Jackson's pals feared for his life

Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/michael_jackson/2512217/Michael-Jacksons-pals-feared-for-his-life.html
Date: July 2, 2009

By TOM WELLS

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."
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."
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.
"Then I would go and check on him again. He would be drowsy and out of it.
"He would manage to walk to his bedroom and fall asleep on the bed - but then he would not wake up until two or three in the afternoon."

The minder said packages full of prescription drugs would arrive at Jacko's hotel from the US marked for "Mr Sterling".
Other aliases included "Jack London" and "Omar Arnold".
He and Geller would routinely sweep the singer's room of syringes and needles - to try to protect him from his own medics.
Matt said of the London Zoo trip that aides booked for the animal-loving star:
Michael had been sedated the night before and just wouldn't wake up. Uri went into his room - and was screaming at Michael.

We were worried. We were shaking him, saying: "Come on - wake up." Uri was saying: "What are you doing? Have you taken something?" Then he came round drowsy - and said he was jetlagged. He came round, but not enough to take him to the zoo. Uri had to make up an excuse for him.

Dad-of-five Matt said lonely Jacko would spend hours holed up in hotel rooms watching his DVD collection of The Simpsons - in which he famously provided the voice for a character in one episode.
The singer would also listen over and over again to Britney Spears. Meanwhile he would barely eat.
Matt said: "He was totally and utterly isolated and he lived on scraps. He'd only eat a quarter of a normal meal.
"He had a small frame but getting him to eat was a big deal - one meal a day and you were lucky. Me and his friends used to literally sit him down and say, 'You eat that'."
Sexuality
He also told how Jacko phoned him to say: "I will not end up like Elvis. I'm going to work hard for a few years, retire, live good and spend the time with my children. I don't want to perform into old age."
In their last phone conversation - less than a fortnight ago - Jacko said of his dates at the O2: "I went to bed praying that I'd sold out ten shows and I was so happy.
"Then I woke up and I saw I'd sold out another 40. I don't know how I'm going to do 50 shows. But I'll find a way."

Matt refused to name Jacko's girlfriend - but said if the singer had been more open about his private life it could have put paid to rumours about his sexuality.
The minder said: "He had his own way of dealing with that - and that unfortunately gave people the wrong impression."
He said of the drugs Jacko was continually prescribed: "Doctors have blood on their hands, and I hope police bring them to justice.

"I've been close to Michael's brother Jermaine for years. We tried everything to get Michael away from these leeches and we just couldn't do it."
Geller said: "I didn't live with Michael, but like Matt, the things I did witness were simply horrifying - and destroyed my hope for his future."

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Federal Drug Agents Asked to Join Michael Jackson Death Probe

By VIC WALTER and RICHARD ESPOSITO
July 1, 2009
Federal drug agents have been asked to join the investigation into Michael Jackson's death, ABC News has learned. Until now, the probe into the pop star's death has been managed by the LAPD alone.

The Drug Enforcement Administration's diversion division, which looks into issues of doctor shopping, over shopping, and pill mills, and has regulatory authority over prescription drugs, is now involved with the investigation, two separate sources tell ABC News. Further details are expected to emerge.

The DEA issued an official statement on the investigation that shed little light onto any role they might play in assisting the LAPD.

"We routinely offer assistance to any agency regarding the Federal Controlled Substance act, however at this time we have nothing further to comment about the death of Michael Jackson," the statement said.

A number of prescriptions were found in the Jackson residence, ABC News has learned, that are part of the LAPD probe.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/MichaelJackson/story?id=7982097&page=1