Everything You Wanted To Know About Michael Jackson And Ready To Speculate About

I can't remember anyone - any celebrity or historical personality - who was surrounded by as much mystery and questions as Michael Jackson. Everything around him is intertwined in such a tight knot that you never know where reality ends and gossips and wild fantasy begins. Every little piece of information has to be checked twice or three times. There are no reliable sources of information here - forget about it!
I decided to make a list of biggest mysteries around MJ that people (fans and non-fans) can't stop to argue about. Perhaps this list had to be in the beginning of my blog - but good ideas always come too late, you know...
Do you know what I find to be really very weird? That we know for sure where and when Michael Jackson was born - 29 of August, 1958. (Though some hotheads would introduce the wildest theories about it too of course). I know answers to some of these questions and I have considered opinions about others, but I wouldn't put any comments - let it be just a list of everything you wanted to know about Michael Jackson, don't know for sure, but ready to speculate about.

1. How did MJ's skin turn from brown to white?
2. Did he have vitiligo?
3. Did MJ hate being black?
4. How many plastic surgeries did he have?
5. What was the reason/reasons for plastic surgeries?
6. What was MJ's sexual orientation?
7. Who did he sleep with?
8. Was MJ a paedophile/child molester?
9. Did MJ molest Gavin Arvizo/Jordan Chandler/someone else/none of them?
10. Was MJ's marriage to Lisa-Marie Presley a sham/publicity stunt?
11. Why did MJ married Debbie Rowe?
12. Did MJ ever have sex with his wives?
13. Who is the mother of Blanket Jackson?
14. Are MJ's children biologically his?
15. Did MJ fake his death?
16. Was there conspiracy against MJ?
17. Is MJ's will fake?

I couldn't recall anything connected with MJ's creative work that would be a mystery discussed by everyone...
If I forgot something please feel free to tell me about it - I'll include it into my list.

Witnesses And Participants

September is going to be an interesting and busy month. There are at least two trials scheduled for September that will attract heightened interest of yours truly. First of all it is People vs. Conrad Murray - at last! The second one will be an assize that includes relationships between Dr. Arnie Klein and his former assistant Jason Pfeiffer. Perhaps it is not obvious from the first glance to someone who is not acquainted with the situation yet what those two courtroom battles have in common. Though actually they are really intertwined. Both Dr. Klein and Jason Pfeiffer are possible witnesses in People vs. Conrad Murray. Though prosecution seek to exclude them both from the trial. (For some reason Jason Pfeiffer is called Pfiffer in this motion as well as on the list of potential witnesses. Also it's really weird to me that some of the witnesses were not interviewed by defense and prosecution. Their testimonies could be "surprise - surprise" to everybody in case they would have a chance to be witnesses).
In January of 2011 Dr. Arnold Klein filed for bankruptcy. Later he started to claim that his former employees Jason Pfeiffer and Muhammad Khilji stole several millions from him (the numbers were always different - from $3.2 million to $12 million). Then he sued Jason and Muhammad. Jason Pfeiffer (who wanted to sue his former employer back in the winter but was unable to do this due to laws that prohibit to sue a person who filed for bankruptcy - I can be not very correct here because I'm not a U.S. citizen and I know really very little about U.S. laws) filed a counterclaim. It was discussed already in the media by TMZ and even Diane Dimond wrote an article about it. I can add only that history of Jason's employment put in short in the counterclaim contains even more gross and stinky (pun intended) facts about Dr. Klein. Personally I feel that I know already too much about Arnie.
Perhaps mass media wouldn't pay too much (if any) attention to Jason's counterclaim if Michael Jackson was not mentioned in it. Here we have a close connection between People vs. Conrad Murray and Jason Pfeiffer vs. Arnold Klein (or vice versa, I have no idea how to call it).
I'll quote everything from Jason's counterclaim that is connected with MJ:

21. In or around October 2008, Klein was contacted by Michael Jackson, who told Klein that he (Michael) needed to “get out of a court appearance” and needed a “doctor’s note.” Klein told Michael that Klein would take care of it. Klein then told Pfeiffer that Klein would write a note stating that Michael had MRSA infection (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), and Klein instructed Pfeiffer to get a cotton swab and swab Pfeiffer’s own nose so that Klein could fabricate test results showing that Michael had MRSA. Pfeiffer refused, telling Klein this was not ethical, so Klein swabbed Klein’s own nose instead. Klein then asked Pfeiffer to compose a letter to the courts in London stating that Michael Jackson was too sick to travel due to having MRSA infection. Pfeiffer refused to do this. Klein was upset with Pfeiffer but found another employee to write the court letter for Michael Jackson.
22. Throughout 2009, Michael Jackson was a frequent patient of Klein. Several times, Klein told Pfeiffer to help Michael down to the car because Michael was too drugged up and disoriented to stand on his own. Pfeiffer told Klein repeatedly that Pfeiffer was uncomfortable doing this, but Pfeiffer did help Michael each time asked, out of concern for Michael’s safety. Pfeiffer told Klein many times that although Pfeiffer is not a doctor, Pfeiffer and Klein’s own nurses were worried that Michael was being “overmedicated” by Klein. Klein retorted to Pfeiffer that he, Klein, knew what he was doing and that Pfeiffer should keep his mouth shut.
23. Toward the end of June 2009, Klein told Pfeiffer that Michael Jackson was having trouble sleeping, and Klein said that he was going to prescribe muscle relaxers in Pfeiffer’s name as the patient but that Pfeiffer should pick up the prescription and then arrange for Michael to pick up the medication from Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer refused to comply with this scheme. Michael Jackson called Pfeiffer shortly after this conversation, and Michael asked Pfeiffer to find Michael an anesthesiologist. Pfeiffer told Michael that he, Pfeiffer, couldn’t do that, and advised Michael to call Klein directly. Pfeiffer immediately called Klein and told Klein that he, Pfeiffer, wanted “no part in this.”

