Investigative journalist Diane Dimond discusses the dangerous relationship between Hollywood and medical providers, where doctors sometimes prescribe excessive or illicit drugs to celebrities. She highlights cases like Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, who died due to complications stemming from overprescribed medication.
Experts talk to Newsweek about how the King of Rock-n-Roll, the King of Pop, Matthew Perry, and other celebs all died at the hands of doctors who prescribed them illicit drugs. Hollywood and medical providers have had a secret, yet widely known interwoven relationship since the early days of show businesses.'Like the rest of the public, doctors get stars in their eyes, and in Hollywood , there's lots of stars, and there's lots of celebrities that want lots of drugs.
Hoefflin performed Jackson's scalp surgery in 1984 after the pop star's hair caught fire while filming a Pepsi commercial with his brothers. After this surgery, Jackson's drug abuse 'got worse and worse.''It wasn't just Hoefflin ,' Dimond said. 'He moved on to get several plastic surgeries with Dr. Arnold Klein, whose nurse, Debbie Rowe, openly talked about giving him injections of narcotics.
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