Michael Jackson died after a heart attack triggered from a cocktail of seven different prescription drugs according to that latest reports coming out of Los Angeles.


The pop superstar, 50, was pronounced dead at 2.36pm local time after falling into a deep coma at his home in Holmby Hills, California.

US celebrity magazine Life & Style says Jacko was hooked on prescription drugs.

A source told them that the star had been popping pills, including anti-anxiety drugs Xanax and Zoloft and painkiller Demerol, for weeks before his death and that an overdose had caused respiratory and cardiac arrest.

The Jackson family lawyer Brian Oxman had already alluded to the involvement of drugs in the singer's death when he likened the pop star's death to that of tragic star Anna Nicole Smith in an interview with CNN.
He also blamed the people who surrounded the star for his death.

He said: "I believe (his manager) Frank DiLeo was with him at the time (of his heart attack), that is what I have been told.

"This family has been trying for months and months and months to take care of Michael Jackson. The people who have surrounded him have been enabling him.


"If you think the case of Anna Nicole Smith was an abuse, that is nothing compared to what has taken place in the life of Michael Jackson.


"I do not know what medications he was taking, but the reports that we have received within the family are that they were extensive.


"I don't know the cause of all this. But this is something that I feared. This is a case of abuse of medications, unless the cause is something else.
"This was something which I feared and something which I warned about. Where there is smoke there is fire."