Report: Dr. Conrad Murray Gave Jackson Powerful Drug Before His Death

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Dr. Conrad Murray gave the late Michael Jackson the powerful drug that authorities believe killed him, claims a new report.
The Associated Press, citing an unnamed official, reports that Dr. Conrad Murray allegedly gave Jackson the anesthetic propofol on the night before his death.
A lawyer for Dr. Murray tells the AP that he did not prescribe or administer anything that should have killed the King of Pop. In response to the AP report, attorney Ed Chernoff tells ET, "It's a waste of time responding to all these timed 'leaks' from 'anonymous' sources.

I feel like a horse swatting flies. Everyone needs to take a breath and wait for these long delayed toxicology results.

I have no doubt they want to make a case -- for goodness sakes, its Michael Jackson! But things tend to shake out when all the facts are made known, and I'm sure that will happen here as well."
Dr. Murray, who was with Jackson on the day he died last month, is also the subject of a manslaughter investigation, according to court documents cited by the AP.

Rebecca Romijn Talks New Show & Babies

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ET's Thea Andrews caught up with actress Rebecca Romijn at Comic-Con to talk about her new TV series and her new twin babies.

"I feel like I have friends here," the 'X-Men' actress said of Comic-Con.

Romijn sat on the panel for her new ABC drama "Eastwick," which focuses on three very different women in a small New England town who find themselves drawn together by a mysterious man who unleashes unique powers in each of them. "I feel like it's a character that's most like me in real life," she told Thea of her bohemian character.

The actress and her husband Jerry O'Connell welcomed twin girls Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip on January 5th. "They're crawling around. I have such a lovely, energetic husband. ... I'm going through separation anxiety but I think they're having a blast," she said of the twins. "It's nice to be back at work but I'm missing them so much."

Keep checking ETonline for more Comic-Con coverage.

Who's the gap-toothed cutie?

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No prizes for guessing who this wealthy little blondie grew up to be!
It's Paris Hilton, in a still from her new documentary Paris, Not France. At the recent Los Angeles premiere of the documentary, Paris let slip that the late Michael Jackson's daughter Paris was named after her.

"My mom and Michael went to high school together and they were best friends since they were 13," she told Extra.

"So I grew up knowing Michael very well and when he had his daughter, he always loved the name Paris and grew up being an uncle to me.

"So he asked my mom if it was okay and of course she said yes and I think she's such a beautiful little girl and I'm proud we have the same name."

Father blames Jackson doctor over death

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Joe Jackson says he has taken his son Michael's death "very hard" and believes the doctor who took care of him could be behind the singer's demise.

The patriarch of the Jackson family appeared on CNN's Larry King Live and implied his son's personal doctor, Dr Conrad Murray, may be to blame for the death.

"The doctor gave him something to make him rest, and then he don't wake up no more. Something is wrong there," Jackson said. He did not refer to Murray by name.

A phone listing for Murray could not be found, and two messages left with his lawyer, Edward Chernoff, on Monday night were not immediately returned.

The family is awaiting the coroner's toxicology report to determine how Michael Jackson died at the age of 50. The results are expected next week.

Investigators obtained a search warrant and removed several bottles of the powerful anaesthetic propofol from Jackson's home, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation.

Jackson suggested Murray couldn't be found following his son's death on June 25.

"This doctor, he ran away. They had to look for him three days to find him. To me that is foul play," Jackson said.

Police interviewed Murray two days after Jackson's death.

Authorities say he is a not a suspect, though the cardiologist is a key figure in the investigation because he was with Jackson in the mansion and tried to revive him. His car has been seized after police said they believe the vehicle may contain drugs or other evidence.

Wearing a black fedora and a gold medallion of Africa hanging around his neck, Jackson appeared on the show with promoter Leonard Rowe.

When asked by King how he's dealt with his son's death, Joe Jackson replied, "I took it very hard".

Jackson added he didn't know where his son's body is being kept and hasn't seen the results from a second autopsy performed on Michael Jackson at the family's request.

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France jails Algeria's "Prince of Rai" for five years

Cheb Mami made the world famous "Desert Rose" with Britsh star Sting (File)

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Algerian music star Cheb Mami was sentenced Friday to five years in jail for drugging and trying to make his ex-girlfriend undergo a forced abortion, despite pleading for forgiveness at his trial near Paris.

