Los Angeles detectives, federal drug agents and Houston police raided the offices of Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician who was with Michael Jackson when the entertainer was stricken at home last month.

Acting on a search warrant, a caravan of 15 cars descended on the clinic at about 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, with officers in Drug Enforcement Administration windbreakers seen entering the building.

Agents are focusing the investigation on the drug Propofol, the powerful anesthesia that Jackson may have taken before his death, a law enforcement source tells People.

“It is Conrad Murray they’re looking at,” the source says. “They are looking for Propofol, along with anything else they find. But Propofol is the big one.

Murray has already been interviewed by police and through his attorney has denied wrongdoing.

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A flavor of what Michael Jackson fans would have seen at his summer concerts in London could be coming to the big screen.

A deal is underway to make the best of some 80 hours of Jackson rehearsal footage into a movie. Before his sudden death on June 25, Jackson was preparing to perform up to 50 shows at the O2 Arena beginning July 13.

According to Variety, Sony Pictures is in talks with AEG Entertainment to acquire the rights to the footage of his rehearsals, and High School Musical director Kenny Ortega will direct. Ortega was designing and choreographing the “This Is It” shows with Jackson.

Also reportedly included in the film would be a new version of Jackson’s iconic Thriller, which was in the works. The video remake – possibly in 3D – was part of the ambitious plans that the promoters AEG Live and Jackson had for the 50-date concert series.

Variety also reports that AEG is also gearing up to sell rights to Jackson’s memorial concert on August 29 – the day that would have been Jackson’s 51st birthday.

AEG reps in the U.K. had no immediate comment.

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We’re told lawyers for Debbie Rowe and Katherine Jackson are working out a custody settlement and the discussions are amicable. One source connected with the case tells us, “It should be settled very soon.”

As for what they’re discussing, our sources say the custody of the children — not money — is the issue on the table, but that it looks pretty clear Katherine Jackson will end up with custody, assuming the judge goes along. As for what Debbie Rowe wants … we’re told she too is interested in making sure the children are okay.

We’re told Rowe is still collecting money from an agreement she and Michael struck several years ago, around the time of the child molestation trial. That agreement was drafted so it will survive Michael’s death.

As for additional money, we’re told Rowe is not requesting that. In fact, our sources say lawyers for Jackson’s estate have not even been consulted about the discussions between lawyers for Katherine and Debbie. If there were any issue of additional monies, the estate lawyers would have been consulted.

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Kathy Griffin reveals she was an extra on Michael Jackson’s ill-fated 1984 Pepsi commercial.

“I was happy to be an extra. I was just part of the crowd scene,” the comic explains to Extra. “I will just never forget seeing Michael Jackson from a distance and just thinking, ‘Oh my God, that’s Michael Jackson.’ You kind of can’t believe it.”

Griffin says she remembers the scene — shot in L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium in front of 3,000 fans — “vividly.

“Jon [Lovitz] was there. They were taping it. We really didn’t notice [his hair on fire at first],” she says. “When it actually happened…he was literally spinning, and then there was smoke and a bunch of people kind of jumped on him.

“They didn’t tell any extras what was going on. Then rumors kind of rippled through the audience,” Griffin goes on. “By the time I got home that night, it was the biggest news story on the news. It’s fascinating somebody had that tape. And we never knew how serious the injury was,” she says. “I could only imagine that [it] was very painful.”

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The owner of an extensive collection of photographs featuring nude celebrities—enough to open a “nudeseum”!—exclusively tells E! News that Michael Jackson had been negotiating to purchase his assortment of racy pics before he died.

Website and magazine owner Celebrity Sleuth (that’s what he goes by) says that he was alerted to Jackson’s interest in the photos by Jack Wishna, the Las Vegas businessman who facilitated Jackson’s return to the U.S. from overseas and was trying to organize a comeback engagement for the beleaguered artist in 2006 and 2007.

Turns out Wishna has been working with Sleuth on the nudeseum concept as well, according to the celebrity-skin aficionado.

“Michael was one of the people to show the most interest right away and, up until literally the day before he died, I had an email from Jack saying ‘M.J. wants to do this’ and so forth,” says Sleuth.

He would not reveal the exact amount Jackson was offering, but says it was “eight figures.” (more…)

Fans are still celebrating the life of Michael Jackson, 19 days after his tragic death.

One of the largest vigils was held Monday, July 13, in London on that night that Michael was supposed to kick off his comeback tour.

Instead of a concert at the O2 Arena, hundreds of fans came together from around the world and played the King of Pop’s music and lit candles in his memory. “We should have been going to the concert, but we’re standing here instead,” attendee Jester Hauton of Copenhagen told the BBC.

“The main thing is a celebration of Michael,” he added.

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Debbie Rowe is firing back at a friend who released emails purportedly showing Rowe with deep misgivings about asserting her custody rights for Michael Jackson’s two oldest children.

In one of the emails, provided to Extra, Rowe is quoted as telling Rebecca White on July 5: “Do I want the kids? Hell no. Does it look good for me to ask for them? Absolutely. I don’t want to look like the woman who gave away her kids and just forgot about them.”

Rowe’s attorney said in a statement: “Our firm has sent Ms. White a letter disputing the truth of her statements and demanding that she make retraction in order to avoid legal action.”

Rowe plans to attend a Los Angeles Superior Court hearing on July 20 for temporary guardianship of the children, Prince Michael, 12, and Paris, 11, who have been staying with their grandmother Katherine Jackson at the family’s Encino home. (Jackson’s youngest child, Blanket (Prince Michael II), 7, was born from an unidentified surrogate.)

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