Well, duh.
Posted on 06/27/2009 8:26:15 PM PDT by devere
Whatever the final autopsy results reveal, it was greed that killed Michael Jackson. Had he not been driven – by a cabal of bankers, agents, doctors and advisers – to commit to the gruelling 50 concerts in London’s O2 Arena, I believe he would still be alive today. During the last weeks and months of his life, Jackson made desperate attempts to prepare for the concert series scheduled for next month – a series that would have earned millions for the singer and his entourage, but which he could never have completed, not mentally, and not physically. Michael knew it and his advisers knew it. Anyone who caught even a fleeting glimpse of the frail old man hiding beneath the costumes and cosmetics would have understood that the London tour was madness. For Michael Jackson, it was fatal. I had more than a glimpse of the real Michael; as an award-winning freelance journalist and film-maker, I spent more than five years inside his ‘camp’. Many in his entourage spoke frankly to me – and that made it possible for me to write authoritatively last December that Michael had six months to live, a claim that, at the time, his official spokesman, Dr Tohme Tohme, called a ‘complete fabrication’. The singer, he told the world, was in ‘fine health’. Six months and one day later, Jackson was dead. Some liked to snigger at his public image, and it is true that flamboyant clothes and bizarre make-up made for a comic grotesque; yet without them, his appearance was distressing; with skin blemishes, thinning hair and discoloured fingernails. I had established beyond doubt, for example, that Jackson relied on an extensive collection of wigs to hide his greying hair. Shorn of their luxuriance, the Peter Pan of Neverland cut a skeletal figure.
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I dunno.
He was already a skeleton. And he already had health problems. He didn’t need AIDS to be a mess.
I'm sure all the drugs he took affected his physical appearance.
“Respiratory arrest leads easily to cardiac arrest.”
Exactly, and this would show nothing on autopsy but would have to be inferred from the toxicology.
“I heard that he was singing and dancing as good as he did when he was 20”
Anyone who is 50 can tell you when it comes to physical activity, absolutely no one is as good at 50 as they are at 20.
Ask george foreman, george blanda, jack nickalaus or anyone.
Not even tiger woods will be as good at 50.
Good article.
Sounds like he sold his soul to the devil to me.
I dare say Jack Lalanne is doing pretty good at 94.
‘He wasn’t eating, he wasn’t sleeping and, when he did sleep, he had nightmares that he was going to be murdered. “
And I think we may just find this to be (intentionally) so.
He always did, ever since he began switching his nose every other month, as well as all the other cosmetic surgeries, skin bleaching etc.
That's one thing media keeps on forgetting to mention as one of his claims to fame. First black guy to have ever turned white, and not just his skin, but facial bone structure as well.
No white man ever had a little puppy nose that kept falling off however.
Also, when a person has been taking large amounts of opiates for decades, they tend to look like hell.
How about this for speculation ?
Jackson was deeply in debt by hunderds of millions that could never be repaid.
Jackson was not heathly enough to do the concerts which would have bombed.
The solution is to have him killed. The insurance pays off the concert. The value of his stuff and songs increase by hundreds of millions. And all is well except that a tortured soul is prematurely dead which may be better anyway.
Maybe they even figured he would rather be remembered as a tragic icon rather than an old withered man.
Well, duh.
When I heard that he had perhaps had too big a shot of Demerol, I thought he was probably in so much pain from the rehearsal the previous night and, looking out over the 50 concerts looming in the future, thought, “F-— it” and upped the dose from temporary to permanent relief of pain. This article makes me think this more than ever.
I’d say you got it right staytrue. The only thing that I would add is maybe Michael encouraged his doctor to over-prescribe him the demerol to end all this. Kind of like doctor assisted suicide. Of course all his enablers would find that just dandy for the reasons you laid out.
I was reading up on CPR the other day and found out that a person can live for several minutes without breathing as long as the heart keeps beating, which can happen with some drug overdoses.
I’ve seen 50 year old country singers who would get worn out just standing there strumming a guitar and singing their songs. A 50 year old Michael Jackson moonwalking all over a huge stage. I don’t think so.
I’m going to add that we the public would rather remember Michael Jordan as Air Jordan instead of the very competent, but old man he was in his comeback.
The same goes for Magic Johnson for his 10 game comeback bid.
He was $400 million in debt.
I had always thought his plan for a comeback — even 10 shows, let alone 50 — was unrealistic. Given his age and the changing music tastes, there was no way he could pretend 15 years got up and walked out the door. He was well into middle age, trying desperately to pass for 20.
This whole debacle just shows how sadly removed MJ was from the outside world. He had retreated into a house of mirrors, surrounded by users. I always guessed the comeback tour was a desperate attempt to recoup his finances, as well as his reputation. Shorn of his superstar status, he was truly lost.
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