Known as the "Prince of Rai," the 42-year-old singer this week ended two years on the run and returned to France to face trial for the 2005 assault against his former lover.

Wearing a white shirt, the star, whose real name is Mohamed Khelifati, showed no emotion as the verdict was read out, before being escorted from the courtroom in Bobigny, outside Paris, and remanded in custody.

"Serious mistake"

" I was ashamed to have an illegitimate child. A child should be born from a union. I didn't want this child "
Cheb MamiProsecutors had asked for seven years against Mami, who produced several chart-topping records in France in the 1990s but reached international stardom in 2001 with the hit "Desert Rose" a collaboration with British pop star Sting.

During his testimony, Mami expressed remorse and pleaded for the woman's forgiveness.

He broke down in tears and admitted making a "serious mistake" but said he did not love the woman and felt "trapped" when she told him she was pregnant.

"I was ashamed to have an illegitimate child. A child should be born from a union. I didn't want this child," he told the court.

Mami's former manager Michel Lecorre -- also known as Michel Levy -- was sentenced to four years for plotting and organizing the assault.

Mami blamed Levy, saying he was behind the plot to force the woman to have an abortion.


Drugged and abused

Court sketch shows Cheb Mami at a Paris courthouseThe victim, a 43-year-old photographer whose name was withheld, was sequestered and drugged in an Algiers house belonging the singer after revealing she was pregnant in the summer of 2005.

Two women and a man then tried to carry out an abortion on her.

Returning to France, the woman learned that her pregnancy had not been terminated and went on to have the child -- a girl -- now three years old.

"They insulted me.. They threw me on the mattress and tore off my pants....I was given three shots with needles, one woman pressed against my stomach and the other put her hand in my vagina and started scraping," she testified in court.

Arrest warrants were also issued for two of Mami's aides, Hicham Lazaar and Abdelkader Lallali, who were convicted in absentia of having a direct hand in the violence. They were sentenced to three and six years in jail respectively.

Behind the Scenes of Michael Jackson's 'This is It' Concert

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Michael Jackson was busy putting on the final touches for his 50-date London concerts at the O2 Arena when he unexpectedly died. Now, ET's Thea Andrews is with the men behind the massive production to reveal what could have been Michael's most incredible concert tour yet!
A show filled with music, dance, stunts and pyrotechnics, Michael's "This is It" concert was being directed by Kenny Ortega, the man who designed Michael's "Dangerous" tour, choreographed 'Dirty Dancing' and also brought "High School Musical" to the world. Kenny says that Michael promised "the concert of a lifetime" and was prepared to deliver.
"We [had] some fun things planned," he says, referring to gigantic spiders, 20-foot puppets, a flaming bed, a pole dancing aerialist, a 3D movie and plenty more magic. "It's complex in scale and it's as big as anything I've ever done or attempted to do for an arena production."
Michael was reportedly planning to open the show with "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" and a glass sphere would float around the King of Pop, light up, drift over the crowd and then return to his palm.
Rehearsals for the concert series began at CenterStaging in Burbank, CA, owned by Johnny Caswell, but the huge space still wasn't big enough for the production, so Michael moved to L.A.'s Staples Center downtown.
"He was intently involved in making this, along with Kenny, the greatest thing he'd ever done," says Caswell, who adds that the performance stage, just under 10,000 square feet, "was not big enough to house the set, or high enough. It was really gonna be big stuff."
The "This is It" concerts will never be, but there are reports that AEG Live, the promoters, have approximately 100 hours of rehearsal video and may turn the footage into anything from a CD to a DVD, motion picture, pay-per-view or television event.
Watch ET for all the latest Michael Jackson news…

Ashley Olsen speaks out: I’m not a public figure!

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She’s been in the limelight since she was nine months old and is one half of the world’s most famous twins, but Ashley Olsen claims she’s tired of being a celebrity.

"I’ve definitely had a past life of being a personality, and a very public one," she said.

"But that’s not what makes me comfortable. I’m not an actress. I’m not a public figure or acting as one.”

Ash has ducked out of acting in order to pursue a career in fashion, moving to New York to escape the long lens of paparazzi.

"I can actually live here. I don’t get followed. In LA, paparazzi wait outside my house. I don’t leave my house. I can’t."

Ironically it doesn’t look like that has scared off Mary-Kate from acting. The other Olsen twin, who previously copped a roasting from the press over her anorexia-scare days, is currently filming Beastly alongside Vanessa Hudgens.