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MJ’s doc unlikely to face trial for two years

May 16, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 16 (ANI): Michael Jackson”s doctor is unlikely to go before a jury over the singer’s death until 2012, it has been revealed.

Huge delays in preparing the case against Conrad Murray mean he probably will not face trial over the singer’s death for two years.

Ed Chernoff, Murray”s lawyer, is fuming ‘many pages’ of documents collected by Los Angeles police have not been handed to the defence even though Murray was charged in February.

Proceedings could be drawn out even longer over problems with choosing a jury.

Chernoff fears his client will not get a fair hearing in LA.

The doctor is next due in court on June 14, but his lawyer says he will push that hearing back to September.

“We are looking at the trial starting in about two years in September. We”ve got a huge load-3,500 pages-of evidence to go through. And we have witnesses to speak to all over the world who have had contact with Jackson over the years. To properly defend Conrad it”s gonna take time to get all of our stuff together,” News of the World quoted Murray”s spokesman as saying. (ANI)

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Tony Blair offered £250k to appear on ‘Dancing With the Stars’

May 3, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 3 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been offered 250,000 pounds to appear on reality TV show ‘Dancing With the Stars’.

Executive producer of the American Strictly, Conrad Green, wants the British Labour politician to appear on the show.

“Tony, you”ve done everything you can do as PM, you”ve done your bit for the Middle East, now come and put some sequins on and have a real life,” The Mirror quoted Green as saying.

Green said that he would couple Blair with five-time US National Championship Dance winner Karina Smirnoff, a Ukrainian dancer.

“I think she would be very happy with him. Tony is very popular in the States and I think he may as well come out here and give it a try,” he said.

“Hopefully he might be able to squeeze it in between solving the Palestinian problem and all those other things he”s got on,” he added. (ANI)

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Eldest sister says she helped raise Michael Jackson

April 20, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

New York, Apr 19 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s eldest sister Rebbie has revealed that she helped raise her superstar brother.

When she was a teenager, her mother, Katherine, went back to school, leaving her — the oldest of the nine children — in charge of caring for the Jackson brood.

“I’m very much the big sister. I helped raise a lot of them. I took care of them and administered the disciplinary action,” the New York Post quoted Jackson as saying.

Rebbie revealed that memories of her role as caregiver in the family’s Gary, Ind., home came flooding back to her in the wake of the King of Pop’s death on June 25, 2009.

“When he passed, I thought about him the way he was as a kid,” she said.

She recalled the iconic star’s cherubic smile that first brightened stages as a member of the Jackson 5 and later as a solo artist.

After her brother overdosed on the powerful sedative Propofol, Rebbie, who lives with her husband, Nathaniel Brown, in Las Vegas, cancelled a string of performances.

She spent two and half months in California at her brother’s and mother’s estates, comforting her family and resumed her role as caregiver to Michael’s children, Prince, 13; Paris, 12; and Blanket, 8.

“I have to say, for a while, it was very difficult to listen to anything that Michael’s voice was on. That’s pretty tough to escape. Everywhere you go — food markets, departments stores, TV and radio — they are playing his music,” she said.

And now, almost after a year, Rebbie has said that she still wakes up in the middle of the night haunted by the circumstances surrounding his brother’s death.

His doctor, Conrad Murray, currently awaits trial on manslaughter charges for his role in administering the fatal narcotic and facilitating the legendary singer’s addiction.

“My brother had a problem with drugs, and he was in denial. There were many interventions by the family members, and I was involved in a lot of that. It was such a sad thing and it hurt so bad,” said Rebbie. (ANI)

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MJ’s home search reveals ‘skin-whitening cream”

March 27, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Melbourne, March 27 (ANI): Officials combing Michael Jackson’s home after his death were said to have stumbled on skin-whitening creams.

Several skin-whitening tubes and medical items, including four bottles of anesthetic, were found in a cupboard in the star’s room, according to released search warrants.

The documents were unveiled following a legal motion, News.com.au reported.

Jackson died aged 50 on June 25 last year at his home in Los Angeles. The coroner ruled the case as homicide mainly caused by an overdose of the anesthetic Propofol.

His personal doctor Conrad Murray admitted administering Propofol to help Jackson sleep hours before his death but said he gave him nothing to cause his death.

Murray has pleaded not guilty to the single charge of involuntary manslaughter over the singer’s death. (ANI)

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Jackson doctor faces licence suspension

March 25, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

California’s attorney-general has asked the Los Angeles Supreme Court to suspend the medical licence of Michael Jackson’s doctor, who last month pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

Edmund Brown said in a statement that his office had filed documents to the court to suspend Conrad Murray’s licence on behalf of the California Medical Board “until the criminal proceedings against him are completed”.

