Michael Joe Jackson - 6 months in 2009

I have been working since mid-July 2009 compiling the first 6 months of 2009. I have compiled this information from interviews, articles and lawsuits. I will update it as new information becomes available.

If I am unsure of the date, I have put an event on the first day of the month, and preceded the information with the month name e.g. 01/03/2009 March 09

Thu 01/01/09 January 09 Cherilynn Lee is asked to treat Michaels children for colds
Fri 09/01/09 Reports that Michael is to move to L.A. for 1 year
Mon 26/01/09 Michael enters into written agreement with AEG (source AEG lawsuit)
Wed 04/02/09 Michael visits doctor in LA
Thu 05/02/09 Michael leaves a Beverly Hills hospital
Sat 07/02/09 Michael is at the Bel Air hotel for a meeting (Thome)
Mon 09/02/09 James R Weller (TRW Advertising) threatens Juliens Auction house to stop sale (NOI)
Tue 10/02/09 Michael visits doctor in Beverley Hills
Mon 23/02/09 Michael fires Peter Lopez w/c 23/02.
Wed 25/02/09 Michael's Neverland auction is announced (Juliens Auction house)
Thu 26/02/09 Michael was scheduled to give press conference at the O2
Fri 27/02/09 Michael is shopping with Christian Audigier on Rodeo Drive
Sun 01/03/09 March 09 Tohme Tohme is fired allegedly after argument with Michael on 5/3
Sun 01/03/09 March 09 Cherilynn Lee starts advising Michael on nutrition, he asks about propofol
Sun 01/03/09 March 09 Michael hires chef Kai Chase (confirmed source Kai Chase Day 3 Conrad Murray trial)
Sun 01/03/09 March 09 Alberto Alvarez meets Conrad Murray for the first time (source Alberto Alvarez Day 3 Conrad Murray trial)
Tue 03/03/09 Michael arrives at Luton Airport
Thu 05/03/09 Michael attends press conference at O2 to announce 10 This Is It shows
Thu 05/03/09 Michael passes a health test for the O2 concerts
Fri 06/03/09 Michael takes his children to see Oliver!
Sun 08/03/09 Michael and Prince Michael I check out of Lanesbrough Hotel
Wed 11/03/09 20 concerts added to This Is It
Thu 12/03/09 Michael visits doctor in Beverley Hills & goes shopping at 'Wacko'
Tue 17/03/09 Michael reported to do US shows after London
Thu 19/03/09 Michael visits doctor in BH
Thu 19/03/09 Fans sit in car with Michael wearing orange pants - he is thin
Sat 21/03/09 Michael is reduced to tears by BBC terrorist comparison
Sat 21/03/09 Michael calls Leonard Rowe and asks him to represent him (source Leonard Rowes book)
Mon 23/03/09 Michael visits clinic in BH
Mon 23/03/09 Leonard Rowe calls Randy Phillips to re-arrange TII schedule - Randy says No (source Leonard Rowes book)
Wed 25/03/09 Rehearsing at Centerstaging
Wed 25/03/09 Approximate date start at Centerstaging
Wed 25/03/09 Michael hires Leonard Rowe to steer his comeback
Thu 26/03/09 Michael leaves a dance studio
Wed 01/04/09 April 09 Cherilyn Lee is still helping Michael with nutrition and insomnia, he is having financial problems
Wed 01/04/09 Five TV has ordered a documentary called 'Michael Jackson:The Second Coming?'
Wed 01/04/09 Michael has meeting at Bel Air hotel (umbrella)
Sat 04/04/09 Michael meets Leonard Rowe at home before flying to Las Vegas (source Leonard Rowe book)
Sat 04/04/09 "Michael goes to Las Vegas where he and Kenny Ortega attend the show ""Le Rêve"" at the Wynn resort"
Mon 06/04/09 Murray orders boxes of propofol (source Walgren Day 1 Conrad Murray trial)
Thu 09/04/09 Michael visits a medical centre & shops at Lladro
Fri 10/04/09 Michael and the children spend Easter with Elizabeth Taylor
Fri 10/04/09 Approximate date Tohme Tohme is fired
Fri 10/04/09 Michael shops for antiques in Beverly Hills & leaves Bel Air hotel
Fri 10/04/09 Michael rents 28 bedroom Foxbury Manor in Kent
Mon 13/04/09 Dancer auditions for This Is It tour
Tue 14/04/09 Michaels Neverland content auction has been cancelled
Wed 15/04/09 Michael sat in for final dancer auditions
Wed 15/04/09 Michael signs fans back so he can get it tattooed
Sun 19/04/09 Michael wears surgical mask at bookshop
Tue 21/04/09 Michael goes shopping in BH
Wed 22/04/09 Michael leaves a medical clinic in BH
Thu 23/04/09 April 09 approximate date that Michael fires accountants Cannon & Co.
