L.A. Coroner's Office: Michael Jackson Autopsy Report Inaccurate

Us Magazine - June 29, 2009 7:11 PM PDT
Story photo: L.A. Coroner's Office: Michael Jackson Autopsy Report InaccurateMichael Jackson at the World Music Awards 2006.Jon Furniss/WireImage.comUs Magazine
The Los Angeles coroner's office on Monday dismissed as inaccurate a British newspaper report that said Michael Jackson was emaciated and almost bald when he died suddenly last week.

Jackson, who died June 25 after suffering cardiac arrest at the age 50, weighed just 112 pounds, was bald and badly disfigured at the time of his death, according to leaked results from an autopsy.

Britain's The Sun obtained a copy of the report, which claimed Jackson's face bore numerous scars as a result of 13 cosmetic operations. The bridge of Jackson's nose had disappeared and the right side had caved in, according to the paper. Jackson also reportedly had unexplained bruises on his knees and shins and bruising to his back, indicating a recent fall.

He was bald, the paper reports, with his shoulder-length hair just a wig. His hair has been reduced to a "peach fuzz" on his scalp, says the paper.

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The only thing pathologists found in the star's stomach were partially dissolved pills, which were removed for toxicology tests, according to the Sun.

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Several of Jackson's ribs also had been broke as paramedics tried to revive the singer after he suffered cardiac arrest at his rented L.A. home, according to reports. There also were four injections around his heart, presumably from adrenaline shots during the failed resuscitation.

"He was skin and bone, his hair had fallen out and he had been eating nothing but pills when he died," the paper quotes a source as saying. "Injection marks all over his body and the disfigurement caused by years of plastic surgery show he'd been in terminal decline for years.

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Two autopsies were conducted one Jackson: One by the Los Angeles coroner and another by a private pathologist hired by the Jackson family.

On Sunday, a lawyer for Dr. Conrad Murray - the singer's private pathologist who discovered Jackson in bed and not breathing last Thursday - denied various media reports that Dr. Conrad prescribed or gave Jackson the drugs Demerol or OxyContin.

"Not ever. Not that day," he told the Associated Press.

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  • kenneth
    You know, society is really something else, you can give a drug dealer 15-20 years for a little of nothing, this doctor may be charged with Homicide, and all he may get is 4 years for Michael Jackson death, let's get real!!!!
    report abuseposted February 8, 2010 11:31 PM PST
  • michelle
    Micheal Jackson... is really a icon...both in life ,and death.there will never be another one like him.He taught us soo much, through his music...his kindness touch, the hearts of sooo many...if we can start with the man in the maior..then we'll be able to make the world the place, Micheal would like it to be, Micheal u maybe gon from the world but in my heart, u will always live on.R.I.P
    report abuseposted November 15, 2009 5:08 PM PST
  • sweet cheeks
    people never learn to let these celebrities rest in peace. no one has the right to judge anyone life style. There was only on perfect being that has ever lived & he was crucified. LET HIM BE.
    report abuseposted August 11, 2009 6:02 PM PDT
  • Kola
    Michael was an amazing person with a big heart. He was loved all over the world. Michael will "Forever" be #1. Triple Plat... Now who's Bad? The worlds Genuine Love for him is Everlasting!
    report abuseposted July 24, 2009 9:46 AM PDT
  • Kola
    Michael was an amazing person with a big heart. He was loved all over the world. Michael will "Forever" be #1. Triple Plat... Now who's Bad? The worlds Genuine Love for him is Everlasting!
    report abuseposted July 24, 2009 7:45 AM PDT
  • Kola
    Michael was an amazing person with a big heart. He was loved all over the world. Michael will "Forever" be #1. Triple Plat... Now who's Bad? The worlds Genuine Love for him is Everlasting!
    report abuseposted July 24, 2009 6:45 AM PDT
  • Anthony
    all yeah ignorant ass peaple out there talkin down on mike %@!*# u cuz he was reconized and changed the world u probally aint done %@!*# and goin do %@!*# 2change da world un noticed 2da day u die %@!*#es die %@!*#
    report abuseposted July 23, 2009 8:57 AM PDT
  • Anthony
    all yeah ignorant ass peaple out there talkin down on mike %@!*# u cuz he was reconized and changed the world u probally aint done %@!*# and goin do %@!*# 2change da world un noticed 2da day u die %@!*#es die %@!*#
    report abuseposted July 23, 2009 8:57 AM PDT
  • Jay
    Gone, and soon forgotten.
    report abuseposted July 19, 2009 2:46 PM PDT
  • Karen A
    Also, they claimed to expect 100,000 people to the memorial and only around 1,000 showed up. Even the Jackson family and event planners overestimated his celebrity. I also wonder how many songs he actually wrote by himself without cowriters. AND he claimed he had vitaligo. So he was the only one in the family with that? Out of all the brothers and sisters and other family? Yeah, right.
    report abuseposted July 9, 2009 3:49 PM PDT
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