Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Michael Jackson--as usual, the media has grabbed onto this story and are going to worry it to death like a dog with a bone. The death of a president wouldn't have caused such an uproar.
Now folks, as a former coroner/medical examiner I can tell you that his touted  cause of death "cardiac arrest" is not a legitimate or legal diagnosis. In coroner training that was a big NO NO--"cardiac arrest" means nothing. You have to put on a death certificate what caused the cardiac arrest, such as cardiac arrythmias, myocardial infarction, etc. Then you can put on the death certificate "Cardiac arrest caused by arrythmia, or infarction, or electrocution, or drug overdose"  etc.
Jackson is said to have died 400 million dollars in debt, and had no impulse control in flushing his money away.  It's gonna be a mess for a long time as creditors fight it out to get paid. And no one wants to mention his problems with child molestation charges. Yes, he was immensely talented but also an immensely damaged person. It's gonna be interesting to see what happens to his children. I feel sorry for them.
Black performers speaking of him talk as if as if he were "one of them" though he did everything possible to look white. A clip of an interview with Diane Sawyer showed him with bleached skin, straight black hair wig, bobbed nose, and lipstick and full makeup. He looked like a black drag queen trying to look like a white woman. I think he had BDD, a medical/psychological condition,  "Body Dismorphic Disorder."  It seems he did everything he could to distance himself from his black heiritage. He had a white woman, Debbie Rowe, as biological mother for two of his children, and married Lisa Presley--white.
He was a lost soul who had sycophants willing to dose him up with enormous quantities of drugs.  It was only a matter of time until this denouement.                         susil