7 Michael Jackson: When Doctors Give You Eternal Sleep
When news of Michael Jackson’s death broke, the Internet broke. The outpouring of grief was phenomenal and in this very strange and very dark world that we live in, Michael’s earnings have gone up exponentially since his death.
When he had trouble sleeping, Michael reportedly asked his personal physician Conrad Murray for “more milk” aka more drugs to help him sleep. The good doctor complied to the extent that Michael stopped breathing. Murray tried to resuscitate Michael as did the emergency technicians but finally, it was clear that Michael had reached eternal sleep. On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson died from a drug-induced cardiac arrest just two months shy of his 51st birthday. The cause of death was acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication and Murray was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter. At his memorial held on July 7, the Reverend Al Sharpton told Jackson’s children: “Wasn’t nothing strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with. But he dealt with it anyway.” RIP Michael.
6 Gianni Versace: Shot By A Serial Killer
Versace was shot dead on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion when he returned from a morning walk to the coffee shop to get his newspapers. While this was usually the job of his assistant, the beautiful morning made Versace want to walk and so he set out in a great mood. His happiness, and unfortunately his life too, came to a gory, bloody end at the steps of his own home when he returned. A serial killer named Andrew Cunanan shot the designer twice and then calmly walked off, leaving Versace bleeding to death on those pristine white steps, now forever tainted with red.
Gianni Versace’s distraught partner, Antonio D’Amico, screamed for help as Versace lay bleeding while another witness tried to chase the shooter down but was scared off with a gun. No one knows why Andrew Cunanan shot Versace and eight days later, he killed himself with the same gun. The “who did it?” was solved, but no one will ever know the reason why.
5 Princess Diana: A Car Crash Or A Cover Up?
The world mourned the death of this princess who had remained a steadfast wife to Charles for as long as she could stand it, a dutiful member of the royal monarchy, and a dedicated mother to two beautiful sons.
On August 31, 1997, Princess Diana, by then divorced from Charles, was traveling in a Mercedes Benz S280 with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones after dining at the Ritz in Paris. The car was being driven by Henri Paul and apparently hounded by the paparazzi when it lost control in the Alma underpass and crashed into a pillar. The accident was so severe that both Fayed and Paul were dead on the scene. Princess Diana was in the car and was reported to murmur “Oh my God” over and over again, bleeding from the nose and ears. She was taken to the hospital where she went into cardiac arrest and it was then discovered that she had extensive internal injuries – her heart had been torn from the left side of the chest and displaced to the right side, causing massive internal bleeding. She died despite best efforts to save her – and the world mourned this candle in the wind, deluging Buckingham with tributes and gifts many feet deep.
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