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”I’m not just fighting for myself I’m fighting for all artists. Those great artists who pioneered the entertainment business. They have been taken by the system, totally broken financially. This has to stop, this conspiracy.”
- Michael Jackson
Officially, Michael Jackson died on June 25th, 2009, and in November of 2011 in a Los Angeles court, the judge ruled cardiologist Dr. Conrad Murray was guilty of involuntary manslaughter after the jury decided his treatment of the singer had been criminally negligent. The story is that Dr. Murray, Michael’s personal physician, gave Michael a lethal dose of anaesthetic, and that’s how he died.
Reports of financial problems for Jackson became frequent in 2006 after the closure of the main house on the Neverland Ranch as a cost-cutting measure.
On February 25, 2008, Jackson received word from Financial Title Company, the trustee, that unless he paid off $24,525,906.61 by March 19, a public auction would go forward of the land, buildings, and other items such as the rides, trains, and art.
"The figures speak for themselves — 360,000 tickets sold in 18 hours during the pre sale so far, that is 20,000 tickets per hour, 33 tickets per minute!" Demand was so great for the Jackson shows, Ticketmaster was struck with technical problems due to the high traffic. Among the records This Is It! has broken: The biggest audience ever to see an artist in one city, the most amount of people to attend a series of arena shows and fastest ticket sales in history.
The film is now the highest grossing concert movie and documentary in the history of cinema.
We've just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
”I’m not just fighting for myself I’m fighting for all artists. Those great artists who pioneered the entertainment business. They have been taken by the system, totally broken financially. This has to stop, this conspiracy.”
- Michael Jackson
There were numerous individuals who voiced their doubts about Jackson’s ability to perform, including emails from AEG employees calling Jackson a “basket case.” Also included were messages from the show’s director, Kenny Ortega, who told Phillips the pop star was not ready for the comeback tour. Ortega even called for a psychiatric intervention and according to the Times, stated, "There are strong signs of paranoia, anxiety and obsessive-like behavior. I think the very best thing we can do is get a top psychiatrist in to evaluate him ASAP.”
Phillips, resisting the requests by Ortega and other emails about Jackson, wrote, “It is critical that neither you, me or anyone around this show become amateur psychiatrists or physicians.