That's all.
Michael Jackson is not the only celebrity mentioned in the counterclaim. Arnie also provided a famous actress (whose name is not mentioned) with painkillers that she didn't need and prescribed Cialis to a celebrity architect using Pfeiffer's name. (Btw, personally I find it weird that a person needs a prescription for smth. that makes his penis erect. U.S. laws are strange. End of off-topic).
One may wonder whether information about Klein's unethical and/or illegal medical practice concerning MJ is relevant in the Conrad Murray trial. Personally I have no idea. Demerol that Klein injected MJ with was not present in his system according to the autopsy - and it is not surprising because Michael's last visit to Klein's office was on 22 of June, 2009. He was injected with Restylane and had an "i.m. injection" that means Demerol. Demerol leaves a body quite fast.
It is worth mentioning that according to Wikipedia Demerol "can also interact with a number of other medications, including muscle relaxants, some antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and alcohol". MJ had muscle relaxants prescribed by Arnold Klein found in his house... "Pethidine [Demerol] is also relatively contraindicated for use when a patient is suffering from liver, or kidney disease, has a history of seizures or epilepsy, has an enlarged prostate". According to the autopsy MJ had enlarged prostate. But I'm not a medical expert, besides I have no idea to what extent Dr. Arnold Klein was aware about MJ's state of health.
I don't know whether Conrad Murray is the only person responsible for MJ's death. (Sometimes it seems to me that it was solely MJ's own stupidity and Murray's stupidity, greed and overwhelming irresponsibility, sometimes I'm lashed with a wave of suspiciousness and conspiracy theories). I'm quite sure that Arnold Klein needs to be investigated for his questionable medical practice, but it's a different story (from my point of view).
Probably MJ's entangled relationships with drugs can be discussed during the People vs. Murray trial. Though even in case MJ was heavily drug-addicted (with very healthy liver... Hmmm...) - does it have smth. to do with Murray's irresponsible behavior?.. Conrad Murray can be compared with drug dealers here. Are drug dealers supposed to be criminals in U.S.?..
I really doubt that anyone would ask Jason Pfeiffer about his love story with MJ. It is even less relevant here. If defense is going to push their theory of MJ being suicidal availability of a boyfriend (in addition to three underaged kids to take care of) would be too contradictory.

I'm waiting for decision of judge Pastor to the motion in limine.

P.S. Arnie Klein is banned from testifying - well, I'm not surprised... Judging by Arnie's reaction in his FB he is glad. That's no surprise as well.

R.I.P. Frank DiLeo

Frank DiLeo died today.
Everything becomes history so fast...

Anthony Pellicano and My Weak Imagination

Anthony Pellicano, a former PI who used to work for Michael Jackson during 1993 molestation case and who is spending his time now in a prison (I don't remember what it was exactly, I think something like wiretapping of someone's phone) gave an interview to a reporter Christine Pelisek. But it is not written as an interview. Actually it reminded me more of paperback books about modern time Cindirellas who were lucky enough to hang around rich and famous - with mentioning of stars, expensive resaurants and designer brands. Though there are some bits of drect oration from Anthony Pelicano:

Later in the interview, Pellicano reveals that when he agreed to work for Jackson during the star’s 1993 child-molestation case, he warned Jackson that he’d better not be guilty. “I said, ‘You don’t have to worry about cops or lawyers. If I find out anything, I will f--k you over.’ ” The detective took the assignment, but says, “I quit because I found out some truths…He did something far worse to young boys than molest them.” But he refuses to say anything more about it. It’s as if Pellicano wants to send Hollywood a reminder: I know which closets hold the skeletons.

What is the worst thing that a man can do to a woman?



To break her nail and to tear her stocking!

My imagination really fails me. What "far worse" things MJ could do to young boys?..
And by the way what did Pellicano do to MJ for it?

Michael Jackson and King Tut

Originally this blog was not intended for more or less serious researches and long posts, it was mostly for me myself and my thoughts. Perhaps it's time to remount and to post something silly.
So, my silly rhetorical question is: did Michael Jackson wanted to look like Tutankhamun? Perhaps it was a goal of his plastic surgeries?

King Tut:

Michael Jackson:

They do resemble each other!

Conrad Murray. Part III

It was really frustrating that transcripts of preliminary hearing of People vs Conrad Murray case were banned from internet - http://acoupleofthoughs.blogspot.com/2011/03/conrad-murray-part-ii.html. I wanted to analyse information that is available already to try to understand what really happened on 25 of June, 2009. The trial is postponed until late September, so now I still have plenty of time to try to aggregate all the available information from preliminary hearings and to make an effort to see the whole picture. Besides I have some free time and a bit of inspiration left, so this is Conrad Murray. Part III.
I have to rely mainly upon TMZ for the timeline, so I really hope that their reporters are not blind, deaf and mentally inadequate. Here we have TMZ coverage of preliminary hearings. I have the same hopes for all other reportes whose information I'm going to use. I will use articles from www.radaronline.com and this site - it's a fan site that gathered information about preliminary hearing as well.
I'll try to put down the timeline. My comments are in bold italics:
6 of April. Dr. Murray began ordering large quantities of Propofol according to Tim Lopez, a pharmacist at Applied Pharmacy Services in Las Vegas. On that date, he ordered 10 single dose vials.
Murray had the drugs sent to his girlfriend's Santa Monica home where he was living.
28 of April. Murray ordered 4 boxes and each of the boxes had 10 100 ml vials.
Later that month, Murray ordered 20 vials of midazolam and 20 vials of lorazepam.
12 of May. Murray ordered 4 boxes of Propofol, along with 2 trays of midazolam.
10 of June. Murray ordered 4 boxes of Propofol, and 2 20ml Propofol. (According to Radaronline the pharmacist of Applied Pharmacy Service in Las Vegas testified that Murray bought 130 vials of popofol at 100 milliliters each and 125 vials of the same anesthetic at 20 milliliters). Mathematics was not my favourite subject at school, that's why I have hard time trying to figure out whether these two sources of information have matching figures.
19 of June.  The singer showed up for a rehearsal at Staples Center seeming "lost" and too weak to perform according to Kenny Ortega, co-director of "This Is It".
20 of June. Ortega was summoned to a meeting at Jackson's mansion with the singer, his manager, the concert promoter and Murray. He said the doctor insisted that Jackson was emotionally and physically strong enough to perform and scolded Ortega for sending Jackson home — something he said he hadn't done. Ortega said MJ had the chills and was not well during the failed rehearsal the day before.

