SHOOT: The most obvious are that Michael was forced to perform to get out of a financial mess (meaning he didn't have much choice, despite his health.) That probably precipitated a mental malaise (stress, worry, anxiety), and Michael treated it pretty badly, and those around him were enablers, giving him whatever he wanted as long as he'd perform. So drugs, but an underlying desperation to pay bills, and the stress that flowed from that.
• "Enablers," aka "Leeches," aka Anna Nicole Smith Redux
Within hours of Jackson's death, Brian Oxman, an attorney who has worked with the Jackson family, was arguing that the entertainer was the all-new Anna Nicole Smith: an overmedicated mess beset with "enablers." In London's Sun, Matt Fiddes, I.D.'d as Jackson's former head of security, did not seem to disagree with Oxman, talking of "leeches" who plied the singer with "sedatives to relax him—or 'uppers' to lift his mood." E! Online's Ted Casablanca has his own source on Jackson being "way, way overtreated."
• "Greed," aka Comeback Concerts Still Sounding Like Very Bad Idea
In London's Daily Mail, Jackson author Ian Halperin argues the 50-year-old singer signed his death warrant when he signed on for the London concerts, that he was too broken by the 2003-2005 molestation case to command the stage, and that he was pushed into the shows by his handlers and mounting financial obligations.
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