Michael Kle, ‘When I Was A Tw’: Book Review - Towleroad Gay News

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• ARNOLD KLE: 'MICHAEL JACKSON WAS GAY'
• MJ'S ALLEGED GAY LOVER -- I STAND BY MY STORY!
• THE DOCTOR WILL SUE YOU NOWWHEN FAMED RMATOLOGIST ARNOLD KLE, THE FATHER OF BOTOX, KNOWN FOR HIS FLAMBOYANT LIFTYLE AND LOVE OF CELEBRY, LAND MICHAEL JACKSON AS A CLIENT, WAS A DREAM FULFILLED. BUT THE WAKE OF JACKSON’S ATH, KLE HAS BEEN ENGULFED BY A TOXIC CLOUD OF ACCATN, LIGATN, AND BANKPTCY.BY MARK SEALFEBARY 2, 2012SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETRAORS ARE NOT TOLERATED THE KGDOM OF DR. ARNOLD KLE. THE 67-YEAR-OLD FATHER OF BOTOX, WHO ONCE LED A BEVERLY HILLS BETY REVOLUTN AND BEME NEARLY AS FAMO AS THE STARS HE TREATED, IS NOW WAGG WAR AGAST HIS ENEMI. THE LIST IS LONG. FIRST, THERE ARE THE POWERS THE MIC BS WHO ARRANGED THE FAL NCERT TOUR OF HIS MOST FAMO PATIENT, THE LATE MICHAEL JACKSON. HE CHARG THEM WH NSPIRG TO NTROL THE SGER’S TATE AND WH G KLE AS A SPEGOAT BY ALLEGG THAT HE HAD GOTTEN JACKSON ADDICTED TO THE NARTIC DEMEROL. THEN THERE ARE THE RATS WHO HE SAYS MASQUERAD AS PATIENTS ORR TO ISSUE HIM A SUBPOENA, FORCG HIM TO APPEAR BEFORE THE MEDIL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA FOR PURPORTED IRREGULARI. WORST OF ALL ARE HIS FORMER OFFICE MANAGER AND FORMER ACUNTANT. HE ALLEG THAT THEY HAVE ATTEMPTED TO HIM BY RELEASG JACKSON’S MEDIL RERDS THE VOLUNTARY-MANSLGHTER TRIAL OF THE SGER’S PERSONAL DOCTOR, CONRAD MURRAY, WHO WAS NVICTED LAST NOVEMBER AND SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS PRISON. HE ALSO ALLEG THAT THEY EMBEZZLED TENS OF LNS OF DOLLARS OM HIM AND TRIED TO KILL HIM. BEE OF THEM, KLE CLAIMS, HE WAS FORCED TO CLARE BANKPTCY JANUARY 2011, PUT ONE OF HIS HOM ON THE MARKET, AND CTN OFF HIS ART AND MEMORABILIA.KLE IS ALSO STRIKG BACK AT THE FOOD AND DG ADMISTRATN (F.D.A.), WHICH HE SAYS IS A “DG RTEL” NTROLLED BY THE PHARMACTIL GIANTS, AND AT THE JACKALS OF THE MEDIA. TO KEEP HIS FOLLOWERS AND FANS UP-TO-DATE, HE POSTS TIMATE TAILS ABOUT HIS PREDIMENT ON FACEBOOK.I APPROACHED THE DOCTOR FOR AN TERVIEW, BUT HE RMED ME THROUGH HIS PUBLICISTTHAT IF I TEND TO TERVIEW HIS FORMER EMPLOYE I WOULD GET NO OPERATN OM HIM. THEN ONE DAY NOVEMBER MY PHONE RANG, AND KLE, A EP, GRAVELLY VOICE, BEGAN TALKG NONSTOP: “I’VE GIVEN MY LIFE FOR OTHER PEOPLE AND HAVE GOTTEN SCREWED FOR . . . . DO YOU KNOW I DISVERED THE FIRST HUMAN GENE? … DO YOU KNOW I TREATED THE CROWN PRCE OF SDI ARABIA? … MY GREAT-GREAT-UNCLE IS ALBERT ESTE LAWRENCE KLE, MY , WON THE NOBEL PRIZE.”HE SOON GOT TO HIS FORMER OFFICE MANAGER, JASON PFEIFFER, AND FORMER ACUNTANT, MUHAMMAD KHILJI. IN JANUARY 2011, KLE FILED FOR CHAPTER 11 BANKPTCY, LISTG ASSETS OF ABOUT $6 LN AND BTS OF $8.4 LN. IN JUNE 2011 HE FILED SU AGAST PFEIFFER AND KHILJI, AS WELL AS VAR BANKS AND VTMENT AND MORTGAGE PANI. IN THE SU, KLE CLAIMS THAT ON MARCH 20, 2009, AS HE WAS RECUPERATG OM AN UNSTATED ILLNS AT HIS LAGUNA BEACH HOE, PFEIFFER AND KHILJI BROUGHT DOCUMENTS FOR HIM TO SIGN, CLUDG ONE THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO MAKE HEALTH CISNS FOR HIM DURG ANY PERD OF PACY; A GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY; A DICIL TO HIS WILL, NAMG THEM AS EXECUTORS; AND AN AMENDMENT TO HIS TST, NAMG THEM AS -TSTE. ACRDG TO HIS PLAT, “DR. KLE DISVERED THAT HIS VTMENT ACUNTS WERE RAID, BANK ACUNTS WERE OPENED HIS NAME WHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE AND THEN PILFERED, AND HIS ASSETS WERE JEOPARDIZED.”“THEY STOLE $22 LN OM ME, O.K.?,” KLE TOLD ME ON THE PHONE. “IF YOU ARE GOG TO MENTN JASON PFEIFFER [AND MUHAMMAD KHILJI], THE GUYS WHO EMBEZZLED OM ME, ILLEGALLY RELEASED MICHAEL JACKSON’S RERDS, WHAT ARE YOU GOG TO SAY? ARE YOU GOG TO SAY THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE? THEY ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH!”AT ONE POT HE MAND, “WHO FUND 9/11?”“YOU KNOW WHO?”“PAKISTANI MLIMS, SIR,” HE SAID. “THEY E A SYSTEM LLED HAWALA.”KLE HAS CLAIMED ON FACEBOOK THAT KHILJI ED HAWALA, THE ANCIENT RMAL MONEY-TRANSFER SYSTEM EMPLOYED BY AL-QAEDA TO MOVE FUNDS AROUND THE WORLD, TO CLEAN OUT HIS EMPLOYER’S ASSETS AND TRANSFER THEM TO FAR-FLUNG BANK ACUNTS, TO WHICH ONLY HE AND PFEIFFER HAD ACCS.“THEY OPENED 41 ILLEGAL BANK ACUNTS MY NAME,” SAID KLE. “I HAVE RERDS OF ALL THIS STUFF. ALSO, THEY TRIED TO OVERDOSE ME … SO I WOULD BLEED TO ATH . . . THEY TRIED TO OVERDOSE ME ON COUMAD [BLOOD THNER], BEE I WAS ATRIAL FLUTTER [ABNORMAL HEART RHYTHM], AND THEY CHANGED MY WILL THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WHOUT NOTARIZG .”ALL I WANTED, I TOLD KLE, WAS TO WRE A BALANCED STORY ABOUT THE SE, WHICH WOULD NECSATE TERVIEWG BOTH THE DOCTOR AND HIS TRACTORS. “THEIR FILGS ARE PART OF YOUR BANKPTCY FILG,” I SAID.“WHAT YOU MAY THK YOU KNOW IS ZERO,” HE SAID. “YOU NNOT TERVIEW JASON AND MUHAMMAD. YOU HAVE TO SWEAR TO ME THAT YOU WON’T.”I TOLD HIM VANY FAIR DO NOT MAKE SUCH PROMIS.“IF I SHOW YOU ALL THE FED BANK ACUNTS AND EVERYTHG, WHAT IS THAT GOG TO DO FOR YOU?” HE ASKED.“I’LL PRT THEM,” I SAID.“WILL YOU GIVE ME EDORIAL NTROL?” HE ASKED.“OF URSE I NNOT DO THAT,” I SAID.EARLIER HE HAD TOLD ME, “I TREAT EVERYONE THE WORLD. DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS LIKE TO EAT IED CHICKEN BUCKGHAM PALACE WH QUEEN ELIZABETH? MICHAEL [JACKSON] OPENED EVERY DOOR. THE OTHER PERSON WHO OPENED EVERY DOOR FOR ME WAS [THE ACTOR] DANNY KAYE. I’M SURE YOU HAVE NEVER MET THE MAHARAJA OF BARODA. I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THERE WAS A MAHARAJA OF BARODA WHEN I MET HIM I’M A JEWISH KID, SON OF A RABBI, HYPER-AMIC, WTGHOE SCHOLAR, WHO ME TO A WEIRD WORLD OUT CALIFORNIA BEE I HATED PHILALPHIA.” (AFTER SPEAKG TO ME, KLE SUBSEQUENTLY REFED REPEATED REQUTS FOR MENT.)KHILJI AND PFEIFFER NY ALL OF KLE’S CHARG, CLUDG RAIDG HIS ASSETS, OPENG ILLEGAL BANK ACUNTS, TRYG TO OVERDOSE HIM, AND CHANGG HIS WILL. KHILJI HAS SAID THAT KLE HAD REVERED OM AN ILLNS AND “ASKED ” TO BRG HIM THE DOCUMENTS “BEFORE SOMETHG HAPPENED” TO HIM. BOTH PFEIFFER AND KHILJI HAVE FILED UNTERCLAIMS, AND KHILJI HAS SAID THAT KLE IS AN OPPORTUNIST WHO SQUANRED HIS FORTUNE ON A LIFTYLE HE ULDN’T AFFORD.THE KG OF LIPSARNOLD WILLIAM KLE HAS ALWAYS STOOD OUT. BORN THE BLUE-LLAR DETRO SUBURB OF MOUNT CLEMENS, MICHIGAN, THE BOOKWORM FORSOOK HIS FAY’S BS—A HEALTH SPA KNOWN FOR S MERAL BATHS—FOR A GREE MEDICE. AT THE UNIVERSY OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHERE HE WAS FLUENCED BY ANDY WARHOL AND THE ARCHECT LOUIS KAHN, HE NSIRED SPECIALIZG PSYCHIATRY BUT EVENTUALLY CID ON RMATOLOGY. AFTER GRADUATG OM THE UNIVERSY’S SCHOOL OF MEDICE, HE WENT ON TO BEE CHIEF RINT RMATOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGEL, AND THEN FOUND HIMSELF LANGUISHG, AT THE AGE OF 30, WH A SMALL PRACTICE THE TOWN OF RIVERSI, “GIVG LIGHT TREATMENTS AND PICKG PIMPL,” HE HAS WRTEN.ON THE ADVICE OF AN NT, HE TRIED HIS LUCK BEVERLY HILLS. “I WAS TOLD THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR YOUNG DOCTORS AND I WOULD STARVE,” HE LATER WROTE ON FACEBOOK. NEVERTHELS, HE RENTED A 700-SQUARE-FOOT SPACE AND BEGAN TELLG LOL PHYSICIANS, ACRDG TO HIS OWN ACUNT, “ ‘LOOK, I’M REALLY GOOD, SO SEND ME YOUR MOST DIFFICULT S.’ … SIX MONTHS LATER I HAD A FULL PRACTICE SOON, WH THE HELP OF [THE AE MEDITN] RET-A, I WAS FIXG AE WHOUT LIGHT-TREATMENTS OR VOODOO.”WH A YEAR HE WAS VISED BY MERV GRIFF, WHO ASKED HIM TO BE A GUT ON HIS TELEVISN SHOW. KLE TOLD THE DIENCE, AMONG OTHER THGS, HOW TO REGNIZE A MELANOMA. “THE NEXT DAY PEOPLE WERE ASKG FOR MY TOGRAPH, AND SOON THEREAFTER I RECEIVED 10,000 LETTERS, MANY OF WHICH ME OM FOLKS WHO SAID I HAD SAVED THEIR LIV.” KLE HAS WRTEN, “I DID THREE MORE SHOWS. ON THE THIRD, I MENTNED A LTLE THG I WAS PLAYG WH LLED LLAGEN.”THANKS TO LLAGEN, THE LIPS-AND-WRKLE-LE FILLER, KLE SOON BEME KNOWN AS THE KG OF LIPS. HIS EXPERTISE WAS OFFICIALLY REGNIZED WHEN THE “SKI JUMP” ELEVATN THE UPPER LIP WAS NAMED THE GLOG-KLE POT HONOR OF HIM AND FELLOW RMATOLOGIST RICHARD GLOG. HIS OFFICE EXPAND AS HIS FAMO PATIENTS MULTIPLIED. BY 1985 HIS REPUTATN HAD GROWN TO THE POT THAT, WHEN HE TRAVELED TO ROME FOR AN DIENCE WH POPE JOHN PL II, THE PONTIFF, ACRDG TO KLE’S POSTG ON FACEBOOK, “LIFTED HIS PANT LEG TO SHOW ME A SK NDN NO ONE ROME ULD FIX.” (KLE WROTE THAT HE HAD CURED .)BY 1981, KLE WAS LIVG A 30-ROOM MANSN, WH HIS BROTHER, TWO NTS, A , A OK, AND A HOEKEEPER. HIS LIFE WAS HIS PATIENTS, AND HE WAS ON LL 24–7. HIS OFFICE WALLS BEGAN FILLG WH PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BETIFUL AND FAMO, CLUDG ROCK HUDSON. HANDSOME YOUNG MEN WOULD SOON BE FLOCKG TO HIM WH RAISED PURPLE SK LNS, AND KLE HAS WRTEN THAT HE BEME THE “FIRST PHYSICIAN TO DIAGNOSE KAPOSI’S SARA [ONE OF THE OPPORTUNISTIC DISEAS ASSOCIATED WH H.I.V.] SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.”“DON’T FET, I FOUND AMFAR MY HOE,” HE TOLD ME, REFERRG TO THE AMERIN FOUNDATN FOR AIDS REARCH, WHICH HE HELPED TABLISH WH DR. MATHIL KRIM, ELIZABETH TAYLOR, AND DAVID GEFFEN 1985. “I RAISED $320 LN FOR AIDS,” HE SAID. “WHO STARTED THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR ENDOWMENT AT U.C.L.A.? THAT WAS ME. I GAVE THEM A LN-DOLLAR CHECK OM [THE LATE SOCIALE AND PHILANTHROPIST] DORIS DE FOR AIDS.”TAYLOR BEME ONE OF KLE’S BIGGT SUPPORTERS. “HE’S THE MOST BRILLIANT DOCTOR THE WORLD. HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE A RMATOLOGIST, BUT HE IS SO MUCH MORE,” SHE WOULD CLARE AT AN AIDS BENEF 2003. “I NNOT TELL YOU HOW MANY TIM HE HAS SEEN ME AND SAID, ‘ELIZABETH! OFF TO THE HOSPAL!’ ” SHE LATER SCRIBED A PY OF HER BOOK ELIZABETH TAYLOR: MY LOVE AFFAIR WH JEWELRY, “MY BELOVED ARNIE. I LOVE YOU MORE THAN I N TELL. I FEEL YOU HAVE SAVED MY FADG LIFE.” KLE’S ARTISTRY WAS VISIBLE TAYLOR’S FACE. “SHE WAS VOTED THE BT LIPS THE LAND,” HE ONCE SAID.COLLAGEN LIPS BEME KLE’S FORTE. WHEN GOLDIE HAWN WAS FILMG THE FIRST WIV CLUB (1996), KLE WAS FLOWN TO NEW YORK BY THE PRODUCERS TO JECT HER LIPS WH SALE SO THAT THEY WOULD HAVE THE FLATED LOOK OFTEN ASSOCIATED WH REJECTED FIRST WIV. “THE GUY IS A MASTER,” ARLENE HOWARD, HIS FORMER PUBLICIST, TOLD ME. “WHEN I WOULD E BACK TO MY OFFICE, MY STAFF WOULD THK I HAD HAD A FACE-LIFT. WHERE A LOT OF DOCTORS GO ZIP, ZIP, ZIP THROUGH JECTNS, KLE TAK HIS TIME. WHAT ONE DOCTOR WOULD DO 20 MUT, HE WOULD DO AN HOUR.” KLE’S IEND SANDY GIBSON ADDS, “HIS OFFICE WAS GRAND CENTRAL. WHEN HE JECTED YOUR FACE WH LLAGEN HE LEFT NO NEEDLE-ENTRY MARKS. A CC. HERE AND A CC. THERE AND NO MORE OWN L OR CROW’S-FEET. AND YOU LOOKED NATURAL, NOT OZEN.”IN 2002, ANOTHER PHARMACTIL BONANZA SURFACED: THE F.D.A. APPROVAL OF BOTOX (A PURIFIED FORM OF BOTULUM TOX, A NERVE POISON PRODUCED BY THE BACTERIA THAT BOTULISM) TO RELAX FACIAL MCL AND SOFTEN WRKL. BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 2000 AND DECEMBER 2003, URT RERDS SHOW, KLE OR HIS PANY RECEIVED NEARLY $500,000 OM ALLERGAN, THE MANUFACTURER OF BOTOX.KLE’S CLIC, AT 435 NORTH ROXBURY, BEME A VIRTUAL FOUNTA OF YOUTH. HE RECENTLY BOASTED ON FACEBOOK OF “HAVG BEEN THE DOCTOR TO THREE PRINTS, TWO POP [AND] SEVERAL REAL QUEENS.” ACRDG TO ONE FORMER OBSERVER, “AGENTS OM CAA, WHOSE OFFIC WERE NEARBY, LED UP.” ANOTHER RELLED, “[THE LATE MOVIE MOGUL] LEW AND [HIS WIFE] EDIE WASSERMAN LOVED HIM. HE WAS THE SK DOCTOR!” AMONG THE TTIMONIALS ON KLE’S WEB SE ARE THOSE OM DAVID GEFFEN, DT HOFFMAN, LARRY ELLISON, AND LDA EVANS, AND THERE ARE PHOTOS OF SHARON STONE AND DOLLY PARTON ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE. THE DIRECTOR PENNY MARSHALL APPEARS ON A YOUTUBE VIO OF A BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR KLE. IN THE VIO, THE KE IS RATED WH A SYRGE, ON TOP OF WHICH IS A NDLE, AND PEOPLE YELL, “BLOW OUT THE SYRGE!”