Big Fat Story
Told Jackson he was “absolutely insane.”
As rumors swirl about Michael Jackson’s reported drug overdose, how much did Dr. Arnold Klein really know? Klein told Larry King that Demerol—a strong painkiller—was “about the strongest medicine I ever used.” And of Diprivan, the powerful anesthetic that was reportedly found in Jackson’s home, Klein said: “It’s a wonderful drug when used correctly.” When he learned Michael was using Diprivan with an anesthesiologist to go to sleep at night, Klein said, “I told him he was absolutely insane.” But when it came to the allegations that Diprivan was found in Jackson’s home, Klein responded that he was “very shocked by it, but it's not something that would be unheard of.”
For years, Grace Rwaramba, the nanny to Michael Jackson's children, endured countless tabloid rumors, along with the pop star's parasitic inner circle. When one of Jacko's confidants, the shady Brother Michael of the Nation of Islam, successfully lobbied for Rwaramba's firing, she still kept quiet, never speaking to the media. Now, in the wake of Jackson's death, she is ready to talk to the authorities and "reveal all," especially regarding the disturbed entertainer's "myriad physicians." While Rwaramba dishes dirt on the King of Pop's lifestyle, she has also been re-welcomed by the Jackson family, and is spending her time once again caring for the children.
Pop star surrounded himself with an incompetent security team that fed his drug habit.
Michael Jackson had a weakness for handsome young men. So much so that he repeatedly hired good looking youngsters as senior members of his security team, despite the fact that they had absolutely no experience. Now, in the wake of Jacko's demise, the Daily Beast has learned details about Jackson's incompetent security team that was eventually disbanded as the Nation of Islam moved in. At one point, Jackson's security chief was a blonde 18 year-old surfer dude. Another of Jacko's security staff went "doctor shopping" for the star in an effort to feed his appetite for Xanax. As the fallout continues over Jackson's estate, expect many more revelations regarding the motley crew of shady characters that managed the King of Pop's life.
The Jackson Files
From Michael Jackson’s loose-lipped nanny to his close friendship with Dr. Arnold Klein, The Daily Beast’s Gerald Posner has been chronicling the pop star’s mysterious life and death.
Michael Jackson showed many signs of being a hypochondriac in the final decade of his career, often appearing frail, in a wheelchair, or with a surgical mask. But it has only recently become clear the extreme measures he took to combat his physical decline. Sources close to Jackson told The Daily Beast's Gerald Posner that they had seen the star's medical team inject him with various medicines. Some speculate that Jackson's ex-wife and former nurse, Debbie Rowe, may have been one of his enablers. As recently as several weeks before Jackson's untimely demise, a witness said he saw the King of Pop being administered "an intravenous solution in his bedroom." When the witness asked what was going on, he was told it was not uncommon and no cause for concern, as Jackson "needed to be rehydrated with vitamins and fluids" after his concert rehearsals.
How Michael first met Arnold Klein.
Who initially lead Michael Jackson to Arnold Klein? In an exclusive report, The Daily Beast’s Gerald Posner suggests that it was Michael’s close friend Elizabeth Taylor. “A very close friend of his told him to come and see me,” Klein told Larry King, though he didn’t specify. According to a source, when Taylor—who suffered from her own prescription-drug and alcohol problems—was pressed about who prescribed her the drugs, she admitted that it was Dr. Klein. Around the time Liz entered rehab in 1988, a source says, Jackson started consulting Klein. And though friends warned Jackson that it would be “toxic” for him, Jackson developed close relationships with both Taylor and Klein. The doctor attended Taylor’s birthday at the Bellagio Hotel in 1999. According to photographers who followed him, Jackson visited Klein’s Beverly Hills office two to three times a week, where he would stay anywhere from 30 minutes to five hours. “I was very close to him,” Klein told King.
Klein got off easy in his big interview.
Larry King may have gotten a few juicy tidbits from Klein on Jackson’s children and drug use, but according to The Daily Beast’s Gerald Posner, he merely skimmed the surface. When Klein told King that Jackson came to him through a “close friend,” King misses the obvious followup: Who? Was it indeed Liz Taylor, as reports suggest? King also wimped out on asking Klein if he had ever seen needle marks on Jackson’s arms. And when Klein tells King that he told Jackson he was “absolutely insane” for taking Diprivan, King misses asking: “Why did you say on Good Morning America earlier today, ‘How am I going to prescribe Diprivan when I don’t understand how to use it?' That is not a denial that you prescribed it. Did you ever write it for Jackson? Any similar anesthetic?”
In the days after Michael Jackson’s death, rumors swirled that Klein was the real father of Jackson’s children. Jackson met Debbie Rowe, his first wife and the mother of his two eldest children, when she was a nurse in Klein’s office, which may suggest the doctor was involved in their relationship. But in an interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, Klein weighed in: “To the best of my knowledge, I am not the father of these children.”
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This is not so much a big fat story as a big fat example of TV-driven media's cluelessness. Michael Jackson hasn't been a big star for decades. wduane.
Although I wasn't a Michael Jackson fan, I appreciate his talent and all he accomplished. But good grief! It is so painfully obvious that an enormous amount of the publicity his death received and continues to receive is more for the self-aggrandizement of the "mourners," reporters, and commentators than for any loss they feel over Jackson's passing. I would LOVE to conduct an inventory of Michael Jackson recordings owned by all those who have focused the spotlight upon themselves by capitalizing on Jackson's death.
yeah...thats so true
Regardless of biology those precious kids were MJ's and the Jackson family is their family as much today as it was prior to his death. They will now grow up under the media microscope, which is an added misfourtune for them. I hope they nevertheless are able to grow up healthy and happy.
That being said I cannot resist the impulse to say that the two boys look an awful lot like MJ's close friend Miko Brando, even though they have different moms. Just sayin.
One of the reality's of this tragedy is how the throngs of idiots think that the loss of one more disfunctional dope-fiend is some how a loss to humanity.The only people to be sorry for in this drama are the children. Michael Jackson got his just deserves.
The lesson to be learned here is that there are consequences for the un-controllable lust for money and attention. This man did not earn the right to be thought of as some sort of humanitarian roll-model. So please, call it as it is. The final chapter to the tragic life saga of a very confused non-essential person.
what do you mean by this man did not earn the right to be thought???
Why is it that all we hear about is Michael Jackson? Yes the media exists not to further inform us about events in the world, but to please and attract more advertisers and with them more advertisement money...oh, wait maybe that's why the news is filled with meaningless exposes on the life and death of Michael Jackson while the electorate is left clueless to important news in the world. Perhaps the Daily Beast's time would be better spent creating a 'big fat story' about the G8 summit, or the American-Russian meeting, or any number of other, more important, news pieces.
can't you see.....he is a pop star okey....
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