About Death of Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson died on 25 June 2009 at his rented home in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles, aged 50. The cause was acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication — a fatal dose of the surgical anaesthetic propofol, administered as a sleep aid. His personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in November 2011 and served two years in prison.
The final months
At the time of his death, Jackson was weeks away from launching This Is It — a 50-date residency at London's O2 Arena that had sold out in hours and was intended as his comeback. Rehearsal footage was later released as the documentary film This Is It, which became the highest-grossing concert film in history at the time.
A global outpouring
News of Jackson's death caused unprecedented internet traffic — Google initially mistook the surge in searches for an attack, and Twitter and Wikipedia briefly buckled. His televised memorial service at the Staples Center on 7 July 2009 drew a global audience estimated in the hundreds of millions, with tickets allocated by lottery from 1.6 million applications.
The King of Pop's legacy
Jackson remains one of the best-selling music artists in history, with Thriller (1982) still the best-selling album of all time. He won 13 Grammy Awards, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, and his moonwalk — first performed to Billie Jean in 1983 — remains among the most imitated moves in entertainment history. Posthumous earnings have repeatedly made him the highest-earning deceased celebrity.
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