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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #270 on: October 29, 2009, 08:30:13 PM »
i was lookin to go last night and it was sold out. so ppl down here is either rel MJ fans or got caught up in d hype as u said. i go try an take it een weekend

Girl I was supposed to book mih ticket long time....we coulda make a lime and go and watch it this weekend but ah already have a setta thing to go to.  Let me know if you get tickets and the ease (or lack thereof) of getting them...

i muhself mite have a scene to handle dis weekend. but ah will let u know how and if anything play off
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #271 on: November 01, 2009, 10:54:09 PM »
So since I know I eh makin no cinema I buy meh bootleg dvd. How dey eh lock up dat Dr yet. 
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #272 on: November 02, 2009, 10:33:24 AM »
How dey eh lock up dat Dr yet. 

Eh heh??...how he eh get lock up yet??  :waiting:
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #273 on: November 02, 2009, 12:12:54 PM »
de man movie rake een ah 100 mill oui.
soon ah go b ah lean mean bulling machine.

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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #274 on: November 02, 2009, 04:04:11 PM »
I went and see it.

LOVED IT!

Must admit I am a huge MJ fan tho.  Even self.....wicked movie.  Dat concert woulda mash up de place!
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #275 on: November 03, 2009, 06:44:59 PM »
I went and see it.

LOVED IT!

Must admit I am a huge MJ fan tho.  Even self.....wicked movie.  Dat concert woulda mash up de place!

Oh lord, oh lord....some ah we ent see it yet....yuh taking way all the suspense....
"...If yuh clothes tear up
Or yuh shoes burst off,
You could still jump up when music play.
Old lady, young baby, everybody could dingolay...
Dingolay, ay, ay, ay ay,
Dingolay ay, ay, ay..."

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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #276 on: November 23, 2009, 02:17:06 PM »
The Associated Press • November 23, 2009

Michael Jackson wins 4 American Music Awards LOS ANGELES — The King of Pop is still winning awards and setting records doing it.

But while Michael Jackson won a record four posthumous awards, he couldn't beat Taylor Swift for top honors at Sunday night's American Music Awards.

The 19-year-old was named the year's favorite artist, giving Jackson his only loss of the night, and giving her five trophies in all.

"Music has never been ultimately about competition," she said as she accepted the top prize via satellite from London, where she is to perform Monday. "To even be mentioned in a category with Michael Jackson, who we will miss and love forever, is an unimaginable honor."

The victories came during a performance-filled show that closed with an S&M-themed, sexually charged performance by Adam Lambert.

Swift was also named favorite female pop/rock and country artist and favorite adult-contemporary artist. Her album, "Fearless," won favorite country album. Jackson was voted favorite male artist in the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories. His 2003 greatest-hits album, "Number Ones," also won favorite album in both categories, bringing his career AMA total to 23, making him the most honored artist in AMA history.

Jackson's victories were among the highlights of the evening, which also featured an eye-popping performance by Lady Gaga, a special award for Whitney Houston and that jaw-dropping number from Lambert, who traded in his "American Idol" image for sex, leather and chains Sunday.

On an elaborate set filled with stairs and platforms, Lambert fondled a female dancer, kissed an androgynous band mate and led two leather-clad men across the stage on leashes as he sang the title track from his new CD, "For Your Entertainment," out this week.

Lady Gaga, wearing a "Alien"-inspired headdress and vest filled with lights, performed songs from her new album, "The Fame Monster," also due in stores this week. She used her microphone to break into a glass case where a grand piano stood. It caught fire when she sat down to play.

Whitney Houston made a resplendent return to the AMA stage with an elegant performance of "I Didn't Know My Own Strength." The 46-year-old entertainer also received the International Award of Excellence for her musical and philanthropic contributions. She dedicated the honor to her daughter, music mogul Clive Davis and "everybody who supported me."

Jackson's trophies were accepted by his brother Jermaine, who paid tribute to his late brother by wearing glittery white glove. He thanked "Allah for blessing my entire family" and named each of his brothers and sisters.