"Dr. Murray told me that this was not my responsibility and asked me to not act like a doctor or psychologist … and leave Michael's health to him," he said.

23 of June. "Two wonderful days of rehearsal" according to Ortega, and MJ was happy and healthy.

24 of June. "Two wonderful days of rehearsal" according to Ortega, and MJ was happy and healthy. This information was corroborated by Karen Faye, MJ's makeup artist, on her Twitter.

Time? Kai Chase, MJ's chief, prepared Tuscan white bean soup for MJ and Murray the night before Jackson died, but when she came to work the next morning the soup was untouched. She found it odd.

25 of June.

Around 10.20 AM. Alberto Alvarez, MJ's security guard, arrived for work.

11:51 AM. Recorded phonecall from Murray to Sade Anding. (Phone records show Murray made or received 11 phone calls over five hours while at the singer's home caring for Jackson. He had three back to back calls lasting 45 minutes exactly up to the time he realized Jackson had stopped breathing. On the stand, a phone company rep said Murray had five texts in those hours  including two in the moments prosecutors believe Jackson had stopped breathing). And here I encountered problems with my timeline! See 12.03.

11.54 AM. Voicemail from Murray to his patient Bob Russell.

12:03 PM. Murray sent a text message to Texas. Who was the recipient?

12.03 PM. Sade Anding - who was in Houston the day MJ died - testified she received a call from Murray at around 12:30 PM. If it is by Houston time, than it has to be 10.30 PM in LA, though perhaps in the reality it was in 12.03. But there is only one call in the phone records from Murray to Sade, and that's at 11:51 AM PT - according to TMZ. The question is when exactly did this call take place? Sade Anding herself might not remember the exact time, but why there are two different times that the sources of information give: 11.51 or 12.03? The time lapse is not that little - about 12 minutes. In a case like this it can matter a lot. Besides if 11.51 is correct how Murray can leave a voicemail for his patient at 11.54? He could have two phones (I don't know whether this information is available or not) and he could text someone while chatting on the other phone with his girlfriend, but I find it to be quite difficult to leave a voicemail simultaneously... Sade says Murray was asking her how she was doing and she started talking about her day.  She spoke for a few minutes (about 5 minutes) and realized Murray wasn't on the phone anymore. Sade then said she heard commotion, as if the phone was in his pocket, and heard "coughing and voices." She said she didn't recognize muffled voice as that of Murray. Who this voice belonged to? Is it possible that it was a housekeeper, the chief, one of MJ's kids or Alvarez? It is really very important here to learn when exactly all these events took place... Sade attempted to call Murray back and texted him, but there were no response.

12.04 PM. Murray sent a text message to Texas. Conrad Murray reminds me of Julius Caesar who had ability to do several things at the same time.

12:13 PM. Michael Amir Williams, MJ's assistant, received a voicemail from Murray. Williams said Murray's VM said, "Where are you? Get here right away, hurry." Hmm, looks like Murray realised that something is wrong with his patient. Though why to call MJ's assistant instead of calling 911?.. To ask what to do? Looks like Murray started to panic already.

Williams then called Alberto Alvarez, MJ's security guard, and asked Alvarez to walk to the front door. I don't know what was going on in Williams' head, but personally I in a situation like that would call back to Murray. And only in case Murray was unavailable I would call Alvarez to go and check what's going on. Williams says he heard Murray's voice in the background, then Alvarez hung up. Did Williams try to call and to find out what was going on? Did he pay serious attention to the incident? Does it matter? I don't know...

12.15 PM. Murray sent a text message. One more text message?.. In a state of panic? Hmmm. Who did he send this message to?

After 12:17 PM. According to this site Alberto Alvarez saw Murray upstairs in the hallway hanging over a railing. (According to Kai Chase and written down by TMZ) after Michael stopped breathing, Dr. Murray came downstairs in a panic and summoned Prince. Kai Chase told the boy: "Something may be wrong with your dad." Is it possible that that is why Murray was in the hallway when Alvarez met him? Why in hell did he summon Prince? Thinking something like MJ would wake up upon hearing Prince' voice? Hmmm... It is worth mentioning that later Murray ordered Alvarez to escort the kids from the bedroom. Alvarez walked into MJ's bedroom and saw Michael laying motionless with his eyes and mouth open. He seemed dead to Alvarez. Alvarez saw the doctor performing CPR with one hand on a bed. According to this site Murray performed CPR on MJ "on the bed with one hand on his back". On who's back?.. In case Alvarez saw MJ with eyes and mouth open he had to lie on his back. MJ's lower body was nude because he had a catheter. Murray told Alvarez Michael had "an allergic reaction," then ordered him to collect a bag of bottles and put them in a bag. Murray then instructed him to remove the IV bag containing a milky-white substance from the IV stand. There was a second IV bag - which contained saline - and Murray told Alvrez to leave it there. After the bottles and bag were collected Murray told him to call 911. Perhaps Alvarez had to call 911 without Murray's orders, but I guess he was in a state of shock or panic himself. I was a witness (and direct participant) of a situation when one man had a stroke. There were a lot of people besides me who witnessed it, but a simple and logical idea of calling paramedics came only to me. Was 4 minutes too much to collect IV bags and stuff and to decide to call paramedics?.. I don't know. 4 minutes is not that short period of time, though if people don't understand the situation and what to do... 

Faheem Muhammad, one of MJ's bodyguards, was also in Michael's room after Murray noticed MJ stopped breathing. Muhammad was sent to Jackson's bedroom by Williams as well. When did Muhammad appeared? MJ didn't appear to be alive to Muhammad too. Murray was on his knees doing compressions on MJ in a panicked state On his knees? Was MJ on the floor already or still on the bed?, when he turned to Faheem and another bodyguard Alvarez I believe and asked, "Does anyone in the room know CPR?"

