If you’re a Gen-X’er then you will be quickly catapulted into a brief self-analysis of your life. A sort-of evaluation of what has happened to you since you last saw this man like this! Then comes the rush of emotions aided by the music of course… past, present and the finality that you are watching him for the last time. Napkins turn to tissues all over again. As I wiped the tears off my face, shocked and embarrassed, I popped my head up to look at the rest of the audience. It seemed people were having a similar experience to mine. One can’t help watch this incredible film in shock and awe – just to be clear, a good, thankful, wonderful version of “shock and awe.” It’s almost as if we were destined to have this last piece of Michael Jackson no matter what.

This Is It is now the highest grossing documentary in history. Behind the camera capturing these revealing, special and final moments with Michael Jackson was Videographer Sandrine Orabona. She is a small documentarian in comparison to the epic scale of what the film now represents on all levels. As the world shares these moments with Michael in this extraordinary documentary one can only imagine what it must have been like to be six feet away from The Magician at work! Please tell us Sandrine.

TB: I just saw This Is It.

SO: So what did you think?

TB: I was blown away. I think I was all business walking into it. Then everything hit me and I was a disaster.

SO: A disaster as in crying?

TB: I started crying and crying and crying.

SO: Do you know how many people said have said that to me?

TB: Like the first song…

SO: Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’

TB: Yes, yes and I mean I wasn’t expecting any of it. I think it was a combination of his life, what he represented in my life, his talent and the finality of it all.

SO: I’m so happy to have been a documentarian on it and even to just have been in the presence. I think that what the Director, Kenny Ortega, was able to do is to distill the emotion that we all felt while we were there during rehearsal. Everybody hired on the crew were very good at what they do all the way up. We all felt so gifted and fortunate to be on the project and to be around this man because of everything he represents, because of how amazing he is as a musician, as an artist and just to be in a room with him while he was rehearsing, performing or going through the paces. Just being around his process everyday, I would come home and just be like I can’t believe I’m a part of this, I can’ t believe what I lived today. And everybody felt that. My friend Chucky, wearing the green jacket, he is an Emmy award-winning choreographer. He won an Emmy for choreographing the High School Musical films with Kenny Ortega. He dropped a potential project to audition as a dancer with no guarantee that he was going to be a dancer. He got the job and everyday he would look at me and be like, “I can’t believe I am living this.” Now this is a man that not only is he a dancer, but he is an Emmy winning choreographer, ok, so it was not lost on any of us, you know how amazing this experience was. I think it is really captured in the film.

TB: Yeah it is. You’re describing what hit me so hard…everyone feeling so fortunate to be there and what a gift this is and so appreciative of that. At the same time it was a flashback to someone who has in many ways has been absent from his musical life, absent from being the person we all know in terms of performing and…

SO: You mean as far as his comeback?

TB: Well this was the beginning of his comeback, so he’s been absent from the stage for a long time and the movie allows you to get to know him again, it’s makes you appreciate his talent all over again and then in the back of your mind you know he’s gone… and this becomes a one, two, three punch that the audience can’t help but be effected by when they watch the movie.

SO: It’s a really powerful piece of work because, for everything that you just stated. And I think what’s really important is that Kenny chose to focus on the experience that we were living in the moment, this piece doesn’t focus on the fact that he’s passed already because it is understood. I think that the power of it is drawn from the experience that we all had and by focusing on our experience, people are able to embrace essentially what we lived [during the rehearsals]. I had a friend say to me, “I felt like I had a front row seat to this experience”. And I replied, “That’s cause I did.” I was there. If you feel in your seat like Michael Jackson is performing Billie Jean six feet away from you that is because he actually did perform Billie Jean six feet away from me. If you feel that power coming through the screen, you can imagine what I felt on stage when that was happening. And you can see that too… there is a handful of us, I turn the camera around and it’s like fifteen crew and dancers on the floor watching and they can’t believe what they are seeing. That was the experience.

TB: Can you describe the amped up feeling you had at that moment?

