Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, administered a powerful drug that authorities believe killed the singer, a source close to the Jackson family and with knowledge of the investigation confirmed to CNN on Monday.

Investigators are looking into whether employees at the Los Angeles County coroner's office illegally leaked information about Michael Jackson's death probe to the news media, according to a sheriff's spokesman.

The administrators of Michael Jackson's estate have filed court papers disclosing they've recovered $5.5 million in cash from one of Jackson's "former financial advisers." They expect to present contracts to the court "within the week" that should add "tens of millions of dollars" to Jackson's estate, which they said is solvent and worth an estimated $500 million, the documents said. Lawyers for administrator John Branca and John McClain filed the papers this week asking a Los Angeles County Superior Court ...

Elizabeth Taylor checked out of a Los Angeles hospital "sore, but intact," the actress said in an online message posted Friday evening. Taylor, 77, used her Twitter handle, @DameElizabeth, to tell fans that she was home, just as she did last week to announce she would go into a hospital to "to complete a test I was in the middle of." Her publicist this week denied tabloid rumors that her hospitalization was brought on by her grief over the sudden ...

Singer Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson "kind of drifted apart," but there was "no big bust-up" after Jackson bought the Beatles song catalog, McCartney told David Letterman Wednesday. McCartney appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman" to talk about his forthcoming concert at New York's Citi Field, the Beatles' 1964 appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" -- taped in the same theater -- and his relationship with Jackson. McCartney said the pair "fell apart" after Jackson secured rights to ...

Michael Jackson's songs and albums went to the top of the charts in the days and weeks following his death --and there may be plenty more hits to come, if his rumored plethora of unreleased songs find their way to the public. Since his death, rumors have surfaced about a mountain of unpublished material from the King of Pop,­ including recent collaborations with artists such as will.i.am and Akon, as well as unused tracks from studio sessions dating back to ...

No deal has been reached between Michael Jackson's mother and his ex-wife over the custody of the late singer's children, according to a lawyer in the case. Eric George, who represents Debbie Rowe, the biological mother of Jackson's two oldest children, said a newspaper report that Rowe had agreed to take $4 million not to challenge Katherine Jackson for custody was "completely false." Jackson's lawyer has not responded to requests for comment Tuesday. The Jackson family lawyer said last week ...

There is no concert and the only music heard will be the tinny sound of portable speakers blaring Michael Jackson's greatest hits. But event organizers expect thousands of the singer's fans to converge on the O2 Arena in London Monday to mark what would have been the opening night of the singer's long-awaited comeback, the first in a grueling 50-date "This Is It" concert tour. They will be bringing candles, flowers and photos for an impromptu memorial service organized over ...

A custody hearing for singer Michael Jackson's children scheduled for Monday has been pushed back for a second time. The hearing, which was originally scheduled for July 6, has been rescheduled for July 20 at the request of Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and Jackson's former wife Debbie Rowe. Rowe is the biological mother of two of Jackson's children -- 12-year-old Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., also known as Prince Michael, and 11-year-old Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson. Jackson's third child, Prince Michael "Blanket" ...

The most striking statement at Michael Jackson's memorial service was not his daughter Paris' tremulous and wrenching goodbye. It was not Berry Gordy's declaring Jackson "the greatest entertainer that ever lived," nor was it the Rev. Al Sharpton's assertion that Jackson's fame made a generation of white kids comfortable with electing a black President. It came before the encomiums and music began, after Motown singer Smokey Robinson took the stage, read testimonials from Diana Ross and Nelson Mandela, walked ...