A look back at the year which saw Michael Jackson’s doctor jailed over the King of Pop’s death and the death of singer Amy Winehouse.

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VIDEO: Entertainment review 2011

Furniture and other items from Michael Jackson ’s final home sold at auction for nearly $1 million, the Associated Press reports . More than 500 of the late King of Pop’s possessions were for sale, from original works of art to napkin rings and a tissue box cover. A rooster chalkboard where Jackson’s children wrote, “I (heart) Daddy. SMILE, it’s for free,” sold for $5,000, according to the auction catalog , more than eight times its estimated value. An armoire (seen above) where Jackson had written a message, presumably about his comeback tour, “TRAIN, perfection, March April. FULL OUT May, sold for $18,750. Read full article > >

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Michael Jackson possessions sell for nearly $1 million at auction (Photos)

Conrad Murray is no doubt wishing he hadn’t done that controversial Michael Jackson documentary and companion interview after an angry judge cited them several times Tuesday to explain why he was sentencing the late pop star’s doctor to the max possible: four years in the slammer. The documentary, “Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship” (or as it was called when it aired in the United Kingdom: “The Man Who Killed Michael Jackson”) ran on MSNBC this month — days after a jury in Los Angeles found Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson’s June 2009 death. Read full article > >

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Jackson doctor, Murray, sentenced to max; judge cites documentary

Conrad Murray , the personal physician of Michael Jackson, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of the singer Monday. Murray did not show any emotion when the verdict was read. A small scream was heard from the courtroom gallery. LaToya Jackson and Kathy Hilton may have been the sources of the outburst, according to TMZ. Read full article > >

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Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s doctor, found guilty of involuntary manslaughter (Video and photos)

The jury in the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor is to begin a second day of deliberations after failing to reach a verdict on Friday.

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Conrad Murray jury to reconvene

Michael Jackson was “totally addicted to propofol,” the surgical anesthetic the coroner ruled killed him, the pop star’s dermatologist said in an interview with the In Session network.

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Doctor: Jackson ‘addicted’ to propofol

The jury ends its first day considering the case against the doctor charged over the death of singer Michael Jackson, and will return on Monday.

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No quick verdict in Murray trial

Justice Department officials are trying to seize more than $70 million in assets — including a Malibu mansion and Michael Jackson memorabilia — owned by the playboy son of the dictator of Equatorial Guinea. Prosecutors filed civil forfeiture complaints against Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue and moved to seize a variety of valuables, including a 2011 Ferrari 599 GTO worth $533,000, collectibles and clothing valued at $1.8 million that were once owned by pop star Michael Jackson, a $38.5 million Gulfstream G-V business jet, and a house purchased for $30 million on 12 acres of property in Malibu, Calif. Read full article > >

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Defence lawyers for Dr Conrad Murray, on trial for the death of Michael Jackson, have dropped a claim that the singer swallowed a fatal dose of propofol.

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Murray drops Jackson drug claim

LOS ANGELES — An attorney for the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death on Wednesday dropped the defense claim that the superstar swallowed a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol while the physician wasn’t looking. The defense claim had been a key tactic in the case of Dr. Conrad Murray. Attorney J. Michael Flanagan told the judge that he had commissioned a study about the effects of propofol if swallowed. The studies showed that any effect from swallowing propofol would be “trivial,” he said. Read full article > >

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Doctor’s defense lawyers drop claim that Michael Jackson swallowed fatal dose of anesthetic

Michael Jackson could not have given himself the powerful anaesthetic that caused his death, the doctor who performed the singer’s autopsy testifies.

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Jackson ‘did not cause own death’

At a tribute concert in Wales on Saturday, Michael Jackson’s music thumped and cracked, his fans screamed on cue and conflict and controversy bubbled unabated.

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At Tribute in Wales, Michael Jackson as Commodity

A recording of Michael Jackson bemoaning his unhappy childhood is played to the trial of the doctor charged with his death.

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Jackson bemoaned lost childhood

In a recording weeks before he died, Michael Jackson talked about building the world’s largest children’s hospital, because “I didn’t have a childhood.”

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Michael Jackson Talked of Building Children’s Hospital

The Michael Jackson death trial hears his doctor did not reveal Jackson had used a surgical sedative, and the singer seemed lifeless when paramedics arrived.

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Jackson doctor ‘silent on drugs’