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Aide Gave Michael Jackson Fatal Demerol Shot According to New Report

Published on August 3, 2009 at 8:30 AM

The UK Sun has a new exclusive story that perhaps fills in the last piece of the puzzle, on the circumstances of Michael Jackson’s death.  The tabloid claims Jackson was killed by a shot of powerful painkiller Demerol given by an aide as his personal physician Dr Conrad Murray slept. By many unconfirmed accounts Dr Murray has already revealed to police that he gave the singer surgical anesthetic Propofol, which should only be given in a hospital environment that same day.

A case insider told The Sun:

“Murray would set up a system to give Michael a steady intravenous release of Diprivan through the night. 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 anesthetic. That’s what killed him.”

Not vouching for the truth of this new report, but it makes sense in many ways.  Including the fact that early reports from various media sources pointed to the painkiller Demerol as the cause of Michael’s death. Later accounts pointed to Dr Murray administering the anesthetic Propofol as the smoking gun.  This new story kind of ties those reports together and it’s known that the combination of Demerol and Propofol, known by the brand name Diprivan, are contraindicated and could have triggered the cardiac arrest that killed Jackson.

By the way, The Sun was the one who came out the specific details about the state of the corpse, four days after Michael Jackson’s death,  that prompted the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office to investigate whether the county coroner’s office employees may have illegally leaked or sold private information from the Jackson death investigation.

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