CULKIN BRANDS JACKSON CHILD REPORT 'PREPOSTEROUS'

HOME ALONE star MACAULAY CULKIN has shot down a sensational U.K. newspaper report suggesting he is the biological father of MICHAEL JACKSON's youngest son PRINCE MICHAEL II.
The Sun published an article on Monday (30Aug09) naming former child star Culkin, a close friend of the pop superstar, as the dad of the seven year old, aka Blanket.
The boy was delivered via a surrogate, whose identity has never officially been disclosed.
The King of Pop's death in June (09) has sparked fresh speculation over the child's parentage.
Culkin, who has yet to publicly speak about the death of his pal, is the latest to be linked to the controversy. But the actor's representative Michelle Bega has blasted the "preposterous" claims.
When approached by TMZ.com to comment on The Sun's article, Bega replied, "The enquiries are too preposterous for us to even acknowledge."
Jackson claimed to have fathered his two eldest children, Prince Michael, 12, and Paris, 11, with his second wife Deborah Rowe, but even that has come into question, with both British actor Mark Lester and Rowe's former boss, Jackson's dermatologist Dr. Arnold Klein, both suggesting they could be the biological fathers.

 

JACKSON'S BIRTHDAY BURIAL RULED OUT BY MOTHER

MICHAEL JACKSON's mother KATHERINE refused to bury him on his birthday because it went against her religious beliefs, according to the singer's brother MARLON.
After weeks of speculation about the King of Pop's final resting place, it was reported he would be buried on what would have been his 51st birthday (29Aug09) in a mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
It then emerged the Jackson family had changed the date so they could have more time to plan the burial service.
But Marlon insists his brother's interment was postponed because 79-year-old Katherine refused to give any significance to the day, in accordance with her Jehovah's Witness faith, which does not recognise birthdays as they are believed to be rooted in pagan celebrations.
He tells Britain's Sunday Mirror, "I wanted to lay him to rest on the day the Lord created him. But my mother really didn't want to bury him on that day."
According to Marlon, Michael will now be buried in a sunset ceremony on Thursday (03Aug09) in the Holly Terrace Grand Mausoleum at Forest Lawn, where Aretha Franklin is expected to sing.
Marlon adds, "This will be a private ceremony. This will be Michael's final curtain call - the last show. His shell will be gone but his spirit lives on."

 

JACKSON DEATH DETAILS TO BE RELEASED ON FRIDAY

The mystery behind MICHAEL JACKSON's death is set to be revealed on Friday (28Aug09), according to new reports.
The Los Angeles County Coroner's office plans to announce the cause and manner of Jackson's death on 25 June (09) tomorrow morning. 
The death details come just days after a search warrant affidavit, featuring an account of the King of Pop's last hours by physician Dr. Conrad Murray, was unsealed in Texas and obtained by the Los Angeles Times newspaper. 
The warrant included a list of the drugs Dr. Murray reportedly administered to Jackson in a bid to get the singer to sleep on the last night of his life. 
Meanwhile, details of what investigators found and bagged up at Jackson's rented home in the hours after his death have been leaked to the press. 
The items include rotting marijuana, 14 pill bottles containing sleep and anti-anxiety medications, a tube of Benoquin skin bleaching cream and three vials of a liquid used for glaucoma patients.

 

ANOTHER PRINCE MICHAEL MOONWALKS FORWARD

A 24-year-old San Francisco, California man is requesting an official DNA test to prove he's MICHAEL JACKSON's son.
Prince Michael Malachi Jet Jackson filed a creditor's claim in Los Angeles on Tuesday (25Aug09), insisting he's due a share of the King of Pop's fortune. 
The 24 year old submitted a birth certificate, which lists a "Michael Joseph Jackson" of Indiana as the father and Zerline LaVette Dixon as the mother, with his claim. 
According to the documents, obtained by TMZ.com, the Jackson family pressured Prince Michael not to reveal his true identity.