He said the message of Michael, who died in June at age 50, is more important than any award.

"The message that Michael had will live on forever," he said. "He saw good in everyone and he wanted everyone to do good. He always started with love."

The American Music Awards honor the year's top-selling artists in eight popular genres, and fans voted for the winners online. But even more than awards, the AMAs are about performances, and more than a dozen of them filled Sunday's show.

The Black Eyed Peas, voted favorite pop/rock band, energized the crowd when they performed two of the year's most popular hits: "I Got A Feeling" and "Boom Boom Pow."

Rihanna returned to the AMA stage, sporting blonde hair, a skintight, white peek-a-boo bodysuit and a tattoo down the front of her neck that read "Rated R," the name of her new album, out this week.

Janet Jackson opened the show with a medley of some of the biggest hits from her long career -- all tracks that appear on her new greatest-hits collection, also called "Number Ones."

Alicia Keys and Jay-Z dueted on their ode to New York City. Shakira was flanked by a dozen dancers in tiny black bodysuits as she sang her new single. Kelly Clarkson performed a stripped down version of her hit "Already Gone," backed by a string quartet.

Jennifer Lopez added a boxing motif to her dance-filled performance, but she slipped during a tricky move and landed on her bottom.

Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong confessed backstage that the show left him star-struck.

"When you see all the talent that's in the room" like Jay-Z and Lady Gaga, he said, "it's like holy moly, these are huge people."

The band was voted favorite alternative artist. Other winners Sunday included Jay-Z, wife Beyonce, Keith Urban and Rascal Flatts.
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #277 on: November 23, 2009, 03:15:39 PM »
It would be good if Taylor Swift coulda sing or even dance for that matter.
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #278 on: November 23, 2009, 04:53:07 PM »
It would be good if Taylor Swift coulda sing or even dance for that matter.

doh even get me started on she. how she famous? i really doh get it  ???
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #279 on: November 24, 2009, 02:20:53 PM »
It would be good if Taylor Swift coulda sing or even dance for that matter.

doh even get me started on she. how she famous? i really doh get it  ???

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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #280 on: November 24, 2009, 03:11:28 PM »
to be honest, i cannot remember a single song from this whole decade that interest me. no surprise MJ win those awards. they should award more awards posthumously with what passing as music today.

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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #281 on: November 29, 2009, 05:31:31 AM »
good riddance

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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #282 on: November 29, 2009, 08:07:46 PM »

man wearing 777 on he hand and allyuh praising him
umm.....care to expound just a little?
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #283 on: November 30, 2009, 09:26:11 AM »

man wearing 777 on he hand and allyuh praising him
umm.....care to expound just a little?

Dutty, ah tink dais de fella who a few houses down from 666...yuh din get de memo?
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #284 on: November 30, 2009, 12:44:53 PM »

man wearing 777 on he hand and allyuh praising him
umm.....care to expound just a little?

Dutty, ah tink dais de fella who a few houses down from 666...yuh din get de memo?
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #285 on: December 15, 2009, 09:34:19 AM »
Anybody c d Jackson's reality series wit d brudders? Dey want me 2 blieve dat d 1st time dey talk bout Jermaine leavin d grp was on d reality tv show? Quotin Nicki Crosby YEAH RITE
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #286 on: October 29, 2013, 01:57:33 AM »
Fuad: He can apply to practise in T&T
Jackson’s doc freed from jail
By Anna Ramdass (Express).


Caribbean-born doctor Conrad Murray, who was yesterday released from a Los Angeles jail after two years for involuntary manslaughter in the death of American pop star Michael Jackson, can return to Trinidad and appeal to the Medical Board  for a licence to practise.

Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan, in a telephone interview with the Express yesterday, said Murray, 60, a cardiologist, can make a case legally as Section 40 of the Constitution guarantees citizens equal rights.

