A 911 caller from Michael Jackson’s rented home in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, CA reported that Michael wasn’t breathing and was not responding to CPR. The ambulance arrived 3 minutes and 17 seconds after the call at 12:30 P.M. and paramedics tried to resuscitate him for almost an hour before rushing him to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He was declared dead Thursday, June 25, at 2:26 P.M. He suffered from cardiac arrest, an abnormal heart rhythm that stops the heart from pumping blood to the body, but the official cause of his death is still unknown.“The night before he had complained of not feeling well,” brother Marlon Jackson said.
Brian Oxman, a former Jackson attorney for 20 years and a family friend, claimed that Jackson had been taking prescription drugs to relieve pain at his disposal after he fell off a stage and broke the vertebrae in his back. Oxman had been concerned about Jackson possibly abusing the drugs and had warned family members that he may end up dead one morning from an overdose similar to Anna Nicole Smith.
Lt. Brian Elias, Los Angeles County coroner's watch commander, said the autopsy would begin Friday, but determining the official cause of death would take weeks or more. The toxicology results, which take about 6 to 8 weeks, will allow coroners to examine the chemicals in Jackson’s body and determine whether he really had an overdose from the drugs. Police towed away a BMW near the home "because it may contain medications or other evidence that may assist the coroner in determining the cause of death," police spokeswoman Karen Rayner said. She said the BMW belonged to one of Jackson’s doctors who was at the rented home the day before when Jackson called because he was not feeling well. The police want to interview the doctor, but the doctor is not under criminal investigation.
Jackson was in LA rehearsing for his series of 50 concerts, “This is It”, that was scheduled to kick off July 13 at London’s O2 Arena. Although he was one of the greatest hits selling more than 61 million albums in the U.S, the concerts were mainly designed to wipe out Jackson’s tremendous debt staggering to at least $400 million.
Brian Oxman says Jackson’s three children, Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II “are doing fine.” “They were silent, they were crying, they weren't really able to say anything," he says. "They just were stunned by this whole experience." Oxman adds, "I know that they are now all together."
Not only did Jackson take fame as the “King of Pop”, but he also takes the fame of creating the most hits, errors, and traffic on the internet from all over the world. There were outages and sites were unable to load or errors popped up because so many people were shocked and wanted to know the details of his death June 25, 2009.