SO: It’s exactly what you are talking about in terms of when you go see the film. It’s like genetically we all have Michael Jackson inside of us. In some way or another because of the way we grew up. We listened to his music and we realized what a genius this man is. And then also we [the crew working on this] are all professionals and we appreciate that even more as a dancer, as a musician, as a documentary filmmaker we understand that side of it even more. And then all of a sudden all of that comes up in you and you’re like I’m watching a man that I’ve seen on TV, that I’ve appreciated from a distance, doing what he does best six feet away from me. And I’ve got his team of crew members behind me feeling the exact same and the only reason I can’t do it is because I’m holding the camera. So many times I caught myself dancing while I was shooting. The bassline for Thriller just moves right through you.

TB: A very cool moment was when he vocally did the little guitar thing in the rehearsal for Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ to show the way it was to be done. He made the guitar sound so well and for a long enough time that it actually sounded like a real guitar.

SO: Watching a process for an artist like that… I am in awe. For the legends like Michael Jackson or Martin Scorcese, to just be around their process and absorb that like a sponge it’s like an apprenticeship. Just watching these people work is like a gift.

TB: Any comments on the process you saw while filming?

SO: Everybody that was on the show, like Kenny Ortega, Michael Bearden, Travis Payne and Michael Bush. These are all people that have been around Michael for a long time and they are also great artists in their own rights. There is kind of like a creative short hand they use rather than a lot of technical jargon. Like when Michael says; “make it sound like you are dragging yourself out of bed” It immediately evokes an emotional reaction and you can then translate that into the music that you are making and I thought it was a brilliant way of conveying that emotion.

TB: Did he have down days?

SO: No. Because of the level of energy that everyone shared, I didn’t even have my down days. What you see is what you got everyday at rehearsal. Everyone from Michael on down was really focused and on their way to creating this amazing show.

TB: Something that jumped out at me… his hands. They just came out of the screen, like the hands of a magician; they were all over the place.

SO: I was so focused on my little screen [in the camera] that I never really noticed that but a number of people have mentioned that to me.

TB: One of my favorite parts of the movie was when he started working on Human Nature, the creativity and the spontaneity of that.

SO: But that’s what I’m talking about. That is the kind of creative short hand that was flying all over the stage. It was a very creative space for everyone involved. All of the musicians were spot-on.

TB: Everyone was front and center and ready to do their best.

SO: Well you don’t get that kind of job without that though, I mean, front, center and incredibly happy to be there. Everybody. Grateful.

TB: I was really expecting people to be dancing in the movie theatre and I could actually here crickets. It seemed like the audience was in shock, overwhelmed and grateful to being seeing it more than anything else.

SO: Different people have different experiences; I think it depends on the audience. I have seen it a few times and they’ve all been different. With the crew it was very much like reliving it. I have seen it when the audience has been dancing and also seen it with a crowd that experienced it very much like you did. I see new things every time I watch it.

TB: The film is important, thank goodness you guys were there to capture it otherwise we may never have had anything like it with Michael Jackson.

SO: It was one of the things that made it so special for me at the time. The fact, that I personally had never seen anything like this before. I had never seen this side of Michael Jackson. To this day I continue to treat it as an incredible gift. I think a lot of people feel that way now that they’ve seen the documentary.

TB: A random thing –E he was wearing a shirt with Popeye gambling on it at one point.

SO: That’s Michael Bush right there. That’s the incredible art of Michael Bush.

TB: Was that rehearsal costume? Or everyday clothes for him?

SO: Michael Bush dressed Michael Jackson. Always.

TB: How did everyone deal with news of his passing?

SO: It was a very difficult day. I was actually there shooting at the time and I almost dropped the camera. I had to shoot on my knees through the better part of that moment. I was overwhelmed with the emotion and I was like, “Ok, I am going to pass out”. But I couldn’t because I had to film. The way I can describe it is… the entire world was mourning that day, imagine how it was in the rehearsal space. I have a hard time remembering it actually. I feel like I had an out-of-body experience.

TB: Were you a fan of his growing up?

SO: Who wasn’t? But I have to say that I am even more of a fan of his after having done this and observing him as a professional.

TB: Who are you?

SO: A documentarian, more specifically a music documentarian. A documentarian, shooter and editor.

TB: Can’t wait to see what you do next. Thank you.

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Five months after their father’s death, Michael Jackson’s three children are thriving in their grandmother’s care, longtime family friend Kathy Hilton told People Magazine.