“He has already paid his dues, you cannot pay for something indefinitely. In that sense there is the possibility where he can make a case to the Medical Board and they will consider whether he can be registered,” said Khan.

Murray was hired by Jackson as his personal physician as he was preparing for his 2009 concert tour.

In June 2009, Jackson died of a prescription drug overdose where lethal levels of surgical anaesthetic propofol were found in his body.

On November 29, 2011, after a six-week trial, US Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor gave Murray the maximum four-year prison sentence, describing him as a “disgrace to the medical profession”.

However, in an exclusive interview with the Express yesterday, one of Murray’s patients and closest friends, Garreth Kalloo, said the doctor was treated unfairly and this country should welcome him with open arms.

Kalloo and his family flew to Los Angeles to lend support to Murray and be at his side upon his release from prison yesterday.

They were present with Murray’s family—his mother, wife and four-year- old son—when Murray walked out of the Los Angeles county jail just after midnight yesterday, a free man.

Murray was whisked away avoiding the glare of international media and unforgiving Jackson fans.

“We were the first persons to meet with him privately, he is a good man, he will be coming to Trinidad soon,” said Kalloo.

Kalloo is the godfather to Murray’s son. He said he met Murray some 20 years ago when the doctor visited his business—Kalloo’s Auto Rentals—looking for a car to rent.

Kalloo said he gave Murray his personal Mercedes Benz to use and over the years a friendship deepened as Murray returned home almost annually for Carnival.

Kalloo said Murray was a godsend as he owes his life to him. “He saved my life. Four years ago I had heart problems which required very complex surgery. Many doctors in the US did not want to perform the surgery,” said Kalloo.

“He looks good. He wants to come back to his country. I think the Minister of  Health should assist in ensuring he gets back his licence as he can save many lives at home,” said Kalloo.

“He’s like a member of my family and I stand by him. He is one of the best cardiologists and we need someone like him in Trinidad,” he added.

Kalloo claimed Murray was victimised and became a scapegoat of blame for Jackson’s death.

Kalloo and his family spent time with Murray and his family at a private undisclosed location in Los Angeles yesterday.

He said Murray told him he will be coming home this year.

He said Murray gave him some thoughts to share with the people of Trinidad and Tobago which he wrote: “I am a son of the soil, I send my warm affection to all, see you soon.”

Murray was born on Grenada, in February 1953, where his parents met. At the age of seven he moved to Trinidad where he lived with his mother and completed high school and worked as teacher, customs clerk and insurance underwriter before moving to the US to pursue his education and career in medicine.

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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #287 on: October 29, 2013, 05:25:17 AM »
wait..dey goe use him tuh run fuh election soon..

Yuh tink dem fellas easy...watch ting...
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #288 on: October 29, 2013, 04:19:14 PM »
Murray was born on Grenada, in February 1953, where his parents met. At the age of seven he moved to Trinidad where he lived with his mother and completed high school and worked as teacher, customs clerk and insurance underwriter before moving to the US to pursue his education and career in medicine.
So why are we trying to claim this fellow while the Grenadians have enough sense to keep quiet to avoid any international embarrassment?!  :-[
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #289 on: October 30, 2013, 02:03:31 AM »
Mom re-unites with son, Dr Conrad Murray
By CAROL MATROO Wednesday, October 30 2013


Just moments after her son Dr Conrad Murray was released from a Los Angeles jail yesterday morning, after serving nearly two years of a four-year sentence, his mother Milta Rush flew out of Trinidad to lend her support to the man who was found guilty of causing the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, because of a drug overdose in 2009.

He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. A childhood friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Rush left the country on Sunday to be at her son’s side.

The friend said the mother has distanced herself from people in the area, after they spoke with the Newsday about her son’s arrest when it happened. “I am happy that he is out, really glad for him, but other than that I have no other comment to make. His mother was not very happy when we spoke about him, and all we said was good,” the friend recalled.

