Michael Jackson most likely died from an overdose of pharmaceutical drugs. The investigation is currently focusing on his use of the anesthetic Diprivan as a sleeping aid. The King of Pop was allegedly injected with Demerol shortly before going into cardiac arrest on June 25 at 11:26 am. He died three hours later.

“After taking the Demerol, he started to experience slow, shallow breathing,” Reuters quotes a source. “His breathing gradually got slower and slower until it stopped.”

Jackson did not respond to CPR and was pronounced dead at 2:26 pm. He was 50.

The lawyer for Dr. Conrad Murray, who conducted the CPR on Jackson, says reports of the Demerol injection are false. "There was no Demerol. No OxyContin,” says Edward Chernoff.

LaToya Jackson contends about her brother's condition at the time of his death: ‘He had needle marks on his neck and on his arms and more about those will emerge in the next few weeks. I cannot discuss that any further as I may jeopardise the investigation. I can, however, say that I have not changed my mind about my feeling that Michael was murdered."

Detectives say they confiscated "large bags of pills" discovered in the house. Numerous bottles of Diprivan were found among Jackson's drug stash.

Jackson reportedly was hooked on a smorgasbord of 'scripts - Demerol, Diprivan, OxyContin, Dilaudid, Vicodin, Zoloft, Xanax, Paxil and Soma.

Another source says: "He was having injections of the painkiller Demerol first thing in the morning and last thing at night, along with a host of other powerful drugs. He was refusing to eat and was popping pills constantly."

Family rep Brian Oxman adds: "During Michael's court trial (in 2005), he was taking 40 Vicodin a day - and this may have even increased. Its an insane amount of drugs to be given and to be taken."

While visiting self-help author Deepak Chopra in India in 2005, Jackson asked him for OxyContin."I told him categorically that OxyContin was a narcotic," Chopra recalls. "It's an addictive drug and he didn't need it. Through the years I tried to tell him that he should get off certain medicines that were being recommended to him, but in vain."

A document from 2004 says Jackson took more than 10 and as many as 40 Xanax pills per night.

Jackson's death is eerily similar Elvis Presley's. Though it was originally announced as cardiac arrhythmia, drugs were ultimately cited as the cause of Presley's death (he died in 1977 at the age of 42.) As many as 10 prescription drugs, including Demerol, Morphine, Codeine and Quaaludes, were found in his system.

Jackson married Presley's daughter Lisa Marie in 1994. They divorced in 1996.

Both Jackson and Presley, it appears, overdosed on powerful opiates after prolonged physical deterioration and body changes such as wholesale facial reconstruction in the case of Jackson, and slurred speech and bloating on the part of Presley.

Jackson's downward spiral was more shocking. Like Howard Hughes, he became the world's most famous recluse, showing up periodically in public wearing surgical masks and pajamas, pushed around in a wheelchair.

The singer's later years were plagued by scandal due to repeated charges of child molestation at his sprawling Neverland Ranch (see mug shot above). Though never convicted, Jackson - like O.J. Simpson - was found guilty in the court of public opinion.

The whitening of his already relatively light African-American skin (due to a condition known as vitiligo) enhanced Jackson's perceived weirdness, as did the plastic surgery that enlarged his eyes, indented his chin and destroyed his nose.

From the cherubic teenager with the oversized afro to the Jheri-curled Moonwalker in red-leather and white socks to the effeminate, coiffed object of derision, Michael Jackson transformed before our eyes, like a laboratory experiment. Who was that man in the miirror?

While calling Jackson "a spectacular performer and a music icon," even Pres. Obama, through Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, acknowledged that "aspects of his life were sad and tragic.”


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