Paris, 11, Prince 12, and Blanket, 7 are

“wonderful, their grandmother is incredible and … they could not be in better hands,”

Hilton said Tuesday at the launch of daughter Paris’s beauty line at the Thompson Hotel Rooftop in Beverly Hills.

“I believe they are being home-schooled, which I think is appropriate for this year,”

adds Hilton, 50, who has known the family since she was 13.

They’re getting along and they have an incredible family. They really are, I promise you.”

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The judge has unsealed the search warrant issued against Applied Pharmacy Services in Las Vegas … where authorities believe Dr. Conrad Murray obtained the Propofol that ultimately killed Michael Jackson.

According to the affidavit, during the search of Dr. Murray’s home and office, cops recovered a sales receipt from Applied Pharmacy. The receipt showed that on May 12, 2009, Dr. Murray purchased 4 100 ml vials of Propofol. He also purchased 3 vials of benzos. One of the drugs Murray purchased — Flumazenil — is actually an antidote to a benzo, used to counteract the effects of benzos.

The receipt for the drugs totaled $853, with a $65 FedEx fee to overnight the drugs.

The affidavit states that cops were on the hunt for Visa and FedEx information linking Dr. Murray to the sale of Propofol by Applied Pharmacy.

The affidavit says at the scene of Michael Jackson’s death at his home, Propofol was recovered “in Dr. Murray’s doctor’s bag and on the bedside table.” The Propofol was in 20 ml and 100 ml bottles.

According to the affidavit, Dr. Murray told cops he was not the first doc to introduce Jackson to Propofol. Dr. Murray stated Dr. Arnold Klein and Dr. Allan Metzger had given Jackson medicine that was not working.

And there’s this … according to the docs,

“Detectives interviewed Grace Owanda (sic), Jackson’s children’s nanny. Owanda stated that Jackson was currently being treated by Dr. [Arnold] Klein and the last physician to treat Jackson was Dr. Larry Koplin.”

Source: TMZ.com

Michael Jackson’s kids are in a good news, bad news situation: two nights ago they quietly attended the Los Angeles premiere of “Twilight: New Moon.” Prince, Paris and Blanket went with family friends, got in through a side door, saw the teen vampire fest and didn’t even raise an eyebrow.

“They loved it,”

a friend told me.

With the kids: nanny Grace Rwaramba. She’s living in the Jackson house on Hayvenhurst in Encino, and is paid to watch the kids. As she did when Michael was alive, Grace has been put in the position of surrogate mother. It’s a little strange as she married her second husband earlier this year, a fellow Ugandan. Also, what happened to Rebbie, Michael’s eldest sister? She and Grace had a physical fight during the summer over the kids. Now Rebbie is gone.

But it’s a weird situation at best. Katherine Jackson was appointed the three kids’ guardian by the court. Yet she is not always with them. Mrs. Jackson travels, apparently: to London to see one son, to Phoenix to see her sister, and so on.

“She can’t be there all the time,”

says an insider.

And this has made Grace’s role problematic. Some people in the Hayvenhurst house want her gone. I received one call insisting that Rwaramba took the kids to “Twilight” without Mrs. Jackson’s knowledge and that the grandmother didn’t know where the kids were. Another caller insisted that everything was fine, and that Mrs. Jackson had agreed to the evening’s plan. And still in the middle of this, there are questions about who’s tutoring these children, and what kind of education they’re receiving at home.

And have they seen their father’s movie, “This Is It”? One source says no, but at the house the word is that Elizabeth Taylor took them to a screening.

Meanwhile, I reported on Monday that Disneyland was reactivating “Captain Eo” in January. But the Jackson estate has never given its approval to the revival of the 3D movie as an attraction. Insiders say that Disney, a family company, is acting on its own. Sounds like trouble down the road.

Source: mjfanclub.net

The infamous rhinestone-studded leather glove worn by Michael Jackson on his maiden Moonwalk in 1983, went on display Tuesday in New York. The glove, along with many other items and clothing used by the late Michael Jackson are currently on exhibit in New York City. The exhibit was previously in Santiago, Chile and Kildare, Ireland and Tokyo, Japan made its last stop in at the Hard Rock Café in New York City’s Times Square before being auctioned on Saturday.

The exhibition, ”Music Icons“ is being held by Julien’s Auctions and is on display from November 17 – November 20, 2009. Then on November 21, 2009 the entire collection will be auctioned at the Hard Rock Café.