After his release Murray was sighted just once by the media, having burgers at an In-N-Out burger joint. His attorney stated that he was spending time with his family, and asking for his privacy. Rush was said to be spending time with Murray, his girlfriend Nicole Alvarez, and their son at an undisclosed location. A jury concluded after a two-month trial that Murray’s negligence led to Jackson’s death from an overdose of the surgical anaesthetic propofol.

Murray, a cardiologist who grew up in El Socorro, Trinidad, but was born in Grenada, was hired to serve as the pop icon’s personal doctor for his comeback tour in 2009. He told investigators at the time he gave Jackson nightly infusions of propofol (also known as diprivan) to treat his intractable insomnia for two months, so he could rest for rehearsals.

Propofol is a short-acting, intravenously administered hypnotic/amnestic agent. Its use includes the induction and maintenance of general anaesthesia, sedation for mechanically ventilated adults, and procedural sedation. Propofol is also commonly used in veterinary medicine. Prosecutors argued that his negligence included leaving Jackson unmonitored, and unattended while the powerful anaesthetic was being pumped into his vein through an IV drip.

Murray left the Los Angeles County jail under sheriff’s escort, avoiding reporters and Jackson fans waiting for his release early Monday. He was driven away in a sheriff’s car from the “safety and security” of the jail, a report stated.

The handful of Jackson fans gathered outside the jail accused the Los Angeles County sheriff of showing favouritism to Murray by slipping him out of the jail through a back exit, instead of the door where freed prisoners normally leave. Murray, who the sheriff’s spokesman described as an exemplary inmate, was kept away from the general inmate population during his two years in the jail. He was also allowed to have liberal use of a telephone inside his cell during his last year.

While Murray lost his medical licence in several states, Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan said he could re-apply if he returned to Trinidad.

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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #290 on: October 31, 2013, 08:50:31 AM »
Murray was born on Grenada, in February 1953, where his parents met. At the age of seven he moved to Trinidad where he lived with his mother and completed high school and worked as teacher, customs clerk and insurance underwriter before moving to the US to pursue his education and career in medicine.
So why are we trying to claim this fellow while the Grenadians have enough sense to keep quiet to avoid any international embarrassment?!  :-[

By virtue of his mother being Trini, he is Trini. The man also spent his formative years in TT. He went to school and worked in the country. We have to take the good and bad.

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« Reply #291 on: October 31, 2013, 12:15:36 PM »
Murray was born on Grenada, in February 1953, where his parents met. At the age of seven he moved to Trinidad where he lived with his mother and completed high school and worked as teacher, customs clerk and insurance underwriter before moving to the US to pursue his education and career in medicine.
So why are we trying to claim this fellow while the Grenadians have enough sense to keep quiet to avoid any international embarrassment?!  :-[

By virtue of his mother being Trini, he is Trini. The man also spent his formative years in TT. He went to school and worked in the country. We have to take the good and bad.
Nope he is Grenadian by birth and not Trini and both his parents are Grenadians and his mother came to Trinidad for work and a better standard of living while he was still vey young and sent for him when he was 7 years old.

Here is his official bio:-

Conrad Murray biography

Quick Facts


NAME: Conrad Murray
OCCUPATION: Doctor
BIRTH DATE:February 19, 1953 (Age: 60)
EDUCATION: Texas Southern University, Meharry Medical College, Mayo Clinic
PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Andrews, Grenada
Full Name: Conrad Robert Murray
AKA: Dr. Conrad Murray
AKA: Conrad Murray
AKA: Dr. Conrad Robert Murray
ZODIAC SIGN:Pisces

Synopsis

Conrad Murray was born on February 19, 1953, in St. Andrews, Grenada. He moved to the United States in 1980. In 1999, he opened a private practice. Michael Jackson hired him as a personal physician for Jackson's 2009 concert tour. In June 2009, Jackson died of a prescription drug overdose. Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson in November 2011, and was sentenced to four years in prison. He served about two years at a Los Angeles County jail before being released in October 2013.

