Michael Jackson joins Tupac and Elvis sadly

There are some things in life you see coming from a mile away. Sometimes it doesn’t even need to be your life. With the sudden death of Michael Jackson you knew that one of 2 things would happen: People would claim he wasn’t dead and this was all staged or that he was murdered.

Now I am not going to say that the man was not killed. I definitely don’t know enough to say this. But I have to say that I have my doubts. Lots of them.

That does not mean that others have those same doubts. LaToya Jackson is quoted as having said

“Michael WAS murdered," declared La Toya, 53. "And we don't think just one person was involved. Rather, it was a conspiracy of people. I feel it was all about money. Michael was worth well over a billion in music publishing assets and somebody killed him for that. He was worth more dead than alive.”

Well in part I can see her point. Alive Jackson owed some $400 million dollars to investors. He was otherwise in debt. But he did have a vast array of music publishing rights. The Beatles catologue comes to mind.

Still, how would some publicly unknown group of people gain access to those rights? Which I am sure are part of the assets that Jackson passed on to his children?

LaToya is also quoted as stating that $2 million in cash and jewlery is missing. Which could be a motivation for murder. Though it would seem more likely that in the confusion surrounding his death, anyone with access to the Jackson home might have been able to take advantage and steal lots of things. It definitely does not seem like a reason to kill him, and not in the manner in which he died.

But all of this feeds into the conspiracy theories circling the net. As early as June 30th, on at least one blog I am aware of, people were making radical claims and associating them with the death of Jackson. So it is likely that as things move forward we are going to hear more.

I expect to hear that it was the pharmacuetical industry, Sir Paul McCartney, the investors that paid him $400 million, muslims, people who don’t like muslims, the doctors supplying him with drugs, aliens, the Queen, Scotland Yard, and others I can’t even begin to guess at.

Maybe Michael Jackson was killed. It is not beyond reasonable doubt at this moment. But I imagine that no matter what is found and proven, there will never be an end to the rumors and theories. Which is a sad thing to see happening, especially after such a tragic event.