Los Angeles, California (CNN) — A paramedic who rushed Michael Jackson to a hospital the day he died said a recording purported to be him calling the emergency room is a fake, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. 

A British tabloid posted the recording online, suggesting it was evidence that Jackson had no pulse at the time, contrary to what his personal doctor said.

The audio “has been determined NOT to be the voice of any member of the Los Angeles Fire Department,” fire spokesman Brian Humphrey said in a written statement Wednesday.

“The Firefighter/Paramedic who handled communications for that incident has confirmed to LAFD Administration that the voice is not his,” Humphrey said.

One initial cause of skepticism about the recording was that the speakers did not use “standard protocol or established practice” followed by professional paramedics when they communicate with hospital staff, Humphrey said.

Dr. Conrad Murray has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson’s June 25 death, which the coroner ruled was caused by a combination of drugs given to him that morning.

The Sun newspaper did not reveal the source of the recording, but characterized it as a “911 tape.”

The disputed recording features a male, who says he is a paramedic in an ambulance, speaking to a female, who is supposedly at the emergency room of UCLA Medical Center.

“We have a male, 50. Pop star Michael Jackson. Unresponsive, no pulse. Tried to resuscitate him. Unsuccessful. We are en route,” the male voice said.

“OK. We’ll have doctors standing by,” the female voice replied.

“We’ve done everything we can here in the ambulance. Hopefully, when we get there — we should be there in five minutes,” the male said. “It doesn’t look good.”

Humphrey said it is routine for paramedics to use a cell phone or a two-way radio to talk to an emergency room as they rush to a hospital, but they “don’t normally speak like this in a medical response.”

Specifically, the paramedic would not be likely to use a patient’s name in the conversation, even if it is a celebrity, Humphrey said.

It would be routine for the hospital to record the conversations for legal reasons, he said.

UCLA Medical Center spokesman Dale Triber Tate said, “There is no way we could authenticate it even if we had patient/estate authorization, which we do not have.”

An authenticated recording of the 911 call for help from Jackson’s Holmby Hills, California, home was released by the fire department the day after the pop icon’s death.

A Jackson bodyguard, who was in the room as Murray tried to revive him, spoke to the 911 operator:

“He’s not breathing, and we’re trying to pump him, but he’s not breathing,” the bodyguard said. “He’s not responding to CPR or anything,”

“We’re less than a mile away and we’ll be there shortly,” the operator said.

Hoax recordings have emerged since Jackson’s death, including a video produced by a German TV show that purported to show a living Jackson stepping out of a coroner’s van.

A spokeswoman for RTL, the leading private broadcaster in Germany, later said it was an experiment to show how easy it is to spread rumors online.

TMZ sued over leaked Debbie Rowe interview

Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson’s ex-wife and mother of two of his children, passes through a magnetometer at the Santa Barbara county courthouse April 28, 2005, in Santa Maria, California. Jackson, 46, is charged with molesting a boy, then 13, at Neverland, plying the youth with alcohol in order to abuse him and conspiring to commit false imprisonment, child abduction and extortion. He faces more than 20 years in prison if convicted.

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – TMZ is being sued for broadcasting allegedly stolen and confidential footage of an interview with Debbie Rowe soon after her ex-husband, Michael Jackson, died last June.

The details of this lawsuit filed Monday in California District Court by F. Marc Schaffel Prods. raise interesting questions about the gossip Web site’s news operation, copyright issues, and the boundaries between an entertainment clip and a fair-use news product.

In the complaint, the plaintiff claims to be the owner of a 2003 filmed interview with Debbie Rowe. Some portions of the interview were aired in 2003, but others were held back as private and confidential, subject to a joint consent agreement between the interviewer and interviewee.

After Jackson was indicted for child molestation in December 2003, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff obtained and executed a search warrant on Schaffel’s home and seized the interview. Two years later, the County Sheriff represented that he returned the property and hadn’t released the “confidential outtakes” to anyone.

But last July, TMZ broadcast those confidential outtakes that included a conversation where Rowe talks about needing sedatives. The plaintiff says that Rowe’s comments were made in the context of a joke about stage fright, but taken by TMZ to tie past drug use to Jackson’s death from a prescription-drug overdose.

After TMZ aired the interview, Schaffel and Rowe demanded that the confidential outtakes be removed. TMZ first claimed the video was sourced from a British TV station, but then said it came from the Santa Barbara Sherriff’s Department. The plaintiff says that when confronted, TMZ rescinded the story and claimed its source was confidential.