Early Life and Medical Training

Conrad Robert Murray was born on February 19, 1953, in St. Andrews, Grenada. The man who would become embroiled in the controversy surrounding the death of the "King of Pop" in June 2009 did not come from money. With his mother Milta spending most of her time in Trinidad and Tobago in search of better paying work, Murray lived with his maternal grandparents, two Grenadian farmers. His fractured family life was compounded by the total absence of his father, Rawle Andrews, a Houston area physician who, up until his death in 2001, focused his career on offering medical services to the poor. Conrad didn't meet his dad until he was 25.
 
At the age of seven, Murray relocated to Trinidad and Tobago to live with his mother, where he became a citizen and finished high school. Like Milta, Murray was determined to make a better life for himself, demonstrating at an early age a propensity to work hard. After high school he volunteered as an elementary school teacher in Trinidad, an experience he followed with work as a customs clerk and an insurance underwriter in order to pay for his college education. Murray also wasn't afraid to take advantage of an opportunity. At the age of 19 he bought his first house, then later sold it for a decent profit to support his university tuition in the United States.
 
In 1980, two years after first visiting Houston and getting a chance to introduce himself to his father, Conrad Murray returned to Texas to enroll at Texas Southern University, where in just three years he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in pre-medicine and biological sciences. From there, Murray followed in his father's footsteps and attended the primarily African-American Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.
 
Upon graduating Maharre, Murray enrolled for additional training at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and then completed his residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California. Other training stints followed; he studied at the University of Arizona on a Cardiology Fellowship, and landed back in California, where he eventually worked as the associate director for the interventional cardiology fellowship-training program at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego.

Practicing Medicine in Las Vegas

In 1999, Dr. Murray left California for a second time and struck out on his own, opening up a private practice in Las Vegas. Locating his office just east of the strip, Murray—again taking a cue from his father—aimed to serve not just the city's wealthy, but its underserved as well.

In 2006, Murray expanded his scope and returned to the city where his father had made a name for himself to open the Acres Homes Heart and Vascular Institute.

"We have been so lucky to have Dr. Murray and that clinic in this community," Houston patient Ruby Mosley told People magazine. "There are many, many patients that thank God this man was here for them."

Those who've had financial dealings with the doctor, however, might feel otherwise. Unpaid debts, lawsuits, and tax liens have followed Dr. Murray's life. More than $400,000 in court judgments alone were issued against his Las Vegas practice, and in December 2008 Dr. Murray, who has an unknown number of children, was ordered to cough up $3,700 in unpaid child support.

Treating the 'King of Pop'

In fact, it was Dr. Murray's debt situation that set the stage for his working relationship with Michael Jackson. The two men had first met in 2006 when the singer, a frequent Vegas visitor, had contacted Dr. Murray about treating one of his children for an unknown medical situation. Reports indicate that the two men soon became friends and, as Jackson began making plans for his upcoming 2009 concert tour, he hired Dr. Murray to be his personal physician for an astounding $150,000 a month.
 
Jackson's motivation to bring Murray aboard, though, may have had less to do with friendship and more to do with the singer's own complicated reliance on prescription medicine. Following Jackson's death, police discovered more than 20 prescriptions inside his rented Holmby Hills home, including methadone, fentanyl, percocet, dilaudid, and vicodin.
 
By all accounts, Jackson had become an insomniac and had pushed for the use of propofol, an anesthetic, to help him rest. Along with a mix of other drugs Jackson used to go to bed, he often referred to the concoction as his "milk" or "liquid sleep." But it was propofol he seems to have had a particular fondness for. Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse and nutritionist whom Jackson employed, told ABC News that the singer begged her to buy more of the drug for him. She refused.
 
"The problem with you telling me you want to be knocked out," Lee said she told him, is "you might not wake up the next morning. You don't want that."

Michael Jackson's Death

Dr. Murray, however, was another matter. While court documents showed he never actually purchased the drug for Jackson, over the course of the six weeks he worked for him, the doctor administered a nightly intravenous drip of propofol—despite his concerns that Jackson may be addicted to the drug.

