To help fans recap truth from fiction
All this is from 24th June to date, it's not even a month yet.
Michael called Dileo after rehearsals on Wednesday saying he was feeling unwell, Dileo recalls when he had left Michael on Wednesday midnight, Michael was perfectly okay. Miko Brando, Kenny Ortega and Randy Phillips all said the same, including others present at the rehearsal.
Michael passed away on Thursday and the media began reporting
The first story they reported is that he was injected with Demerol by the doctor, this story was then refuted by the doctor's lawyer.
Deepak Chopra and Brian Oxman come along with their drug stories based on 2005 and appear on several media outlets promoting the idea of overdoes, even though they haven't been in touch with Michael for years.
The doctor's car was towed away and bags of medicine taken away. No mention of IV poles or oxygen cylinders
Tabloid newspapers carry all sorts of wild stories about the drugs found in Michael's body
Tabloids and mainstream also carry false stories that the doctor fled the scene and cannot be found after police announce they want to speak to him, when he was actually with the Jacksons at the hospital.
The Jacksons who are distraught, mourning and confused, do not know the exact identity of the doctor being sought out and become suspicious, wanting answers from him. Jesse Jackson expresses their concerns in a statement (They later realise this is the doctor at the hospital who suggested they get a second autopsy).
The doctor was questioned twice by the police and was let go.
The doctor's lawyer releases a statement that he did not inject Michael with Demerol or any other medication at any point in time, and the only medication prescribed was in response to an ailment. Details are also provided by the lawyer around the events leading to Michael's death
The doctor walks in
Michael has a low pulse
The doctor begins CPR
Cannot call 911 because phones don't work and he does not know address to use his mobile
When CPR fails, he runs to find someone
He sees the chef and asks him to get security to call 911
The chef calls security who call 911
paramedics arrive and begin CPR on bed and call their guides
The guides ask them where Michael is and then tell them to put Michael on the floor
The doctor goes with Michael in the ambulance to the hospital
When Michael passes away, the doctor advises the family to seek a second autopsy because he cannot understand what caused Michael's death
The coroner's report indicated the only fresh needle marks Michael had were those injected into his heart by paramedics to try and resuscitate him.
The coroner's report could not find any external evidence of harm except broken ribs from attempting to resuscitate him with CPR
Then as this Demerol story was dying off, the nutritionist came along with her diprivan story
This kick-started the whole drugs issue
Then CNN quoted and anonymous source talking about Michael using diprivan on tour in the HIStory tour to get him to sleep
Then the nutritionist gave an added story of an employee of Michael calling on Sunday saying that he was hot on one side, cold on the other, and she knew Michael had been injected in the spine.
This was too much for the people at AEG so they released a video of Michael in rehearsal showing him fit and fine, a few days after what the nutritionist assumes that he was injected in the spine.
A former chef terminated in May sees a chance to make a quick buck and jumps on the diprivan story saying he saw the doctor carry out oxygen cylinders.
The likes of Matt Fiddes then jump on this story for publicity talking about taking needles and syringes away from Michael in 2001. This guy was only around Michael for 3 days and was not security around his suite, Michael had his own bodyguards. The guy only provided outside security when Michael went to Exeter.
The media fuels the diprivan story.
Dr Murray's lawyer releases another statement that they will not engage in speculation and innuendo till toxicology reports return
Then Dr Klein comes along and fuels the diprivan story again saying that he told Michael he was insane to use it while in Germany during the HIStory tour. He makes reference to Michael's past drug addiction in 1993 but does not mention the year which makes people who don't know think that he's referring to a recent issue, and he uses the word "addict". Someone sees this is Michael's doctor and he is saying "addict", so they are none the wiser.
The question then is, why did Michael feel it necessary to discuss this with Dr Klein, and if he said so, then why did Doctor Klein not speak to the aneasthologist whose details he could easily find? This sounded like Dr Klein trying to inject himself into a story because Michael is not present to dispute, but Ramone Bain pointed out contradictions in Dr Klein's stories.
Then someone from Santa Barbara leaked to CNN sealed details of medication they took from Michael's home in 2003. These were prescriptions by Dr Klein.
Then a former security is quoted as having left because Michael was over-prescribed and was taking 30 to 80 xanax every night, again speculation because that security guy was not present to see Michael swallow pills every night and it amounts to gossip between two staff members as to the amount of medication Michael may be taking.
Mark Geragos says that all these people are speculating and were not around Michael. (Deepak Chopra, nutritionist, Brian Oxman....) and that those who matter are those who were around Michael in the last 6 months to a year.
Story circulates quoting Latoya saying that Michael was not in his room but in the doctor’s room with IV poles and oxygen tanks. This was not mentioned back then by paramedics or police and no oxygen tanks were taken out of the premises.
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What do we know after all this?
Stories of
Demerol - denied by the doctor
Diprivan - still in the balance but doctor's lawyer made a general statement Michael was not injected
Xanax - A reference to a 2004 issue
No one is discussing Michael's complaint of pain to Frank Dileo. All they are discussing is the amount of medication and different medication he took. No mention what the medicine was for.
The investigation is trying to dig into the past which has little bearing to the present. They are trying to examine all Michael's prescriptions since the 1990s, but that has nothing to do with why he died in 2009 after complaining of a pain and being prescribed something.
Geragos emphasised this point, that something he took in 2004 could not have killed him in 2009.
This is simply a fishing expedition going after the 5 doctors. That is what the prosecutors do best, go about fishing, just like the media.
It's no wonder the doctors do not want to cooperate because they have nothing to do with his death in 2009 if they weren't the ones treating him then. He had Dr Klein and Dr Murray.
They know how prosecutors can just try to drag them into charges or fault them in a fishing expedition in an effort to lay the blame on someone.