“YOU HAD TO MAND HIS ATTENTN,” ONE FORMER PATIENT TOLD ME, “BEE THE OFFICE WAS BOOKED THREE MONTHS OUT.” THERE WAS A SPECIAL PHONE LE, ANOTHER FORMER PATIENT EXPLAED, “IF YOU WERE ON THE A-LIST. IF YOU WERE ON THE B-LIST, YOU WAED THREE MONTHS. C-LIST? YOU NEVER GOT AN APPOTMENT AT ALL.” AT HER NCERT AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL LAST SUMMER, DOLLY PARTON ANNOUNCED ONSTAGE, “IT TAK A LOT OF MONEY TO LOOK THIS CHEAP, AND I OWE ALL TO DR. ARNIE KLE.”KLE’S RéSUMé WOULD EVENTUALLY GROW TO 30 PAG: HONORS, AFFILIATNS, MEMBERSHIPS, 150 PAPERS MEDIL JOURNALS, SEVERAL TEXTBOOKS, AND UNTLS APPEARANC THE MASTREAM MEDIA. “IF YOU ASKED HIM A QUTN, HE WAS LIKE AN ENCYCLOPEDIA,” SAID ONE ACTOR, ADDG THAT, AS KLE’S REPUTATN GREW, SO DID HIS BILLS. “I WENT FOR BOTOX, AND WHILE I THK WAS DONE WELL, THE PRICE WAS $5,000.”SOON KLE WAS LIVG LUXURY. THE WALLS OF HIS HOE WERE VERED WH WORKS BY DAVID HOCKNEY, ANDY WARHOL, AND HERB RTS, AND HIS DNER PARTI WERE POPULATED WH HIS STELLAR PATIENTS. “I WENT TO A SER AT HIS HOE AND SAT NEXT TO CHER,” SAID SANDY GIBSON. KLE’S WEIGHT GREW WH HIS EGO, AND HIS STYLE OF APPAREL SEGUED OM DRAB PHYSICIAN’S SCBS TO ROCK-STAR PLUMAGE—LORFUL SRV, SKULL RGS, AND EXPENSIVE JEWELRY, CLUDG A ROLEX RATED WH DIAMOND-AND-BY LIPS, A GIFT OM CHER. IN A 2003 STORY TLED “DR. K AND THE WOMEN,” THE LOS ANGEL TIM SCRIBED KLE AT A HOLLYWOOD LUNCHEON: “HE WORE A BLACK SU, A TIE STUDD WH RED RHTON (A $500 GIFT OM A CLIENT) AND A WALKG NE HE TOLD THOSE WH EARSHOT WAS A RECENT GIFT OM MICHAEL JACKSON.” KLE WAS TRODUCED THAT DAY BY THE PHILANTHROPIST WALLIS ANNENBERG, WHO LLED HIM “A BRILLIANT PHYSICIAN” WHO IS “WORLD RENOWNED.”ONE FORMER PATIENT TOLD ME, “HE WAS WONRFUL, BUT HIS SHORTG WAS HE ADORED MICHAEL JACKSON.”MICHAEL, ARNIE, AND DEBBIE‘MICHAEL WAS PROBABLY THE PURT PERSON I EVER MET,” KLE TOLD ME. “HE DID NOT HAVE A MEAN BONE HIS BODY HE HAD ONE WISH LIFE—OR VERY FEW. ONE WAS TO MEET MRS. WALT DISNEY, WHO WAS MY PATIENT.” ACRDG TO KLE, THAT WISH ME TE.JACKSON DIDN’T BEE A KLE PATIENT UNTIL HIS LANDMARK APPEARANCE AT THE PASANA CIVIC AUDORIUM, ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOTOWN, MARCH 25, 1983, WHEN HE UNLEASHED THE MOONWALK. AMONG THE CHEERG MULTU THE DIENCE WAS ARNIE KLE. “I WAS BLOWN AWAY,” HE TOLD ME. “A WEEK LATER I WAS STG DAVID GEFFEN’S DRIVEWAY AND MICHAEL JACKSON. HE IS STG THE BACK OF A LLN TOWN CAR AND HE LOOKED VERY LONELY. WH A WEEK, DAVID BROUGHT MICHAEL TO ME. WHEN I WALKED TO THE ROOM, I TOOK ONE LOOK.” HE SAW WHAT HE WOULD LATER LL A “BUTTERFLY RASH” ON JACKSON’S FACE AND SEVERE CSTG OF THE SLP. “I DIAGNOSED HIM WH LUP,” KLE SAID, REFERRG TO THE TO-IMMUNE DISEASE THAT N E SK LNS. IN ADDN TO LUP, JACKSON HAD VILIGO, A DISORR THAT STRIPS PIGMENT OM THE SK. IN JACKSON’S SE, HIS BODY WAS SPOTTED WH PALE PATCH.ON JANUARY 27, 1984, JACKSON APPEARED AT LOS ANGEL’S SHRE AUDORIUM TO FILM A PEPSI MERCIAL. FIREWORKS ON THE SET WENT OFF PREMATURELY, AND HIS HAIR BURST TO FLAM. “I SPENT THE NIGHT AT THE HOSPAL, HIS ROOM, JT TELLG HIM WHAT IS LIKE TO BE BURNED, BEE I WAS BADLY BURNED AS A TWO-AND-A-HALF-YEAR-OLD KID,” KLE SAID. “THAT’S HOW WE REALLY BOND.” AS CARRIE FISHER WOULD LATER WRE SHOCKAHOLIC, “THEY EACH HAD SOMETHG THAT THE OTHER SPERATELY VETED. ARNIE WANTED TO BE IENDS … WH THE BIGGT STAR ON THE PLA … AND MICHAEL WANTED ACCS TO THE FARTHT REACH OF THE MEDIL MUNY 24–7.”DR. STEVEN HOEFFL, A BEVERLY HILLS PLASTIC SURGEON, REPAIRED JACKSON’S SLP A SERI OF OPERATNS THAT CLUD TWO NOSE JOBS. “REPORTEDLY [JACKSON] HAD SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 20–30 NOSE JOBS DONE BY DR. HOEFFL,” KLE HAS POSTED. “I KNOW EVERYTHG HE DO,” HE TOLD ME OF HOEFFL. “I WAS THE ONE WHO GOT MICHAEL TO FIRE HIM—ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT?— 2003.” (HOEFFL CLED TO MENT, CG HIS ONGOG LIGATN WH KLE.) AFTER THAT, KLE BEME ONE OF JACKSON’S CHIEF PHYSICIANS, CHARGE OF TREATG HIS VILIGO AND OTHER SK AILMENTS. HE ALSO BEME, AS HE HAS OFTEN SAID AND WRTEN, “THE CLOST PERSON THE WORLD TO MICHAEL JACKSON.”ACRDG TO JACKSON BGRAPHER J. RANDY TARABORRELLI, 1993 JACKSON CID TO BLEACH HIS SCROTUM. HE ED A CREAM KLE HAD PRCRIBED MANY TIM OVER THE YEARS LLED BENOQU, BUT BURNED HIS SK. KLE HAD DEBBIE ROWE, HIS MEDIL ASSISTANT SCE 1977, LOOK AFTER THE SGER. WHEN JACKSON WAS EMBROILED HIS FIRST PEDOPHILIA LAWSU, THE 1990S, KLE VOUCHED FOR HIM WH THE BOY’S MOTHER, SAYG THAT MICHAEL WAS “ABSOLUTELY HETEROSEXUAL” AND THERE WAS NO REASON FOR NCERN, ACRDG TO TARABORRELLI. LAW-ENFORCEMENT THORI SISTED ON PHOTOGRAPHG JACKSON NU, HOWEVER, TO SEE IF THE BOY’S DRAWG OF THE SGER’S PRIVATE PARTS MATCHED, AND KLE JOED JACKSON TO FACILATE THE PHOTO SSN. (JACKSON SETTLED THAT SE FOR APPROXIMATELY $25 LN.)MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISIN 2000, JACKSON’S LONGTIME IEND AND PERSONAL ASSISTANT FRANK CASC OBSERVED HIS BOSS EXHIBG SYMPTOMS THAT DITED ADDICTN TO THE NARTIC PA MEDITN DEMEROL, AND HE VOICED HIS NCERN. IN CASC’S NEW BOOK, MY FRIEND MICHAEL, HE WR: “[JACKSON] DIALED HIS RMATOLOGIST, DR. KLE. HE PUT THE DOCTOR ON SPEAKER AND ASKED HIM TO VERIFY THAT THE QUANTY OF DEMEROL HE WAS TAKG WAS SAFE AND APPROPRIATE. WHO WAS I TO ARGUE WH THE DOCTOR WHO HAD BEEN TREATG HIM FOR OVER FIFTEEN YEARS?”ON THREE OCSNS, KLE TOLD CNN’S IN SSN, HE HAD PERFORMED DG TERVENTNS FOR JACKSON: ONCE CHARTERG A PLANE TO LAS VEGAS, WHERE, HE SAID, HE ORRED A DOCTOR ADMISTERG PROPOFOL, THE KY-WHE SURGIL ANTHETIC, OUT OF JACKSON’S SUE AT THE MIRAGE HOTEL; ANOTHER TIME HAWAII, WHERE, HE SAID, HE AND HIS NURSE SLEPT ON THE FLOOR OF JACKSON’S HOTEL ROOM TO PREVENT A PLASTIC SURGEON OM ADMISTERG PROPOFOL; AND THE THIRD TIME NEW YORK. THAT TIME, KLE SAID, HE “SAVED” JACKSON, WHO WAS ALREADY SO HIGH ON PROPOFOL AND ANOTHER DG THAT HE WENT “NNG DOWN THE STREET.”IN 1996, DEBBIE ROWE GAVE JACKSON WHAT SHE LLED THE ULTIMATE “GIFT”: SHE OFFERED TO BEAR HIS CHILDREN. ALTHOUGH JACKSON WOULD LATER SIST THAT HIS FIRST TWO CHILDREN, PRCE AND PARIS, WERE PRODUCED THROUGH TERURSE, ROWE, TAPED WHOUT HER KNOWLEDGE A RERDG THAT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY QUOTED BY THE NEWS OF THE WORLD ENGLAND, REVEALED THAT PRCE, THE FIRST CHILD, HAD BEEN NCEIVED THROUGH ARTIFICIAL SEMATN. (AFTER JACKSON’S ATH, ROWE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT BOTH CHILDREN HAD BEEN ARTIFICIALLY NCEIVED.)AS JACKSON’S TWO OLR CHILDREN GREW, THEIR DARK HAIR AND FACIAL FEATUR BORE A REMBLANCE TO KLE’S, AND TERVIEWS KLE SEEMED TO ENJOY DANCG AROUND THE SUBJECT, NEHER NYG NOR NFIRMG THAT HE WAS THEIR BLOGIL FATHER. “ONCE [I DONATED] TO A SPERM BANK,” HE SAID ON LARRY KG LIVE. “TO THE BT OF MY KNOWLEDGE, I’M NOT THE FATHER THERE IS SOMETHG LLED PRIVATE LIV—NOëL COWARD WROTE ABOUT THAT. SO N’T WE LEAVE THIS ALONE?” AFTER JACKSON’S ATH, KLE UNSUCCSFULLY SOUGHT TO BE VOLVED THE UPBRGG OF JACKSON’S CHILDREN. “I HAVE SAID TO ARNIE, ‘PLEASE DON’T SAY YOU’RE THE FATHER ANYMORE,’ ” CARRIE FISHER TOLD THE NEW YORK TIM JANUARY.ROWE, THE SPUNKY, BLON MEDIL ASSISTANT LISA MARIE PRLEY LLED “NURSEY,” WHO MARRIED JACKSON 1996 AND WAS DIVORCED OM HIM 1999, HAS NEVER SPOKEN PUBLICLY AS TO WHETHER KLE WAS THE SPERM DONOR.IN 2003, KLE AND ALLERGAN, THE BOTOX MANUFACTURER, WERE SUED BY IRENA MEDAVOY, THE WIFE OF MIKE MEDAVOY, THE PRODUCER AND FORMER HEAD OF ORN PICTUR. MEDAVOY CLAIMED THAT SHE HAD BEE SERLY ILL AFTER KLE ADMISTERED A SERI OF BOTOX SHOTS TO THE BASE OF HER SKULL, THE BACK OF HER NECK, AND BEHD EACH EAR TO ALLEVIATE MIGRA. THE TRIAL DIVID HOLLYWOOD; SOME PATIENTS LEFT KLE, BUT THE STALWARTS REMAED. “ARNIE DO NOT MAKE MISTAK,” ELIZABETH TAYLOR ANNOUNCED. ALLERGAN AND KLE WON THE LAWSU, BUT THE NEGATIVE PUBLICY TOOK A TOLL.BEARS OF A FEATHERBY 2007, KLE HAD BEE A PRENCE A MUNY PRISED OF STOCKY GAY MEN. IN SHOCKAHOLIC, CARRIE FISHER RELLS THE TIME JACKSON LENT KLE HIS FAMO TATE: “ARNIE KLE’S BIRTHDAY ME AROUND AND HE VED TO MICHAEL’S NEVERLAND RANCH TO CELEBRATE THIS EVENT WH ARNIE’S MULTI-BEAR CLAN IT WAS … ARNIE AND HIS LOVER, PL AN ASSORTMENT OF ARNIE’S OVERWEIGHT GAY MALE BUDDI (LLED ‘BEARS’ BY ‘THE MUNY’). ARNIE IS A BIG MAN HIMSELF, AND HE LIKED TO SURROUND HIMSELF WH SIARLY FLHY BEARS OF A FEATHER.”ONE NIGHT NOVEMBER OR DECEMBER 2007, ON , THE BEARS WERE PROWLG. JASON PFEIFFER, WHO WAS OUT OF WORK AND BETWEEN RELATNSHIPS, LIVG WH HIS PARENTS NEAR PASANA, CID TO “EMBRACE MY BIGNS,” AS HE PUT . “SOME GUYS LIKE BIG WOMEN, AND SOME GUYS LIKE BIG MEN,” PFEIFFER TOLD ME AS HE PLOWED THROUGH A RIB EYE A STEAK HOE SO CLOSE TO DISNEYLAND YOU ULD SEE THE MATTERHORN ATTRACTN. “TO QUALIFY AS A BEAR,” HE EXPLAED, “YOU MT WEIGH AT 250, 350-PL. THERE’S ALSO THE SUPER CHUBS, WHICH ARE LIKE 500, 600 POUNDS. I SAID TO MYSELF, WELL, I’M GOG TO JO [THE WEB SE] … AND MAYBE I’LL FD SOMEBODY WHO IS TO BIGGER GUYS.”ACRDG TO PFEIFFER, A MSAGE POPPED UP ON HIS PUTER OM SOMEONE LLG HIMSELF “BACH.” “HEY, DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?,” PFEIFFER RELLED HIM MSAGG. “I’M MICHAEL JACKSON’S DOCTOR. I HAVE TEN RS I’M VERY RICH COME OVER.”A B PUT OFF BY THIS BRAZENNS, PFEIFFER CLAIMS URT PAPERS, HE SIGNED OFF, BUT KLE SUBSEQUENTLY INTIFIED HIMSELF, APOLOGIZED, AND SAID HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GIVE PFEIFFER A JOB. LATER, AT KLE’S HOE, ACRDG TO THE URT DOCUMENTS, THE DOCTOR AND ANOTHER MAN BEGAN “PAWG” EACH OTHER, AND BOTH MEN ATTEMPTED TO ENGAGE PFEIFFER SEX. AGA PFEIFFER SAYS HE MURRED AND DROVE HOME. A FEW WEEKS LATER, PFEIFFER CLAIMS, KLE ASSURED HIM THAT HE WOULD MAKE NO MORE SEXUAL ADVANC AND VED HIM TO SPEND THE NIGHT. “IN APPROXIMATELY JANUARY 2008, PFEIFFER BEGAN WORKG AS AN ASSISTANT TO KLE,” PFEIFFER ALLEG HIS 28-PAGE UNTERCLAIM TO KLE’S BANKPTCY PROCEEDG, WHICH HE ALSO SAYS, “THE CLAIMS ASSERTED HERE BY PFEIFFER ARISE OM A WORKG ENVIRONMENT THAT ANY RATNAL PERSON ULD ONLY SCRIBE AS A LIVG NIGHTMARE.”WHAT BEGAN AS A BATN CHFFR-AND-HOEMAN ROLE QUICKLY GREW TO A FIVE-DAY-A-WEEK JOB, WHICH CLUD WORK KLE’S MEDIL OFFICE. “BEFORE LONG BEME CLEAR THAT KLE EXPECTED PFEIFFER TO ACPANY KLE EVERYWHERE ON A DAILY BASIS, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK,” PFEIFFER CLAIMS URT PAPERS. IN ADDN TO TRAVELG WH HIM TO HIS OTHER HOM, LAGUNA BEACH AND PALM SPRGS, PFEIFFER NTU, HE WAS REQUIRED TO SN THE INTER FOR THE DOCTOR AS HE “SEARCHED OBSSIVELY FOR SEX PARTNERS, DAY AND NIGHT, ON WEB S CLUDG , , , [AND] ” ACRDG TO THE URT PAPERS, “KLE ADVERTISED HIMSELF AS ‘A GENERO MAN OF TEGRY … NICE GUNS, LEGS AND CHT I N KISS LIKE NO OTHER AND TAKE YOU TO PLAC YOU WON’T BELIEVE ( BED).’ ”IN LEGAL DOCUMENTS, PFEIFFER TAILS THE DUTI HE SAYS HE AGREED TO PERFORM FOR KLE: “PREPARE HIM FOR SEXUAL ENUNTERS WH MASSRS, PAID RTS, AND PROSTUT [AND] ADMISTER KLE’S CIALIS, VIAGRA, AND SIAR PRCRIPTN DGS IN PALM SPRGS, KLE DISPATCHED PFEIFFER AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TO FD A MAN WH WHOM KLE ULD HAVE SEX. PFEIFFER AND THE OTHER EMPLOYEE RETURNED WH A LARGE-BODIED HOMELS MAN FOR KLE DR. KLE REPEATEDLY SUBJECTED PFEIFFER TO UNWELED, UNWANTED, OFFENSIVE SEXUAL NDUCT.”IN OUR PHONE NVERSATN AND ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE, KLE SISTED THAT HE WOULDN’T LOWER HIMSELF TO PFEIFFER AND KHILJI’S LEVEL, LLG THEM “EVIL EMBEZZLERS WHO WILL SCEND TO HELL.” HE SAID TO ME, “I STUDIED WH LOUIS KAHN … CHARL AND RAY EAM … AND YOU ARE GOG TO PUT ME ON THE LEVEL OF A SLEAZEBAG LIKE JASON PFEIFFER?”MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISPFEIFFER CLAIMS URT PAPERS THAT KLE PRCRIBED DGS PFEIFFER’S NAME, CLUDG NARTICS, A SLEW OF ERECTILE-DYSFUNCTN DGS, AND AMYL NRE, AN HALANT THAT PRODUC PHORIA—“PRCRIPTN POPPERS KLE WANTED TO E DURG SEX.” HE GO ON TO CLAIM THAT KLE STCTED HIM TO “DISPENSE [THE NARTIC PA RELIEVER] PERCET PILLS TO A CERTA FAMO ACTRS WHO HAD AN ACKNOWLEDGED HISTORY OF SUBSTANCE ADDICTN.” PFEIFFER SAYS THE URT PAPERS THAT, ALTHOUGH HE REFED TO DISPENSE THE PERCET TO THIS ACTRS, SHE WOULD STILL E TO THE OFFICE AND “KLE WOULD GIVE HER TEN TO TWENTY PERCET AT A TIME OM THE OFFICE SUPPLY.”MICHAEL TO THE RCUEIN EARLY 2008, KLE PROMOTED PFEIFFER TO OFFICE MANAGER, WORKG WH KLE’S ACUNTANT, MUHAMMAD KHILJI. WHEN I MET KHILJI FOR DNER THE RTRANT OF THE HOLIDAY INN LONG BEACH, HE HARDLY SEEMED THE TYPE TO NDUCT VERT TRANSACTNS G A TERRORIST WORK, AS KLE HAD IMPLIED. HE WAS POLE AND SOFT-SPOKEN. WHEN ME TO KLE, HOWEVER, HE DIDN’T HOLD BACK. LIKE PFEIFFER, KHILJI WENT TO WORK FULL-TIME KLE’S OFFICE 2008. “THE BREAK-EVEN POT OF HIS PRACTICE WAS $3.6 LN A YEAR,” SAID KHILJI. BY 2007, HE SAID, KLE’S PATIENTS WERE LEAVG DROV, AND HE WAS SER SHORTFALL. “ARNIE [WAS] MAKG LS REVENUE THAN A THIRD RATE RMATOLOGIST THE VALLEY,” KHILJI WOULD LATER WRE AN E-MAIL. “HE JT DID NOT HAVE ANY MORE … AND WAS FANCIALLY HURTG.”THE $20,000 THAT THE NEW YORK TIM HAD REPORTED 2004 AS KLE’S DAILY E HAD PLUMMETED TO AN TIMATED $30,000 A MONTH BY 2011, ACRDG TO HIS BANKPTCY FILG. “HE WAS DROPPG MONEY LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW,” SAID KHILJI. “ON JEWELRY, ART, JT KEEPG PEOPLE AROUND HIM ... $250,000, $300,000 VATNS EVERY SIX MONTHS IN 2007 HE BOUGHT A THIRD HOE, PALM SPRGS.”IN HIS E-MAIL OF RIGNATN, AFTER KLE ACCED HIM OF THEFT, KHILJI TAILED THE DOCTOR’S EXPENS OVER THE PREV THREE YEARS. “MAYBE IS TIME TO LOOK THE MIRROR, DR. KLE YOU HAVE SPENT OVER $800,000 ON VATNS AND PERSONAL TRAVEL ST WH YOUR VAR ENTOURAG … $550,000 ON RS … $1,200,000 RANDOM SHOPPG … A $500,000 DOWN PAYMENT [ON THE PALM SPRGS HOE] WEEKLY PARTI, MATENANCE AND UPKEEP HAVE ST AN ADDNAL $850,000 … LOVERS OR IENDS ON PAYROLL TO THE RPORATN OVER $200,000 … OVER $650,000 LEGAL, PUBLIC RELATNS AND SECURY FE [AND] AN ADDNAL $7,000,000 PERSONAL LUXURY SPENDG WHILE YOU[R] E CLED OM $240,000 A MONTH TO $120,000 A MONTH. UNFORTUNATELY WH SUCH LOW GROSS AND CURRENT OVERHEAD EXPENS, YOU WERE ALWAYS … [THE] RED.”“HE WAS BROKE, AND I WOULD TELL HIM, ‘YOU ARE LOSG MONEY,’ AND HE WOULD JT SAY, ‘LOOK, I’M GOG TO SUE,’ ” KHILJI TOLD ME, AND HE PROCEED TO LIST LAWSUS KLE HAD PLANNED TO FILE HOP OF LUCRATIVE SETTLEMENTS.A RABOW APPEARED THE FORM OF MICHAEL JACKSON, WHO HAD BEEN AWAY OM KLE’S PRACTICE FOR A TIME, LIVG BAHRA, EUROPE, AND LAS VEGAS AFTER HIS ACQUTAL HIS 2005 PEDOPHILIA TRIAL. “IN OR AROUND OCTOBER 2008, KLE WAS NTACTED BY MICHAEL JACKSON, WHO TOLD KLE THAT HE (MICHAEL) NEED TO ‘GET OUT OF A URT APPEARANCE’ AND NEED A ‘DOCTOR’S NOTE,’ ” PFEIFFER’S LAWYER WR THEIR UNTERCLAIM. “KLE THEN TOLD PFEIFFER THAT KLE WOULD WRE A NOTE STATG THAT MICHAEL HAD A MRSA [VILENT STAPH] FECTN … AND STCTED PFEIFFER TO GET A TTON SWAB AND SWAB PFEIFFER’S OWN NOSE SO THAT KLE ULD FABRITE TT RULTS SHOWG THAT MICHAEL HAD MRSA. PFEIFFER REFED … SO KLE SWABBED KLE’S OWN NOSE STEAD” AND PRODUCED THE “DOCTOR’S NOTE.” THE UNTERCLAIM STAT, “THROUGHOUT 2009, MICHAEL JACKSON WAS A EQUENT PATIENT OF KLE.”“ARNIE KLE WAS VERY HAPPY,” SAID KHILJI. “HE SAID, ‘MICHAEL IS BACK MY LIFE!’ I’M LIKE, ‘THAT’S GREAT FOR YOU, DOC.’ ” HE EXPLAED: “WE ALL TRIED TO CHASE THE GHOSTS YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ARE LOSG THAT OLD BRILLIANCE. NOW MICHAEL BACK AND YOU SEE A GLIMPSE OF THE OLD BRILLIANCE AGA. BEE KLE’S WORK IS KNOWN BY THE CELEBRI HE SERV, AND MANY OF THEM HAD STARTED TO LEAVE HIM.” IN 2009, KHILJI RELLED, “MICHAEL ME A LOT HE WAS A NICE GUY BUT, YOU KNOW, HE ME AND NOBODY ULD DO ANY WORK. HE WAS MONOPOLIZG THE NURSE’S TIME AND EVERYONE’S TIME. BUT KLE WAS HAPPY.”“YOU MT THK I’M CRAZY FOR GOG TO DR. KLE’S OFFICE SO MUCH,” MICHAEL JACKSON WAS QUOTED AS TELLG HIS BODYGUARD, FAHEEM MUHAMMAD, DURG LAST FALL’S CRIMAL TRIAL OF DR. CONRAD MURRAY. KLE’S MEDIL RERDS WERE PRENTED AT THE TRIAL, REVEALG THAT THE THREE AND A HALF MONTHS BEFORE JACKSON’S ATH HE WAS A EQUENT PRENCE KLE’S OFFIC, RECEIVG SIGNIFINT DOS OF DEMEROL GIVEN TO HIM UNR THE ALIAS OMAR ARNOLD.KLE’S MEDIL RERDS FOR THAT PERD TAIL SR OF PROCR, WHICH CLUD SOME 41 SHOTS OF DEMEROL, LEADG UP TO JACKSON’S LAST APPOTMENT, ON JUNE 22, 2009, THREE DAYS BEFORE HIS ATH. MOST OF THE SHOTS WERE ADMISTERED BY KLE’S NURSE, ELLEN BNN, NOT BY KLE, WHO WOULD LATER SIST THAT HE WAS EUROPE MAY 2009, DURG THE TIME OF MANY OF THE POWERFUL DEMEROL JECTNS, AND THAT HE WOULD NEVER HAVE GIVEN JACKSON EXCSIVE DOS OF THE DG.DURG THE TRIAL, FAHEEM MUHAMMAD TTIFIED THAT “THERE WERE TIM WHEN HE WAS GOG ALMOST EVERY DAY,” AND THAT ON AT LEAST ONE OCSN JACKSON HAD TO BE ASSISTED DOWN THE STEPS BY A MEMBER OF KLE’S STAFF.ACRDG TO PFEIFFER’S UNTERCLAIM, “SEVERAL TIM, KLE TOLD PFEIFFER TO HELP MICHAEL DOWN TO THE R BEE MICHAEL WAS TOO DGGED UP AND DISORIENTED TO STAND ON HIS OWN. PFEIFFER TOLD KLE REPEATEDLY THAT PFEIFFER WAS UNFORTABLE DOG THIS PFEIFFER AND KLE’S OWN NURS WERE WORRIED THAT MICHAEL WAS BEG ‘OVERMEDITED’ BY KLE. KLE RETORTED TO PFEIFFER THAT HE, KLE, KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOG AND THAT PFEIFFER SHOULD KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.”FAHEEM MUHAMMAD REPORTEDLY SAID AN TERVIEW WH POLICE, “WE WOULD PARK, WALK HIM UPSTAIRS.” AS HIS VISS STRETCHED ON FOR “THREE, FOUR HOURS,” MUHAMMAD SAID, HUNDREDS OF HIS FANS WOULD GATHER BY THE ONT DOOR. ACRDG TO MUHAMMAD, JACKSON EQUENTLY LEFT KLE’S OFFICE DROWSY, WH SLOWED SPEECH. SOMETIM HIS TREATMENTS SEEMED TO MAKE HIM MORE EXTROVERTED THAN UAL. “WHEN HE WOULD LEAVE, SOMETIM HE WOULD WANT TO GO SHOPPG THAT BEVERLY HILLS AREA, AND THAT ULD ATTRACT UP TO 500 PEOPLE,” MUHAMMAD TOLD THE POLICE. “IT ULD GET REAL—REAL UGLY I WOULD TELL HIM, ‘SIR, WE NEED TO GO OUT THE BACK DOOR AND AVOID THE CROWD’ HE WOULDN’T GO. ‘THE ARE MY FANS. WE’RE GOG OUT THE ONT.’ ”PROPOFOL AND DEMEROLTHE EXTENT OF JACKSON’S TREATMENTS AT KLE’S OFFICE N BE FERRED BY THE SIZE OF HIS UNPAID BILLS. “MICHAEL WAS A HIGH CRED RISK, BEE HE WOULD GET SERVIC AND NEVER PAY FOR THEM,” KHILJI SAID. “COLLECTG MONEY OM HIM WAS BEG CREASGLY DIFFICULT.” I ASKED KHILJI HOW MUCH JACKSON OWED. “AT ONE POT GOT TO BE AS HIGH AS $80,000.”IN MAY 2009, ACRDG TO PFEIFFER, KLE WENT ON A EUROPEAN VATN, TAKG ALONG PFEIFFER, ELLEN BNN, HIS BOYIEND, AND TWO ASSISTANTS FOR THREE WEEKS OF FIRST-CLASS TRAVEL TO LONDON, PARIS, AND VENICE. HOWEVER, THE OFFICE RERDS SHOW, “OMAR ARNOLD” ME AND RECEIVED DEMEROL SIX TIM THAT MONTH.AT THE CONRAD MURRAY TRIAL, THE FENDANT’S LAWYERS DID THEIR BT TO SHIFT ATTENTN OM MURRAY’S PROPOFOL TO KLE’S DEMEROL. HAVG EXAMED THE RERDS OM KLE’S OFFICE, ROBERT WALDMAN, A MEDIL EXPERT FOR THE FENSE, TTIFIED THAT JACKSON WAS PROBABLY ADDICTED TO DEMEROL AT THE TIME OF HIS ATH. HE HAD RECEIVED “STIFF DOS” OF 900 LIGRAMS OVER THREE DAYS MAY 2009, WALDMAN OBSERVED. “A STARTG DOSE THAT IS REMEND FOR AN OPIATE NAIVE DIVIDUAL WOULD BE 50 LIGRAMS.” SEVERAL EXPERTS AND MENTATORS AGREED THAT THE DOS JACKSON RECEIVED WERE EXCSIVE. KLE LATER SAID THAT JACKSON ULDN’T TAKE THE PA OF A BOTOX JECTN—TH THE DEMEROL—AND THAT THE DOSAG HE APPROVED WERE ABSOLUTELY JTIFIED.IN THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF JUNE, JACKSON RECEIVED SEVEN MORE DEMEROL JECTNS KLE’S OFFICE, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT GETTG 200 LIGRAMS A SGLE DAY’S VIS. ON JACKSON’S LAST VIS, THREE DAYS BEFORE HIS ATH, KLE’S MEDIL RERDS SHOW, HE RECEIVED 100 LIGRAMS OF DEMEROL.THE WEEK BEFORE HE DIED, JACKSON MISSED SEVERAL REHEARSALS FOR “THIS IS IT,” THE LONG-AWAED EBACK TOUR THAT WAS SET TO OPEN LONDON ON JULY 16 FOR AN UNPRECENTED N OF 50 PERFORMANC. ON JUNE 19, A DAY THAT HE HAD NOT VISED KLE’S OFFICE, HE MA TO REHEARSAL BUT WAS UNABLE TO PERFORM. TWO DAYS LATER HE TOLD HIS NUTRNIST, “ONE SI OF MY BODY IS HOT AND THE OTHER SI IS LD.” ROBERT WALDMAN TTIFIED THAT SENSATNS OF HOT AND LD ARE SYMPTOMS OF DEMEROL WHDRAWAL. BY JUNE 23 AND 24, THOUGH, JACKSON WAS BACK TOP FORM AT REHEARSALS, HIS BODYGUARD TOLD THE POLICE. “HE WAS REALLY ON. HE WAS REALLY JAMMG.”JACKSON’S FAL REHEARSAL END AROUND MIDNIGHT ON JUNE 25, AFTER WHICH HE WAS DRIVEN TO 100 NORTH CAROLWOOD, HIS $20,000-A-MONTH HOLMBY HILLS RENTAL. WHILE HIS CHILDREN SLEPT, JACKSON WAS WI AWAKE AND CRAVG HIS “K,” PROPOFOL, WHICH HE HAD E TO RELY UPON TO PUT HIM TO SLEEP. CONRAD MURRAY, THE PHYSICIAN A.E.G. (ANSCHUTZ ENTERTAMENT GROUP, THE TOUR ANIZER AND ENTERTAMENT-AND-SPORTS GIANT) HAD HIRED AT $150,000 A MONTH TO RE FOR JACKSON, LATER TOLD THE POLICE THAT HE FIRST TRIED A SERI OF PRCRIPTN SEDATIV. WHEN THEY DIDN’T WORK, MURRAY CLAIMED, HE SURRENRED TO JACKSON’S MANDS FOR PROPOFOL, GIVG HIM 25 LIGRAMS AT 10:40 A.M. AFTER LEAVG THE BEDROOM FOR A TWO-MUTE BATHROOM BREAK, MURRAY SAID, HE RETURNED TO DISVER THAT HIS PATIENT HAD STOPPED BREATHG. JACKSON WAS TAKEN TO THE U.C.L.A. MEDIL CENTER, WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED AD AT 2:26 P.M.“ON THE DAY MICHAEL JACKSON DIED, I WAS WORKG WH PATIENTS,” KLE LATER WROTE. “WHEN I AM PERFORMG A PROCRE ON A PATIENT, I DO NOT TAKE TELEPHONE LLS. MY OFFICE MANAGER, JASON PFEIFFER, FIELDS ALL TELEPHONE LLS TO THE OFFICE TO ME, AND HE ALSO ANSWERS MY CELLULAR TELEPHONE. I FIRST LEARNED OF MICHAEL JACKSON’S ATH OM JASON PFEIFFER.”LATER THAT DAY, DEBBIE ROWE, WHO WAS LIVG ON THE RANCH SHE HAD PURCHASED AFTER HER DIVORCE OM JACKSON, LLED KLE’S OFFICE. “SHE WAS SCREAMG AND YELLG,” PFEIFFER REMEMBERED. “I SAID TO HER, ‘I’M SORRY, MA’AM,’ BEE I HADN’T REALLY SPOKEN TO HER BEFORE. AND SHE SAID, ‘I’M NOT A GODDAMN MA’AM. I’M DEBBIE FUCKG ROWE.’ SHE WANTED TO TALK TO KLE. I TRANSFERRED HER AND RAN BEE HE ALWAYS LIKED ME TO BE THERE WHEN HE TOOK A PHONE LL LIKE THAT SHE STARTED SCREAMG AT HIM. I HEARD HER SAY, ‘WHAT DID YOU GIVE HIM?’ AND KLE SAID, ‘I WASN’T THERE. I HAVEN’T GIVEN HIM DEMEROL FOR A UPLE DAYS.’ ”FOLLOWG JACKSON’S ATH, ONE OF HIS ASSOCIAT TOLD ABC NEWS THAT THE SGER HAD A “20-PL YEAR ADDICTN” TO DEMEROL, AND ABC REPORTED THAT THE ALLEGATN WAS “BACKED BY A SENR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.” SOON KLE’S NAME ME TO THE ATTENTN OF THE THORI, AND WASN’T LONG BEFORE THE POLICE STARTED RECEIVG LEADS. ONE POLICE DOCUMENT REUNTS: “ON JULY 17, 2009, TECTIV RECEIVED A LL OM AN UNKNOWN FEMALE LLER WHO STATED THAT SHE HAD RMATN ON THE ALIAS ED BY JACKSON WHEN HE WOULD VIS DR. KLE. SHE PROVID THE NAM, OMAR ARNOLD, FERNAND DIAZ, PETER MADONIE, AND JOSEPHE BAKER AS NAM JACKSON WOULD E WHEN SEEG DR. KLE. DETECTIV REVERED A PRCRIPTN AT JACKSON’S RINCE THE NAME OF OMAR ARNOLD PRCRIBED BY DR. KLE.”MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISACRDG TO KHILJI, KLE’S OFFICE STAFF WENT TO PROTECTN MO TO KEEP THE DOCTOR AWAY OM THE PRS. “HE REALLY WANTED TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNY TO GO TO THE MEDIA AND EXPLO ,” SAID KHILJI. “OUR PLAN WAS TO TRY TO TELL HIM THIS WAS NOT A GOOD IA.”ON JULY 8, HOWEVER, KLE APPEARED ON GOOD MORNG AMERI, NYG WH A WK THAT HE WAS THE FATHER OF JACKSON’S CHILDREN AND LAMBASTG DOCTORS WHO PRCRIBED ADDICTIVE DGS FOR THE SGER AS “CRIMALS.” ON JULY 11, ON LARRY KG LIVE, KLE REVEALED THAT, DURG THE SMETIC PROCR HE HAD PERFORMED ON JACKSON OVER THE YEARS, “YOU HAVE TO SEDATE HIM A LTLE B.” HE ADD, “IF YOU TOOK ALL THE PILLS I HAD GIVEN HIM THE LAST YEAR AT ONCE, WOULDN’T DO ANYTHG TO YOU.”“WHAT WAS THE STRONGT MEDITN YOU GAVE HIM?,” KG ASKED.“I ONCE—I ON OCSN GAVE HIM DEMEROL TO SEDATE HIM,” KLE REPLIED.THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME KLE PUBLICLY ADMTED GIVG JACKSON DEMEROL. THREE DAYS LATER, ASSISTANT CHIEF CORONER ED WTER PAID A VIS TO THE DOCTOR’S OFFIC.‘WE REPRENT THE CEASED,” SAID WTER AS WE SAT THE RONER’S OFFICE DOWNTOWN L.A. WTER HAS WORKED ON MANY FAMO S, CLUDG THAT OF LANA CLARKSON, THE FORMER STARLET KILLED BY RERD PRODUCER PHIL SPECTOR. WHEN THE RPSE OF MICHAEL JACKSON ARRIVED AT THE RONER’S OFFICE, WTER PROCEED TO TRACK THE MEDITNS THE SGER HAD BEEN PRCRIBED. “THERE WERE OVER 30 VIALS AND PACKAG OF MEDS, SOME DR. MURRAY, SOME DR. KLE … AT THE RINCE,” WTER TOLD ME. “WE LOTED PRCRIPTN SLIPS THE NAM OF OMAR ARNOLD, PETER MADONIE, AND OTHER NAM. THE WERE SPECIFILLY OM KLE.”WTER FILED A SUBPOENA FOR KLE’S MEDIL RERDS, AND SOON VISED KLE’S OFFIC. NOW HE LEANED BACK HIS CHAIR AND SED. “I DON’T THK I EVER MET DR. KLE,” HE SAID, EXPLAG THAT HE HAD ALWAYS ALT WH AN ASSISTANT OR AN ATTORNEY.IN WTER’S TERVIEWS WH THE OTHER DOCTORS HE FOUND JACKSON’S MEDIL RERDS, HE LEARNED SOME SURPRISG FACTS. “WHEN WE TERVIEWED SOME OF THE DOCTORS, THEY SAID THEY HAD NOT TREATED MICHAEL JACKSON, BUT DR. KLE HAD ED THEIR FACILI,” SAID WTER. HE NAMED THREE BEVERLY HILLS DOCTORS. ONE HAD TOLD HIM THAT HE HAD BILLED KLE FOR THE E OF HIS OPERATG ROOM.WHEN WTER SERVED A SUBPOENA ON THE MICKEY FE PHARMACY, ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF THE BUILDG ON NORTH ROXBURY DRIVE THAT HOED KLE’S OFFIC, THE PHARMACY PRODUCED MORE THAN 50 PRCRIPTNS FOR JACKSON UNR A VARIETY OF ALIAS. THEN WTER MET WH DEBBIE ROWE. “SHE TOLD ABOUT THE ‘DG BOOK.’ WHENEVER THERE WERE DGS BEG DISPENSED, DR. KLE HAD A LEDGER THAT SHOWED WHAT WAS GOG TO WHO.”HE DIDN’T QUTN ROWE ABOUT THE FATHER OF PRCE AND PARIS, HE SAID. “SHE BROUGHT UP. SHE SAID, ‘THE MEDIA IS SAYG THAT THEY THK DR. KLE WAS THE SPERM DONOR. BUT THAT’S BULL!’ ”I LATER OBTAED THE RONER’S SE NOT OM HIS VIS WH ROWE: “MS. ROWE APPEARS TO HAVE SOMEONE DR. KLE’S OFFICE PROVIDG HER RMATN VOLVG THIS VTIGATN SHE ADVISED THAT THERE ARE ‘SUPER BILLS’ AND A ‘DG BOOK’ THE OFFICE AND THAT THEY SHOULD BE CHECKED.”DOCTORS AT WARSTEVEN HOEFFL, A PAST PRINT OF THE LOS ANGEL SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS, GAED FAME THE 1980S FOR ENLARGG PLAYMAT’ BREASTS AND BEG MICHAEL JACKSON’S PLASTIC SURGEON. THE DAILY BEAST HAS CHRONICLED HIS ERRATIC BEHAVR, CLUDG HIS TENTN TO N FOR PRINT OF THE UNED STAT 2008, AS WELL AS HIS CLAIMS OF BEG AN UNRVER AGENT FOR THE C.I.A., THE D.E.A., AND THE SECRET SERVICE. HE HAS ALSO CLAIMED THAT HE AND HIS WIFE WERE TARGETED BY ATH THREATS THAT WERE TRACED TO THE MPAIGN OF HIS RIVAL FOR THE PRINCY, SENATOR JOHN MCCA. IN 2008 HE WAS RNERED BY POLICE AFTER HE HAD CLIMBED UP A TREE NEAR HIS HOME WH A PELLET GUN, MUTTERG ABOUT A NSPIRACY TO ASSASSATE HIM. IN 1997 HE FILED LAWSUS AGAST TWO FORMER MEDIL LLEAGU WHO HAD TOLD THE MEDIA THAT HOEFFL HAD MOCKED OR FONDLED SEVERAL OF HIS FAMO PATIENTS, CLUDG ELIZABETH TAYLOR, WHILE THEY WERE UNR ANTHIA. AFTER MICHAEL JACKSON’S ATH, HOEFFL CLAIMED THAT JACKSON’S MOTHER HAD THORIZED HIM TO VTIGATE JACKSON’S ATH AND SPEAK TO THE PRS. (SHE HAD APPARENTLY GIVEN HIM A HANDWRTEN NOTE GRANTG PERMISSN TO “STOP & RRECT ALL THE BAD MORS ABOUT MY SON,” BUT WAS SWIFTLY RCD BY HER LAWYERS.)ONE OF THE FIRST THGS HOEFFL DID WAS TO WRE A LETTER TO ARNOLD KLE:DR. KLE: PRR TO HIS ATH, MICHAEL JACKSON ASKED YOU TO SEND ME A PY OF HIS MEDIL RERDS. THOSE RERDS WERE REVIEWED AND ARE NOW THE HANDS OF THE LOS ANGEL POLICE DEPARTMENT.IN YOUR OWN WRG AND YOUR OWN PUBLIC STATEMENTS, IS FOUND EVINCE THAT YOU:(A) RUED MICHAEL’S HEALTH.(B) RUED HIS APPEARANCE.(C) RUED HIM EMOTNALLY.(D) YOU ED HIS DEMEROL AND OTHER PRCRIPTN PA MEDICE ADDICTN.(E) YOU STCTED DEBBIE ROWE TO JECT LARGE QUANTI OF DEMEROL WHILE SHE WAS ALONE HIS HOME.(F) YOU PREVENTED HIM OM ENTERG A DG REHABILATN PROGRAM.(G) YOU PREVENTED HIM OM NTUG HIS DANGERO TOUR.(H) YOU ADMISTERED IV DIPRIVAN [A BRAND NAME FOR PROPOFOL] TO HIM YOUR OWN OFFICE.(I) YOU STCTED OTHERS TO UNSAFELY ADMISTER IV DIPRIVAN(M) YOU ARE FELY NOT THE FATHER OF HIS TWO OLR CHILDREN AND ARE MAKG DULENT CLAIMS THAT YOU ARE.(N) YOU NTRIBUTED TO THE ATH OF MICHAEL JACKSON.ON JULY 24, 2009, THE BRISH TABLOID THE SUN REPORTED HOEFFL AN TERVIEW DISCSG THE MEDIL RERDS THAT JACKSON HAD PURPORTEDLY GIVEN HIM 1993, TAILG SOME OF HIS VISS THAT YEAR TO ARNOLD KLE:THE SUN HAS SEEN PROOF THAT DR KLE TREATED JACKO WH VAST AMOUNTS OF THE PAKILLER DEMEROL. THEY SHOW HIS FIRST MAJOR BATTLE WH DG ADDICTN OCCURRED SHORTLY AFTER THE DOC TREATED HIM WH FOUR TIMES THE DAILY MAXIMUM REMEND AMOUNT OF THE DG.JACKO’S EX-PLASTIC SURGEON AND IEND DR STEVEN HOEFFL SAID THE EVINCE OM KLE’S 1993 FIL WAS “HORRIFYG READG”. HE SAID: “I HAD NO IA MICHAEL WAS BEG GIVEN THIS SANE AMOUNT OF DEMEROL.“THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT YOU SHOULD GIVE A PATIENT OF HIS WEIGHT AND BUILD SEVERE SURGIL PA IS 200MG A DAY. MICHAEL WAS BEG GIVEN 800MG A DAY.“I FEEL DR KLE WAS OVER-TREATG HIM TO MAKE MONEY. I HAVE LNCHED A LAWSU AGAST DR KLE FOR D. IT IS MY OPN THAT HE GOT MY PATIENT ADDICTED TO DEMEROL.”A MONTH LATER, THE SAME TABLOID, HOEFFL SPECULATED THAT KLE WAS ALSO VOLVED JACKSON’S E OF PROPOFOL: “MURRAY WOULD HAVE UNTED ON KLE TO BE THE SOURCE OF PROPOFOL AND GUI HIM S E.”KLE FIRED BACK WH A SLANR LAWSU, SAYG THAT HOEFFL’S ACCATNS WERE “LUDICRO, UTTERLY FALSE, AND BASELS,” AND THAT HOEFFL KNEW . IN ANOTHER FILG, FOUR MONTHS LATER, KLE’S LAWYER SAID, “FOR REASONS NOT APPARENT TO DR. KLE, DR. HOEFFL VELOPED AN TENSE ANTIPATHY TO KLE THE YEARS PRECEDG JACKSON’S MISE. BOTH DOCTORS PROVID RELATED, BUT DIFFERENT, MEDIL TREATMENT TO A SMALL DRE OF CLIENTS.” HOEFFL HAD ATTACKED KLE “FOR PERSONAL REASONS AND TO OBTA AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE HIS PETN WH DR. KLE A VERY SMALL WORLD OF POTENTIAL CLIENTS.” THE SE IS STILL PENDG, AND HOEFFL HAS CLED TO MENT.GOOD-BYE LIZON APRIL 30, 2010, KLE TOLD THE WEB SE TMZ THAT MICHAEL JACKSON WAS A HOMOSEXUAL AND THAT KLE’S OFFICE MANAGER, JASON PFEIFFER, HAD HAD AN AFFAIR WH HIM. PFEIFFER WAS “THE LOVE OF [JACKSON’S] LIFE,” KLE SAID. THE TELEVISN SHOW EXTRA HAD JT AIRED AN TERVIEW WH PFEIFFER, WHO CLARED, “I WAS MICHAEL JACKSON’S BOYIEND HE WAS VERY PASSNATE, HE WAS VERY SEXUAL.”PFEIFFER TALKED TO ME ABOUT HIS RELATNSHIP WH JACKSON, WHICH HE SAID VOLVED THREE OR FOUR EPISOS KLE’S EXAMG ROOM, BEFORE JACKSON RECEIVED HIS DEMEROL SHOT, AS WELL AS ONE STANCE DURG A R RI.WHEN NEWS OF THE PURPORTED AFFAIR BEME PUBLIC, JACKSON FANS AROUND THE WORLD EPTED, MAKG ATH THREATS AGAST BOTH PFEIFFER AND KLE. ON TMZ, JACKSON’S BROTHER JERMAE SAID, “ARNIE KLE? FUCK HIM. HE’S FULL OF SH. MICHAEL WAS NOT GAY.” THE MOST STGG ASSLT ME OM ELIZABETH TAYLOR, KLE’S LONGTIME FENR, WHO POSTED A FOUR-PART TWEET ON TWTER:DR. ARNIE KLE CLARED ON MAY 2 THAT HE DID NOT BETRAY MICHAEL JACKSON BY SAYG PUBLICLY THAT HE HAD A HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIP … WH SOMEONE “ARNIE’S” OFFICE. IT SEEMS HE SUPPLI NOT ONLY WOMEN (DEBBIE ROWE), BUT MEN TOO … HOW NVENIENT JT WHAT WE WANT OUR DOCTORS. AND THEN TO SAY HE DID NOT BETRAY MICHAEL’S NFINCE. NO WONR HE HAS ATH THREATS I THOUGHT DOCTORS, LIKE PRITS, TOOK AN OATH OF NFINTIALY. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON HIS SOUL.LATER, KLE TOOK BACK HIS STATEMENT ABOUT THE PURPORTED AFFAIR, POSTG ON FACEBOOK, “ALLEGATNS ABOUT … JASON BEG MICHAEL JACKSON’S LOVER ARE RIDICULO. THAT STORY WAS MA UP.”BY THEN PFEIFFER’S POSN AS OFFICE MANAGER HAD VOLVED, ACRDG TO HIM, TO “THIS CULTURE OF WEIRDNS.” AFTER MOVG TO KLE’S HOE LOS ANGEL, PFEIFFER TOLD ME, “I WANTED TO KILL MYSELF, I WAS SO UNHAPPY.... I WAS THIS BIG MANSN, THIS GILD GE THAT YOU ULD NOT LEAVE. HE N LL ME 24–7, ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT.” IN HIS UNTERSU, HE SAID THAT KLE REPEATEDLY WARNED HIM, “I FOUND YOU THE GUTTER AND THAT’S WHERE YOU’D BE WHOUT ME.” IN SEPTEMBER 2010, PFEIFFER WALKED OUT OF THE PALM SPRGS HOE AND DROVE KLE’S WHE BENTLEY TO LOS ANGEL, WHERE HE PICKED UP HIS OWN R AT THE DOCTOR’S HOE THERE AND LEFT FOR GOOD.THE STAT QUOIN TELEVISN TERVIEWS AND ON FACEBOOK, KLE HAS REPEATEDLY AND VIGOROLY NIED THAT HIS DEMEROL JECTNS HAD ANYTHG TO DO WH JACKSON’S ATH. IN HIS PHONE LL WH ME, KLE SISTED THAT HE’S NOT THE VILLA BUT THE VICTIM OF A VAST NSPIRACY. “IF YOU DON’T THK EVERYTHG’S TERNNECTED— IS,” HE SAID. HE IMPLIED THAT THE POWERS BEHD JACKSON’S EBACK WERE ENGAGED DARK MANVERS. “A.E.G. WAS BEHD THE WHOLE THG,” HE SAID.JACKSON’S MOTHER AND HIS CHILDREN HAVE FILED A WRONGFUL-ATH SU AGAST A.E.G., ALLEGG THAT THE PANY NTRIBUTED TO MICHAEL’S ATH BY PRSURG HIM TO GO THROUGH WH A NCERT TOUR HE WAS PHYSILLY UNABLE TO ENDURE. (WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE ALLEGATNS, A.E.G.’S ATTORNEY MARV PUTNAM SAID, “THIS LAWSU IS RIDICULO. NO ONE—LEAST OF ALL THE JACKSONS—BELIEV THE NCERT PROMOTER A.E.G. ED MICHAEL JACKSON’S ATH.”)ON NOVEMBER 29, 2011, CONRAD MURRAY WAS GIVEN A FOUR-YEAR SENTENCE FOR VOLUNTARY MANSLGHTER. IN A DOCUMENTARY THAT AIRED EARLIER THE MONTH, HE PORTRAYED HIMSELF AS AN UNFORTUNATE BYSTANR AT JACKSON’S ATH, “ENTRAPPED” BY HIS PATIENT.KLE SAYS ’S UP TO HIM TO FIGHT FOR JTICE. “I HAVE TO SET THE RERD STRAIGHT ON MICHAEL,” HE TOLD ME. “SOMEONE HAS TO GET MONEY FOR