Alvarez says at one point Jackson's children walked into the room and Paris screamed "daddy" and started to cry before Alvarez escorted them from the bedroom (Murray told him to do it not to allow them seeing their father like that). If Murray went downstairs to call Prince... Did he see Prince? Or asked Kai Chase or someone else to ask Prince to go upstairs? Did Prince (and Paris) go upstairs immediately?.. Where was Blanket?

According to Faheem Prince and Paris were near the room and Paris was on her hands and knees crying.  The nanny took them away. Was it after Alvarez escorted them from the room?

Did Faheem Muhammad witness Murray and Alvarez collecting stuff? Did kids witness it? Did they witness Murray performing CPR on the bed?

12:18 PM. Murray sent a text message. Huh???... What did he do?.. I'm texting all the time, it is quite a time- and effort-consuming process to some degree. Not something I would do in a state of panic unless... it is something really VERY important. Who did Murray send this text message?

12.21 PM.  911 call.

Alvarez said the 911 operator told them to move Jackson to the floor to administer CPR. There, Alvarez said, he did chest compressions while Murray gave the singer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. He told Alvarez that he never did it before and that he is doing it because MJ was his friend. If he wasn't his friend (everybody wants to be considered MJ's friends!..) he wouldn't do it?.. Murray put a pulse monitor on MJ shortly before paramedics arrived. 

12.26 PM. Paramedics arrived on the scene. According to the EMT report MJ was on the floor, supine, Conrad Murray was performing CPR on him. There was IV in MJ's left leg. Richard Senneff, an EMT, says Michael was dead when he arrived, and it looked like he had been dead for a long time before Dr. Conrad Murray called 911. Seneff said he soon found Jackson's legs were cold and an EKG was mostly flat. MJ's open eyes dried out, and his hands and feet were turning blue. Senneff says he believes Murray must have waited at least 20 minutes (or even up to an hour) before calling 911. That means that MJ was already dead either on 12.06 when Murray was chatting with Sade Anding and texting to Texas simultaneously or even earlier, say at 11.20. And he wasn't noticing that something was wrong with his patient... The question is when did Murray notice that MJ was breathless? Was it between 12.04 and 12.13? It seems quite obvious, in case Murray noticed it earlier he could collect things without participation of Alvarez. But we have a little "but" here: Alvarez did not tell the police about collecting of IV bags right after MJ's passing... It is very possible that he didn't pay attention to it at the time and simply forgot about it... But it is really interesting whether someone would corroborate his testimony. Though there were a lot of evidences left in the house in any case. Besides all the drugs were in MJ's system - it is stupid to deny the obvious (or I do not understand something!) Martin Blount, another paramedic, said when he walked into MJ's room Murray was sweating profusely. Blount says Murray told EMTs he waited only one minute before calling 911. He said he saw Murray take three bottles of lidocaine from the floor and put them in a bag. When Senneff asked Murray if MJ had been taking meds, Murray told him only about lorazepam (Ativan). Murray also told Senneff Jackson had been "dehydrated." Dr. Murray claimed to feel a pulse and, as the senior medical person on scene, refused to pronounce MJ dead. Blount also said at one point Murray produced a hypodermic needle and wanted to use it on Jackson but paramedics refused. Also he suggested paramedics attempt a central line and magnesium. Senneff refused because he wasn't trained to perform the procedure and they didn't have magnesium. Martin Blount placed an endotrachial tube in MJ, but felt based on the temperature of his body he was already deceased. Three attempts were made to access a vein in MJ's hands and arms for an additional IV as the one placed by Murray for dehydration wasn't functioning properly. That is curiously. When did Murray place this IV to MJ's leg? Was it after he realised that MJ was breathless and probably dead? Did anyone witness it? Or was it the same IV that was used for adminestering propofol? Why it was not functioning properly? 

12:53 PM. Murray sent a text message. Once more??? To who?

1.00 PM. Vital signs were recorded.

Murray ordered the EMTs to take MJ to the hospital. I've read a theory somewhere that Murray insisted  on taking MJ to the hospital because otherwise his house would be a scene of death, sealed etc. Did he expect to return back and to destroy evidences? I have too little information to have an opinion on this theory. 

Williams arrived at the house when the ambulance was already there and helped put the children in a car to follow the ambulance.

1.07 PM. Paramedics left the house (with MJ). I want to note that paramedics spent about 40 minutes in the house.

1:08 PM. Phonecall from Murray to Nicole Alvarez from inside the ambulance. She was not asked about this call during preliminary hearing.

1.11 PM. 1 mg. of epinephrine was used by paramedics to restart MJ's heart. Negative result.

1.11 PM. Vital signs were recorded. Before or after epinephrine usage?

1.12 PM. Atropine was administered by paramedics. Negative result.

1.13 PM. 50 ccs of sodium bicarbonate was administered by paramedics to help restore alkalinity to the blood.

1.13 PM. Arriving to the hospital Rec. Facility - I guess it means hospital

Dr. Richelle Cooper testified when Jackson arrived at UCLA there was "no signs of life."

Cooper says Murray admitted giving Michael lorazepam, but made no mention of Propofol. Dr. Thao Nguyen also said that Dr. Murray denied giving Michael any sedatives or narcotics, other than the lorazepam.

Once at UCLA, Senneff said Murray was "spinning ... moving around, nervous, sweating, multitasking." Not surprising at all!

At the hospital Williams was in the room when the Jackson kids were told their father had died. Murray approached Williams and said Michael had some cream in his room that Murray knew MJ wouldn't want the world to know about. He wanted someone to give him a ride back to MJ's house to retrieve it. Williams told Murray he didn’t have a key to the house when in fact he did. He says he called the house and ordered that it be put on lock down and not to let anyone in. Wise! I wonder who was in the house in the morning of 25 of June?

After Michael was pronounced dead at UCLA, Dr. Murray told Faheem he was hungry and wanted to leave. Oh yeah, your extremely famous patient just died - it's time to eat! Murray seems to be a very healthy guy... Faheem said he told Murray to eat at the hospital, but Murray left. Faheem admitted though that Murray spoke with MJ's family and police before leaving.