Among the Michael Jackson belongings: a pair of sparkle-encrusted shoes, portraits of Charlie Chaplin drawn by Jackson when he was just nine years old, a black shirt signed by the star, hats, a 1985 Mercedes, handwritten letters, and assorted travel souvenirs.

The glove could fetch more than the estimated $40,000-$60,000, as a number of collectors already have voiced interest, said Darren Julien of Julien’s Auction.

“We have toured the glove to Asia, Russia. There is a lot of interest, people are flying from all over the world on Saturday,”

he noted.

The “made in Korea” left-handed golf glove encrusted with Swarovski crystals was probably purchased for about 30 dollars, Julien said. But it was famously worn by the star in a televised concert marking Motown’s 25th anniversary.

Jackson wowed viewers, performing the song “Billie Jean” and premiering his Moonwalk moves for mass consumption.

“This was his most historical performance. … It was his first performance of Moonwalk, he performed it in his kitchen at home two nights before,”

says Julien.

On-line bidding in real-time is available at JuliensLive.com. If you have any additional questions, you can visit Julien’s Auctions Online Here.

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According to Janet Jackson, her family had tried several times to stage interventions before Michael died of a drug overdose — but, obviously, they

“weren’t very successful.”

In an interview with Robin Roberts, Janet talked about their attempts to get Michael clean, and though she says he understood

“that it was out of love,”

she added

“people tend to be in denial.”

As we previously reported, Janet holds Dr. Murray responsible for killing her brother.

Source: TMZ.com

Katherine Jackson‘s lawyer, Adam Streisand, has really come out swinging today. He’s scoffing at Joe Jackson‘s lawyer, Brian Oxman, who filed legal papers last week attempting to get back into court to challenge Michael Jackson‘s will. Streisand says,

“It was a first round knockout and there’s no getting up from it.”

Oxman claimed the will was a forgery and the executors were unfit. The judge in the estate case begged to differ so Oxman is going to the Court of Appeal. To that, Streisand says,

“Oxman is going to need more than smelling salts and a new panel of judges to resuscitate his client’s surprise attack.”

Here’s his best line:

“As far as I’ve been told, ’2012′ is just a fantasy.”

Source: TMZ.com

Katherine Jackson‘s attorney tells TMZ Michael Jackson‘s mom is

“seriously considering”

filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Dr. Conrad Murray.

Adam Streisand, who scored a victory for Katherine last week in the estate case, tells TMZ the case would be filed on behalf of Katherine and Michael’s three children. But Streisand adds, the biggest factor against filing suit is that Murray is asset-challenged — i.e., he can’t even pay his child support.

Streisand said he’s actually rooting for Dr. Murray to file a claim for wages against AEG, adding

“At least then we’d have some money to take from him.”

As we first reported, Murray may sue AEG for $300,000 for the two months he “treated” MJ.

Source: TMZ.com

The Los Angeles city attorney still plans to seek reimbursement of the $3 million the city spent for the Michael Jackson memorial, a spokesman said Monday, despite an audit concluding the event pumped even more dollars into the local economy.

The July 7 memorial at Staples Center was a $4 million boon for local hotels, restaurants and other businesses, according to the report released Friday from the city’s chief legislative analyst and city administrative officer. The City Council’s Public Safety Committee is expected to review the report next week.

City Attorney Carmen Trutanich is still committed to seeking reimbursement from Staples owner Anschutz Entertainment Group, or AEG.

“The bottom line is the city attorney’s very committed to recouping the taxpayer’s dollars,”

spokesman John Franklin said.

“During these tough economic times right now, that’s big money. We’re laying off, people are getting furloughed. … It’s still money that we put out for a memorial service for Michael Jackson.”

AEG President and Chief Executive Tim Leiweke has accused Trutanich of trying to bully the company into paying.

The audit said the city spent $3.2 million on the event, including $2 million in police overtime. However, it noted that there was no ordinance in place at the time that would require the organizer to reimburse city costs. That measure was only adopted on Oct. 26.

Given the memorial’s economic benefits and the lack of an ordinance,

“the city may wish to cease pursuing cost reimbursement,”

the report concluded.