THE CHILDREN. IT’S NOT GOG TO BE THE FAY. THEY ARE ALL TOO LUNATIC-Y ALL OF THE MONEY IS GOG TO BE EATEN UP BY ALL OF THE RPORATNS, BY THE GREEDY PIGS.”MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISMEANWHILE, KLE NTU TO FIGHT FOR HIS PROFSNAL LIFE. HE IS UNR VTIGATN BY THE MEDIL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA. ACRDG TO THE DAILY BEAST, THE BOARD HAS QUTNED WNS REGARDG KLE’S ALLEGEDLY G ALIAS ON PRCRIPTNS, DISTRIBUTG DG SAMPL TO HIS PATIENTS, AND PRCRIBG NARTICS TO HIMSELF.ON NOVEMBER 30, KLE POSTED ON FACEBOOK THAT A NEW PATIENT HAD ARRIVED AT HIS OFFICE. “AFTER I EXAMED HIS SK HE PRENTED ME WH A SUBPOENA OM THE CALIFORNIA MEDIL BOARD [ISSUED] BY KIMBERLY WILSON [A SENR VTIGATOR WHO HAD REPORTEDLY MASQUERAD AS A NEW KLE PATIENT HERSELF, ONLY TO BE TOLD THE DOCTOR WAS NOT THE OFFICE] AND PAID ME WH A DULENT CRED RD. FOR KIMBERLY WILSON TO E SUCH CRIMAL AND DULENT MEANS TO SERVE ME A SUBPOENA IS ILLEGAL AND I FEEL SHE HAS PROVED HERSELF UNF TO EVALUATE ANY ASPECT [OF] MY MEDIL PRACTICE OR THE JACKSON CASE.”KLE HAS CLAIMED THAT WILSON WAS GUILTY OF “ELR ABE” AGAST HIM. IN A FACEBOOK POST TLED “THE CALIFORNIA MEDIL BOARD: A NOVEL BY KAFKA,” HE CLAIMED THAT WILSON HAD TOLD HIS NURSE, “I AM GOG TO GET HIM.” HE WROTE, “IF YOU ARE TLY NCERNED WH [MY] ABILY TO PRACTICE I SUGGT YOU DISCS WH MY PHYSICIANS WHO WILL ASSURE YOU I AM BOTH PHYSILLY AND MENTALLY HEALTHIER THAN I HAVE EVER BEEN THE LAST 15 YEARS. AWKLE.” (A SPOKMAN FOR THE MEDIL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA SAYS THE BOARD DO NOT MENT ON VTIGATNS. HE ADDS, “AS TO WHAT DR. KLE CLAIMS ABOUT THE MEDIL BOARD OR S VTIGATORS, I AM HAPPY TO REMD HIM THAT HE N FILE A PLAT OR MENT ABOUT BY SIMPLY GOG TO OUR WEBSE.”)SHORTLY AFTER THAT, KLE POSTED A RIGNATN LETTER OM ONE OF HIS ATTORNEYS, WHICH THE LAWYER SUGGTED THAT KLE FD NEW REPRENTATN IMMEDIATELY AND REMD HIM TO APPEAR FOR A SCHLED MEETG WH THE MEDIL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA ORR TO KEEP OM POSSIBLY SPENDG HIS LICENSE TO PRACTICE.IN NOVEMBER, KLE HELD FORTH AT A PARTY TO CELEBRATE THE OPENG OF HIS NEW OFFIC, SMALLER QUARTERS A UPLE OF BLOCKS AWAY OM HIS LONGTIME OFFIC ON NORTH ROXBURY DRIVE. AT THE BEVERLY PARK HOME OF DR. PL NASSIF AND HIS WIFE, REAL HOEWIV OF BEVERLY HILLS STAR ADRIENNE MALOOF, KLE SAT ON A THRONE-LIKE CHAIR, WEARG A BLACK EVENG JACKET AND AN ELECTRIC-BLUE SRF, GREETG HIS FANS. “WE WERE TOLD HE HAD A SKIG ACCINT,” SAID GREG MILAM, WHO TERVIEWED HIM AT THE PARTY FOR SKY NEWS, REFERRG TO KLE’S HAVG TROUBLE WALKG ON HIS OWN. MILAM WAS GIVEN A VIO OF SHARON STONE’S GLOWG TTIMONIAL ABOUT KLE. HE WAS ALSO GIVEN A GUT LIST FOR THE PARTY, WHICH CLUD WARREN BEATTY, CHARLIE SHEEN, AND CARRIE FISHER, NONE OF WHOM SHOWED UP WHILE MILAM’S FILM CREW WAS THERE. KLE’S LATER FACEBOOK POSTGS, HOWEVER, REPORTED THE ATTENDANCE OF RUPL AND DYAN CANNON.ON JANUARY 23, AS VANY FAIR WAS GOG TO PRS, SOME OF KLE’S POSSSNS—RANGG OM A BENTLEY ONCE OWNED BY CHER TO A SET OF DIAMOND CUFF LKS GIVEN TO HIM BY ELIZABETH TAYLOR, TO CLOTHG AND MEMORABILIA OF MICHAEL JACKSON’S—WERE SCHLED TO BE CTNED OFF BY BONHAMS.NONE OF THIS HAS SUBDUED THE FIANT DOCTOR OR SILENCED HIS REMAG LOYAL PATIENTS. “I WENT TO SEE HIM LATE LAST YEAR,” AN ACTRS WHO HAS BEEN A PATIENT AND IEND FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS TOLD ME. “HE WAS AS MARVELO AS ALWAYS. I TST HIM WH MY FACE.” KLE RECENTLY POSTED ON FACEBOOK: “I HAVE SURVIVED THE MURRAY TRIAL (WHICH WAS AN ABSOLUTE HOAX), BOTOX LAWSU, MY NURSE’S MARRIAGE, AND MY BANKPTCY. TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE IMATED AND WILL IMATE ME I WISH YOU GREAT LUCK I WILL ONLY GET BETTER!”MARK SEAL
• JACKSON'S ALLEGED GAY LOVER: 'HE KNEW HE WAS ABOUT TO DIE'
• MICHAEL JACKSON'S DAD -- 'HE WAS NOT GAY'

ARNOLD KLE: 'MICHAEL JACKSON WAS GAY'

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He’s gay for pay, and that’s what did you meet Nick? He was there for a urt-appoted he dated you, was gay for pay? A real-life thoroughbred horse story, om a former groom's pot of view, this memoir foc on the terratg relatnship between two young men the midst of their own personal 1979, Kle, a nfirmed New Yorker, sperately followed his lover Richard Coatney to the homophobic unrworld of thoroughbred racg, begng his reer as a horse walker at River Downs Ccnati and workg his way up to groomer at Belmont, Churchill Downs, and all the empty booze bottl and one-night stands, Kle disvered an athetic affy for hors, particular one special--and well-known--thoroughbred, precipatg the thor's fal downfall and then leadg toward his eventual salvatn--and this leads the rear to a world rarely ventured to by the average horse track bettor: vivid scriptns of lame hors beg celly thanized and the sual dopg of hors for moary ga.

"Ironilly, om the rear's perspective, the visibily/visibily paradigm is directly the oppose om the thor' Kle offers sights to worlds which are largely visible to most of : addn to the grty si of thoroughbred racg, he also reveals the limed optns available to an impoverished young homosexual, also a poet and rebel, of the late seventi and early published 1997, the memoir's ma narrative vers the thor's racetrack life, om s spic begng to s shockg 1984 nouement, wh some terspersed flashbacks to his abive and ctuo childhood and Manhattan life wh revealg vivid and harsh tails about his life, the thor matas a psychic distance om the rear through his dispassnate e of the past tense; moreover, he do not edorialize om the perspective of the forty-somethg simply unfolds his story, leavg judgments, analys, and evaluatns up to his distance works well; the thor never wh or asks his dience to feel sorry for him. I remend this book for both gays and straights--anyone who appreciat a well-wrten life-story, no matter how down and grty. Read this book for the love between Swale and Michael, the love between Michael and Richard, the love for all gay teenagers who n away om home, the love of healg and for love of adventure, wherever the journey tak .

MJ'S ALLEGED GAY LOVER -- I STAND BY MY STORY!

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Jackson was gay but that Jason's alleged relatnship wh the sger was the only gay relatnship MJ ever had. Dr Arnold Kle has sisted that he did not betray Michael Jackson by allegg that the sger was gay. Jackson's long-time bt iend and physician has claimed that the late pop in had an affair wh his office manager Jason Pfeiffer, and admted that he is ightened that he is gettg "a lot of horrible ath threats" said to TMZ: "Was [Jackson] gay?

THE DOCTOR WILL SUE YOU NOWWHEN FAMED RMATOLOGIST ARNOLD KLE, THE FATHER OF BOTOX, KNOWN FOR HIS FLAMBOYANT LIFTYLE AND LOVE OF CELEBRY, LAND MICHAEL JACKSON AS A CLIENT, WAS A DREAM FULFILLED. BUT THE WAKE OF JACKSON’S ATH, KLE HAS BEEN ENGULFED BY A TOXIC CLOUD OF ACCATN, LIGATN, AND BANKPTCY.BY MARK SEALFEBARY 2, 2012SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETRAORS ARE NOT TOLERATED THE KGDOM OF DR. ARNOLD KLE. THE 67-YEAR-OLD FATHER OF BOTOX, WHO ONCE LED A BEVERLY HILLS BETY REVOLUTN AND BEME NEARLY AS FAMO AS THE STARS HE TREATED, IS NOW WAGG WAR AGAST HIS ENEMI. THE LIST IS LONG. FIRST, THERE ARE THE POWERS THE MIC BS WHO ARRANGED THE FAL NCERT TOUR OF HIS MOST FAMO PATIENT, THE LATE MICHAEL JACKSON. HE CHARG THEM WH NSPIRG TO NTROL THE SGER’S TATE AND WH G KLE AS A SPEGOAT BY ALLEGG THAT HE HAD GOTTEN JACKSON ADDICTED TO THE NARTIC DEMEROL. THEN THERE ARE THE RATS WHO HE SAYS MASQUERAD AS PATIENTS ORR TO ISSUE HIM A SUBPOENA, FORCG HIM TO APPEAR BEFORE THE MEDIL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA FOR PURPORTED IRREGULARI. WORST OF ALL ARE HIS FORMER OFFICE MANAGER AND FORMER ACUNTANT. HE ALLEG THAT THEY HAVE ATTEMPTED TO HIM BY RELEASG JACKSON’S MEDIL RERDS THE VOLUNTARY-MANSLGHTER TRIAL OF THE SGER’S PERSONAL DOCTOR, CONRAD MURRAY, WHO WAS NVICTED LAST NOVEMBER AND SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS PRISON. HE ALSO ALLEG THAT THEY EMBEZZLED TENS OF LNS OF DOLLARS OM HIM AND TRIED TO KILL HIM. BEE OF THEM, KLE CLAIMS, HE WAS FORCED TO CLARE BANKPTCY JANUARY 2011, PUT ONE OF HIS HOM ON THE MARKET, AND CTN OFF HIS ART AND MEMORABILIA.KLE IS ALSO STRIKG BACK AT THE FOOD AND DG ADMISTRATN (F.D.A.), WHICH HE SAYS IS A “DG RTEL” NTROLLED BY THE PHARMACTIL GIANTS, AND AT THE JACKALS OF THE MEDIA. TO KEEP HIS FOLLOWERS AND FANS UP-TO-DATE, HE POSTS TIMATE TAILS ABOUT HIS PREDIMENT ON FACEBOOK.I APPROACHED THE DOCTOR FOR AN TERVIEW, BUT HE RMED ME THROUGH HIS PUBLICISTTHAT IF I TEND TO TERVIEW HIS FORMER EMPLOYE I WOULD GET NO OPERATN OM HIM. THEN ONE DAY NOVEMBER MY PHONE RANG, AND KLE, A EP, GRAVELLY VOICE, BEGAN TALKG NONSTOP: “I’VE GIVEN MY LIFE FOR OTHER PEOPLE AND HAVE GOTTEN SCREWED FOR . . . . DO YOU KNOW I DISVERED THE FIRST HUMAN GENE? … DO YOU KNOW I TREATED THE CROWN PRCE OF SDI ARABIA? … MY GREAT-GREAT-UNCLE IS ALBERT ESTE LAWRENCE KLE, MY , WON THE NOBEL PRIZE.”HE SOON GOT TO HIS FORMER OFFICE MANAGER, JASON PFEIFFER, AND FORMER ACUNTANT, MUHAMMAD KHILJI. IN JANUARY 2011, KLE FILED FOR CHAPTER 11 BANKPTCY, LISTG ASSETS OF ABOUT $6 LN AND BTS OF $8.4 LN. IN JUNE 2011 HE FILED SU AGAST PFEIFFER AND KHILJI, AS WELL AS VAR BANKS AND VTMENT AND MORTGAGE PANI. IN THE SU, KLE CLAIMS THAT ON MARCH 20, 2009, AS HE WAS RECUPERATG OM AN UNSTATED ILLNS AT HIS LAGUNA BEACH HOE, PFEIFFER AND KHILJI BROUGHT DOCUMENTS FOR HIM TO SIGN, CLUDG ONE THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO MAKE HEALTH CISNS FOR HIM DURG ANY PERD OF PACY; A GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY; A DICIL TO HIS WILL, NAMG THEM AS EXECUTORS; AND AN AMENDMENT TO HIS TST, NAMG THEM AS -TSTE. ACRDG TO HIS PLAT, “DR. KLE DISVERED THAT HIS VTMENT ACUNTS WERE RAID, BANK ACUNTS WERE OPENED HIS NAME WHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE AND THEN PILFERED, AND HIS ASSETS WERE JEOPARDIZED.”“THEY STOLE $22 LN OM ME, O.K.?,” KLE TOLD ME ON THE PHONE. “IF YOU ARE GOG TO MENTN JASON PFEIFFER [AND MUHAMMAD KHILJI], THE GUYS WHO EMBEZZLED OM ME, ILLEGALLY RELEASED MICHAEL JACKSON’S RERDS, WHAT ARE YOU GOG TO SAY? ARE YOU GOG TO SAY THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE? THEY ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH!”AT ONE POT HE MAND, “WHO FUND 9/11?”“YOU KNOW WHO?”“PAKISTANI MLIMS, SIR,” HE SAID. “THEY E A SYSTEM LLED HAWALA.”KLE HAS CLAIMED ON FACEBOOK THAT KHILJI ED HAWALA, THE ANCIENT RMAL MONEY-TRANSFER SYSTEM EMPLOYED BY AL-QAEDA TO MOVE FUNDS AROUND THE WORLD, TO CLEAN OUT HIS EMPLOYER’S ASSETS AND TRANSFER THEM TO FAR-FLUNG BANK ACUNTS, TO WHICH ONLY HE AND PFEIFFER HAD ACCS.“THEY OPENED 41 ILLEGAL BANK ACUNTS MY NAME,” SAID KLE. “I HAVE RERDS OF ALL THIS STUFF. ALSO, THEY TRIED TO OVERDOSE ME … SO I WOULD BLEED TO ATH . . . THEY TRIED TO OVERDOSE ME ON COUMAD [BLOOD THNER], BEE I WAS ATRIAL FLUTTER [ABNORMAL HEART RHYTHM], AND THEY CHANGED MY WILL THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WHOUT NOTARIZG .”ALL I WANTED, I TOLD KLE, WAS TO WRE A BALANCED STORY ABOUT THE SE, WHICH WOULD NECSATE TERVIEWG BOTH THE DOCTOR AND HIS TRACTORS. “THEIR FILGS ARE PART OF YOUR BANKPTCY FILG,” I SAID.