Evening. Search of the bedroom where MJ died. As far as I understood it was not considered a crime scene yet.

27 of June. LAPD Robbery Homicide Detective Orlando Martinez conducted interview with Dr. Murray. Murray told him the night before Jackson died he was having trouble sleeping.  Murray said he was trying to ween Jackson off of Propofol - a drug he was giving MJ almost every night for two months. Jackson was begging for Propofol.  Murray claims he gave him a reduced dose, with Michael's help.  Murray said MJ liked to "push in the Propofol himself and that other doctors let him do it." Doesn't make too much sense to me. Arnold Klein stated once on his Twitter that MJ was needlephobic. I have no idea whether it is true or not, but a really needlephobic person certainly wouldn't like to push something in their veins! Besides propofol is a remedy known for it's rapid onset, so I'm not sure that a person would be able to inject enough propofol into themself before crashing out. Murray went to the bathroom for 2 minutes, came back and claims he saw MJ wasn't breathing.

29 of June. Search of the bedroom.

Elissa Fleak, an investigator for the L.A. County Coroner's Office, testified her office found 12 bottles of Propofol in Michael Jackson's home. She says two bottles were in the bedroom where MJ died, and the other 10 were in a nearby closet. One of the Propofol bottles found in the room by the nightstand was empty. Does it mean that all other bottles contained Propofol? Also investigators found lorazepam, diazepam, temazepam, trazodone, flomax, clonazepam, tizanidine, hydrocodone, lidocaine and benoquin. As well as used syringes and needles, a box of unopened hypodermic needles, IV catheters and vials.

When I decided to combine the all above information I had two goals: first of all, I wanted to figure out what was a chain of events which took place on 25 of June, 2009. There were some events before and after that, but I didn't pay too much attention to it since I was mostly using information that became available after preliminary hearings. There are a lot of other interesting information available, but it needs much more careful checking and analisys. Besides it is impossible to embrace the unembracable, that's why I decided to stop at one point. After putting all the events together in chronological order the picture became much more clear to me, though there are still some holes and questions. The second goal that I had in mind was to understand - or at least to form more defined opinion about whether Dr. Conrad Murray was just a greedy idiot or there is something more sinister behind the facade. I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories. I believe in human stupidity much more than I believe in conspiracies, but I like to take all the opportunities into consideration. What is my opinion now?.. Well, Conrad Murray and his behaviour on 25 of June fit into a frame of human stupidity and even more human confusion quite well.

But I still have questions to ask!

A Myth That Has To Be Put To Rest

There is one chapter in Michael Jackson saga that is surrounded by a lot of drama (and comedy - as it has to be in any good novel) - paternity of Michael's kids. MJ's kids turned out to be quite light-skinned and their hair is not too curly. Based on this fact plenty of people think that MJ just couldn't be their biological father... Despite the fact that MJ was not entirely black, but a mixture of black (unfortunately it is too hard to find relevant and precise information about his ancestry), American Indian, white and even chinese. He had his first two kids with a white woman (and not just a caucasian, but a pale-skinned, straight-haired blue-eyed natural blond) and who is the mother of his youngest son is a mystery (it could be a mystery to MJ himself, lol!)
Some people claim that the bio father of MJ's kids is Arnold W. Klein, his dermtologist (well, there are some other... um... "fathers" too...). Jason Pfeiffer, his former employee, shed light on Klein's "paternity".
Please follow this link: http://jasonpfeiffer.blogspot.com/2011/06/paternity.html#comments
I sincerely hope that at least some people will rub their eyes open and realise that none of MJ's three kids has anything in common with Arnold Klein...

