Another Storage Unit Rented by Jackson Doc | TMZ.com
Dr. Murray has a 10x20 unit at a Public Storage facility in Las Vegas. We've learned an employee of Dr. Murray's came to the unit as recently as July 30 with Dr. Murray's credit card number on a piece of paper and paid the rental fee. We do not know if items were removed or stored at that time. Dr. Murray missed the July 15 deadline to make payment and he was charged a late fee.
We're told one of the four people authorized on Dr. Murray's behalf to come and go at the facility is Stacey Howe -- someone who figured prominently when Dr. Murray's Houston storage unit was raided last month. Federal agents seized correspondence addressed to Stacey Howe, and we're told the agents asked the manager of the storage facility if she knew of Howe.
When agents raided Dr. Murray's Houston medical practice, they seized two Yahoo e-mails from Stacey Howe.
Law enforcement believes Dr. Murray may have had Propofol -- the drug they believe killed Michael Jackson -- stored in the various storage units for shipment to the singer, though as far as we know they do not have proof ... at least not yet.
We do not know if the Vegas storage unit has been searched pursuant to a warrant.
August 3, 2009
Another Storage Unit Rented by Jackson Doc | TMZ.com
Michael Jackson deathbed: Chilling scene of star's final moments - mirror.co.uk
Michael Jackson deathbed: Chilling scene of star's final moments - mirror.co.ukMichael Jackson deathbed: Chilling scene of star's final moments
By Victoria Ward and Ryan Parry 3/08/2009
A picture has been published showing the bedroom where medics battled to save Michael Jackson.
The photo, which appeared in a Sunday tabloid at the weekend, was taken the day after the singer's death and shows the scene exactly as 999 crews found it when they were called to his home last month.
Jacko was pronounced dead two hours later and the second-floor room - thought to have been used by his personal doctor Conrad Murray - was immediately sealed as police launched an investigation. Nothing was removed.
In a powerful snapshot of his final moments, medical kit used to try to revive him lies discarded.
On the rug at the foot of the bed is a used Ambush-bag - a hand-held device used to resuscitate patients by forcing air through a mask and into the lungs.
More medical equipment is stored away on a wheeled trolley in the corner of the room including alcohol prepaid-lion pads, used to clean the skin before injections are given, a roll of surgical tape and a box of latex gloves.
On the bedside table is Wacko's glasses case, a half-finished bottle of orange and some Fiji mineral water.
A string of prayer beads, commonly worn by Jackson, is on the bed.
And what looks like an incontinence pad lies on the mattress where the cover has been thrown back and some blue ribbon believed to have been used as a tourniquet. Medics would have tied it tightly around Wacko's arm to find a vein to inject drugs.
An unopened tube of toothpaste is also on the bed and a doll can be seen poking out from the duvet.
Oxygen tanks are understood to be just out of sight.
It is believed the King of Pop suffered from chronic insomnia and used the strong unaesthetic Proposal to help him sleep, which is always given with oxygen.
But other equipment deemed vital in administering Propofol was absent from the 50-year-old's bedroom - kit that reports suggest could have saved his life.
Aide 'killed' Jacko with Demerol hit as Doctor Murray slept [THANK GOD, IT'S OVER. I CAN GET SOME SLEEP]
MICHAEL Jackson was killed by a shot of powerful painkiller Demerol given by an aide as his personal medic Dr Conrad Murray slept, The Sun can reveal.
Dr Murray is reported to have confessed to cops that he had ALREADY given the singer surgical anaesthetic Propofol that same day.
Jackson is feared to have woken when the effects wore off and demanded pain relief.
The Demerol was duly administered by the compliant aide - with devastating effects.
Quizzed ... Dr Conrad Murray
The combination of Demerol and Propofol, known by the brand name Diprivan, triggered a massive heart attack.
US sources have claimed the cardiologist was asleep and therefore not paying attention when his patient's heart stopped beating.
He woke to find 50-year-old Jackson dead and desperately tried to revive him.
A case insider told The Sun: "Murray would set up a system to give Michael a steady intravenous release of Diprivan through the night.
Drip
"But this time Michael woke up before Murray did and asked one of his aides for some Demerol.
"The aide gave it to him, but it was too soon after receiving the anaesthetic. That's what killed him."
Jackson is thought to have first taken Demerol to control the pain of burns to his scalp he suffered filming a Pepsi advert.
Dr Murray is said to have told Los Angeles police about administering Propofol two days after Jacko died on June 25.
Propofol - which should only be given in a hospital environment - can be delivered by an intravenous drip to release a steady supply.
But there should always be equipment available to monitor the electrical impulses of the patient's heart and the level of oxygen in their blood supply.
An ECG would trigger an alarm if the patient flatlined, while a pulse oximeter would sound if oxygen supplies changed.
Neither device was found by detectives when they searched Jackson's rented Holmby Hills mansion following his death.
Latex
Dr Murray's lawyer Ed Chernoff has always maintained that his client denies giving Jacko anything that killed him.
Meanwhile a picture believed to be of the bedroom in which Jackson died has emerged. On the floor at the foot of the deathbed is a manual oxygen pump.
Surrounding the bed are alcohol pads used for cleaning skin before injections, a roll of surgical tape and a box of latex gloves.
On the bedside table is a phone, contradicting Dr Murray's claim he was delayed calling 911 because there was no phone nearby.
