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Jackson Sought Propofol "Anesthesia Addict" | TMZ.com

Jackson Sought Out Anesthesia

Posted Jul 3rd 2009 3:10PM by TMZ Staff

Michael Jackson made the rounds at L.A. doctors' offices, often getting anesthesia for minor outpatient procedures -- procedures that did not require anesthesia.

Medical sources say Jackson would get cosmetic surgery, collagen injections, Botox and acne treatment for which he would often be put under or sedated, even when it was not medically necessary.

One medical source described Jackson as "an anesthesia addict."

We're also told Jackson would get controlled substances, such as Demerol, during and after these minor procedures.

The question now -- which docs were happy to oblige the singer?

As we first reported, police found the anesthesia Propofol in Jackson's house after he died, and it's looking like that's the drug that killed him.

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Ronnie Biggs - Great Train Robber Robbed! | The Sun |

Robbed ... Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs

GREAT Train Robber Ronnie Biggs couldn't escape his jail sentence this week, to many MY Sun users' dismay.

The robber, who was jailed for 30 years for his part in the robbery of £2.6 million in 1965, was set to be released but was left stunned after Justice Minister Jack Straw refused his parole.

But Biggs, who cannot walk, eat or drink, is no longer a threat according to some on MY Sun.

MugginsNo1 said: "This is an old, sick man in his 80th year who played a small part in the Great Train Robbery 46 years ago.

He should have been released years ago. He is no threat to anyone.

"This is a matter of what is justice and injustice. Before the Great Train Robbery this man worked as a carpenter and paid his tax, which is a lot more than many have done these days."

Despite his crime, weefatshug reckons the time behind bars is excessive: "There are folk who commited worse crimes that have already been released!"

jojo873 added: "He has done enough time. Why is it okay to keep him locked up so much longer than child killers?"

He stuck two fingers up at justice and now should do time for it.

Biggs, who was rushed to hospital after declaring he has "nothing left to live for", doesn't get any sympathy from mombser2.

He said: "Here is a guy who committed a crime and was sentenced for that crime. He did a runner, he is no hero. His sentence should stand as he normally would have had it increased for absconding.

"He should certainly have the medical treatment for his bad health - IN THE NICK".

hottenrider has nothing but contempt for Ronnie: "He did the crime then he should do the time. He went sunning it up in Spain, laughing at the justice system and now he wants back in so he can get full medical help for his problems."



It's time Biggs did his sentence, reckons Mikethecarebear.

"Ronnie should stop whining on about his 'injustice' and bloody well do his time. If he didn't want to do porridge, he shouldn't have gone round robbing trains."

Was Jack Straw right to refuse parole for Biggs?

Or is his place behind bars?

Michael Jackson's pals feared for his life | The Sun |News "Spoonbender" I can deal, but you put 'em together...and..."

FRANTIC Uri Geller found Michael Jackson so sedated on a trip to the UK he SCREAMED at him to wake up, The Sun can reveal.

Spoonbender Geller battled to rouse his pal after the superstar's aides fixed up a private visit to London Zoo - which had to be scrapped because he was so out of it.

Geller, 62, last night said of the hotel scare: "I was so worried about him. The trouble is nobody said 'no' to Michael and that was a big problem."

Frustration ... Uri Geller screamed at Michael Jackson to quit drugs

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Fighting back his grief over the King of Pop's death, Geller revealed for the first time how he often found himself yelling at the singer over his addiction to prescription drugs.

Distraught

He said: "I told him - shouting and screaming - that he would die if things continued as they were."

His chilling revelations came as Jacko's Brit bodyguard also lifted the lid on the star's hell, exclusively telling The Sun how the singer:

FEARED the gruelling run of dates looming at London's O2 arena would be too much - telling him barely a week before he died: "I don't know how I'm going to do 50 shows."

VOWED in another phone call to quit the music business before it killed him - declaring: "I will not end up like Elvis."

PANICKED his entourage who had to beg him to eat - while he let "parasite" doctors pump him full of drugs.

HID the fact a woman nobody knew about was his secret long-term GIRLFRIEND.

Matt Fiddes - Jacko's former head of security and one of his most trusted aides - said of the mystery lover: "She wasn't a celebrity figure - absolutely not." He added sadly: "I imagine she is distraught right now."

Voice ... star's Simpson character

Leeches

Martial arts expert Matt, 30, of Barnstaple, Devon, became one of Jacko's closest friends after meeting him thanks to Geller in 1998.

But he watched in horror as the singer hired a succession of private physicians.

