Was Michael Jackson's Death A Murder? (POLL)

News Type: Opinion — Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:39 AM EDT

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Michael Jackson's sister Latoya Jackson has publicly claimed that his death was really a murder that was concocted by those close to him in his final days and that their motive was a for-profit venture to split up the windfall profits that Jackson's death has generated from rekindled interest in his work. Speculation has run rampant while the toxicology report is anxiously awaited. Newsviners: was Michael Jackson's death the result of natural causes, an accidental overdose or a bona fide murder?

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Scott Isaacs

So was Jackson's body just worn out from a life of hard living, an accident of some sort or a murder by someone close to him to snatch the fortune his death was expected to generate in royalties?

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2 votes

#1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:42 AM EDT

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worldcurmudgeon

I don't doubt to much that is was an accident, however I voted murder because I think it should be investigated. Real, shoot em dead murder, no, but murder by greed, lust for his property and valuables, filling his 'need for drugs' or assisting or contributing to it? Yes, very possible indeed.

I think this whole incident should be investigated to the n'th degree. Leave no stone unturned until we know the truth. Follow the money, follow the drugs and we may find out. The autopsy results due in soon, there would be a good starting point.

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1 vote

#1.1 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:14 AM EDT

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marianne-1198459

i dont think he was murdered...la toya and joe jackson have been receiving money just to give these stupid statements...i mean its ridiculous..michael isnt even buried yet and they are all cashing in on him...he needs to have to his final resting place...even in death michael is haunted by these blood sucking vultures who keeps on making profit out of him....i feel bad for michael...but i know he is at peace now...doesnt have to worry about anything....

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3 votes

#2 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:58 AM EDT

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Scott Isaacs

I have always found Joe Jackson to be quite the SOB since it's pretty well-established that he beat his boys into making him rich. His lust for money was confirmed shortly after Michael's death when Joe used a press conference ostensibly about his son's death to plug a record label that he owns. I imagine that he would sell Little Michael, Paris and Blanket into slavery in Sudan if he could get custody, escape prosecution in the United States and make a decent profit.

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3 votes

#2.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:00 AM EDT

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my-2-cents

I read another seed that stated Joe want to take the kids on tour....Let's see how Joe and la toya make out now that their gravey train is gone and a big chunk of his money goes to pay his $300 Million dollar debt.

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1 vote

#2.2 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:58 AM EDT

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3kyw4law

I think his sister needs to rethink her claim. After all, how could she be sure that Michael's death would generate this much interest. IMO - most of America had forgotten about Michael.

I think it wasn't murder but I'm not sure if it was an accident, natural causes or suicide.

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2 votes

#3 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:09 AM EDT

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Scott Isaacs

Interesting, I hadn't thought that it might be a suicide but I agree that it is altogether possible.

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2 votes

#3.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:56 AM EDT

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DarthVSchw

I guess unless they had some seriously wicked cool life insurance on him, I don't really know how they could profit...unless of course they were in cahoots with the recording industry and media in general. I swear if I hear thriller one more time I'm just gonna blow groceries.

I just can't understand how a team of doctors could be so brain dead as to allow such drug cocktails. They should at the very least be charged with crimminal negligence.

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1 vote

#4 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:30 AM EDT

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Scott Isaacs

DarthVSchw:

I can see an instance in which a person or party owned a percentage of Jackson's "book" (i.e. music royalties) and concluded that Jackson was worth more in a financial sense dead than alive. If I understand correctly, my dad tells me that a similar thing happened with Elvis Presley... Elvis was "fat Elvis" and making a strained and difficult attempt to catch the lightning in the bottle he'd had before he was drafted into the Army. His comeback, and all things Elvis, weren't terribly entertaining while he was the struggling King of Rock N' Roll but after Elvis' death all things Elvis were new again. His movies were popular once again, all of his original hits were played ad infinitum, etc. So, theoretically, Elvis Presley's death was already a trial balloon for anyone in Jackson's will who was due a percentage of his estate: alive Michael Jackson was largely ignored by the public in America and spending money on credit to care for himself and his children... dead Michael Jackson was a media icon again whose renewed fame, like Elvis, had sent his value into the stratosphere creating a huge bulge of wealth as American society remembered and paid memorial to him. It had happened before, a media titan being worth more dead than alive. Given Jackson's particular fall from grace it was an even more obvious prediction that his death would make him more universally acceptable musically and, hence, more profitable.

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4 votes

#4.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:32 AM EDT

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Holly-348328

Why would they kill their cash cow?

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2 votes

#5 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:52 PM EDT

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Scott Isaacs

Holly:

See #4.1.

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3 votes

#5.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:05 PM EDT

{"commentId":8220166,"authorDomain":"h-kuehn"}

Holly-348328

Ah, grasshopper understands now. I apologize for missing that before.

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2 votes

#5.2 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:26 AM EDT

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