Dr Murray “administered a lethal dose of propofol, as well as other drugs to Michael Jackson”, Mr Brown said in his filing.

“We will argue in court that Murray was reckless in giving Jackson such a dangerous drug and has demonstrated a serious lack of judgment that should prohibit him from practicing medicine.”

Dr Murray, 56, denied last month a single charge of causing the death of Jackson on June 25 last year. He was the last person to see the King of Pop alive.

The physician was ordered to surrender his passport and posted bail of $US75,000 ahead of a hearing on April 5.

He could face up to four years in prison if convicted.

- AFP

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Tito Jackson forgives MJ’s personal doctor Conrad Murray

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 16 (ANI): American singer Tito Jackson has revealed that he has forgiven his late brother Michael Jackson’s personal doctor Conrad Murray, the prime suspect in the ‘Thriller’ star’s death.

Jacko’s death on June 25, at the age of 50, has been officially declared a homicide.

However, Tito, 55, says that he does not hate the doctor.

“Have I forgiven him? We are supposed to forgive as humans,” the Mirror quoted him as saying.

“I’m not a hater or anything like that. I’m just going to take things one moment at a time.

“I’m supposed to forgive. We are supposed to forgive. That’s just my belief.

“So yes, I forgive. It’s what God said. You’re supposed to forgive. It’s a religious thing,” he added.

Jackson died from an overdose of the powerful anaesthetic Propofol.

Dr. Murray admitted administering a dose shortly before the star’s death at his Bel Air home. (ANI)

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Hefner says he remained married for kids’ sake

September 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 15 (ANI): Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner has said that he postponed his divorce from his estranged second wife for the sake of their children.

The 83-year-old filed for divorce earlier this month, after an 11-year separation from former Playmate of the Year Kimberly Conrad Hefner.

Hefner, presently dating Playmates Crystal Harris, 23, and twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon, 19, said that he waited “because of the children” – his youngest son Cooper turned 18 on September 4.

“Now is the time. I stayed married not because it was a marriage – the marriage ended in 1998. I stayed because she wanted me to,” the Daily Express quoted him as saying.

The two got married in 1989, and separated nine years later.

They, however, remained legally wed.

Conrad, 47, is the mother of two of Hefner’s four kids, and had for years been supported by him in a home next to the Playboy mansion. (ANI)

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MJ inquiry could take months

August 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, August 27 (ANI): Officials probing Michael Jackson’s death have reportedly said that it could take months before an arrest could be made in the case.

Jackson’s personal physician Conrad Murray and other doctors are being investigated by police over their role in the star’s death, which is being treated as homicide.

“We’re looking at months before we make any arrests. We want to build a concrete case,” the Mirror quoted a source as saying.

Murray, who is at the centre of a manslaughter probe, could be charged after the Los Angeles Coroner allegedly ruled that the singer’s death was homicide and that he had lethal levels of powerful anaesthetic Propofol in his body when he died.

Murray, who told homicide detectives he gave Jackson 25mg of propofol to help him sleep before he suffered cardiac arrest, has denied any wrongdoing. (ANI)

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MJ’s doc spent 47 mins making calls after he stopped breathing

August 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, August 26 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s personal physician Conrad Murray has been accused of spending 47 minutes making calls to another doctor, a lawyer and a mystery associate after the singer stopped breathing.

Dr Steven Hoefflin, who treated Jackson for 25 years, alleged Murray phoned fellow medic Arnold Klein for advice on what to do as the King of Pop lay dying.

“Murray definitely called Klein because Klein taught him how to administer propofol,” the Sun quoted Hoefflin as saying.

“There were two in-state calls then one out-of-state. He was calling an attorney – he had to because Michael was dead.

“He tried to cover it up by telling everyone Michael had a weak pulse, but Michael was dead,” he added.

Hoefflin, a respected plastic surgeon, also claimed that Murray rang an attorney before informing a security guard to dial 911 and summon paramedics to Jackson’s Los Angeles home.

But a lawyer representing Murray recently denied claims that the medic left Jackson to make phone calls after giving him powerful anaesthetic Propofol.

Lawyer Ed Chernoff issued a statement seeking to clarify parts of a court affidavit unsealed in Houston, Texas.

The contents came to light as reports claimed that the Los Angeles County coroner had concluded Jackson’s death was homicide and that he had lethal levels of Propofol in his body when he died on June 25. (ANI)

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MJ’s doctor denies leaving star to make phone calls

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, August 25 (ANI): The lawyer representing Michael Jackson’s personal physician Conrad Murray has denied that the medic left the star to make phone calls after giving him powerful anaesthetic Propofol.

