UPDATE SUNDAY P.M. The Washington Post is reporting that Sony/ATV Music Publishing, co-owned by Michael Jackson and Sony, will be keeping control of the many Beatles songs owned by Jackson.
Previous reports said that Jackson, in death, would be relinquishing ownership of the tracks to Paul McCartney. The company owns rights to more than 200 songs written by McCartney and John Lennon (among many other artists' songs, including some from Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond.)
It had been reported that Jackson left the songs to McCartney in his will in order to repair a rift in their relationship. The two had not spoken since a bidding war left Jackson with ownership back in 1985; he paid $47.5 million, and the stake apparently is worth more than $1 billion today.
In L.A., Al Sharpton met with members of the Jackson family at their Encino compound. Sharpton flew into Los Angeles Sunday at the request of Michael Jackson's brothers to help plan memorials for the singer.
Sharpton said they would like to plan global events paying tribute to the pop star.
His visit follows Jesse Jackson, who said over the weekend that the family was concerned about the medical care Michael Jackson had recently been receiving.
Meanwhile, a lawyer for Michael Jackson’s physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, said that reports that the doctor injected the pop star with a powerful painkiller before his death were “absolutely false.”
Edward Chernoff, the attorney for Murray, said Jackson was unconscious when the doctor entered Jackson's bedroom.
UPDATE SATURDAY P.M.: Janet Jackson was at her brother Michael Jackson's home in Holmby Hills, where moving vans were taking dollies and packing equipment through the gates, the Associate Press reported. It wasn't known what was being taken out.
Also on Saturday, the Reve. Jesse Jackson has said the Jackson's family wants a private autopsy because of unanswered questions about how he died. "It's abnormal," he said. "We don't know what happened. Was he injected and with what? All reasonable doubt should be addressed."
EARLIER:
After delaying two hours, the L.A. County coroner finally said Friday said that there were no medical signs of foul play in the death of pop star Michael Jackson and that further testing -- including toxicology -- would take place on his body.
Those tests are expected to take four to six weeks, the coroner spokesman Craig R. Harvey said. "At that time, we anticipate being able to close the case and issue a final cause of death," Harvey said.
He refused to say whether Jackson had taken Demerol, but did say, "We know he was taking some prescription medications. We can’t say what type."
A senior law enforcement official has said that Jackson received an injection of Demerol one hour before his death and that Jackson was "heavily addicted" to the powerful pain killer Oxycontin
And though they insist they are conducting a “medical” investigation, not a “criminal” investigation, police Friday night were questioning Dr.
