Michael Jackson‘s doctor, Conrad Murray, is still fighting back! The doctor’s lawyers have subpoenaed Sony for the raw footage from the ‘This Is It’ rehearsals to show the jury that Michael Jackson, indeed,  was physically and mentally unstable before he died. TMZ has the scoop:

We’ve learned Murray’s lawyers want the tapes to show Jackson was slow, lethargic and weak in the days prior to his death.  Although some of the video shows an alert MJ, other portions, we’re told, clearly show something is wrong with the singer.

Murray’s lawyers want to show jurors in the manslaughter case … Michael was ill or even dying before the fateful morning … so it wasn’t really the June 25 Propofol injections that killed MJ.

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In case you don’t remember, Dr. Conrad Murray was the personal physician of Michael Jackson.

Applied Pharmacy is the Las Vegas pharmacy that supplied Dr. Conrad Murray with massive amounts of Propofol for Michael Jackson… and according to court documents obtained by TMZ, “Applied Pharmacy has been shut down by the State of Nevada and will file Bankruptcy in 90 days.”

Applied Pharmacy shipped multiple packages of Propofol to Dr. Murray at his girlfriend’s house in the months before MJ’s death.

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Michael Jackson‘s oldest son, Prince Jackson, is growing up!

“Prince has a girlfriend; they just started dating about a week or two ago,” Tito Jackson, Michael Jackson’s brother, tells Life & Style magazine.

The 14-year-old met his new gal at school, his uncle says. “He’s at the age where he’s noticing the pretty girls, and they’re starting to notice him too,” Tito reveals. Girls aren’t the only thing keeping Prince busy. “He’s on the basketball team and playing football,” says Tito, whose first solo album, So Far So Good, will be released this summer (go to titojackson.com for more info). “He has a normal childhood.”

Prince is swooning the girls at such a young age just like his dad used to!

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Watch Michael Jackson’s new music video HERE!

Sony was planning on releasing Michael Jackson’s first posthumous album, Michael, on December 14th…but we’ve learned that the entire ten track album has already leaked onto the internet.

TMZ reports:

The tracks are now up on several file sharing websites … and unless Sony Music authorized it — this is a clear case of illegal piracy.

The official, aka legal, release date is next Tuesday — December 14.

We’re reaching out to Sony for comment. Nothing yet, but you can imagine they ain’t happy.

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TMZ has learned Dr. Conrad Murray‘s legal defense is that Michael Jackson gave himself the fatal dose of Propofol.

Multiple sources familiar with the strategy tell TMZ the defense argument goes like this:

- At around 10:50 AM, Dr. Murray gave Jackson 25 mg of Propofol from a 20 ml bottle — that’s only about 1/8 of the bottle.

- The dose Dr. Murray administered would keep someone asleep for only 5 to 10 minutes, but the Propofol, along with the Ativan and Versed that was already in MJ’s system, had a synergistic effect that put Jackson to sleep for a longer period of time.

- For the next hour, Dr. Murray stayed in the room and was on the phone for much of the time. Dr. Murray didn’t leave the room to make the calls because MJ liked activity in the room, regularly sleeping with the lights on and cartoons blaring on the TV.

- At around noon, Dr. Murray left the room for approximately two minutes to go to the bathroom. While he was gone, the defense believes Jackson suddenly awakened and was frustrated he had spent nearly 9 hours trying in vain to sleep. The defense theory — Jackson took the 20 ml bottle of Propofol and self-injected the remaining contents through the IV, causing a massive overdose that stopped his heart.

- Dr. Murray walked back in the room and saw Jackson with his eyes open and pupils dilated. Dr. Murray dropped the phone (he was speaking with his girlfriend) and began administering CPR.

The defense will argue Michael Jackson was a long-time Propofol addict — something TMZ first reported shortly after the singer’s death. As one source said, Jackson liked the sensation of Propofol being administered by IV, adding, “Michael liked to push it.”

L.A. County Coroner‘s investigators took a picture in the room, showing an empty Propofol bottle on the floor, underneath the nightstand by Jackson’s bed. The defense will argue Jackson grabbed the bottle from the nightstand, injected himself and then dropped the bottle.

Remember, law enforcement believes Dr. Murray hid bottles of Propofol before paramedics arrived. The defense will argue … if Dr. Murray was really hiding Propofol, he would have removed the empty bottle under the nightstand that caused Jackson’s death.

Ed Chernoff, Murray’s attorney, could not be reached for comment.

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Songwriter and producer Rodney Jerkins is very happy with the reception that his Lady Gaga/Beyoncé collaboration “Telephone” is getting — and he recently shared some of the hit single’s behind-the-scenes secrets with In Touch.

The song was originally intended for Britney Spears.
Rodney: I started working together with Lady Gaga about two years ago, and we were actually just writing together for other artists. When we first started writing, we definitely had it in mind for Britney — then Gaga wanted to keep it for herself.

Beyonce wanted to keep her verse “street.”
Rodney: The Beyoncé collaboration idea happened after Gaga did “Video Phone” with Beyoncé. Gaga asked me, ‘What do you think about Beyoncé being a part of “Telephone”? And I’ve worked with Beyoncé on almost every one of her projects, so I was like, “Yeah, let’s do it!” I think that 20 years from now, we’ll look back and say that in the new-millennium era, Beyoncé was the premiere female artist. I think her working with other female artists [Beyoncé has also had duets with Shakira and Alicia Keys] shows that she’s not so egotistical that she’s not going to work with anybody. She looks at it as her lending her talent to them, and them lending her talent to her. When I got on the phone with Beyoncé, she was telling me she wanted her verses to have a hood, street element, and I actually was caught off-guard. I wondered, “How am I going to do that? How am I going to make a disco/techno record and create a hood, street anthem vibe for her verse?” But once I got to the studio, it just kind of came to me.

The song has a link to another diva duet.
Rodney: I think the most ironic thing about this situation is that when I created this track back in 2008, I purposefully used a harp sound in the beginning of the track that I also used on [Brandy/Monica No. 1 duet] “The Boy Is Mine” back in ’98. It’s kind of ironic that I used the same sound with Lady Gaga and Beyoncé and got the same type of results.

He was as surprised by the video as everyone else.
Rodney: When you create a song, you usually have your own visual interpretation of what it’s supposed be, but with most creative people, the videos never really match the concept of the song is about. I like the fact that Lady Gaga is very creative and serious when it comes to doing what she feels in her heart and wants to do. Beyoncé and Gaga both creatively pushed the buttons, they both went at it with a “no fear” attitude. There are a lot of jaw-dropping moments!

Gaga reminds him of another pop icon — and it’s not Madonna.
Rodney: We haven’t seen an artist like Gaga in a long time — we haven’t seen an artist that really has no fear. I remember Michael Jackson used to tell me he was crucified for doing “Thriller,” but he had to do what he felt was needed at that time. I’m just happy to be part of history. The “Telephone” video broke records from getting so many views so fast. I’ve always wanted to leave my stamp on music, and to be able to say that I worked with Michael Jackson [on "You Rock My World"] and now I’m working with Lady Gaga, who’ll probably go down in history as one of the best female entertainers of all time — it’s amazing!

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