Calls to representatives of AEG before work hours Monday were not immediately returned.

Michael Jackson, 50, died of an overdose of sedatives on June 25. His star-studded memorial service at Staples Center brought in thousands of people to the city. The city had nearly 4,000 police out at the arena, the Jackson family compound in Encino and a cemetery to deal with expected crowds. There were no reported problems.

Source: mjfanclub.net

Rapper Snoop Dogg has spoken exclusively to ClashMusic about the death of Michael Jackson, labelling the singer

“the king”.

Snoop Dogg has enjoyed a somewhat chequered history. A teenage member of Los Angeles street gang The Crips the rapper went on to achieve fame and infamy with a series of hugely successful albums.

His laid back style contradicts the often gritty realism of his lyrics, with albums such as ‘Doggystyle’ become benchmarks for hip hop.

Once banned from the UK, Snoop Dogg has revealed that he took inspiration from an unlikely source – Michael Jackson.

Speaking to ClashMusic the rapper claimed that

“it was a sad day to hear that (the news of Jackson’s death)”.

“Mike was the king. I definitely looked up to Mike and thought he was an amazing peformer and artist.”

The rapper also gave us his thoughts on the growth of internet piracy.

“It’s life – they ain’t doin shit to stop it – until they do, what can we do? Ya feel me?”

“Internet is a good and bad thing – the good thing is anyone can be heard, the bad is that when you wanna keep it on tha low – it can still get out. It’s two sided – imma keep movin units regardless jacc!!!”.

Continuing, Snoop Dogg told ClashMusic that

“fans should be able to listen to music however they wanna listen to it, ya dig?!?”

Snoop Dogg released his new album ‘Malice In Wonderland’ earlier this year.

Source: mjfanclub.net

Janet Jackson doesn’t want Dr. Conrad Murray to continue practicing medicine — because she doesn’t want the man she holds

“responsible”

for her brother’s death to strike again on

“someone else.”

In an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts, Janet also said she doesn’t know if Murray was the only doctor hooking Michael up with drugs — but added

“the truth always prevails.”

Source: TMZ.com

Dr. Conrad Murray is setting the stage for a lawsuit against AEG for the medical services he rendered to Michael Jackson … according to Dr. Murray’s rep.

AEG owes Dr. Murray $300,000, according to Miranda Sevcik, publicist for Dr. Murray’s lawyer, Ed Chernoff. Sevcik claims AEG has been

“dragging its feet,”

even though the Dr. has requested payment for 2 months of services.

Sevcik says Dr. Murray has not been paid a penny for his services, in spite of the fact that the doctor claims to have signed a binding deal with AEG before giving up his medical practice.

Sevcik says Dr. Murray will not file a creditor’s claim against Jackson’s estate. She says,

“Dr. Murray needs the money and he’s entitled to the money based on the contract he signed with AEG.”

AEG could not immediately be reached for comment.

Source: TMZ.com

Janet Jackson is finally pointing the finger at the man she believes killed her brother – Dr. Conrad Murray.

In an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts, Janet stated,

“He was the one that was administering … I think he is responsible.”

Murray has admitted to administering Propofol to Michael Jackson, but claims he didn’t kill Michael.

In the interview, which airs Wednesday, Janet also claims Murray should no longer be allowed to practice medicine.

Janet also says Michael is constantly on her mind, saying

“It’s been a tough year … You have your days where it’s just really — it’s hard to believe. And a day doesn’t go by that I don’t think about him.”

Jackson also recounts June 25 — the day Michael died — saying,

“I was at my house in New York. You know, another day. Another morning. And I get a call … [my assistant] said, ‘Your brother’s been taken to the hospital. It’s on CNN right now. I called everyone’s. There’s a line busy or — someone wasn’t picking up. I spoke to mother. I spoke to Tito. I spoke to my nephew Austin. I spoke to my sister La Toya.”

Jackson added,

“I told them to call me when they got to the hospital. And I remember thinking nobody’s calling me back, so I tried calling again, and that’s how I found out that he was no longer … I couldn’t believe it.”

“It just didn’t ring true to me. It felt like a dream. It’s still so difficult for me to believe. It’s, you know, you have to accept what is. But it’s hard. You have to move on with your life. You have to accept what is and I understand that.”

Source: TMZ.com