LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2009

Nanny: I Had To Pump Jackson's Stomach

No Word Yet On Memorial Plans, But Bizarre Details Continue To Emerge From Michael Jackson's Final Hours

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    The Jackson family remains out of sight while investigators say Dr. Conrad Murray, who was with Jackson during his last moments, provided useful information during questioning. Ben Tracy reports.

  • In this Dec. 3, 1984 picture, Michael Jackson performs with his brothers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. No plans have been announced for the singer's memorial service as of June 28, 2009, but bizarre details continue to emerge about his final hours and his children's nanny says Jackson frequently used painkillers.

    In this Dec. 3, 1984 picture, Michael Jackson performs with his brothers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. No plans have been announced for the singer's memorial service as of June 28, 2009, but bizarre details continue to emerge about his final hours and his children's nanny says Jackson frequently used painkillers.  (AP Photo/Doug Pizac)

(CBS)  There is still no word tonight from the family compound about funeral and memorial plans for Michael Jackson, but the details of the superstar's life and death that are emerging are increasingly strange, reports CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy.

Jackson's family remains mostly out of sight at their suburban Los Angeles home, where a makeshift shrine to the megastar is growing. Meanwhile, investigators say Dr. Conrad Murray, who was with the singer during his final moments, provided useful information during three hours of questioning Saturday.

Murray was hired to tend to Jackson during his planned summer concerts in London. A lawyer for Murray told the L.A. Times he did not inject the pop star with Demerol before he died.

But many questions still remain: How much medication was Jackson taking? And did a reliance on painkillers contribute to his death?

One time spiritual advisor Deepak Chopra says in 2005 Jackson asked him for a prescription.

"He showed me a little bottle of OxyContin. I started to probe and then got to find out that he was probably seeing several doctors who were giving him narcotics," Chopra said.

Attorney Thomas Mesereau, who represented Jackson during his 2005 molestation trial says even after being acquitted, Jackson was never quite the same.

"He was not constructed, in my opinion, emotionally, for a trial like that," Mesereau said.

However, Mesereau says Jackson was a devoted father who worried about what would happen to his kids if he died prematurely. An ever increasing number of Jackson associates want to care for the children.

Jackson's longtime nanny, Grace Rawarmba, considers herself the children's mother. She is quoted in the Times of London saying that Jackson abused prescription drugs and that she "had to pump his stomach several times."

She is also quoted saying that just hours after Jackson died, his mother Katherine called her and said, "You remember Michael used to hide cash at the house? I am here. Where can it be?"

"If Grace's goal was to recreate herself from nanny to celebrity - bravo, job well done," said Jackson biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli. "But if she had hoped to maintain a relationship with his children, then that was a pretty stupid move."

The Rev. Al Sharpton is expected in Los Angeles to meet with the Jackson family about memorial plans. They could include simultaneous worldwide celebrations.

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by vegas2go June 29, 2009 5:58 AM EDT
Now comes the battle for the money,,,,,,notice how the Family had a movingvan take stuff out of the house the very day he died??? Ghoulish!
You can bet this is only the Beginning........
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by scallywag12 June 29, 2009 1:51 AM EDT
Here's an interesting question. If the doctor found MJ in bed and his body was still warm and he had a faint pulse, why did MJ son think he was joking when he collapsed? Doesn't make sense to me.
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by Thalia-9 June 29, 2009 1:07 AM EDT
Too bad he couldn't get more advice from some of his,"friends", who are coming out of the wood work to praise him now...

my thoughts exactly gravy
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by Thalia-9 June 29, 2009 1:06 AM EDT
by rushlimpdrug June 28, 2009 4:30 PM PDT
There is one nanny out of a job.

How hard can it be to get answers from the "Doctor"?

Show the perscriptions you made out to Michael.

Show your present inventory.

Show the inventory you brought into the home.

I would suspect any GOOD doctor could do that.

Meanwhile, Deepak Chopra continues to be a joke
like some foreign "doctors" that have come into
the U.S.

Ummm...Doc's don't have an "inventory" of drugs - they only have 'trial' packs, then prescribe based upon outcome...hence that whole little 'pharmacy' trade?
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by rushlimpdrug June 29, 2009 6:54 PM EDT
uuuummmmmmm so why impound his car?
Think the cops will invetory what is in the car?
Doing inventory is more that what your little brain can process.
by woozybarnes June 28, 2009 11:56 PM EDT
The Rev's Jesse and Al jumping on board. How surprising.
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by pensacola8-2009 June 28, 2009 11:09 PM EDT
I can't believe M.J. waited before he was 400 Million dollars in debt before deciding to do something about it. With 300 million citizens in the USA, that comes to $1.33 that each of us will have to absorb for just one person. There are fortune 500 companies that considered a single million dollar loss as staggering! One thing is clear, M.J. didn't know much about mananging money. From what I can tell, he wasn't good at many other things, too. What a poor role model he was for the fans!!
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by california64 June 28, 2009 10:57 PM EDT
MJ's Mother at his house before the body was even cold and LOOKING FOR MONEY! This will be the theme for the next several years. EVERYONE will want those three kids so they have access to the money. What a pathetic lot of people the Jackson family have become...
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by kbbpll June 28, 2009 10:47 PM EDT
Has-been washed-up freak show dies. Tomorrow's Monday. Maybe some real news will occur.
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by hungry1968-15 June 28, 2009 10:30 PM EDT
by TrickynWV June 28, 2009 7:14 PM PDT
Question: Father, Joe Jackson, The Right Reverend Jesse Jackson, The Other Reverend Al Sharpton... a father, and 2 "men of God". Where were they when Michael needed some REAL help?

Answer: Nowhere helping him. So why go through the act now?







You already know the answer.....

There wasn't enough publicity BEFORE he dropped dead, but there's money to be made now that he's horizontal.
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by culturechang June 28, 2009 10:26 PM EDT
Pump his stomach????? That is not exactly standard duty for a nanny.
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