How Michael Jackson Died

Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009, at his home in Los Angeles, California, reportedly one hour after receiving an injection of pethidine (Demerol), a painkiller to which his friends say he was addicted.^[1] His personal physician, Conrad Murray, says he found Jackson in bed, not breathing but with a faint pulse, and administered CPR to no avail. Murray has said he did not prescribe or furnish Jackson with Demerol.^[2]

His death triggered an outpouring of grief around the world, creating surges of Internet traffic and causing his album sales to soar.^[3] He had been scheduled to perform 50 sold-out concerts to over one million people at London's O₂ arena, from July 13, 2009 to March 6, 2010; during a press conference, Jackson implied those would have been the final concerts of his career.^[4]

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