Death of Michael Jackson

==Health==
<!--note that a name redirects to this section-->{{Further|Health and appearance of Michael Jackson}}
[[File:Michael Jackson death certificate.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.7|alt=A white piece of paper with personal information about the death of a person. The paper's writing is all in black and has multiple sections blacked out.|Michael Jackson's initial death certificate, issued pending toxicology reports]]
[[File:Michael Jackson death certificate amendment form.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.7|alt=Another white piece of paper, with black writing and multiple sections blacked out, amending the prior form shown|The amendment form issued by the coroner for his death certificate, after toxicology reports became available. The cause is changed from "deferred" to "acute propofol intoxication" and the ruling of "Homicide" is added.]]
Stacy Brown, a biographer, said Jackson had become "very frail, totally, totally underweight", and that his family had been worried about him. Another biographer, [[J. Randy Taraborrelli]], said Jackson had been addicted to painkillers periodically for decades.<ref name=Steinhauer>{{cite news|last=Steinhauer|first=Jennifer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/us/27Jackson.html|title=Medication a Focus of Jackson Inquiry|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 27, 2009|access-date=February 24, 2017|archive-date=October 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021175648/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/us/27Jackson.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Arnold Klein]], Jackson's [[Dermatology|dermatologist]], stated that Jackson misused prescription drugs, and that he had diagnosed him with [[vitiligo]] and [[Systemic lupus erythematosus|lupus]]. However, Klein said when he saw Jackson at his office three days before his death, he "was in very good physical condition. He was dancing for my patients. He was very mentally aware when we saw him and he was in a very good mood."<ref name=LKLJuly8 />