Ed Chernoff sough to clarify allegations partially made after the emergence of a court affidavit in Houston, Texas.

The contents came to light as reports claimed that the Los Angeles County coroner had concluded that Jackson’s death was homicide, and that he had lethal levels of Propofol in his body when he died on June 25.

Murray was alleged to have left the singer alone to make some telephone calls, and found Jackson not breathing after his return.

But Chernoff slammed the claims involving Murray, who is at the centre of a manslaughter probe and has denied any wrongdoing. Much of what was in the search warrant affidavit is factual,” the Telegraph quoted Chernoff as saying.

“However, unfortunately, much is police theory. Most egregiously, the timeline reported by law enforcement was not obtained through interviews with Dr Murray, as was implied by the affidavit.

“Dr Murray simply never told investigators that he found Michael Jackson at 11:00 am not breathing. He also never said that he waited a mere 10 minutes before leaving to make several phone calls. In fact, Dr Murray never said that he left Michael Jackson’s room to make phone calls at all,” he added. (ANI)

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Lauren Conrad gets bikini shape back after losing her ‘boyfriend layer’

August 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, Aug 20 (ANI): American actress Lauren Conrad has revealed that she got back her bikini shape body only after she lost all the pounds she had put on during romantic dinners out with boyfriend actor Kyle Howard.

Conrad, 23, admits in Shape magazine that she got a little “soft around the middle” early in her romance with Howard, 31.

“I call it the ‘boyfriend layer’,” the New York Daily News quoted her as saying.

“We were having more romantic dinners out, and I was exercising less,” she said.

The actress also reveals in the issue, which features her on its cover and which will be out in September, how she lost her pounds.

“I just ask Kyle, ‘You feel like working out?’” she said.

“We like doing outdoor stuff: tennis, bike riding, kayaking, surfing, hiking. It’s more fun than hitting the gym alone,” she added. (ANI)

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Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan named Best War Film Of All Time

August 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug 20 (ANI): Steven Spielberg’s flick Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon, has topped the list of all time best war movies.

More than 3,000 members of the online DVD and games rental service, Lovefilm, took part in the poll. The survey was conducted to mark the release of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

Saving Private Ryan is an Oscar-winning epic about the D-Day landings and it pipped Steve McQueen starrer The Great Escape to land the honour.

The 1998 Spielberg classic received 21 per cent of the fans’ votes.

The Great Escape got 11 percent of votes, and it pipped another Spielberg movie, Schindler’s List, to grab the second spot.

Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, based on Josef Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness, was ranked fourth with nine per cent of the votes.

The Vietnam War inspired Full Metal Jacket by director Stanley Kubrick and Oliver Stone’s Platoon, came fifth and sixth.

Mel Gibson starrer Braveheart claimed the seventh spot, Back Hawk Down, a tale of American troops in Somalia, came eighth.

Michael Cimino’s haunting The Deer Hunter was positioned at number 10.

Wolfgang Peterson’s German U-Boat drama Das Boot was the only non-English language film to make it in to the top 10 in ninth place.

The Telegraph quoted Darren Bignell, Lovefilm’s communications manager, as saying: “Having polarised opinion at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Inglourious Basterds marks the comeback of one of modern cinema’s most revered directors.

“Tarantino fans have been chomping at the bit for his latest offering and we’ll soon discover whether it hits the mark with cinema-goers.”

The Top 10 War Films Ever:

1 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 21 percent

2 The Great Escape (1963) 11 percent

3 Schindler’s List (1993) 10 percent

4 Apocalypse Now (1979) 9 percent

5 Full Metal Jacket (1987) 7 percent

6 Platoon (1986) 6 percent

7 Braveheart (1995) 5 percent

8 Black Hawk Down (2001) 4 percent

9 Das Boot (2006) 2 percent

10 The Deer Hunter (2078) 1 percent (others 24 percent) (ANI)

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MJ’s mum plans to sue his gig promoters

August 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, August 19 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s mother is reportedly planning to file a lawsuit against the concert promoters of her late son, believing them to be responsible for her son’s death.

Katherine Jackson apparently thinks the music legend was killed by the pressure to perform for the 50-show run in London.

She may also sue the singer’s personal physician Conrad Murray, who is the focus of a manslaughter probe, after he admitted administering the sedative Propofol via an IV drip to help the King of Pop sleep.