“WHAT YOU MAY THK YOU KNOW IS ZERO,” HE SAID. “YOU NNOT TERVIEW JASON AND MUHAMMAD. YOU HAVE TO SWEAR TO ME THAT YOU WON’T.”I TOLD HIM VANY FAIR DO NOT MAKE SUCH PROMIS.“IF I SHOW YOU ALL THE FED BANK ACUNTS AND EVERYTHG, WHAT IS THAT GOG TO DO FOR YOU?” HE ASKED.“I’LL PRT THEM,” I SAID.“WILL YOU GIVE ME EDORIAL NTROL?” HE ASKED.“OF URSE I NNOT DO THAT,” I SAID.EARLIER HE HAD TOLD ME, “I TREAT EVERYONE THE WORLD. DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS LIKE TO EAT IED CHICKEN BUCKGHAM PALACE WH QUEEN ELIZABETH? MICHAEL [JACKSON] OPENED EVERY DOOR. THE OTHER PERSON WHO OPENED EVERY DOOR FOR ME WAS [THE ACTOR] DANNY KAYE. I’M SURE YOU HAVE NEVER MET THE MAHARAJA OF BARODA. I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THERE WAS A MAHARAJA OF BARODA WHEN I MET HIM I’M A JEWISH KID, SON OF A RABBI, HYPER-AMIC, WTGHOE SCHOLAR, WHO ME TO A WEIRD WORLD OUT CALIFORNIA BEE I HATED PHILALPHIA.” (AFTER SPEAKG TO ME, KLE SUBSEQUENTLY REFED REPEATED REQUTS FOR MENT.)KHILJI AND PFEIFFER NY ALL OF KLE’S CHARG, CLUDG RAIDG HIS ASSETS, OPENG ILLEGAL BANK ACUNTS, TRYG TO OVERDOSE HIM, AND CHANGG HIS WILL. KHILJI HAS SAID THAT KLE HAD REVERED OM AN ILLNS AND “ASKED ” TO BRG HIM THE DOCUMENTS “BEFORE SOMETHG HAPPENED” TO HIM. BOTH PFEIFFER AND KHILJI HAVE FILED UNTERCLAIMS, AND KHILJI HAS SAID THAT KLE IS AN OPPORTUNIST WHO SQUANRED HIS FORTUNE ON A LIFTYLE HE ULDN’T AFFORD.THE KG OF LIPSARNOLD WILLIAM KLE HAS ALWAYS STOOD OUT. BORN THE BLUE-LLAR DETRO SUBURB OF MOUNT CLEMENS, MICHIGAN, THE BOOKWORM FORSOOK HIS FAY’S BS—A HEALTH SPA KNOWN FOR S MERAL BATHS—FOR A GREE MEDICE. AT THE UNIVERSY OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHERE HE WAS FLUENCED BY ANDY WARHOL AND THE ARCHECT LOUIS KAHN, HE NSIRED SPECIALIZG PSYCHIATRY BUT EVENTUALLY CID ON RMATOLOGY. AFTER GRADUATG OM THE UNIVERSY’S SCHOOL OF MEDICE, HE WENT ON TO BEE CHIEF RINT RMATOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGEL, AND THEN FOUND HIMSELF LANGUISHG, AT THE AGE OF 30, WH A SMALL PRACTICE THE TOWN OF RIVERSI, “GIVG LIGHT TREATMENTS AND PICKG PIMPL,” HE HAS WRTEN.ON THE ADVICE OF AN NT, HE TRIED HIS LUCK BEVERLY HILLS. “I WAS TOLD THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR YOUNG DOCTORS AND I WOULD STARVE,” HE LATER WROTE ON FACEBOOK. NEVERTHELS, HE RENTED A 700-SQUARE-FOOT SPACE AND BEGAN TELLG LOL PHYSICIANS, ACRDG TO HIS OWN ACUNT, “ ‘LOOK, I’M REALLY GOOD, SO SEND ME YOUR MOST DIFFICULT S.’ … SIX MONTHS LATER I HAD A FULL PRACTICE SOON, WH THE HELP OF [THE AE MEDITN] RET-A, I WAS FIXG AE WHOUT LIGHT-TREATMENTS OR VOODOO.”WH A YEAR HE WAS VISED BY MERV GRIFF, WHO ASKED HIM TO BE A GUT ON HIS TELEVISN SHOW. KLE TOLD THE DIENCE, AMONG OTHER THGS, HOW TO REGNIZE A MELANOMA. “THE NEXT DAY PEOPLE WERE ASKG FOR MY TOGRAPH, AND SOON THEREAFTER I RECEIVED 10,000 LETTERS, MANY OF WHICH ME OM FOLKS WHO SAID I HAD SAVED THEIR LIV.” KLE HAS WRTEN, “I DID THREE MORE SHOWS. ON THE THIRD, I MENTNED A LTLE THG I WAS PLAYG WH LLED LLAGEN.”THANKS TO LLAGEN, THE LIPS-AND-WRKLE-LE FILLER, KLE SOON BEME KNOWN AS THE KG OF LIPS. HIS EXPERTISE WAS OFFICIALLY REGNIZED WHEN THE “SKI JUMP” ELEVATN THE UPPER LIP WAS NAMED THE GLOG-KLE POT HONOR OF HIM AND FELLOW RMATOLOGIST RICHARD GLOG. HIS OFFICE EXPAND AS HIS FAMO PATIENTS MULTIPLIED. BY 1985 HIS REPUTATN HAD GROWN TO THE POT THAT, WHEN HE TRAVELED TO ROME FOR AN DIENCE WH POPE JOHN PL II, THE PONTIFF, ACRDG TO KLE’S POSTG ON FACEBOOK, “LIFTED HIS PANT LEG TO SHOW ME A SK NDN NO ONE ROME ULD FIX.” (KLE WROTE THAT HE HAD CURED .)BY 1981, KLE WAS LIVG A 30-ROOM MANSN, WH HIS BROTHER, TWO NTS, A , A OK, AND A HOEKEEPER. HIS LIFE WAS HIS PATIENTS, AND HE WAS ON LL 24–7. HIS OFFICE WALLS BEGAN FILLG WH PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BETIFUL AND FAMO, CLUDG ROCK HUDSON. HANDSOME YOUNG MEN WOULD SOON BE FLOCKG TO HIM WH RAISED PURPLE SK LNS, AND KLE HAS WRTEN THAT HE BEME THE “FIRST PHYSICIAN TO DIAGNOSE KAPOSI’S SARA [ONE OF THE OPPORTUNISTIC DISEAS ASSOCIATED WH H.I.V.] SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.”“DON’T FET, I FOUND AMFAR MY HOE,” HE TOLD ME, REFERRG TO THE AMERIN FOUNDATN FOR AIDS REARCH, WHICH HE HELPED TABLISH WH DR. MATHIL KRIM, ELIZABETH TAYLOR, AND DAVID GEFFEN 1985. “I RAISED $320 LN FOR AIDS,” HE SAID. “WHO STARTED THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR ENDOWMENT AT U.C.L.A.? THAT WAS ME. I GAVE THEM A LN-DOLLAR CHECK OM [THE LATE SOCIALE AND PHILANTHROPIST] DORIS DE FOR AIDS.”TAYLOR BEME ONE OF KLE’S BIGGT SUPPORTERS. “HE’S THE MOST BRILLIANT DOCTOR THE WORLD. HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE A RMATOLOGIST, BUT HE IS SO MUCH MORE,” SHE WOULD CLARE AT AN AIDS BENEF 2003. “I NNOT TELL YOU HOW MANY TIM HE HAS SEEN ME AND SAID, ‘ELIZABETH! OFF TO THE HOSPAL!’ ” SHE LATER SCRIBED A PY OF HER BOOK ELIZABETH TAYLOR: MY LOVE AFFAIR WH JEWELRY, “MY BELOVED ARNIE. I LOVE YOU MORE THAN I N TELL. I FEEL YOU HAVE SAVED MY FADG LIFE.” KLE’S ARTISTRY WAS VISIBLE TAYLOR’S FACE. “SHE WAS VOTED THE BT LIPS THE LAND,” HE ONCE SAID.COLLAGEN LIPS BEME KLE’S FORTE. WHEN GOLDIE HAWN WAS FILMG THE FIRST WIV CLUB (1996), KLE WAS FLOWN TO NEW YORK BY THE PRODUCERS TO JECT HER LIPS WH SALE SO THAT THEY WOULD HAVE THE FLATED LOOK OFTEN ASSOCIATED WH REJECTED FIRST WIV. “THE GUY IS A MASTER,” ARLENE HOWARD, HIS FORMER PUBLICIST, TOLD ME. “WHEN I WOULD E BACK TO MY OFFICE, MY STAFF WOULD THK I HAD HAD A FACE-LIFT. WHERE A LOT OF DOCTORS GO ZIP, ZIP, ZIP THROUGH JECTNS, KLE TAK HIS TIME. WHAT ONE DOCTOR WOULD DO 20 MUT, HE WOULD DO AN HOUR.” KLE’S IEND SANDY GIBSON ADDS, “HIS OFFICE WAS GRAND CENTRAL. WHEN HE JECTED YOUR FACE WH LLAGEN HE LEFT NO NEEDLE-ENTRY MARKS. A CC. HERE AND A CC. THERE AND NO MORE OWN L OR CROW’S-FEET. AND YOU LOOKED NATURAL, NOT OZEN.”IN 2002, ANOTHER PHARMACTIL BONANZA SURFACED: THE F.D.A. APPROVAL OF BOTOX (A PURIFIED FORM OF BOTULUM TOX, A NERVE POISON PRODUCED BY THE BACTERIA THAT BOTULISM) TO RELAX FACIAL MCL AND SOFTEN WRKL. BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 2000 AND DECEMBER 2003, URT RERDS SHOW, KLE OR HIS PANY RECEIVED NEARLY $500,000 OM ALLERGAN, THE MANUFACTURER OF BOTOX.KLE’S CLIC, AT 435 NORTH ROXBURY, BEME A VIRTUAL FOUNTA OF YOUTH. HE RECENTLY BOASTED ON FACEBOOK OF “HAVG BEEN THE DOCTOR TO THREE PRINTS, TWO POP [AND] SEVERAL REAL QUEENS.” ACRDG TO ONE FORMER OBSERVER, “AGENTS OM CAA, WHOSE OFFIC WERE NEARBY, LED UP.” ANOTHER RELLED, “[THE LATE MOVIE MOGUL] LEW AND [HIS WIFE] EDIE WASSERMAN LOVED HIM. HE WAS THE SK DOCTOR!” AMONG THE TTIMONIALS ON KLE’S WEB SE ARE THOSE OM DAVID GEFFEN, DT HOFFMAN, LARRY ELLISON, AND LDA EVANS, AND THERE ARE PHOTOS OF SHARON STONE AND DOLLY PARTON ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE. THE DIRECTOR PENNY MARSHALL APPEARS ON A YOUTUBE VIO OF A BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR KLE. IN THE VIO, THE KE IS RATED WH A SYRGE, ON TOP OF WHICH IS A NDLE, AND PEOPLE YELL, “BLOW OUT THE SYRGE!”“YOU HAD TO MAND HIS ATTENTN,” ONE FORMER PATIENT TOLD ME, “BEE THE OFFICE WAS BOOKED THREE MONTHS OUT.” THERE WAS A SPECIAL PHONE LE, ANOTHER FORMER PATIENT EXPLAED, “IF YOU WERE ON THE A-LIST. IF YOU WERE ON THE B-LIST, YOU WAED THREE MONTHS. C-LIST? YOU NEVER GOT AN APPOTMENT AT ALL.” AT HER NCERT AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL LAST SUMMER, DOLLY PARTON ANNOUNCED ONSTAGE, “IT TAK A LOT OF MONEY TO LOOK THIS CHEAP, AND I OWE ALL TO DR. ARNIE KLE.”KLE’S RéSUMé WOULD EVENTUALLY GROW TO 30 PAG: HONORS, AFFILIATNS, MEMBERSHIPS, 150 PAPERS MEDIL JOURNALS, SEVERAL TEXTBOOKS, AND UNTLS APPEARANC THE MASTREAM MEDIA. “IF YOU ASKED HIM A QUTN, HE WAS LIKE AN ENCYCLOPEDIA,” SAID ONE ACTOR, ADDG THAT, AS KLE’S REPUTATN GREW, SO DID HIS BILLS. “I WENT FOR BOTOX, AND WHILE I THK WAS DONE WELL, THE PRICE WAS $5,000.”SOON KLE WAS LIVG LUXURY. THE WALLS OF HIS HOE WERE VERED WH WORKS BY DAVID HOCKNEY, ANDY WARHOL, AND HERB RTS, AND HIS DNER PARTI WERE POPULATED WH HIS STELLAR PATIENTS. “I WENT TO A SER AT HIS HOE AND SAT NEXT TO CHER,” SAID SANDY GIBSON. KLE’S WEIGHT GREW WH HIS EGO, AND HIS STYLE OF APPAREL SEGUED OM DRAB PHYSICIAN’S SCBS TO ROCK-STAR PLUMAGE—LORFUL SRV, SKULL RGS, AND EXPENSIVE JEWELRY, CLUDG A ROLEX RATED WH DIAMOND-AND-BY LIPS, A GIFT OM CHER. IN A 2003 STORY TLED “DR. K AND THE WOMEN,” THE LOS ANGEL TIM SCRIBED KLE AT A HOLLYWOOD LUNCHEON: “HE WORE A BLACK SU, A TIE STUDD WH RED RHTON (A $500 GIFT OM A CLIENT) AND A WALKG NE HE TOLD THOSE WH EARSHOT WAS A RECENT GIFT OM MICHAEL JACKSON.” KLE WAS TRODUCED THAT DAY BY THE PHILANTHROPIST WALLIS ANNENBERG, WHO LLED HIM “A BRILLIANT PHYSICIAN” WHO IS “WORLD RENOWNED.”ONE FORMER PATIENT TOLD ME, “HE WAS WONRFUL, BUT HIS SHORTG WAS HE ADORED MICHAEL JACKSON.”MICHAEL, ARNIE, AND DEBBIE‘MICHAEL WAS PROBABLY THE PURT PERSON I EVER MET,” KLE TOLD ME. “HE DID NOT HAVE A MEAN BONE HIS BODY HE HAD ONE WISH LIFE—OR VERY FEW. ONE WAS TO MEET MRS. WALT DISNEY, WHO WAS MY PATIENT.” ACRDG TO KLE, THAT WISH ME TE.JACKSON DIDN’T BEE A KLE PATIENT UNTIL HIS LANDMARK APPEARANCE AT THE PASANA CIVIC AUDORIUM, ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOTOWN, MARCH 25, 1983, WHEN HE UNLEASHED THE MOONWALK. AMONG THE CHEERG MULTU THE DIENCE WAS ARNIE KLE. “I WAS BLOWN AWAY,” HE TOLD ME. “A WEEK LATER I WAS STG DAVID GEFFEN’S DRIVEWAY AND MICHAEL JACKSON. HE IS STG THE BACK OF A LLN TOWN CAR AND HE LOOKED VERY LONELY. WH A WEEK, DAVID BROUGHT MICHAEL TO ME. WHEN I WALKED TO THE ROOM, I TOOK ONE LOOK.” HE SAW WHAT HE WOULD LATER LL A “BUTTERFLY RASH” ON JACKSON’S FACE AND SEVERE CSTG OF THE SLP. “I DIAGNOSED HIM WH LUP,” KLE SAID, REFERRG TO THE TO-IMMUNE DISEASE THAT N E SK LNS. IN ADDN TO LUP, JACKSON HAD VILIGO, A DISORR THAT STRIPS PIGMENT OM THE SK. IN JACKSON’S SE, HIS BODY WAS SPOTTED WH PALE PATCH.ON JANUARY 27, 1984, JACKSON APPEARED AT LOS ANGEL’S SHRE AUDORIUM TO FILM A PEPSI MERCIAL. FIREWORKS ON THE SET WENT OFF PREMATURELY, AND HIS HAIR BURST TO FLAM. “I SPENT THE NIGHT AT THE HOSPAL, HIS ROOM, JT TELLG HIM WHAT IS LIKE TO BE BURNED, BEE I WAS BADLY BURNED AS A TWO-AND-A-HALF-YEAR-OLD KID,” KLE SAID. “THAT’S HOW WE REALLY BOND.” AS CARRIE FISHER WOULD LATER WRE SHOCKAHOLIC, “THEY EACH HAD SOMETHG THAT THE OTHER SPERATELY VETED. ARNIE WANTED TO BE IENDS … WH THE BIGGT STAR ON THE PLA … AND MICHAEL WANTED ACCS TO THE FARTHT REACH OF THE MEDIL MUNY 24–7.”DR. STEVEN HOEFFL, A BEVERLY HILLS PLASTIC SURGEON, REPAIRED JACKSON’S SLP A SERI OF OPERATNS THAT CLUD TWO NOSE JOBS. “REPORTEDLY [JACKSON] HAD SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 20–30 NOSE JOBS DONE BY DR. HOEFFL,” KLE HAS POSTED. “I KNOW EVERYTHG HE DO,” HE TOLD ME OF HOEFFL. “I WAS THE ONE WHO GOT MICHAEL TO FIRE HIM—ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT?