“The coroner makes no conclusions on the death of Michael Jackson. More tests will be …
Read MoreDay: June 26, 2009
The coroner makes no conclusions on the death of Michael Jackson. More tests will be ordered and it will take 5 to 6 weeks to get the tests back. There were no signs of foul play. The body will not be released until the family chooses a mortuary. The autopsy took three hours to complete. The coroner is with the family now. We know he was taking some prescription medications. The only problem with the death certificate is there was no doctor willing to sign the death certificate so that’s why the coroner became involved. He was pronounced dead in the emergency room. The body is available to be released now, and can be picked up anytime between 6 PM and Midnight LA time. The autopsy was finished at 1 PM today. No family members were allowed in the autopsy room.
Craig Harvey, LA Coroner spokesperson on Michael Jackson’s death, 6/26/09
“Years ago Michael and I were having a deep conversation about life in general.
"I can’t recall the exact subject matter but he may have been questioning me about the circumstances of my Father’s Death…..
"At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, ‘I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did.’….
"I promptly tried to deter him from the idea, at which point he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded almost matter of fact as if to let me know, he knew what he knew and that was kind of that…..
"14 years later I am sitting here watching on the news an ambulance leaves the driveway of his home, the big gates, the crowds outside the gates, the coverage, the crowds outside the hospital, the Cause of death and what may have led up to it and the memory of this conversation hit me, as did the unstoppable tears…..
"A predicted ending by him, by loved ones and by me, but what I didn’t predict was how much it was going to hurt when it finally happened…..
Lisa Marie Presley, 6/26/09
(via catprism)
People were so appalled by Michael Jackson playfully dangling his baby over a balcony. My dad use to playfully spin all us kids around by our ankles into a pool and everyone thought that was funny. It sure helped us learn how to swim.
Large portion of Beatles catalog to return to McCartney through Jackson’s will.
Michael Jackson arranged to give Paul McCartney the rights to the Beatles back catalog through his will according to reports published earlier this year. The pair who scored hits together in the mid-1980’s with Say, Say, Say and The Girl Is Mine had been feuding for years after Jackson won the rights to the Beatles back catalog because of legal wrangling between Macca and John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono.
McCartney for years expressed his dissatisfaction with Jackson’s maneuver and the two were never on speaking terms again. Previously, the pair collaborated on Jackson’s 1982 ‘Thriller’ extract ‘The Girl is Mine,’ and McCartney’s 1983 single ‘Say, Say, Say’ from ‘Pipes of Peace’ and forged a close friendship.