Stacy Brown, a Weird Jackson Family Friend

A blogger named Muzikfactory2 made a blogpost where he (or she) posted a kind of an interview with Stacy Brown - an odd character from Michael Jackson saga.
Muzikfactory2 gives a little bit of background about who Stacy Brown is, but I will add several links to make things more understandable (and interesting).
Several years ago an article appeared in New York Post: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/item_Qi0oxpmkX056xSZbouwY8N
(Biggest lol at the episode with Tito's sons - the youngest of those "boys" was 16 already at the time).
After MJ's passing Roger Friedman (very interesting character himself - a journalist who writes a lot about Jacksons and seems to have inside sources of information, though some of his info was proven to be false) remembered about the embarrassing episode from Jermaine Jackson's biography: http://www.showbiz411.com/2009/08/12/20090812michael-jackson-brother-jermaine-shocking-2003-book-proposal
On the same day, 12 of August, 2009 this disclaimer article appeared: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/MichaelJackson/story?id=8314753&page=1
I do really want to know who is this "source close to the Jackson family" who contacted ABC. And who is another source who said that Stacy Brown "can't be trusted".
Also Stacy Brown is known as co-author of "The Man Behind The Mask". He wrote it together with former (and late) MJ's PR-man Bob Jones.
I didn't read it, but just judging by the abstracts from Amazon this book is something very far from positive towards Jones' former boss. Basically authors were accusing MJ of child molesting in this book, though perhaps it doesn't contain direct accusations ("I was assuming Michael was doing something criminal with these young boys. Even today, I have no concrete proof"), but a PR-man and a journalist have to know that playing with words allows to put different meanings to simplest words.
I love this quote from the article about Bob Jones' passing: "Mr. Jones was Jackson's spokesman at a time when the singer's behavior caused the public to view the pop star as a cultural oddity.
The eccentricities reported about Jackson were often the result of leaks that Jones orchestrated to make the singer seem more mysterious, Mr. Jones told the Irish Times in 2005. Initial reports about Jackson sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber and the importance of his pet chimpanzee, Bubbles, admittedly came from the publicist.
He named Jackson the "king of pop, rock and soul," but the singer changed it to "just the king of pop," Mr. Jones said in the Irish Times article."
King of pop, rock and soul... I sincerely hope that "Wacko Jacko" wasn't Mr. Jones' invention too. Just judging by Mr. Jones PR campaigns and disgraceful results of them he was not a good PR-man.
But I'm digressing from the real star of my blogpost - Stacy Brown.
It is interesting that Stacy Brown is quoted in this article.
"In writing the book, Mr. Jones showed loyalty to Jackson by leaving out "a treasure trove" of potentially shocking details, Brown said.
Mr. Jones' loyalty to Jackson also was on public display, Brown said, when the publicist testified at Jackson's 2005 trial on child-molestation charges. On the stand, Mr. Jones backed away from testimony that might have helped the prosecution. Jackson was acquitted of all charges.
"He saw Michael, and he felt sorry for him," Brown said. "He couldn't go through with telling the truth, telling all he knew."
Unfortunately I have no idea about where Valerie J. Nelson, "Los Angeles Times" journalist, took Stacy Brown quotes, so we have to keep in mind that there is a good chance that he never said or wrote anything like that, but after "The Man Behind The Mask" - does it really matter?.. As well as his phrase that:
"If they'd had a black majority jury, they would have convicted," said Stacy Brown. (...) 
"This is not to say that any other race tolerates that kind of behavior, but within the black community, it's not something that stardom could have swayed," said Brown, a media critic for the Scranton Times-Tribune and longtime Jackson family friend."
Did the guy want to say that blacks are smart and whites are stupid? Or did he want to say that black US community doesn't like Michael Jackson? In any case he implied that MJ was doing something inappropriate. "Even if he was not molesting them, he was doing things that were inappropriate," he told ABCNews.com. "There's a mind-set in the black community: Why are all these white boys always hanging around? Michael would have stood no chance with an African-American jury." Or did the guy even imply that blacks are not very smart and also they don't like white children?.. Lol.
Stacy Brown was called to take part in this interview (which took place in the beginning of 2005 trial) as a person who knows a lot of information about Michael Jackson and his relationships with different people. He was characterized as "Jackson family friend" as well.
After tormenting and squeezing Google I finally managed to find an article written by Stacy Brown himself which sheds some light on Who is Stacy Brown. He tells the story of his acquaintance with the Jacksons. So he just met them in a store, then he ran into Jermaine Jackson who recognized him and then Stacy Brown was invited to Havenhurst and to Neverland... Something tells me that a serious part of the story was omitted.
"Things were made all the more difficult in 2005 when the prosecution in Santa Maria subpoenaed me to testify against him. The day before my testimony, I saw Michael and his children and, in his own way, Michael tried to intimidate me.
I said, "Michael, I'm not trying to hurt you. I feel bad for you, but I didn't volunteer for this." He looked at me and offered me a Bible and a faint smile."

Offering a Bible is an act of intimidation?.. Stacy Brown was to turn into a monster from a horror movie after touching a Bible?.. Or did I miss something?..

I've found a different account of how MJ was "intimidating" Stacy Brown in his own words: "You know, there was one eerie moment. Michael -- after the -- after the meeting was over, Michael approached me. He said -- he asked me, was the Bible that he had in his hand -- did it belong to me? And you know, I was stunned. I said, No, you know, it's not mine. And it turned -- you know, I don’t know. He turned around, went back in for a moment and came back out."

Stacy Brown didn't touch the Bible and missed his chance to turn into a monster.

"During a break, I came in contact with Michael and his mother outside the men's room and Katherine walked up, looked at me and turned to my attorney, the late great Mel Sachs, and complimented the suit Mel was wearing. It was a subtle message, but I understood, that whole "Jackson family friend" thing was officially over."

I would be surprised if "whole Jackson family friend thing" wouldn't be over after "The Man Behind The Mask". (Though, was it really over?..).

So now this guy decided to say some things to the world through Muzikfactory2 blogpost.

"The only reason things got blown out of proportion was because Jermaine didn't think. He didn't use his head". - I can believe it, lol. Jermaine is definitely not someone who is known for using his head, at least the one which is on his shoulders. His ex-girlfriend Margaret Maldonado described him very well in her book written after escaping the Jacksons tight embrace. Of course ex-wives and ex-girlfriends can make things look a bit different from the what is called "reality", but this lady seems to be honest, things that she speaks about were corroborated by other sources, besides she is not known as a shady character seeking for attention or some extra money using Jacksons.

"Someone had duped our copy with another copy that contained fabrications and lies. They didn't want a positive book". - Wow!.. We have a real conspiracy here! I wonder who those unknown conspirators are and how they managed to "dupe" the book proposal?.. What it has to do with Jermaine not thinking with his head?.. At least he went to Larry King to say that the proposal was fake.

"I was on a program with Brian Oxman who was saying inaccurate and unfair things so I said to Brian during the broadcast: "What if I had tapes?" and the media ran with the idea that I had tapes. I did not have tapes of anything bad". - I managed to find this link. It is from a German site (and I don't know German), but it contains transcripts in English of that same program that Stacy Brown is talking about. I don't know how accurate it is, but if it is quite accurate, things that Stacy was saying on this program were a bit different from what he is claiming now. Diane Dimond, a well-known... um... specialist on Michael Jackson in the beginning of the program told the story of the proposal basically saying that the one with juicy details was real. Than Stacy Brown had his turn to say something to the world... Did he deny the proposal? No way! Vice versa:  "And, in fact, you will--you will see more than just it on paper in the coming days, you will hear it on tape in the coming days. So Jermaine should be very careful about what he says". (...) "BROWN: They are currently in the possession and being reviewed by Mel Sachs, who--who--he and I have talked and we will be launching a very aggressive slander suit against Jermaine Jackson.

DEUTSCH: Now, Stacy, are the things you have on tape, once again, tell me...

BROWN: They corroborate everything that Michelle Caruso has reported."

Is it: "What if I had tapes?"

Um... Perhaps my English is really not too good... Or the transcript is not correct enough...

But those are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS!!!

Once more time: "You know, Brian, you need to watch what you say, because again, this stuff that Jermaine said is on tape".

As far as I know those tapes never surfaced...

But let's return to Brown's newest revelations.

"I had also written books with Jermaine and Rebbie, which wasn't as flattering toward Joseph". - What books is he talking about? Did I miss something?