“The possibility of a wrongful death action has been floated,” the Daily Star quoted family lawyer Burt Levitch as saying.

“Dr Murray’s name has been floated because he is under investigation,” he added.

A spokesman for concert promoters AEG said: “It would be inappropriate to speculate on any potential litigation.” (ANI)

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Jackson’s doctor loved posing bare-chested with scantily clad girls

July 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 6 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray, who is at the centre of the probe into the superstar’s death, knew how to party hard and even posed bare-chested with scantily clad girls while promoting an energy-drink.

It has emerged that Murray, who was allegedly with the King of Pop at the time of his death, cavorted with the models on a jaunt to Trinidad and Tobago.

His companions on the trip have revealed that he loved to “party hard”, boozing with sozzled stunners into the early hours.

And newly released pictures show the 56-year-old doctor cuddling girls less than half his age. He certainly knew how to party,” the Sun quoted promotions girl Maggie Goldstein, 34, as saying.

Maggi apparently took a string of snaps of the doctor at play on the island.

“He joined a promotional group on the island plugging a new high-energy drink called Pit Bull which I think he’d invested in,” she said.

“And he showed he had plenty of high-energy while he was there. There were about ten models and pro-motions girls who’d been recruited in Las Vegas.

“He had a ball with them. He was up into the early hours drinking and having fun and took a particular shine to one called Tracy who was at least 20 years younger than him.

“He loved posing bare-chested with the girls,” she added.

Murray has hired high-powered lawyers to refute suggestions that he was in any way to blame for the death of 50-year-old ‘Thriller’ star.

Maggie said: “I recognised him straight away when pictures appeared of Michael Jackson’s doctor. I had no idea he was supposed to be a top heart specialist – I just thought he was an old guy with an eye for the ladies.” (ANI)

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‘Jacko’s doc couldn’t find working phone for 30 minutes while he was dying’

June 30, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, June 30 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s controversial personal doctor, Conrad Murray, tried to find working phone for 30 minutes to call 911 as the superstar lay dying in his Bel Air mansion, one of the doctor’s lawyers revealed.

Due to “privacy reasons” landlines in the rented mansion were all shut, and Murray didn’t use his cell phone to get help because he didn’t know Jackson’s address, the lawyer said.

Murray called for security, but no one answered. Finally the doctor had to run downstairs to get a chef to summon help for the dying King of Pop.

“This entire time, with the exception of him running downstairs, he was performing CPR on Michael Jackson,” Edward Chernoff, the lawyer, told CNN.

Although, it wasn’t clear whether the phone scene contributed to Jackson’s death, but every moment is critical when reviving a patient in cardiac arrest like Jackson, reports The New York Daily News.

Paramedics raced to the home and tried to resuscitate the 50-year-old superstar.

They then took him to UCLA Medical Center, where doctors spent another hour in a futile effort to keep him alive. (ANI)

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Jackson’s son saw him collapse

June 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, June 29 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s son was with the singer when he collapsed, and thought his father was just “clowning around”, according to a family friend.

Jackson biographer Stacy Brown alleged ‘Prince’ Michael Jackson Jr. witnessed his father hit the ground in the living room of their rented California home.

The author claimed the 12-year-old stood as a silent spectator, while his father’s doctor Conrad Murray made frantic attempts to save the King of Pop.

“The horror of it all is that Prince thought this dad was just being his dad and clowning, but it was real and he watched as they worked on him,” Contactmusic quoted him as having told the New York Post.

“Prince was stunned – in a trance – just watching,” he added.

The thriller was pronounced dead three hours later at Los Angeles’s UCLA Medical Center.

He is believed to have suffered an apparent cardiac arrest, but medical examiners are yet to determine the cause of his death. (ANI)

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Jackson’s family ‘wants second autopsy’

June 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, June 28 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s relatives want a private autopsy of the star because they still have unanswered questions about his death, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said.

The veteran politician, who has been counselling the family, said they were upset the official cause of death might not be known for weeks.

He said the family wanted answers from the star’s personal doctor, Conrad Murray, who was with him when he died, reports The BBC.

Los Angeles County medical examiners completed an autopsy Friday and said Jackson had taken prescription medication.

Medical officials also said there was no indication of trauma or foul play. An official cause of death could take weeks.

In a statement issued by his father Joseph Jackson, the star’s relatives called it “one of the darkest moments of our lives”.

“It leaves us, his family, speechless and devastated to a point where communication with the outside world seems almost impossible at times,” the statement said. (ANI)

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The list of shortest celebrity marriages in Hollywood

May 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 10 (ANI): Jennifer Lopez and Cris Judd, Tom Green and Drew Barrymore, Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson, Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley are some of the names that have made it to the list of shortest celebrity marriages in Hollywood.

