MJ’s doc also catered to drug-addled James Brown’s needs

New York: If reports are to be believed, late King of Pop Michael Jackson’s doctor was part of a group of “feel good” physicians who catered to the needs of celebrities in the 1990s.According to a former law-enforcement source, Dr Conrad Murray, who is under investigation for Jackson’s death, had also catered to the needs of drug-addled Godfather of Soul James Brown.

“James Brown and Michael Jackson were inseparable and they used the same ‘safe doctors’ -- doctors who would get them anything they wanted,” the New York Post quoted Brown’s long-time producer and assistant, Jacque Hollander, as saying. “If James Brown wanted drugs, he knew he could get them from these safe doctors in Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas and Los Angeles,” Hollander said. Brown died of congestive heart failure in 2006, and it was reported at the time that he was battling an addiction to painkillers and PCP. His wife, Adrienne, had also been one of Murray’s patients when she died 10 years earlier in LA under mysterious circumstances, and the immediate cause of her death was given as being due to PCP intake coupled with heart disease. Charles Bobbit, Brown’s personal assistant and business manager in the last four years of his life, said that he knew who Murray was before Jackson’s death. “Mr Brown may have been sneaking around behind my back with this doctor,” Bobbit said, but he added that he never saw Brown use drugs. Murray has been under intense scrutiny since Jackson died June 25 of cardiac arrest and investigators removed drugs from the singer’s Bel Air estate. ANI