 

ADDICTION SPECIALIST: 'JACKSON'S DOCTOR WAS IN OVER HIS HEAD'

ADDICTION SPECIALIST: 'JACKSON'S DOCTOR WAS IN OVER HIS HEAD'

Hollywood's top addiction specialist DR. DREW PINSKY has blasted MICHAEL JACKSON's embattled physician for not seeking help for his superstar client's spiralling drug problem.
In an affidavit, obtained by the Los Angeles Times earlier this week (beg24Aug09), Dr. Conrad Murray reportedly told police he was trying to wean the King of Pop off powerful anaesthetic Propofol, which Jackson was using in large doses in an effort to get to sleep. 
Legal and medical experts have questioned Dr. Murray's decision to make the drug available to Jackson - because it's usually strictly administered only in sterile environments, like hospitals, by trained anaesthesiologists. 
And now Dr. Pinsky, the man behind reality TV show Celebrity Rehab, has publicly criticised Jackson's physician for not alerting experts to the singer's drug dependency issues. 
Pinsky says, "You can't wean people off medication, it really doesn't work. The fact is, if he identified addiction in Michael Jackson he should have brought in an addiction team... Dr. Murray was unfortunately over his head with this one. 
"I would bring that person into a hospital, 24-hour monitoring... and cold turkey."

 

ADDICTION SPECIALIST: 'JACKSON'S DOCTOR WAS IN OVER HIS HEAD'

Hollywood's top addiction specialist DR. DREW PINSKY has blasted MICHAEL JACKSON's embattled physician for not seeking help for his superstar client's spiralling drug problem.
In an affidavit, obtained by the Los Angeles Times earlier this week (beg24Aug09), Dr. Conrad Murray reportedly told police he was trying to wean the King of Pop off powerful anaesthetic Propofol, which Jackson was using in large doses in an effort to get to sleep. 
Legal and medical experts have questioned Dr. Murray's decision to make the drug available to Jackson - because it's usually strictly administered only in sterile environments, like hospitals, by trained anaesthesiologists. 
And now Dr. Pinsky, the man behind reality TV show Celebrity Rehab, has publicly criticised Jackson's physician for not alerting experts to the singer's drug dependency issues. 
Pinsky says, "You can't wean people off medication, it really doesn't work. The fact is, if he identified addiction in Michael Jackson he should have brought in an addiction team... Dr. Murray was unfortunately over his head with this one. 
"I would bring that person into a hospital, 24-hour monitoring... and cold turkey."

 

Jackson died from lethal dose of propofol

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Pop star Michael Jackson died from a lethal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol given in a cocktail of drugs, leading authorities to suspect his doctor of manslaughter, court documents showed on Monday.

The "Thriller" singer suffered cardiac arrest and died on June 25 at age 50. Since then, an investigation by state and federal agencies have focused on Conrad Murray, Jackson's personal doctor who was at his bedside the day he died.

The findings, contained in a warrant to search Murray's home and offices, paint a picture of an insomniac pop star who could not sleep without heavy medication. Jackson sought out propofol -- routinely used to sedate patients and anesthetize them before surgeries such as a colonoscopy -- and called it his "milk."

"The Los Angeles Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, Dr. (Lakshmanan) Sathyavagiswaran, indicated that he had reviewed the preliminary toxicology results and his preliminary assessment of Jackson's cause of death was due to lethal levels of propofol (diprivan)," according to a warrant to search Murray's offices issued by California.

The document was unsealed and released by the Harris County District Clerk in Houston, where Murray has an office. U.S. agents raided the office on July 22.

In an affidavit seeking the warrant, Houston police officer E.G. Chance said U.S. agents had gathered "items constituting evidence of the offense of manslaughter that tend to show that Dr. Conrad Murray committed the said criminal offense."

Murray's attorney, Ed Chernoff, was not available to comment.

In a statement, a representative said Jackson's family has "full confidence in the legal process, and commends the ongoing efforts of the L.A. County Coroner, the L.A. District Attorney and the L.A. Police Department."

Murray, who was with Jackson on June 25 administering drugs to ease the pop star to sleep, gave him a range of medication including a 25-milligram dose of propofol via an intravenous drip at 10:40 a.m. PDT, the state search warrant said.

Jackson was "very familiar" with propofol and referred to it as his "milk" because of its milky appearance, the warrant said. Murray, who had been treating Jackson for about six weeks leading up to his death, was worried that Jackson was addicted to propofol. Murray was trying to wean him off the drug by giving him smaller doses, it said.

Jason Hymes, an assistant clinical professor at the University of Southern California who is not associated with the case, said the drug was a true anesthetic. "You administer it to somebody and then operate on them ... This concept of giving somebody a general anesthetic for sleep disturbance strikes me as just bizarre and astoundingly inappropriate."

In the early hours of June 25, Murray also gave Jackson doses of anti-anxiety medications Valium and Ativan and sedative Versed, the filing said.

Jackson went to sleep after Murray gave him the propofol, and Murray stayed by his side for about 10 minutes, then left "to go to the restroom and relieve himself," the search warrant said.

Murray was out of Jackson's room for about 2 minutes and when he returned, Jackson was no longer breathing, the warrant said.