Mon 27/04/09 Michael visits a medical centre
Mon 27/04/09 "Michael and children go shopping in West Hollywood (Ed Hardy , Off The Wall)"
Fri 01/05/09 May 09 Michael re hires Karen Faye
Fri 01/05/09 May 09 Michael fires Kai Chase and hires chef Douglas Jones
Fri 01/05/09 May 09 Joe is causing commotion outside house the day chef Jones arrives for first day
Fri 01/05/09 Early May 09 AEG complained Michael was missing rehearsals because of prescriptions & Dr Murray is retained (source AEG lawsuit)
Fri 01/05/09 Michael not coming to UK to view properties because of swine flu
Tue 05/05/09 Michael shows Joanne Horowitz his six-pack in Arnold Klein's office.
Tue 05/05/09 Michael ends his business relationship with Dr Tohme in a letter and hires Frank DiLeo
Wed 06/05/09 Michael meets his dancers at Centerstaging
Thu 07/05/09 Michael is sued by Raymone Bain for $44 million - he stopped calling her late 2007
Thu 07/05/09 Michael visits doctor
Thu 07/05/09 Michael and Joe meet Allgood Entertainment re contract for 3 July 2010 in Texas
Fri 08/05/09 AEG confirm Murray's contract in writing and Murray accepted (source AEG lawsuit)
Sun 10/05/09 Michael leaves voicemail for Conrad Murray - speech is slow and slurred (source Day 1 Conrad Murray trial)
Mon 11/05/09 This Is It concerts threatened by a proposed lawsuit alleging Michael is banned from performing before a Jackson reunion gig in July 2010 (Frank DiLeo is MJs manager)
Tue 12/05/09 Michael arrives for rehearsals
Tue 12/05/09 Murray makes first purchase of Propofol (source AEG lawsuit)
Wed 13/05/09 Michael is reported to be working with Kenny Ortega on TII
Wed 13/05/09 Michael hires magician Ed Alonzo to work on the This Is It show.
Thu 14/05/09 Date of Jackson family meal at Chakra restaurant BH
Fri 15/05/09 Michael visits a medical centre
Fri 15/05/09 Michael and children are shopping in Beverly Hills (Toms Toys)
Fri 15/05/09 "Michael meets with Joe, Katherine, Leonard Rowe, Randy Phillips and Paul Gongaware in a Beverly Hills hotel (wears black and gold Balmain jacket)"
Fri 15/05/09 Murray confirmed to AEG that he has started his services (source AEG lawsuit)
Mon 18/05/09 Dr Tohme denies Michael has skin cancer
Tue 19/05/09 Michael visits American Idol's rehearsals at to the Nokia Theatre.
Wed 20/05/09 Michael visits a medical center (wearing Balmain tux) - media reports he has skin cancer
Wed 20/05/09 Frank DiLeo send a letter to Leonard Rowe firing him
Thu 21/05/09 Approximate date DiLeo calls Branca to meet with Michael re. new deals
Thu 21/05/09 The first week of This Is It shows are moved to 2010
Thu 21/05/09 Michael visits a clinic
Thu 21/05/09 Approximate date DiLeo calls Branca to meet with Michael re. new deals
Sat 30/05/09 Start rehearsing at The Forum
Sat 30/05/09 "Michael speaks to fans, unhappy about 50 shows - is photographed with curls at The Forum"
Mon 01/06/09 Michael visits a medical centre
Mon 01/06/09 Michael is in Culver City to shoot the Dome Project
Tue 02/06/09 Michael hires chef Kai Chase
Wed 03/06/09 Michael and children are seen without their masks outside a LA recording studio
Thu 04/06/09 Michael meets Tom Bennell of Bravado re. tour merchandise (Frank Dileo & Randy Phillips)
Mon 08/06/09 "Reports that Michael wants to turn Foxbury Manor, Kent, into temporary Neverland"
Mon 08/06/09 Approximate date that fans see Michael incoherent
Tue 09/06/09 Michael visits a medical centre
Wed 10/06/09 Approximate date Michael told Kathy Smith he was cancelling the concerts
Thu 11/06/09 Fans visit Michael on set of Dome project and give him red jacket - he is like a skeleton
Thu 11/06/09 Michael did not go onstage
Fri 12/06/09 "Michael did not want to go to rehearsals - security started taking extreme measures, and said 'he's tired'"
Mon 15/06/09 Dr Conrad Murray announces he is leaving his practice
Tue 16/06/09 "Michael visits a medical centre in shades, fedora, mask and leopard print trousers (wearing Balmain studded jacket)"
Tue 16/06/09 "Michael did not go onstage - fans report he was groggy after he left the house, after visiting Klein and after rehearsal"
tue 16/06/09 Michael rehearses (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Wed 17/06/09 Michael meets John Branca at the Forum to discuss new deals
Wed 17/06/09 Michael hires John Branca as his lawyer
Wed 17/06/09 Louis Farrakhan receives call from lawyer saying Michael is in trouble and needs help