"I was reluctant to write Bob's book for him. However, Rebbie's husband urged me to write it because they weren't my words, they were Bob's. Rebbie did not want me to write it. My relationship with her was severed after the book. But, I looked up to Rebbie's husband and, in hindsight, shouldn't have listened to him. I did, so I take full responsibility". - This is interesting. Well, at least Rebbie was against it. So nice.

"The police had cornered a family member in Vegas and had threatened to subpoena that family member. That family member reached out to me and I reached out to Tom Sneddon and Detective Steve Robel. In the end, to help get that family member off the hook, I put myself on the line and offered up myself because it would have been really bad for the family member. Put it this way, he wouldn't be considered a family member anymore because a divorce would surely have resulted". - And now we have something really exciting here. From Stacy's hints I suspect that this "family member" has to be Nathaniel Brown, Rebbie Jackson's husband. What was he doing that police had cornered him? What did they want him to tell during testimony? Why Stacy Brown was able to get him off the hook? Why a divorce would surely have resulted? Because of the testimony?..

"In October of 2005, Michael and Tom Messereau went over the book in London and Michael later reached out to Bob and expressed that while he didn't like the book, he didn't think it was too big a deal and understood that Bob needed money". - Huh?.. Well, it was said something in Bible about forgiveness, but... Did MJ read the book?.. At least some abstracts?..

"He said that "Bob had to do what he had to do to pay his bills" so Michael understood very well why the book". - Michael, you have to be canonized!

"When two of those jurors contacted me after the trial to ask me to write a book, saying that they were forced to vote not guilty, I told them to get lost and that I wouldn't do it". - Stacy, you have to be canonized too.

"Also, I now realize that the "family" member who I covered the trial was the biggest manipulator and it was really that person's doing. That person always wanted to be able to say to the others "I told you Michael was no good!" That person pushed me to do the book, set up false stories in the press later, so that, that person could have something over that person's spouse and family and most of all over the Jacksons". - Nathaniel Brown?..

Stacy, tell us what false stories exactly you were pushed to set up?

"It all makes sense to me now while it may not to you. But, it's too complicated and "Lifetime Television movie-like" to explain". - Oh yes, dear Stacy, it doesn't make too much sense to us and it makes you look very weird.

Stacy Brown has a twitter account. He mentions Rebbie and her family a lot. What I really want to know is what relationship does he have now with the Jacksons and namely with Rebbie and her family. There are rumors among MJ's fans that they are on friendly terms or something like that, but fans are not trustworthy, they have very weird perception of the reality. Besides I really want to know what Jehovah witnesses sect has to do with all this fuckery. Rebbie and her hubby are reported to be devoted witnesses and Stacy Brown himself is a Jehovah witness too. I was always very suspicious about very religious people...

How to read

I decided to write about how to read and understand articles (and other mass media stuff). It will be connected with MJ (since this blog is about him), but he is only an example here.
This is an article by Maureen Orth from Vanity Fair magazine. It is very old, but at least it is not too long to put its analisys here.
I will quote parts in italics that I will make comments on.
I will skip almost all of the first paragraph, though why Lisa Marie is called "bride", she and MJ were already married for a year (cultural differences?..)

When the show ended, many with a detailed knowledge of the case were appalled by what ABC News had allowed Jackson to get away with

Who were those "many"?

and by Sawyer's lack of preparation or her inability to follow up within the format dictated by the Jackson forces

Lol at lack of preparation - lack of preparation for interviews is a normal state for most of journalists, even those who are paid huge sums of money for their blabbing in front of TV cameras.

Controversy raged for days over the way ABC had bent network news standards to accommodate Jackson's many demands

Did they really bent something or it was just lack of preparation - as always? Maureen needs to make her mind on the subject.

not to mention the outcry over the cruel revenge tone and anti-Semitic lyrics in his songs

I believe the mentioned songs is actually "Scream". (Being a foreigner and having very limited knowledge on american slang I will stay out of discussion about controversial lyrics of this song).

Sources close to the family of the boy allegedly molested have said that they are considering whether Jackson's specific references to the sexual allegations in the case were a breach of the contract reached in the enormous settlement he paid for his young accuser to drop the charges.

Who are those sources?

Santa Barbara district attorney Tom Sneddon, who has seen the photographs of Jackson's genitalia, was upset enough after watching Sawyer's interview to speak to me on the record. "Regarding the markings," Sneddon says, "his statement on TV is untrue and incorrect and not consistent with the evidence in the case."

Did these markings exist or didn they not exist, did Jordan's description match or did it not... Very hazily.

Others familiar with the evidence are more forthcoming. They say there are definite markings on Jackson's genital area, including a discoloration on his testicles.

Who are those others familiar with the evidence? Is it Sneddon himself who asked Maureen Orth not to disclose him as a source of information, was it someone who took part in the investigation and saw photos or was present during the strip search, was it someone familiar with the evidence (that is MJ's genitalia - lol!) or was it Maureen Orth herself who scratched her head and decided to write smth. that would look interesting?

(Jackson admitted in his live interview with Oprah Winfrey in February 1993 that he suffers from the skin disorder vitiligo, which causes discoloration.)

As my knowledge of English allows me to understand discoloration means lighter spot on a darker surface. And yes, vitiligo means appearance of white spots on skin - they are white or lighter than other parts of skin because they lack melanin - pigment that colours our skin.

According to the sworn affidavit of a law-enforcement photographer, there is a dark spot on the lower left side of Jackson's penis.

Um... I'm confused. Why dark spot?.. If it is discoloration - it must be light!
By the way is it possible to read those sworn affidavits? I would love to.

The boy who had accused Jackson of sexually molesting him, according to those familiar with the evidence, was able to draw—first for the district attorney, then for his own lawyers—an accurate picture of the dark spot on Jackson's penis. The boy's drawings were sealed in an envelope and clearly postmarked on a postal meter before the police ever photographed Jackson. According to these sources, the boy's drawings were an accurate match of the photographs.

