‘Cause of his death is unknown’
"My brother, the legendary King of Pop, Michael Jackson, passed away on Thursday, June 25, at 2:26 p.m." brother Jermaine Jackson told the media gathered outside Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center shortly before 6:30 p.mJackson was in the process of preparing for an epic 50-concert stand in London that had him rehearsing long hours. Jackson was described “very frail,” but worked hard, Johnny Caswell, a principal at Centerstaging, where Jackson rehearsed for the concerts, told the Los Angeles Times.
Michael Levine, a Hollywood publicist who represented Jackson in the early 1990s, said that the pressures of emotional, physical, legal, financial and spiritual dysfunction caught up with Jackson.
“However, the cause of his death is unknown until results of the autopsy are known,” his brother said. Cardiac arrest strikes without warning. It occurs when the heart’s electrical system goes haywire and the heart suddenly stops beating. It can occur after a heart attack or be caused by other heart problems.
“In the absence of details, it’s hard to know if he had a cardiac arrest or if he stopped breathing,” said Dr. Leslie Saxon, chief of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Southern California.