Wed 17/06/09 Michael rehearses (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Thu 18/06/09 Michael does not turns up for rehearsals (source AEG lawsuit)
Thu 18/06/09 Michael has showdown with Randy Philips & is told to turn up for all rehearsals or AEG will cancel and take assets (source AEG lawsuit)
Thu 18/06/09 Michael arrives at rehearsal 9:30 visibly shaken (source AEG lawsuit)
Thu 18/06/09 Michael  sits in a chair next to  Kenny Ortega observing (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Thu 18/06/09 Murrays administers Propofol withput resucitation equipment (source AEG lawsuit)
Fri 19/06/09 Date rehearsals end at The Forum
Fri 19/06/09 "Michael is rehearsing, witnesses say he was drugged and incoherent (source AEG lawsuit)
Fri 19/06/09 Kenny Ortega says Michael unwell at rehearsal and is sent home (source Murrays prelim)
Fri 19/06/09 Michael is shivering, shaking and incoherent - lost (source Kenny Ortega Day 1 Conrad Murray trial)
Fri 19/06/09 Michael is at rehearsal seated at table wearing hat (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Fri 19/06/09 Michael attends costume fitting for Zaldy - is photographed. Karen Faye attends (source Karen Faye Twitter)
Sat 20/06/09 Kenny Ortega says he, Murray, DiLeo, Phillips visit Michael at home - denies 'riot act' took place (source Murrays prelim)
Sun 21/06/09 Fans report that Michael didn't wave or speak to them - he was not himself
Sun 21/06/09 Fans write to Michael's entourage expressing concern over his health
Sun 21/06/09 "Michael rang Cherilyn Lee feeling hot one side of his body, cold the other"
Mon 22/06/09 Michael visits Klein for the last time - no rehearsal
Tue 23/06/09 Michael's rehearsal is recorded by AEG
Tue 23/06/09 Michael is freezing and needs extra shirts and coat (source AEG lawsuit)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'Starting Something' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'Jam' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'They Don't Care About Us' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'Human Nature' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'Smooth Criminal' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'Black or White' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses on the cherry picker in long trench coat (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'Beat It' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael provides notes (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'The Way You Make Me Feel' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'I Want you Back' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'Stop The Love' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'I'll Be There' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'Rock With You' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'Can't Stop Loving You' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Tue 23/06/09 Michael rehearses 'Dangerous' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Wed 24/06/09 Michael has lunch at home with his children before leaving for rehearsals
Wed 24/06/09 Michael is shivering and disoriented at rehearsal (source AEG lawsuit)
Wed 24/06/09 Michael sits backstage with Kenny Ortega watching special effects on a TV (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Wed 24/06/09 Michael rehearses 'Dangerous' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Wed 24/06/09 Kenny Ortega demonstrates spider to Michael (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Wed 24/06/09 Michael rehearses emerging from spider and 'Thriller' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Wed 24/06/09 Michael rehearses 'Earth Song' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Wed 24/06/09 Michael rehearses 'We Are The World' (source Sony status report 20 July 2011)
Wed 24/06/09 Fans hand letters of concern to Michael after rehearsals
Wed 24/06/09 Michael leaves Staples Center 12:08 am (source Faheem Mohammed Day 2 Conrad Murray trial)
Thu 25/06/09 Fans see Michael leave Staples Center 01:00 to 01:30am
Thu 25/06/09 Michael arrives home 1am, Murray's car already there (source Murrays prelim)
Thu 25/06/09 Kai Chase says Michael and Murray did not eat Tuscan bean soup she left in fridge (source Murrays prelim)

Last updated 03 October 2011