Schaffel is now seeking damages from TMZ over copyright infringement and conversion. Schaffel says the confidential outtakes have “an estimated value of potentially millions of dollars, the exact amount of which shall be proved at trial.”

TMZ may try to claim that its use of the clip was “fair use” and the court may apply the “four factor” test and look into the purpose and character of the use. Does an allegedly stolen entertainment clip need to be cleared or does any broadcaster have the right to broadcast footage in the name of “news” without need to obtain consent? Will a judge apply the rare so-called “fifth” factor of fair use that takes a moral evaluation of the goodness or badness of TMZ into account? And does TMZ as a news outlet get statutory protection from revealing sources of news if they are trying to protect allegedly stolen media?

These will be questions posed in an interesting case that puts TMZ’s news-gathering operation under the microscope.

Schaffel also sued Fox News last month for airing the interview. Details of a possible lawsuit against TMZ were first reported by Hollywood Reporter blogger Roger Friedman last August.

The complaint was filed by Howard King at King, Holmes, Paterno & Berliner.

Brother Jermaine Jackson reportedly let it slip that the ‘Feedback’ singer will be joining her brothers on stage as her tribute to the late King of Pop.

Words are, Janet Jackson will be joining Jackson Five in place of late brother Michael Jackson on their rumored 2010 reunion tour. According to The Sun, big brother Jermaine Jackson has come out with the revelation when he was promoting his new reality TV show “The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty” in Australia.

“We had a conference call and Janet has agreed to join us on tour,” Jermaine allegedly said over the matter. The British tabloid, additionally, reported that although Janet has been persistent in refusing to join her surviving brothers on stage, she finally gave her thumbs up considering that it will be a fitting tribute to Michael, who passed away in June 2009.

Jermaine Jackson has constantly pursued his brothers for a Jackson Five’s reunion tour since late 2007. Youngest brother Michael, however, was reported to be opposing the idea when he was alive. “My brothers and sisters have my full love and support, and we’ve certainly shared many great experiences, but at this time I have no plans to record or tour with them,” he said in response to Jermaine’s reunion remark.

“The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty”, in the meantime, is a new reality TV which stars members of the Jackson family

. It was initially been filmed as a one-off hour-long special about the Jackson Five sans lead singer Michael. When the King of Pop suddenly passed away, however, more footage were shot. The series was aired on A&E Network from December 13, 2009 to January 17, 2010.

Brooklyn To Get Michael Jackson Mural At “Bad” Subway Stop

THE three orphaned children of Michael Jackson have been going to a Jehovah’s Witness church, according to their uncle Jermaine Jackson.

“They go to the (Kingdom) Hall with my mother. We want to keep their feet on the ground,” Jermaine said during his visit to Sydney.

“We want to make sure that this success doesn’t go to their heads.”

He also confirmed the children were in counseling, adding that “with the first passing of Michael Jackson they had to have someone to explain that to them”. With the children entrusted to his Jackson matriarch Katherine’s custody, Jermaine said the 79-year-old was coping with Blanket, 7, Paris, 11 and Prince Michael, 12.

“It’s easy for her – she brought us up,” he said.

“My mother is very much alive, she’s very smart. She knows the name of every type of tree.”

Jermaine, in town to promote The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty which is screening on Foxtel’s Arena channel, revealed Michael’s children played with his son Jermajesty every day and with Tito’s grandchild Royal.

Of the Foxtel show, he said: “We just wanted to show we are no different from any other family. It’s my job now to try to carry the brothers on.

” I have the ability to lead, not just be a lead singer but be a leader. I’m ready to go, go, go.”

Comparing Michael to Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mother Theresa, Jermaine said: “He’s special and he’s a gift from God. I saw what he did with a blessing that God gave him. He’s in the Guinness Book Of Records.”

But he declined to comment on Michael’s autopsy report because it was under investigation.

Dr. Conrad Murray (right) makes an appearance in court February 8, 2010 as he faces arraignment in the Los Angeles County Superior Airport Courthouse on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson.

LOS ANGELES – On a Saturday evening last summer, Dr. Conrad Murray met with two police detectives at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Marina del Rey near the beach on L.A.’s Westside. Outside, the world was in shock over the death of Michael Jackson, and inside a room at the posh hotel, the investigators wanted answers from the last person to have seen him alive. With his lawyer by his side, Murray talked for more three hours. The interview ended with him a free man.

More than seven months later, Murray faces an involuntary manslaughter charge in a case that legal experts said may hinge on the physician’s own words.

