{"id":407570,"date":"2010-03-09T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f80f033970c"},"modified":"2010-03-09T10:38:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:38:43","slug":"michael-jackson-doted-on-his-children-in-months-before-his-death-bodyguards-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/407570","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson doted on his children in months before his death, bodyguards say"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the months before his death, Michael Jackson worried about his personal safety but relished his role as a father, his bodyguards said.<\/p>\n

In an interview with ABC News<\/a>, the bodyguards — Mike Garcia, Bill Whitfield and Javon "BJ" Beard — did not directly address the day of Jackson’s death last summer or the role the pop star’s physician, Conrad Murray, might have played.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

But they described day-to-day life with Jackson. They characterized him as a doting father who took his kids through a McDonald’s drive-through, insisting on ordering himself.<\/p>\n

"The kids were constantly saying, ‘I love you, Daddy’…. They were like four buddies," Garcia told ABC News.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The bodyguards said Jackson was secretive and obsessed with privacy. They said Jackson once threw a birthday party for one of his children — but only invited a few adults, and no children. They said Jackson wore a hospital mask over his face when he was out in public, hoping to go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Last month, L.A. prosecutors charged Murray with involuntary manslaughter in connection with administering a
\ncombination of surgical anesthetic and sedatives blamed in Jackson’s death.\u00a0The complaint filed in Superior Court
\naccused \u00a0Murray, a cardiologist caring for the 50-year-old
\npop icon during an ambitious comeback attempt, of causing Jackson’s
\nJune 25 death by acting "without due caution and circumspection."<\/p>\n

Murray has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

–Shelby Grad<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the months before his death, Michael Jackson worried about his personal safety but relished his role as a father, his bodyguards said. In an interview with ABC News, the bodyguards — Mike Garcia, Bill Whitfield and Javon "BJ" Beard — did not directly address the day of Jackson’s death last summer or the role […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}