Ivy, I agree with Soundmind in that after Michael passed, the rumor was it was drug related death and that did not originate with Brian Oxman or any Jackson that I am aware of.
Oxman didn't help, but I agree Michael had this reputation before. Over here the news that he had been taken to hospital came at around 9pm or 10pm, on news channels, not on mainstream media. The news of his death came after midnight, at around 1 am. I don't think we saw Oxman in the media. The day after , morning of 26th here, which was still the evening of 25th in CA, my co workers, who are not fans- some of them had not even heard about his death since we started early in the morning-well most of them thought it was an OD.
the part you are missing is the different drugs, demerol versus propofol. let me ask you this way we all knew Michael had issues with pain medicine because he announced it in 1993. With having that information, have you ever assumed that Michael would have issues with other drugs? just because you knew he had used pain medicines, can you reasonably foresee that he would use anesthesia for sleep?
Why is it imortant that AEG knew what drug it was ?
The Jacksons are saying that they knew Michael had had addiction issues , and that Michael's health visibly deteriorated under Murray's care.
So we have Michael losing weight - it was an issue for AEG since they first asked Murray to deal with it, then when he failed to do so/be efficient/or they learned he was working at night, they tried to hire a nutritionnist, then as things were still not better , they hire a "food person".
We have a Michael that goes from "laser focused" to "slow at grabbing the work", appearing sometimes out of it, missing rehearsals, to not even able to use a fork to eat, all of this happening while under Murray's care and in spite of making it clear to Murray that his job was to get Michael to rehearsals (which he also failed to do).
And all of the time, Murray tells them Michael's fine.
And their answer is "we didn't know it was propofol ? "... Sorry, but it's pathetic.
Of course they didn't. If the Jacksons were supposed to show that , there would be no trial. The judge already said that they couldn't be held responsible for the medical aspects of Murray's "treatement". Even if they had known, they would not have understood it.
It's negligent hiring & retaining, supervising. They knew or should have understood that Murray was incompetent. Propofol is a safe drug. But put in the hands of an incompetent doctor.... They should have known that something weird was going on, damaging Michael's health.
Their problem now is those june events that I just described and the fact that they got involved with Murray. It was impossible not to supsect Murray, especially if they suspected Klein. They
used Murray instead of running away from him.
They can't blame Murray now , saying "oh the doc lied to us" because it wouldn't fly, the jury - I guess- would be "what , didn't you realise BEFORE knowing it was propofol that Murray was lying to you ?'
That's why we have AEG now not far from defending Murray- minimising what he did- and putting everything on Michael. Good luck with that, because it's not the easiest defense.
as far as I can see, your logic is based on the idea that Michael was doctor shopping and every doctor was there to give drugs. First you are hurting the case with addiction, life expectancy and responsibility. Secondly there were doctors - Metzger and Nurse Lee - refusing to give Propofol to Michael and that goes against reasonable conclusion. So you can see that even if Klein was giving Demerol, even if we assume that Michael was asking every single doctor for more drugs, it doesn't mean the doctors would give it to him. even Katherine Jackson said "just because he asked for it doesn't mean he needs to give it to him". So it's not "doctor in MJ's life = gives improper drugs".
It seems to me that it's going from one extreme to the other. An addict may always relapse, so yes, especially if you are going to hire a doctor on behalf of an ex addict/dependent, and become a third party, you would like to check, just to be sure everything's fine. There's nothing wrong with that, it's a simple precaution.
It would have been a responsible thing to do on AEG's part.
Another example , when you visit certain monuments, or go into certain museums, certain buildings, board a plane, certain boats you have to go though security. Do they suspect every single one person ?
He did say in an interview he did on the radio I think, when asked about halloween. He said he loved chocolate and then the host asked something about which chocolate and Michael said milk chocolate, host got happy said he too loves the milk chocolate too.