In that June interview, Murray volunteered information expected to form the backbone of the prosecution’s case: That he gave Jackson the surgical anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid and left the singer alone and under the influence of the dangerously potent drug.

“If there had been no admissions, you would be left wondering what happened and the prosecution would have to come up with their own theory,” said Vesna Maras, a former Los Angeles County prosecutor who tried medical legal cases, including one involving a propofol death. “He’s the one who laid out exactly what happened. It doesn’t get better than that.”

On Monday, Murray pleaded not guilty. His lawyer said the doctor’s willingness to talk with police shows he had nothing to hide.

“In some respects, it’s vital to the defense,” attorney Ed Chernoff said. “If the first time Dr. Murray would’ve explained what happened in that room was to the jury, then… they would’ve said, ‘Why didn’t you tell this to the cops right away?’”

He added that the parts of the interview cited in public records were “cherry picked” by investigators and failed to give a complete picture of what the doctor told police.

When Murray sat down with detectives two days after Jackson died, the cause of the singer’s death remained unclear. Murray’s attorney said the doctor agreed to an interview because he was as baffled as the rest of the world as to what killed Jackson and wanted to help police.

But, Chernoff said, Murray, 56, would have become a suspect whether he talked to police or not. He had identified himself to paramedics as Jackson’s personal physician, and propofol bottles found in the singer’s bedroom could easily be traced to him.

“If he hadn’t spoken to them, the police would only be left with the impression that the doctor recklessly pumped a large amount of propofol into Jackson without any precaution, without any reason,” Chernoff said.

Murray told the officers he had given Jackson propofol nightly for six weeks, about the time he began working for the performer, according to police affidavits filed in court. He said Jackson told him that other doctors had been treating his chronic insomnia with propofol for years. Murray said he eventually became concerned that the singer was addicted and tried to wean him off the anesthetic.

According to the court records, Murray told police that on the day Jackson died he tried to get the performer to sleep using Valium and later two other sedatives. But Jackson remained awake, demanding propofol. The doctor said after nine hours, he finally relented and gave the singer 25 milligrams _ half the regular dose. He said he sat next to Jackson’s bed as the propofol took effect and after 10 minutes left to use the restroom. He said he was gone for no longer than two minutes and when he returned, Jackson was not breathing.

Paramedics were not summoned immediately. Murray’s attorney said it took nearly a half hour because of difficulties contacting security; the police affidavit suggests it was closer to an hour and 20 minutes. Cell phone records indicate Murray also talked on the phone for 47 minutes around the time he told police he was trying to revive the singer, according to the affidavit. His lawyer said police got the timeline wrong.

Prosecutors are likely to seize on differences between what Murray told police and what he told medical personnel trying to revive Jackson. According to the affidavits, Murray told paramedics and emergency room doctors he had given the singer one sedative, the anti-anxiety drug lorazepam, but never mentioned propofol.

“That’s a telling omission. He knows it’s wrong. He knows he is not supposed to be fooling around with propofol,” said Dr. Bryan A. Liang, a physician and California Western School of Law professor.

To prove involuntary manslaughter, prosecutors must show that Murray killed Jackson in the commission of a crime “not amounting to a felony” or while acting “without due caution and circumspection.” Experts say prosecutors are likely to focus on medical protocols Murray, a cardiologist, allegedly ignored in his use of propofol as a sleep aid. The drug is so dangerous that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says only those trained in anesthesia should administer it.

“The concept of using propofol for insomnia is completely crazy,” said Maras, the former prosecutor. “It’s like trying to swat a fly with a bomb.”

Prosecutors also are expected to highlight Murray’s admission that he left Jackson alone. The doctor said he used a device to measure the singer’s heart and respiratory rate, but a coroner’s report concluded the set-up did not meet medical standards.

The defense may call in medical experts to portray Murray’s actions as reasonable given the health history of his famous client and the doctor’s professed attempts to wean him from the propofol. Ellyn Garofalo, a veteran defense attorney, said such experts might question whether the drug dosages he said he gave Jackson were enough on their own to kill the singer.

His previous use of the drug might also be an important factor for the defense, which could argue that the singer had built up a tolerance to propofol, she said.

“If you get a line of doctors to come in and say, ‘I gave him this amount and he was fine,’ then it’s good for Murray,” said Garofalo, who is representing a doctor charged with illegally furnishing prescription medication to the late model Anna Nicole Smith. “I think it’s going to be a fight.”