Fox News has put together a list of famous couples who headed for splitsville in less than a year into their marriage.

Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad “Nicky” Hilton, Jr.: Nine Months

The veteran actress, who has been married eight times to seven husbands, remained wife to heir of the Hilton Hotel chain for just nine months before she got a divorce in 1951.

Jennifer Lopez and Cris Judd: Eight Months

The actress-singer’s second marriage to her former backup dancer, Cris Judd lasted only eight months. The two were officially divorced in 2003.

Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman: Six Months

The Baywatch star had an on-again/off-again marriage with the basketball star and called it quits after six months.

Drew Barrymore and Tom Green: Five Months

The Charlie’s Angel spent five months with comedian Tom Green before dropping the wedding ring.

Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney: Four Months

The Cold Mountain actress announced plans for annulment after only four months of marriage with the singer.

Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock: Four Months

The glamour model’s marriage with the singer lasted around four months before she filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences.”

Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley: Three Months

The National Treasure actor put an end to his 108 day-marriage with the Elvis Presley’s daughter.

Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine: 32 Days

The couple decided to part ways within 32 days and Borgnine dubbed it as the biggest mistake of his life.

Ali Landry and Mario Lopez: Two Weeks

The former Miss USA turned former wife to Lopez after just two weeks of their wedding.

Dennis Hopper and Michelle Phillips: Eight Days

The filmmaker hopped out of his marriage with The Mamas and the Papas star within eight days and had said: “Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.” (ANI)

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Kingfisher Airlines teams up with Hilton HHonors

January 12, 2009 By Rajesh Leave a Comment

Mumbai, Jan 12 (ANI/Business Wire India): Kingfisher Airlines today announced its alliance with Hilton HHonors the guest rewards program for the more than 3,000 Hilton Family Hotels worldwide.

The new alliance allows members of King Club, frequent flyer programme of Kingfisher Airlines, to earn both King Miles and HHonors points when they stay at Hilton Family of hotels.

Hilton HHonors is the only guest rewards programme in the world that lets members earn both hotel points and airline miles for the same stay and redeem points for free nights with No Blackout Dates.

Hilton Family hotels are among the most well-known and well-respected brands in the industry including Hilton, Conrad Hotels and Resorts, Doubletree by Hilton, Embassy Suites Hotels, Hampton by Hilton, Hilton Garden InnT, Hilton Grand VacationsT, Homewood Suites by HiltonT, and The Waldorf = Astoria CollectionT hotels.

Commenting on this alliance, Anshu Sarin, Deputy General Manager – King Club, Kingfisher Airlines Limited said, “At King Club, our vision is to deliver unmatchable and innovative benefits across the world to our members, in collaboration with leading national and international brands The alliance with Hilton HHonors is yet another initiative that promises to reward our guests.”

“We are constantly looking for ways to provide our members with options,” said Adam Burke, senior vice president, customer loyalty, Hilton Hotels Corporation.

“Now, HHonors members who frequently fly with Kingfisher Airlines can enjoy earning both King Miles and HHonors points when they stay at Hilton Family hotels around the world,”added Burke.

King Club and Hilton HHonors members can earn Points and Miles in either of the following ways:

– Points and Variable Miles: Earn 10 HHonors points and one King Mile for every eligible dollar charged to room at all Hilton Family hotels

– Points and Fixed Miles: Members regularly earn 10 HHonors points for every eligible dollar charged to room and 500 King Miles per stay (100 miles at Hampton and Homewood)

Since earning Points and Variable Miles can maximize points and King Miles during longer stays and Points and Fixed Miles may offer more King Miles during shorter stays, HHonors members have the opportunity to change their earnings style with every stay.

King Club, the frequent flyer programme of Kingfisher Airlines, has today come to be regarded as one of the most rewarding programme in its space and offers its members an unparalleled level of ‘earn and redeem’ benefits.

In order to start earning King Miles and HHonors points, consumers can enrol in Hilton HHonors at HiltonHHonors.com. Hilton HHonors members need to then sign into their HHonors account and select Kingfisher Airlines as their preferred airline partner and ensure that they present their King Club membership card at the time of check-in.

In addition to earning Points and King Miles, King Club members who are also HHonors members can now convert their HHonors points into King Miles.

For every 10,000 Hilton HHonors points King Club members can make an exchange for 1,000 King Miles. Every additional or subsequent conversion has to be in multiples of 10,000 Hilton HHonors points. (ANI)

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