That was the case on June 25, 2009, when Jackson, exhausted from a long rehearsal session at the Staples Center in Los Angeles that went past midnight, returned home and tried to get some rest. A familiar routine followed, with Murray hooking up his client to an IV in order to administer the propofol. Dr. Murray also gave Jackson lorazepam, an anti-anxiety medicine, and midazolam, a muscle relaxant.

According to records, the doctor then left Jackson's side for a few minutes to go to the bathroom. 

When he returned he found the singer with a weak pulse and had stopped breathing. Reportedly, Murray immediately started applying CPR to revive the singer. In addition, in what has garnered plenty of controversy, Dr. Murray also administered another drug, flumazenil, to try to offset the sedatives already circulating in Jackson's body. Some experts have said Murray's use of this additional medicine may have actually exacerbated the problems propofol had caused.

While questions remain about Dr. Murray's work to try and save Jackson's life in those first harried moments, what is clear is that 82 minutes passed before the doctor or anyone else at Jackson's home called paramedics to the house. When emergency officials did finally arrive, Dr. Murray at first failed to tell them about the drugs he injected into the singer. Jackson was officially pronounced dead at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he had arrived via ambulance with Dr. Murray at his side.

Investigation & Indictment

In the months that followed the pop star's death, Conrad Murray's working relationship with the singer became not only the target of irate and shocked Jackson fans, but police investigators as well. In mid-August 2009, more than two dozen DEA agents, LA police detectives and Houston officers raided the doctor's Houston medical office to take a forensic image of Murray's computer and collect a myriad of medical documents.
 
Around that same time, news reports indicated that Dr. Murray was soon going to be charged with manslaughter, something that was heightened on August 24, 2009, when preliminary findings by the chief coroner for Los Angeles county revealed that Jackson had died as the result of lethal levels of propofol.
 
For his part, Dr. Murray said little about his work with Michael Jackson and the circumstances surrounding the singer's death, confining his remarks to a teary-eyed video he posted on YouTube. "I have done all I can do [to help the police]," Dr Murray tells the camera. "I told the truth, and I have faith the truth will prevail." Unfortunately for the doctor, after a six-week trial and a two-day deliberation process, a Los Angeles jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter on November 7, 2011.
 
On November 29, 2011, Murray was given the maximum sentence of four years in prison. In the sentencing, Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor called Murray "a disgrace to the medical profession" and said he showed a "continual pattern of deceit."
 
Murray served out about two years of his sentence at a Los Angeles County jail. He was released in October 2013 and continues to appeal his conviction in the case.
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #292 on: November 01, 2013, 06:33:59 PM »
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Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« Reply #293 on: August 23, 2015, 05:48:19 AM »
The story behind the photo
By Mark Lyndersay (Guardian).


When I took this photograph in a small meeting room at the Trinidad Hilton, I’d been taking photographs for just a couple of years, mostly snapshots to accompany my first stories for the press. I’d managed to get into it through my cousin Alfred Aguiton, whose PR firm AMPLE was handling the press relations for the Jacksons visit to T&T.
 
Michael Jackson had already had one entire career by then, and was on the verge of launching another, steering clear of his brothers and Epic Records to chart his own path as a solo artist.

Janelle “Penny” Commissiong, freshly crowned Miss Universe, was staying at the hotel and was invited down to meet the performers.

So for around a half an hour, the most beautiful woman in the universe, the King of Pop and I were all in the same room and I was the only one with a camera.

The resulting photographs changed my life, and I became known as a photographer after that. I wrote a story about the Jacksons’ visit for Owen Baptiste’s People Magazine, learned some hard lessons about negotiating for the value of my photographs from the Epic Records PR team and for the first time, my photographs were published internationally.

I still have the negatives from that shoot, along with all the positives.


When Penny met Michael. Michael Jackson kissing former Miss Universe Janelle 'Penny' Commissiong in 1978. Photo: Mark Lyndersay.

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