Matt branded them "leeches" who had no qualms about dosing their troubled patient with sedatives to relax him - or "uppers" to lift his mood.

The cocktail of drugs left Jacko so weak he regularly slept for DAYS at a time and missed important business meetings. Disgusted Matt said:

The doctors would change every few months - but there was always one there who would often claim just to be a friend.

It went two ways with what they did with Michael. Either he'd be totally sedated or they'd give him something which would make him incredibly high.

When that happened he would chant or be very overexcitable. He had clearly been given some kind of amphetamine-based prescription medication. That concerned the heck out of me.

If you give someone a sedative and then they take an upper, your heart doesn't know where to go. But none of his aides questioned it. If you did that you were thrown out from the court of "yes" men surrounding him.

Recalling Jacko's 2003 trip to London, Matt said: "We had a suite at a top hotel.

"His doctor was there and in the evening he would make me double lock my hotel room door, which was right next to where Michael was.

"He would come in and clearly make sure I was out of the way while he was in the room with Michael.

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Geller, ex-bodyguard tell of Jackson drug abuse

AP – Uri Geller, 62, a medium, a phychic [SIC] spoonbender [ DEAR SHAWN, PLEASE LAY OFF MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, OR ATTRIBUTE TO IT; AND FUCKING LEARN TO SPELL, IF YOU'RE GOING TO PLAGIARISE] and a close friend of Michael Jackson, poses for the …  

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LONDON – Two of Michael Jackson's former confidantes, medium Uri Geller and ex-bodyguard Matt Fiddes, say they tried in vain to keep the pop superstar from abusing painkillers and other prescription drugs suspected of leading to his death — but others in the singer's circle kept the supplies flowing.

"When Michael asked for something, he got it. This was the great tragedy," Geller said Thursday.

Geller, who said he suffered a terrible falling-out with Jackson several years ago over the issue, said he often had "to shout at Michael, to scream at Michael" as he sought to confiscate the singer's stocks of medication during his travels in England.

"I tried to drum sense into his brain," Geller said. "I told him, 'Michael you're going to die, Michael you're going to kill yourself.' But he just stared at me. Many a time he was in his bed and I stood and shouted at him. He just stared at me."

Speaking at his home near London, Geller said he slept on floors or sofas in Jackson's hotel suites in a bid to talk sense into his sometimes-incoherent friend.

"Most of the people around Michael could not say `No!' to him. He desperately needed someone there all the time who could say `No!' and mean it, who could warn him of the dangers ... and tell him the truth," Geller said. "The big problem was that many people wanted to help Michael, to save his life, but we could not be there all the time."

Geller said Jackson relied on medications to help him cope with relentless pressure and media criticism in his later years. "With his sanity buffeted and health wracked by global bullying nonstop, I think it's actually incredible that Michael held up as well as he did," he said.

Fiddes, an English karate instructor who worked as a senior bodyguard during Jackson's travels in Britain for a decade, said the pop idol abused prescription medications, not recreational drugs, and took so much that it could be difficult to wake him for engagements.

"I confiscated packages and Uri did too. I mean, Uri confiscated injection equipment from his room," Fiddes said in an interview broadcast Thursday by Sky News. "And Uri would scream at Michael, you know, intensely, to stop doing this. But we just were getting pushed out."

Fiddes recalled one occasion when Jackson planned to visit London Zoo to see the gorillas, chimpanzees and other primates — but was too spaced out to go anywhere.

The bodyguard said he and Geller "were both shaking him trying to wake him up. It was clear that he had taken something that morning and he was hard to wake. We were extremely concerned ... We couldn't get him in a state that would portray him in a good light."

Fiddes said both he and Geller told others supplying medications to Jackson to stop, but when their efforts "got back to Michael, he would have a screaming fit that we were interfering with his private life. He was in denial."

However, Geller said he was convinced that "Michael did not want to die."

"Michael loved life," he said. "Michael loved his children. They were everything to him."

Several other Jackson confidantes have expressed concern since his death at the volume and mixture of medications he was taking. Self-help guru Deepak Chopra said he rejected Jackson's 2005 appeals for painkillers and that their relationship suffered lasting damage because of it.

Geller said he was fearful that Jackson could not have completed his planned 50-concert run in London, which was due to start July 13. Stress over the imminent comeback, as well as drug misuse, combined to kill his friend, he said.

"Whatever the autopsy will come back with, part of what made Michael Jackson's heart stop involved the stress and the anxiety that, 'My God, in a few days I have to get on a plane and fly to England.' But he could have done it," Geller said.