Michael Jackson Biopic Revives His Tragic Death

0:00On April 29th, the new Michael Jackson biopic, called Michael, is crushing it at the box office, and it's got folks talking again about how the king of. Pop died back in 2009. This film stars his nephew, Jafar Jackson, and skips over the tough stuff from his later years, focusing on his early rise to fame with hits like, Thriller. Michael Jackson passed away on June 25th, 2009, at just 50 years old from a cute, profilful intoxication with other sedatives. Like benzodiazepines playing a role too. His personal doctor, Conrad Murray, got hired for $150,000 a month to help him prep for a big London residency show, but ended up convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Los Angeles in 2011. Murray served less than two years of a four-year sentence after prosecutors said he gave the powerful anesthetic without proper safety steps, and he didn't call 911 right away when Jackson stopped breathing. Even today, Murray insists he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, as the biopic keeps pulling eyes back to that tragic day.

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