On the bed are prayer beads. There is also what appears to be an incontinence pad and a makeshift tourniquet. The source of the pic said oxygen bottles used in the star's drugs regime are just out of shot.
JACKSON topped the UK album charts yesterday for the sixth week running with The Essential, which followed Number Ones.
LA FAMA VERSALLESCA DE JEFF KOONS Y MICHAEL JACKSON - i fucking hate yt for taking down all my good ones
LA FAMA VERSALLESCA DE JEFF KOONS Y MICHAEL JACKSON
Cuando el artista norteamericano Jeff Koons realizó en 1988 la perturbadora, pero atrayente escultura tamaño natural de Michael Jackson y su célebre chimpancé Bubbles, posiblemente no se imaginaba que tres años después ésta llegaría a venderse por 5.3 millones de dólares y que el Museo de Arte Moderno de San Francisco California (SFMOMA) los pagaría. Supongo que en ese entonces tampoco sospechaba que a la repentina muerte del Rey del Pop, esta bizarra escultura en porcelana blanca, dorada y policromada, se convertiría en un mórbido homenaje al cantante, un recordatorio insólitamente considerado de su deceso.Jeff Koons también es autor de la célebre escultura Hanging heart, la cual superó con creces el precio de venta del Michael, tanto así que actualmente ostenta el récord de haber sido la más cara jamás vendida de su autoría, alcanzando un precio de 23 millones de dólares. Predeciblemente, ambas, Hanging heart y Michael and Bubbles, formaron parte de la selección de obra realizada con motivo de su más reciente exposición retrospectiva, la cual tuvo como sede el Palacio de Versalles. Que la nívea efigie en porcelana se mostrara en este antiguo escenario de la nobleza francesa fue una inesperada pero sugestiva coincidencia que otorgaría una nueva dimensión al término versallesco aplicado a las bellas –y a las no tan bellas- artes.
Pero la toma de Versalles por la chusma popular no era sino una lógica consecuencia de la controversial pero exitosa carrera de Jeff Koons, quien desde hace un buen tiempo había manejado su propia celebridad como todo una rockstar. Una celebridad no carente de altibajos publicitarios y acérrimas críticas a su trabajo por supuesto. Finalmente, sus contradicciones como figura pública no habían estado muy lejos de la extravagancia mostrada por el mismísimo Rey del Pop.
Volviendo a la escultura en cuestión, las tres piezas que forman parte de la edición limitada de Michael and Bubbles se encuentran en los Estados Unidos: una de ellas en colección privada -¿será la del propio Jackson?-, y las otras dos en acervos públicos, siendo éstos el del SFMOMA que ya mencionamos anteriormente, y el LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum). ¿El que ambos museos se encuentren en California, estado donde vivió y murió el cantante pop, podría ser sintomático? ¿Premonitorio, tal vez?
Pero el origen y destino de Michael and Bubbles van todavía más allá. La escultura forma parte de una serie a la que Jeff Koons nombró como Banality, en alusión a las cosas sin importancia que amenizan nuestra vida diaria, los intrascendentes hechos de lo cotidiano y la efímera condición de lo popular. Entre las esculturas de Banality encontramos incómodas cerámicas de ancianitos, imágenes de animales, niños y ositos de peluche, un busto de san Juan el Bautista al mejor estilo del pasaje Catedral y una Pantera Rosa erotizada, entre otros motivos. El dominador común de todas ellas podría ser que la vulgaridad y el mal gusto intrínsecos han sido llevados a una categoría diferente, convirtiéndose en perversos objetos de deseo, presencias atractivas y repelentes a la vez.
En el caso de Michael Jackson and Bubbles este efecto se ve exacerbado por su absurdo hiperrealismo. La postura relajada del cantante, infantilmente sentado sobre una cama de flores, su rostro sonriente pero al mismo tiempo vacío, su mascota en extremo humanizada, la vestimenta dorada de ambos y la blancura propia del material ironizan la lastimera condición del cantante a la vez que hacen clara referencia al mundo decadente, autocomplaciente y extravagante que lo rodeaba.
Esta escultura representa con gran eficacia la estética de lo horrible y el derecho irrefutable al kitsch. Al mismo tiempo ilustra elocuentemente el culto a la personalidad tanto del retratado como al artista que lo retrata. En una sola obra vemos la síntesis de dos enormes estrellas norteamericanas del pop, en la música y en las artes plásticas, quienes con sus productos y su poder de mercadeo, han conquistado al mundo. Los dos son agridulces protagonistas del canibalismo más violento en esta sociedad de consumo.
IMAGEN:
JEFF KOONS (Estados Unidos, 1955)
Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 1988
Porcelana
106.7 x 179.1 x 82.6 cm
Edición de tres y prueba de autor
Edición de tres y prueba de autor
©Jeff Koons
http://www.jeffkoons.com/site/index.html
REFERENCIAS:
The Broad Art Foundation. Santa Monica / LACMA. Broad Contemporary Art Museum
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=151886;type=101 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org/multimedia/interactive_features/74
Video en You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YbE0a-zz8I
http://www.jeffkoons.com/site/index.html
REFERENCIAS:
The Broad Art Foundation. Santa Monica / LACMA. Broad Contemporary Art Museum
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=151886;type=101 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org/multimedia/interactive_features/74
Video en You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YbE0a-zz8I
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