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The King of Pop, Michael Jackson’s inner sanctum was penetrated for the first time by revelations about his drug use of Dr Conrad Murray’s trial. The depiction that emerged during the trial was one of an aging icon fraught to cement his place in entertainment history while providing a steady home life for cherished children, Paris, Prince and Blanket. The most shocking part of Murray trial was the playing of a recording of a drugged Jackson slurring his words while dreaming aloud about his future concert and his plans to build a fantastic state of the art children’s hospital. Joe Vogel, author of a new book on Jackson’s music said the recording, found on Murray’s cell phone, reveals the dark side of Jackson’s private world.
After the trial, The Judge Michael Pastor evaluated Murray for experimenting on the pop star with the operating-room anaesthetic propofol to help him battle debilitating insomnia, although the drug was never meant to be used in a private home. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, called a reckless opportunist and sentenced to the maximum four years in prison.
Many experts say that the trial did damage Jackson’s reputation but said it would not have serious impact to Michael lasting legacy in a long term. The revelations also portrayed the King of Pop as an ordinary individual dealing with tough challenge. Jackson biographer J.Randy Taraborelli said “I think the trial humanised Michael Jackson. It presented him as a human being with problems. It certainly made our hearts go out to Michael Jackson. He was a person suffering a great deal and not getting the help he needed.” The trial roused so much sympathy for Jackson and would surely conceal his negatives outcome as the time passes.
Jackson rocketed to the top of the Forbes Magazine list of highest earning dead celebrities and his executors are practically moving rapidly on more projects aimed to burnish the entertainer’s image and multiply the inheritance of his three children. Michael executors have done brilliant job of reminding us of Michael’s genius. Beginning with the rapid release of the concert movie, “This Is It” which became the highest-grossing concert film and documentary of all time, which then Jackson sold 8.3 million albums in the U.S. In addition, in the wake of his death Jackson’s estate had generated a half-billion dollars. It shows how public decided to remember Michael as this great superstar and music phenomenon and to forgive and forget any negatives thing they had heard over the last 15 years.
Jackson’s eccentricities and bizarre behaviour often made headlines. Whether it was travelling with a Chimp named Bubbles, sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber or dangling his baby blanket off a balcony, he managed alienate many celebrities. The molestation had of course tarnished Jackson’s personal. “That all ended on the day the news was announced that Michael was dead”, said Lance Grode, a former music executive and onetime attorney for Jackson who now teaches legal issues in music at University of Southern California.
There may be collateral damage to his reputation from the trial and his past accusations. However his music is everlasting. His art and genius spread love world-wide and It brings universal joy to people. A cirque du Soleil extravaganza, “Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour” opens in Las Vegas this weekend, a precursor to a permanent installation at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, and fans are expected to flock there for a “Fan Fest” exhibit of Jackson memorabilia.
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