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1 Conrad Murray never saw his father until he was 25 years old and so took the surname of his mother.
2 David Jones, ‘Born In The Ghetto, He Has Seven Children By Different Women And A Mountain Of Debts’, Daily Mail, 5 February 2010.
3 He was also licensed in Hawaii in 2001.
4 Dr Murray kept an office at this clinic, which was owned by Dr Davill Armstrong who, between 2006 and 2009, had his licence suspended by the state medical board for improperly treating 15 patients. In 2008 he was also fined $2,000 for allowing his wife to prescribe medicine to a patient without any physician being present.
5 Conrad Murray actually met his father for the first time in 1978.
6 Nick Allen, ‘Dr. Conrad Murray: Profile’, The Telegraph, 7 November 2011.
7 Nick Allen, ‘Dr. Conrad Murray: Profile’, The Telegraph, 7 November 2011.
8 Harriet Ryan, ‘Dr. Conrad Murray Deep In Debt, Records Show’, Los Angeles Times, 8 February 2010.
9 David Gardner, ‘Revealed: Conrad Murray’s Secret Double Life as a Deadbeat Dad and a Compulsive Womaniser Turned Doctor to the Stars’, Daily Mail, 8 November 2011.
10 Jim Avila, Luchina Fisher and Sheila Marikar, ‘Investigating Michael Jackson’s Personal Doctor’, ABC News, 30 July 2009.
11 The Associated Press, ‘Michael Jackson’s Doc Conrad Murray in Deep Financial Straits’, 1 August 2009.
12 Nenita Malibiran was already married when she began her affair with Murray who, himself, was married. They had a son together but Murray made little effort to visit him. Even though Malibiran won the case against Murray for child support, she had to sue him on a number of occasions to try and get payments.
13 They were married in 1989 and were medical classmates at Meharry School of Medicine together.
14 Her IMDb profile lists just three credits between 2003 and 13. She played ‘Courtney’ in the 2003 short Her Knight, she was ‘Hot Chick’ (uncredited) in the 2008, $10 million film Days of Wrath and she was ‘Katrina’ in one episode of Justified in 2010.
15 The child, Che Giovanni Murray, was born on 2 March 2009.
16 Stadol is a powerful pain reliever with some similarities to Demerol.
17 Nubain is a powerful pain reliever administered through IV. It’s similar to Morphine and used as a supplement to anaesthesia.
18 Phenergan is a moderate painkiller, which is also used as an antihistamine.
19 Talwin is a pain reliever/narcotic used before surgery and as an anaesthetic.
20 Luchina Fisher, ‘Like Father, Like Son? Conrad Murray’s Dad Once Cited for Medical Misconduct’, ABC News, 23 July 2009.
21 James C. McKinley, ‘Differing Sides of Physician Who Tended to Jackson’, New York Times, 26 September 2009.
22 Dr David Slavit graduated from Cornell University in 1982 before attending the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City of New York.
23 Bob Taylor of Robertson Taylor, the London-based insurance brokers, requested the physical.
24 Dr Slavit charged $6,000 for the physical examination including time away from office, $3,000 for medical supplies, lab specimen collection and processing, preparation of reports, completion of insurance forms and review of confidentiality agreement, as well as $5,849 for travel expenses, hotel and so forth.
25 Interview with Access Hollywood, 25 August 2009.
26 According to testimony in court by Dr Slavit the whole visit took no more than three hours.
27 The report erroneously dated the examination as taking place on 4 February 2008 rather than 2009, which Dr Slavit attributed to a typographical error.
28 Los Angeles Police Department, recorded interview of Conrad Murray, 27 June 2009.
29 During the People v. Conrad Murray trial, Faheem Muhammad, Jackson’s Head of Security, said he first met Murray in March 2009. Alberto Alvarez, Jackson’s Director of Logistics, said he first met Murray in January 2009, but only saw him regularly between April/May to 25 June.
30 People v. Conrad Murray trial.
31 Access Hollywood, ‘Michael Jackson Death Investigation: Who is Doctor David Slavit?’, 25 August 2009.
32 Eriq Gardner, ‘Michael Jackson Company: Singer Fit to Perform Before Death’, Hollywood Reporter, 2 January 2014.
33 Official court records, Katherine Jackson v. AEG, testimony of Dr David Slavit, 15 August 2013.
34 Remarkably, as early as June 2008, Murray had been calling himself Jackson’s personal physician to his mistress, Nicole Alvarez.
35 One of Michael Jackson’s aliases.
36 Harriet Ryan, ‘Southern California – This Just In’, Los Angeles Times, 5 October 2011.
37 Mary Manning and Jeremy Twitchell, ‘DEA Searches Vegas Pharmacy in Probe of Doctor’, Las Vegas Sun, 11 August 2009.
38 Paul Harasim, ‘Is Anyone Watching The Pharmacy Industry?’, Las Vegas Review Journal, 14 October 2012.
39 The Enterprise Report, ‘Autopsy of Dr Conrad Murray Vegas Pharmacy’ by TER Staff, 1 October 2009.
40 It was confirmed during his autopsy.
41 Official court records, People v. Conrad Murray, testimony of Tim Lopez, 10 January 2011.
42 Jackson was photographed leaving Klein’s clinic on this date looking fine and wearing dark sunglasses.
43 Official court records, People v. Conrad Murray, testimony of Tim Lopez, 10 January 2011.
44 Official court records, People v. Conrad Murray, testimony of Tim Lopez, 10 January 2011.
45 Official court records, People v. Conrad Murray, testimony of Tim Lopez, 10 January 2011.
46 Benjamin C. Wedro, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, ‘Michael Jackson’s Death: Propofol FAQ’, 8 November 2011, www.MedicineNet.com.
47 Official court records, People v. Conrad Murray, testimony of Tim Lopez, 10 January 2011.
48 The Associated Press, ‘Doctor’s Girlfriend Discusses Medical Shipments’, The Guardian, 4 October 2011.
49 Official court recording, People v. Conrad Murray, Sally Hirschberg testimony, 5 October 2011.
50 Official court recording, People v. Conrad Murray, testimony of Sally Hirschberg, 5 October 2011.
51 Official court transcript, People v. Conrad Murray, testimony of Kenny Ortega, 4 January 2011.
52 Official court records, People v. Conrad Murray, testimony of Tim Lopez, 10 January 2011.
53 Shortly after testifying that he had shipped a large amount of Propofol to Murray, Tim Lopez apparently vanished after leaving the USA and could not be located for the September 2011 trial. He was finally found after a ‘mysterious’ trip to Thailand and relocated to the USA just in time for the trial. (TMZ.com, ‘Pharmacist Tim Lopez Testifies’, 4 October 2011, www.tmz.com.)