I'm still interested who ar those familiar with the evidence. Was information about accurate match contained in those above mentioned affidavits? Did those who were present during the strip search knew how Jordan's drawing looked? Did Maureen Orth get this information directly from Tom Sneddon who I believe saw both the drawing and MJ's private parts?

The boy got "in excess of $25 million," according to sources close to the family, and his parents were also paid off in the millions.

Those sources close to the family were not very correct, Jordan got only little bit more than 15 million.

People close to the investigation say that Jackson's lawyers kept putting off any depositions, and agreed to settle the night before Jackson was to have been put under oath.

Once again: who are those people?

In answering a civil case in which five former bodyguards accused Jackson of firing them because "they knew too much," Jackson did invoke the Fifth Amendment on the subject of alleged child molestation. The suit, dismissed since the PrimeTime Live interview, was not mentioned by Sawyer.

There were plenty of people who used to sue MJ for different reasons - did Sawer had to mention everybody?.. (And I think it is believed to be more appropriate to kill those who "know too much", not to fire them).

Investigation sources say police found a lewd, commercially published hardcover book of black-and-white photos of nude boys aged about 7 to 12 "at play," and according to one, that book "is often found in the home of pedophiles."

Lewd?.. It depends on viewer's opinion. As far as I remember there were one or two books seized from Neverland which really contain pictures of undressed or scantily dressed kids. Perhaps police really often finds those books in the home of pedophiles, though those books are not pornographic.

Law-enforcement sources, however, confirm that there is another boy who has a lawyer and is currently negotiating a settlement with Jackson. Of the boys mentioned in the district attorneys' press release who accused Jackson of sexual misconduct and who are unwilling to testify, Sneddon says, "The status regarding these two is basically the same."

At one point Sawyer said, "None of the employees who claimed to have seen questionable things had a story that could be confirmed by a child." Again, Sawyer is contradicted by law-enforcement sources. Two years ago, Jackson's personal maid, Blanca Francia, told police, the Los Angeles Times, and the tabloid TV show Hard Copy that she had seen Jackson a number of times in the nude with young boys and found a picture of an apparently nude boy in Jackson's room. Under oath she also said she found Jackson in bed with several boys, and a young boy with him in the same sleeping bag. She discovered $300 in the boy's pocket (which he had admitted Jackson had given to him).

Actually those multiple boys was Blanca Francia's son.

The boy himself, according to sources close to the case, was considering going into the witness-protection program—such was his fear of the retribution he would suffer by publicly alleging that Michael Jackson was a pedophile.

Who are these sources close to the case?

The witness-protection-program idea fell through, however, when neither state nor federal authorities offered it

Hm, why?

While Jackson has gone on to marry and become the stepfather of Elvis Presley's grandchildren, Jackson's close involvement with the boy ultimately ripped the boy's floundering family apart. After the settlement, the second marriages of both his parents ended in divorce. The boy no longer sees or speaks to his mother, whom he blames for allowing Jackson to become so intimate with him. He has not seen his eight-year-old sister in two years, or his stepfather, who essentially raised him. Now 15, the boy lives with his stepmother. He is not in therapy. He continues to have a relationship with his father, who was accused by Jackson's side of extortion but whom authorities declined to prosecute, saying there was not enough evidence—another fact not mentioned by Diane Sawyer. The boy's father and stepfather, once friends, are now suing each other.

Source???

Liz Smith has reported that Jackson wanted Princess Diana to be with him on the Sawyer interview, to commiserate about the sufferings imposed by tabloid coverage, and that he queried the British Embassy in Washington about being knighted by the Queen for "his work with little children." According to an observer, he actually was working behind the scenes to see if the Queen would knight him right there on PrimeTime Live.

Who is Liz Smith and where did she get her information from?

ABC News's credibility was seriously undermined when it was revealed that the network had electronically altered a pre-taped segment of Jackson because he didn't care for the way the lighting cast lines on his face.

What some lines on a face have to do with credibility?

Executives at CBS and NBC said that Jackson's handlers had clearly been looking for a "package." (In the interest of full disclosure, my husband, Tim Russert, is Washington-bureau chief of NBC News, with no responsibility for prime-time programming.) A producer from one network told me, "It's difficult to pretend there was no quid pro quo in the ABC deal. Jackson's people approached a bunch of us. Basically they said, 'Come back to us with a proposition, and not just what you can do with your news division—that is not enough.'"

I guess I understood! This article is an impact from Maureen Orth to ABC! (Or to Diane Sawyer personally. Or both.) Journalists' undercarpet fights? Boring, sorry.

In addition, Sawyer had "get-togethers" with Jackson and Presley before the expensively produced interview, which is not her usual practice.

Here Maureen Orth tries to emphasize that Sawyer was not unbiased towards MJ.
Oh yes, this interview was a deal - so what?.. Maureen Orth was not born yesterday (I suspect), some of her readers were not born yesterday as well.

And contrary to news-show procedures, the air-conditioning remained on loud while Sawyer interviewed Jackson, causing a strange background noise. The cool air was necessary, veteran soundmen say, because the lights on Jackson were so hot that his thick pancake makeup and lipstick would have melted otherwise, and his false eyelashes would have come off.

Looool, so normally people who are interviewed have to sweat like marathon runners under heating sun?.. Great practice!

"I have no idea what the purpose of her show is," District Attorney Sneddon wondered, somewhat taken aback after having spent three hours on a Saturday afternoon helping to prime one of Sawyer's producers. "Is it the Evening News or Hard Copy?" Good question. Whatever it was, 60 million Americans and untold millions around the world got something less than the truth.

What was the purpose of the article? To butt ABC and Diane Sawyer or to throw a stone at MJ? Or both? Well, I believe honorarium was a serious factor too!

Jason Pfeiffer decided to blog

Jason Pfeiffer has a blog now - http://jasonpfeiffer.blogspot.com/
I'm preparing my popcorn (well, to tell you the truth I hate popcorn, but you know what I mean). Waiting for questions like where, how many times, in what position and who was on top and comments like: "You're a liar because we want to think so".
Good luck, Jason! I hope you have strong sense of humour and wisdom.