— 2003.” (HOEFFL CLED TO MENT, CG HIS ONGOG LIGATN WH KLE.) AFTER THAT, KLE BEME ONE OF JACKSON’S CHIEF PHYSICIANS, CHARGE OF TREATG HIS VILIGO AND OTHER SK AILMENTS. HE ALSO BEME, AS HE HAS OFTEN SAID AND WRTEN, “THE CLOST PERSON THE WORLD TO MICHAEL JACKSON.”ACRDG TO JACKSON BGRAPHER J. RANDY TARABORRELLI, 1993 JACKSON CID TO BLEACH HIS SCROTUM. HE ED A CREAM KLE HAD PRCRIBED MANY TIM OVER THE YEARS LLED BENOQU, BUT BURNED HIS SK. KLE HAD DEBBIE ROWE, HIS MEDIL ASSISTANT SCE 1977, LOOK AFTER THE SGER. WHEN JACKSON WAS EMBROILED HIS FIRST PEDOPHILIA LAWSU, THE 1990S, KLE VOUCHED FOR HIM WH THE BOY’S MOTHER, SAYG THAT MICHAEL WAS “ABSOLUTELY HETEROSEXUAL” AND THERE WAS NO REASON FOR NCERN, ACRDG TO TARABORRELLI. LAW-ENFORCEMENT THORI SISTED ON PHOTOGRAPHG JACKSON NU, HOWEVER, TO SEE IF THE BOY’S DRAWG OF THE SGER’S PRIVATE PARTS MATCHED, AND KLE JOED JACKSON TO FACILATE THE PHOTO SSN. (JACKSON SETTLED THAT SE FOR APPROXIMATELY $25 LN.)MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISIN 2000, JACKSON’S LONGTIME IEND AND PERSONAL ASSISTANT FRANK CASC OBSERVED HIS BOSS EXHIBG SYMPTOMS THAT DITED ADDICTN TO THE NARTIC PA MEDITN DEMEROL, AND HE VOICED HIS NCERN. IN CASC’S NEW BOOK, MY FRIEND MICHAEL, HE WR: “[JACKSON] DIALED HIS RMATOLOGIST, DR. KLE. HE PUT THE DOCTOR ON SPEAKER AND ASKED HIM TO VERIFY THAT THE QUANTY OF DEMEROL HE WAS TAKG WAS SAFE AND APPROPRIATE. WHO WAS I TO ARGUE WH THE DOCTOR WHO HAD BEEN TREATG HIM FOR OVER FIFTEEN YEARS?”ON THREE OCSNS, KLE TOLD CNN’S IN SSN, HE HAD PERFORMED DG TERVENTNS FOR JACKSON: ONCE CHARTERG A PLANE TO LAS VEGAS, WHERE, HE SAID, HE ORRED A DOCTOR ADMISTERG PROPOFOL, THE KY-WHE SURGIL ANTHETIC, OUT OF JACKSON’S SUE AT THE MIRAGE HOTEL; ANOTHER TIME HAWAII, WHERE, HE SAID, HE AND HIS NURSE SLEPT ON THE FLOOR OF JACKSON’S HOTEL ROOM TO PREVENT A PLASTIC SURGEON OM ADMISTERG PROPOFOL; AND THE THIRD TIME NEW YORK. THAT TIME, KLE SAID, HE “SAVED” JACKSON, WHO WAS ALREADY SO HIGH ON PROPOFOL AND ANOTHER DG THAT HE WENT “NNG DOWN THE STREET.”IN 1996, DEBBIE ROWE GAVE JACKSON WHAT SHE LLED THE ULTIMATE “GIFT”: SHE OFFERED TO BEAR HIS CHILDREN. ALTHOUGH JACKSON WOULD LATER SIST THAT HIS FIRST TWO CHILDREN, PRCE AND PARIS, WERE PRODUCED THROUGH TERURSE, ROWE, TAPED WHOUT HER KNOWLEDGE A RERDG THAT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY QUOTED BY THE NEWS OF THE WORLD ENGLAND, REVEALED THAT PRCE, THE FIRST CHILD, HAD BEEN NCEIVED THROUGH ARTIFICIAL SEMATN. (AFTER JACKSON’S ATH, ROWE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT BOTH CHILDREN HAD BEEN ARTIFICIALLY NCEIVED.)AS JACKSON’S TWO OLR CHILDREN GREW, THEIR DARK HAIR AND FACIAL FEATUR BORE A REMBLANCE TO KLE’S, AND TERVIEWS KLE SEEMED TO ENJOY DANCG AROUND THE SUBJECT, NEHER NYG NOR NFIRMG THAT HE WAS THEIR BLOGIL FATHER. “ONCE [I DONATED] TO A SPERM BANK,” HE SAID ON LARRY KG LIVE. “TO THE BT OF MY KNOWLEDGE, I’M NOT THE FATHER THERE IS SOMETHG LLED PRIVATE LIV—NOëL COWARD WROTE ABOUT THAT. SO N’T WE LEAVE THIS ALONE?” AFTER JACKSON’S ATH, KLE UNSUCCSFULLY SOUGHT TO BE VOLVED THE UPBRGG OF JACKSON’S CHILDREN. “I HAVE SAID TO ARNIE, ‘PLEASE DON’T SAY YOU’RE THE FATHER ANYMORE,’ ” CARRIE FISHER TOLD THE NEW YORK TIM JANUARY.ROWE, THE SPUNKY, BLON MEDIL ASSISTANT LISA MARIE PRLEY LLED “NURSEY,” WHO MARRIED JACKSON 1996 AND WAS DIVORCED OM HIM 1999, HAS NEVER SPOKEN PUBLICLY AS TO WHETHER KLE WAS THE SPERM DONOR.IN 2003, KLE AND ALLERGAN, THE BOTOX MANUFACTURER, WERE SUED BY IRENA MEDAVOY, THE WIFE OF MIKE MEDAVOY, THE PRODUCER AND FORMER HEAD OF ORN PICTUR. MEDAVOY CLAIMED THAT SHE HAD BEE SERLY ILL AFTER KLE ADMISTERED A SERI OF BOTOX SHOTS TO THE BASE OF HER SKULL, THE BACK OF HER NECK, AND BEHD EACH EAR TO ALLEVIATE MIGRA. THE TRIAL DIVID HOLLYWOOD; SOME PATIENTS LEFT KLE, BUT THE STALWARTS REMAED. “ARNIE DO NOT MAKE MISTAK,” ELIZABETH TAYLOR ANNOUNCED. ALLERGAN AND KLE WON THE LAWSU, BUT THE NEGATIVE PUBLICY TOOK A TOLL.BEARS OF A FEATHERBY 2007, KLE HAD BEE A PRENCE A MUNY PRISED OF STOCKY GAY MEN. IN SHOCKAHOLIC, CARRIE FISHER RELLS THE TIME JACKSON LENT KLE HIS FAMO TATE: “ARNIE KLE’S BIRTHDAY ME AROUND AND HE VED TO MICHAEL’S NEVERLAND RANCH TO CELEBRATE THIS EVENT WH ARNIE’S MULTI-BEAR CLAN IT WAS … ARNIE AND HIS LOVER, PL AN ASSORTMENT OF ARNIE’S OVERWEIGHT GAY MALE BUDDI (LLED ‘BEARS’ BY ‘THE MUNY’). ARNIE IS A BIG MAN HIMSELF, AND HE LIKED TO SURROUND HIMSELF WH SIARLY FLHY BEARS OF A FEATHER.”ONE NIGHT NOVEMBER OR DECEMBER 2007, ON , THE BEARS WERE PROWLG. JASON PFEIFFER, WHO WAS OUT OF WORK AND BETWEEN RELATNSHIPS, LIVG WH HIS PARENTS NEAR PASANA, CID TO “EMBRACE MY BIGNS,” AS HE PUT . “SOME GUYS LIKE BIG WOMEN, AND SOME GUYS LIKE BIG MEN,” PFEIFFER TOLD ME AS HE PLOWED THROUGH A RIB EYE A STEAK HOE SO CLOSE TO DISNEYLAND YOU ULD SEE THE MATTERHORN ATTRACTN. “TO QUALIFY AS A BEAR,” HE EXPLAED, “YOU MT WEIGH AT 250, 350-PL. THERE’S ALSO THE SUPER CHUBS, WHICH ARE LIKE 500, 600 POUNDS. I SAID TO MYSELF, WELL, I’M GOG TO JO [THE WEB SE] … AND MAYBE I’LL FD SOMEBODY WHO IS TO BIGGER GUYS.”ACRDG TO PFEIFFER, A MSAGE POPPED UP ON HIS PUTER OM SOMEONE LLG HIMSELF “BACH.” “HEY, DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?,” PFEIFFER RELLED HIM MSAGG. “I’M MICHAEL JACKSON’S DOCTOR. I HAVE TEN RS I’M VERY RICH COME OVER.”A B PUT OFF BY THIS BRAZENNS, PFEIFFER CLAIMS URT PAPERS, HE SIGNED OFF, BUT KLE SUBSEQUENTLY INTIFIED HIMSELF, APOLOGIZED, AND SAID HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GIVE PFEIFFER A JOB. LATER, AT KLE’S HOE, ACRDG TO THE URT DOCUMENTS, THE DOCTOR AND ANOTHER MAN BEGAN “PAWG” EACH OTHER, AND BOTH MEN ATTEMPTED TO ENGAGE PFEIFFER SEX. AGA PFEIFFER SAYS HE MURRED AND DROVE HOME. A FEW WEEKS LATER, PFEIFFER CLAIMS, KLE ASSURED HIM THAT HE WOULD MAKE NO MORE SEXUAL ADVANC AND VED HIM TO SPEND THE NIGHT. “IN APPROXIMATELY JANUARY 2008, PFEIFFER BEGAN WORKG AS AN ASSISTANT TO KLE,” PFEIFFER ALLEG HIS 28-PAGE UNTERCLAIM TO KLE’S BANKPTCY PROCEEDG, WHICH HE ALSO SAYS, “THE CLAIMS ASSERTED HERE BY PFEIFFER ARISE OM A WORKG ENVIRONMENT THAT ANY RATNAL PERSON ULD ONLY SCRIBE AS A LIVG NIGHTMARE.”WHAT BEGAN AS A BATN CHFFR-AND-HOEMAN ROLE QUICKLY GREW TO A FIVE-DAY-A-WEEK JOB, WHICH CLUD WORK KLE’S MEDIL OFFICE. “BEFORE LONG BEME CLEAR THAT KLE EXPECTED PFEIFFER TO ACPANY KLE EVERYWHERE ON A DAILY BASIS, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK,” PFEIFFER CLAIMS URT PAPERS. IN ADDN TO TRAVELG WH HIM TO HIS OTHER HOM, LAGUNA BEACH AND PALM SPRGS, PFEIFFER NTU, HE WAS REQUIRED TO SN THE INTER FOR THE DOCTOR AS HE “SEARCHED OBSSIVELY FOR SEX PARTNERS, DAY AND NIGHT, ON WEB S CLUDG , , , [AND] ” ACRDG TO THE URT PAPERS, “KLE ADVERTISED HIMSELF AS ‘A GENERO MAN OF TEGRY … NICE GUNS, LEGS AND CHT I N KISS LIKE NO OTHER AND TAKE YOU TO PLAC YOU WON’T BELIEVE ( BED).’ ”IN LEGAL DOCUMENTS, PFEIFFER TAILS THE DUTI HE SAYS HE AGREED TO PERFORM FOR KLE: “PREPARE HIM FOR SEXUAL ENUNTERS WH MASSRS, PAID RTS, AND PROSTUT [AND] ADMISTER KLE’S CIALIS, VIAGRA, AND SIAR PRCRIPTN DGS IN PALM SPRGS, KLE DISPATCHED PFEIFFER AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TO FD A MAN WH WHOM KLE ULD HAVE SEX. PFEIFFER AND THE OTHER EMPLOYEE RETURNED WH A LARGE-BODIED HOMELS MAN FOR KLE DR. KLE REPEATEDLY SUBJECTED PFEIFFER TO UNWELED, UNWANTED, OFFENSIVE SEXUAL NDUCT.”IN OUR PHONE NVERSATN AND ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE, KLE SISTED THAT HE WOULDN’T LOWER HIMSELF TO PFEIFFER AND KHILJI’S LEVEL, LLG THEM “EVIL EMBEZZLERS WHO WILL SCEND TO HELL.” HE SAID TO ME, “I STUDIED WH LOUIS KAHN … CHARL AND RAY EAM … AND YOU ARE GOG TO PUT ME ON THE LEVEL OF A SLEAZEBAG LIKE JASON PFEIFFER?”MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISPFEIFFER CLAIMS URT PAPERS THAT KLE PRCRIBED DGS PFEIFFER’S NAME, CLUDG NARTICS, A SLEW OF ERECTILE-DYSFUNCTN DGS, AND AMYL NRE, AN HALANT THAT PRODUC PHORIA—“PRCRIPTN POPPERS KLE WANTED TO E DURG SEX.” HE GO ON TO CLAIM THAT KLE STCTED HIM TO “DISPENSE [THE NARTIC PA RELIEVER] PERCET PILLS TO A CERTA FAMO ACTRS WHO HAD AN ACKNOWLEDGED HISTORY OF SUBSTANCE ADDICTN.” PFEIFFER SAYS THE URT PAPERS THAT, ALTHOUGH HE REFED TO DISPENSE THE PERCET TO THIS ACTRS, SHE WOULD STILL E TO THE OFFICE AND “KLE WOULD GIVE HER TEN TO TWENTY PERCET AT A TIME OM THE OFFICE SUPPLY.”MICHAEL TO THE RCUEIN EARLY 2008, KLE PROMOTED PFEIFFER TO OFFICE MANAGER, WORKG WH KLE’S ACUNTANT, MUHAMMAD KHILJI. WHEN I MET KHILJI FOR DNER THE RTRANT OF THE HOLIDAY INN LONG BEACH, HE HARDLY SEEMED THE TYPE TO NDUCT VERT TRANSACTNS G A TERRORIST WORK, AS KLE HAD IMPLIED. HE WAS POLE AND SOFT-SPOKEN. WHEN ME TO KLE, HOWEVER, HE DIDN’T HOLD BACK. LIKE PFEIFFER, KHILJI WENT TO WORK FULL-TIME KLE’S OFFICE 2008. “THE BREAK-EVEN POT OF HIS PRACTICE WAS $3.6 LN A YEAR,” SAID KHILJI. BY 2007, HE SAID, KLE’S PATIENTS WERE LEAVG DROV, AND HE WAS SER SHORTFALL. “ARNIE [WAS] MAKG LS REVENUE THAN A THIRD RATE RMATOLOGIST THE VALLEY,” KHILJI WOULD LATER WRE AN E-MAIL. “HE JT DID NOT HAVE ANY MORE … AND WAS FANCIALLY HURTG.”THE $20,000 THAT THE NEW YORK TIM HAD REPORTED 2004 AS KLE’S DAILY E HAD PLUMMETED TO AN TIMATED $30,000 A MONTH BY 2011, ACRDG TO HIS BANKPTCY FILG. “HE WAS DROPPG MONEY LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW,” SAID KHILJI. “ON JEWELRY, ART, JT KEEPG PEOPLE AROUND HIM ... $250,000, $300,000 VATNS EVERY SIX MONTHS IN 2007 HE BOUGHT A THIRD HOE, PALM SPRGS.”IN HIS E-MAIL OF RIGNATN, AFTER KLE ACCED HIM OF THEFT, KHILJI TAILED THE DOCTOR’S EXPENS OVER THE PREV THREE YEARS. “MAYBE IS TIME TO LOOK THE MIRROR, DR. KLE YOU HAVE SPENT OVER $800,000 ON VATNS AND PERSONAL TRAVEL ST WH YOUR VAR ENTOURAG … $550,000 ON RS … $1,200,000 RANDOM SHOPPG … A $500,000 DOWN PAYMENT [ON THE PALM SPRGS HOE] WEEKLY PARTI, MATENANCE AND UPKEEP HAVE ST AN ADDNAL $850,000 … LOVERS OR IENDS ON PAYROLL TO THE RPORATN OVER $200,000 … OVER $650,000 LEGAL, PUBLIC RELATNS AND SECURY FE [AND] AN ADDNAL $7,000,000 PERSONAL LUXURY SPENDG WHILE YOU[R] E CLED OM $240,000 A MONTH TO $120,000 A MONTH. UNFORTUNATELY WH SUCH LOW GROSS AND CURRENT OVERHEAD EXPENS, YOU WERE ALWAYS … [THE] RED.”“HE WAS BROKE, AND I WOULD TELL HIM, ‘YOU ARE LOSG MONEY,’ AND HE WOULD JT SAY, ‘LOOK, I’M GOG TO SUE,’ ” KHILJI TOLD ME, AND HE PROCEED TO LIST LAWSUS KLE HAD PLANNED TO FILE HOP OF LUCRATIVE SETTLEMENTS.A RABOW APPEARED THE FORM OF MICHAEL JACKSON, WHO HAD BEEN AWAY OM KLE’S PRACTICE FOR A TIME, LIVG BAHRA, EUROPE, AND LAS VEGAS AFTER HIS ACQUTAL HIS 2005 PEDOPHILIA TRIAL. “IN OR AROUND OCTOBER 2008, KLE WAS NTACTED BY MICHAEL JACKSON, WHO TOLD KLE THAT HE (MICHAEL) NEED TO ‘GET OUT OF A URT APPEARANCE’ AND NEED A ‘DOCTOR’S NOTE,’ ” PFEIFFER’S LAWYER WR THEIR UNTERCLAIM. “KLE THEN TOLD PFEIFFER THAT KLE WOULD WRE A NOTE STATG THAT MICHAEL HAD A MRSA [VILENT STAPH] FECTN … AND STCTED PFEIFFER TO GET A TTON SWAB AND SWAB PFEIFFER’S OWN NOSE SO THAT KLE ULD FABRITE TT RULTS SHOWG THAT MICHAEL HAD MRSA. PFEIFFER REFED … SO KLE SWABBED KLE’S OWN NOSE STEAD” AND PRODUCED THE “DOCTOR’S NOTE.” THE UNTERCLAIM STAT, “THROUGHOUT 2009, MICHAEL JACKSON WAS A EQUENT PATIENT OF KLE.”“ARNIE KLE WAS VERY HAPPY,” SAID KHILJI. “HE SAID, ‘MICHAEL IS BACK MY LIFE!’ I’M LIKE, ‘THAT’S GREAT FOR YOU, DOC.’ ” HE EXPLAED: “WE ALL TRIED TO CHASE THE GHOSTS YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ARE LOSG THAT OLD BRILLIANCE. NOW MICHAEL BACK AND YOU SEE A GLIMPSE OF THE OLD BRILLIANCE AGA. BEE KLE’S WORK IS KNOWN BY THE CELEBRI HE SERV, AND MANY OF THEM HAD STARTED TO LEAVE HIM.” IN 2009, KHILJI RELLED, “MICHAEL ME A LOT HE WAS A NICE GUY BUT, YOU KNOW, HE ME AND NOBODY ULD DO ANY WORK. HE WAS MONOPOLIZG THE NURSE’S TIME AND EVERYONE’S TIME. BUT KLE WAS HAPPY.”“YOU MT THK I’M CRAZY FOR GOG TO DR. KLE’S OFFICE SO MUCH,” MICHAEL JACKSON WAS QUOTED AS TELLG HIS BODYGUARD, FAHEEM MUHAMMAD, DURG LAST FALL’S CRIMAL TRIAL OF DR. CONRAD MURRAY. KLE’S MEDIL RERDS WERE PRENTED AT THE TRIAL, REVEALG THAT THE THREE AND A HALF MONTHS BEFORE JACKSON’S ATH HE WAS A EQUENT PRENCE KLE’S OFFIC, RECEIVG SIGNIFINT DOS OF DEMEROL GIVEN TO HIM UNR THE ALIAS OMAR ARNOLD.KLE’S MEDIL RERDS FOR THAT PERD TAIL SR OF PROCR, WHICH CLUD SOME 41 SHOTS OF DEMEROL, LEADG UP TO JACKSON’S LAST APPOTMENT, ON JUNE 22, 2009, THREE DAYS BEFORE HIS ATH. MOST OF THE SHOTS WERE ADMISTERED BY KLE’S NURSE, ELLEN BNN, NOT BY KLE, WHO WOULD LATER SIST THAT HE WAS EUROPE MAY 2009, DURG THE TIME OF MANY OF THE POWERFUL DEMEROL JECTNS, AND THAT HE WOULD NEVER HAVE GIVEN JACKSON EXCSIVE DOS OF THE DG.DURG THE TRIAL, FAHEEM MUHAMMAD TTIFIED THAT “THERE WERE TIM WHEN HE WAS GOG ALMOST EVERY DAY,” AND THAT ON AT LEAST ONE OCSN JACKSON HAD TO BE ASSISTED DOWN THE STEPS BY A MEMBER OF KLE’S STAFF.ACRDG TO PFEIFFER’S UNTERCLAIM, “SEVERAL TIM, KLE TOLD PFEIFFER TO HELP MICHAEL DOWN TO THE R BEE MICHAEL WAS TOO DGGED UP AND DISORIENTED TO STAND ON HIS OWN. PFEIFFER TOLD KLE REPEATEDLY THAT PFEIFFER WAS UNFORTABLE DOG THIS PFEIFFER AND KLE’S OWN NURS WERE WORRIED THAT MICHAEL WAS BEG ‘OVERMEDITED’ BY KLE. KLE RETORTED TO PFEIFFER THAT HE, KLE, KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOG AND THAT PFEIFFER SHOULD KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.”FAHEEM MUHAMMAD REPORTEDLY SAID AN TERVIEW WH POLICE, “WE WOULD PARK, WALK HIM UPSTAIRS.” AS HIS VISS STRETCHED ON FOR “THREE, FOUR HOURS,” MUHAMMAD SAID, HUNDREDS OF HIS FANS WOULD GATHER BY THE ONT DOOR. ACRDG TO MUHAMMAD, JACKSON EQUENTLY LEFT KLE’S OFFICE DROWSY, WH SLOWED SPEECH. SOMETIM HIS TREATMENTS SEEMED TO MAKE HIM MORE EXTROVERTED THAN UAL. “WHEN HE WOULD LEAVE, SOMETIM HE WOULD WANT TO GO SHOPPG THAT BEVERLY HILLS AREA, AND THAT ULD ATTRACT UP TO 500 PEOPLE,” MUHAMMAD TOLD THE POLICE. “IT ULD GET REAL—REAL UGLY I WOULD TELL HIM, ‘SIR, WE NEED TO GO OUT THE BACK DOOR AND AVOID THE CROWD’ HE WOULDN’T GO. ‘THE ARE MY FANS. WE’RE GOG OUT THE ONT.’ ”PROPOFOL AND DEMEROLTHE EXTENT OF JACKSON’S TREATMENTS AT KLE’S OFFICE N BE FERRED BY THE SIZE OF HIS UNPAID BILLS. “MICHAEL WAS A HIGH CRED RISK, BEE HE WOULD GET SERVIC AND NEVER PAY FOR THEM,” KHILJI SAID. “COLLECTG MONEY OM HIM WAS BEG CREASGLY DIFFICULT.” I ASKED KHILJI HOW MUCH JACKSON OWED. “AT ONE POT GOT TO BE AS HIGH AS $80,000.”IN MAY 2009, ACRDG TO PFEIFFER, KLE WENT ON A EUROPEAN VATN, TAKG ALONG PFEIFFER, ELLEN BNN, HIS BOYIEND, AND TWO ASSISTANTS FOR THREE WEEKS OF FIRST-CLASS TRAVEL TO LONDON, PARIS, AND VENICE. HOWEVER, THE OFFICE RERDS SHOW, “OMAR ARNOLD” ME AND RECEIVED DEMEROL SIX TIM THAT MONTH.AT THE CONRAD MURRAY TRIAL, THE FENDANT’S LAWYERS DID THEIR BT TO SHIFT ATTENTN OM MURRAY’S PROPOFOL TO KLE’S DEMEROL. HAVG EXAMED THE RERDS OM KLE’S OFFICE, ROBERT WALDMAN, A MEDIL EXPERT FOR THE FENSE, TTIFIED THAT JACKSON WAS PROBABLY ADDICTED TO DEMEROL AT THE TIME OF HIS ATH. HE HAD RECEIVED “STIFF DOS” OF 900 LIGRAMS OVER THREE DAYS MAY 2009, WALDMAN OBSERVED. “A STARTG DOSE THAT IS REMEND FOR AN OPIATE NAIVE DIVIDUAL WOULD BE 50 LIGRAMS.” SEVERAL EXPERTS AND MENTATORS AGREED THAT THE DOS JACKSON RECEIVED WERE EXCSIVE. KLE LATER SAID THAT JACKSON ULDN’T TAKE THE PA OF A BOTOX JECTN—TH THE DEMEROL—AND THAT THE DOSAG HE APPROVED WERE ABSOLUTELY JTIFIED.IN THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF JUNE, JACKSON RECEIVED SEVEN MORE DEMEROL JECTNS KLE’S OFFICE, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT GETTG 200 LIGRAMS A SGLE DAY’S VIS. ON JACKSON’S LAST VIS, THREE DAYS BEFORE HIS ATH, KLE’S MEDIL RERDS SHOW, HE RECEIVED 100 LIGRAMS OF DEMEROL.THE WEEK BEFORE HE DIED, JACKSON MISSED SEVERAL REHEARSALS FOR “THIS IS IT,” THE LONG-AWAED EBACK TOUR THAT WAS SET TO OPEN LONDON ON JULY 16 FOR AN UNPRECENTED N OF 50 PERFORMANC. ON JUNE 19, A DAY THAT HE HAD NOT VISED KLE’S OFFICE, HE MA TO REHEARSAL BUT WAS UNABLE TO PERFORM. TWO DAYS LATER HE TOLD HIS NUTRNIST, “ONE SI OF MY BODY IS HOT AND THE OTHER SI IS LD.” ROBERT WALDMAN TTIFIED THAT SENSATNS OF HOT AND LD ARE SYMPTOMS OF DEMEROL WHDRAWAL. BY JUNE 23 AND 24, THOUGH, JACKSON WAS BACK TOP FORM AT REHEARSALS, HIS BODYGUARD TOLD THE POLICE. “HE WAS REALLY ON. HE WAS REALLY JAMMG.”JACKSON’S FAL REHEARSAL END AROUND MIDNIGHT ON JUNE 25, AFTER WHICH HE WAS DRIVEN TO 100 NORTH CAROLWOOD, HIS $20,000-A-MONTH HOLMBY HILLS RENTAL. WHILE HIS CHILDREN SLEPT, JACKSON WAS WI AWAKE AND CRAVG HIS “K,” PROPOFOL, WHICH HE HAD E TO RELY UPON TO PUT HIM TO SLEEP. CONRAD MURRAY, THE PHYSICIAN A.E.G. (ANSCHUTZ ENTERTAMENT GROUP, THE TOUR ANIZER AND ENTERTAMENT-AND-SPORTS GIANT) HAD HIRED AT $150,000 A MONTH TO RE FOR JACKSON, LATER TOLD THE POLICE THAT HE FIRST TRIED A SERI OF PRCRIPTN SEDATIV. WHEN THEY DIDN’T WORK, MURRAY CLAIMED, HE SURRENRED TO JACKSON’S MANDS FOR PROPOFOL, GIVG HIM 25 LIGRAMS AT 10:40 A.M. AFTER LEAVG THE BEDROOM FOR A TWO-MUTE BATHROOM BREAK, MURRAY SAID, HE RETURNED TO DISVER THAT HIS PATIENT HAD STOPPED BREATHG. JACKSON WAS TAKEN TO THE U.C.L.A. MEDIL CENTER, WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED AD AT 2:26 P.M.“ON THE DAY MICHAEL JACKSON DIED, I WAS WORKG WH PATIENTS,” KLE LATER WROTE. “WHEN I AM PERFORMG A PROCRE ON A PATIENT, I DO NOT TAKE TELEPHONE LLS. MY OFFICE MANAGER, JASON PFEIFFER, FIELDS ALL TELEPHONE LLS TO THE OFFICE TO ME, AND HE ALSO ANSWERS MY CELLULAR TELEPHONE. I FIRST LEARNED OF MICHAEL JACKSON’S ATH OM JASON PFEIFFER.”LATER THAT DAY, DEBBIE ROWE, WHO WAS LIVG ON THE RANCH SHE HAD PURCHASED AFTER HER DIVORCE OM JACKSON, LLED KLE’S OFFICE. “SHE WAS SCREAMG AND YELLG,” PFEIFFER REMEMBERED. “I SAID TO HER, ‘I’M SORRY, MA’AM,’ BEE I HADN’T REALLY SPOKEN TO HER BEFORE. AND SHE SAID, ‘I’M NOT A GODDAMN MA’AM. I’M DEBBIE FUCKG ROWE.’ SHE WANTED TO TALK TO KLE. I TRANSFERRED HER AND RAN BEE HE ALWAYS LIKED ME TO BE THERE WHEN HE TOOK A PHONE LL LIKE THAT SHE STARTED SCREAMG AT HIM. I HEARD HER SAY, ‘WHAT DID YOU GIVE HIM?’ AND KLE SAID, ‘I WASN’T THERE. I HAVEN’T GIVEN HIM DEMEROL FOR A UPLE DAYS.’ ”FOLLOWG JACKSON’S ATH, ONE OF HIS ASSOCIAT TOLD ABC NEWS THAT THE SGER HAD A “20-PL YEAR ADDICTN” TO DEMEROL, AND ABC REPORTED THAT THE ALLEGATN WAS “BACKED BY A SENR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.” SOON KLE’S NAME ME TO THE ATTENTN OF THE THORI, AND WASN’T LONG BEFORE THE POLICE STARTED RECEIVG LEADS. ONE POLICE DOCUMENT REUNTS: “ON JULY 17, 2009, TECTIV RECEIVED A LL OM AN UNKNOWN FEMALE LLER WHO STATED THAT SHE HAD RMATN ON THE ALIAS ED BY JACKSON WHEN HE WOULD VIS DR. KLE. SHE PROVID THE NAM, OMAR ARNOLD, FERNAND DIAZ, PETER MADONIE, AND JOSEPHE BAKER AS NAM JACKSON WOULD E WHEN SEEG DR. KLE. DETECTIV REVERED A PRCRIPTN AT JACKSON’S RINCE THE NAME OF OMAR ARNOLD PRCRIBED BY DR. KLE.”MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISACRDG TO KHILJI, KLE’S OFFICE STAFF WENT TO PROTECTN MO TO KEEP THE DOCTOR AWAY OM THE PRS. “HE REALLY WANTED TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNY TO GO TO THE MEDIA AND EXPLO ,” SAID KHILJI. “OUR PLAN WAS TO TRY TO TELL HIM THIS WAS NOT A GOOD IA.”ON JULY 8, HOWEVER, KLE APPEARED ON GOOD MORNG AMERI, NYG WH A WK THAT HE WAS THE FATHER OF JACKSON’S CHILDREN AND LAMBASTG DOCTORS WHO PRCRIBED ADDICTIVE DGS FOR THE SGER AS “CRIMALS.” ON JULY 11, ON LARRY KG LIVE, KLE REVEALED THAT, DURG THE SMETIC PROCR HE HAD PERFORMED ON JACKSON OVER THE YEARS, “YOU HAVE TO SEDATE HIM A LTLE B.” HE ADD, “IF YOU TOOK ALL THE PILLS I HAD GIVEN HIM THE LAST YEAR AT ONCE, WOULDN’T DO ANYTHG TO YOU.”“WHAT WAS THE STRONGT MEDITN YOU GAVE HIM?,” KG ASKED.“I ONCE—I ON OCSN GAVE HIM DEMEROL TO SEDATE HIM,” KLE REPLIED.THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME KLE PUBLICLY ADMTED GIVG JACKSON DEMEROL. THREE DAYS LATER, ASSISTANT CHIEF CORONER ED WTER PAID A VIS TO THE DOCTOR’S OFFIC.‘WE REPRENT THE CEASED,” SAID WTER AS WE SAT THE RONER’S OFFICE DOWNTOWN L.A. WTER HAS WORKED ON MANY FAMO S, CLUDG THAT OF LANA CLARKSON, THE FORMER STARLET KILLED BY RERD PRODUCER PHIL SPECTOR. WHEN THE RPSE OF MICHAEL JACKSON ARRIVED AT THE RONER’S OFFICE, WTER PROCEED TO TRACK THE MEDITNS THE SGER HAD BEEN PRCRIBED. “THERE WERE OVER 30 VIALS AND PACKAG OF MEDS, SOME DR. MURRAY, SOME DR. KLE … AT THE RINCE,” WTER TOLD ME. “WE LOTED PRCRIPTN SLIPS THE NAM OF OMAR ARNOLD, PETER MADONIE, AND OTHER NAM. THE WERE SPECIFILLY OM KLE.”WTER FILED A SUBPOENA FOR KLE’S MEDIL RERDS, AND SOON VISED KLE’S OFFIC. NOW HE LEANED BACK HIS CHAIR AND SED. “I DON’T THK I EVER MET DR. KLE,” HE SAID, EXPLAG THAT HE HAD ALWAYS ALT WH AN ASSISTANT OR AN ATTORNEY.IN WTER’S TERVIEWS WH THE OTHER DOCTORS HE FOUND JACKSON’S MEDIL RERDS, HE LEARNED SOME SURPRISG FACTS. “WHEN WE TERVIEWED SOME OF THE DOCTORS, THEY SAID THEY HAD NOT TREATED MICHAEL JACKSON, BUT DR. KLE HAD ED THEIR FACILI,” SAID WTER. HE NAMED THREE BEVERLY HILLS DOCTORS. ONE HAD TOLD HIM THAT HE HAD BILLED KLE FOR THE E OF HIS OPERATG ROOM.WHEN WTER SERVED A SUBPOENA ON THE MICKEY FE PHARMACY, ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF THE BUILDG ON NORTH ROXBURY DRIVE THAT HOED KLE’S OFFIC, THE PHARMACY PRODUCED MORE THAN 50 PRCRIPTNS FOR JACKSON UNR A VARIETY OF ALIAS. THEN WTER MET WH DEBBIE ROWE. “SHE TOLD ABOUT THE ‘DG BOOK.’ WHENEVER THERE WERE DGS BEG DISPENSED, DR. KLE HAD A LEDGER THAT SHOWED WHAT WAS GOG TO WHO.”HE DIDN’T QUTN ROWE ABOUT THE FATHER OF PRCE AND PARIS, HE SAID. “SHE BROUGHT UP. SHE SAID, ‘THE MEDIA IS SAYG THAT THEY THK DR. KLE WAS THE SPERM DONOR. BUT THAT’S BULL!’ ”I LATER OBTAED THE RONER’S SE NOT OM HIS VIS WH ROWE: “MS. ROWE APPEARS TO HAVE SOMEONE DR. KLE’S OFFICE PROVIDG HER RMATN VOLVG THIS VTIGATN SHE ADVISED THAT THERE ARE ‘SUPER BILLS’ AND A ‘DG BOOK’ THE OFFICE AND THAT THEY SHOULD BE CHECKED.”DOCTORS AT WARSTEVEN HOEFFL, A PAST PRINT OF THE LOS ANGEL SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS, GAED FAME THE 1980S FOR ENLARGG PLAYMAT’ BREASTS AND BEG MICHAEL JACKSON’S PLASTIC SURGEON. THE DAILY BEAST HAS CHRONICLED HIS ERRATIC BEHAVR, CLUDG HIS TENTN TO N FOR PRINT OF THE UNED STAT 2008, AS WELL AS HIS CLAIMS OF BEG AN UNRVER AGENT FOR THE C.I.A., THE D.E.A., AND THE SECRET SERVICE. HE HAS ALSO CLAIMED THAT HE AND HIS WIFE WERE TARGETED BY ATH THREATS THAT WERE TRACED TO THE MPAIGN OF HIS RIVAL FOR THE PRINCY, SENATOR JOHN MCCA. IN 2008 HE WAS RNERED BY POLICE AFTER HE HAD CLIMBED UP A TREE NEAR HIS HOME WH A PELLET GUN, MUTTERG ABOUT A NSPIRACY TO ASSASSATE HIM. IN 1997 HE FILED LAWSUS AGAST TWO FORMER MEDIL LLEAGU WHO HAD TOLD THE MEDIA THAT HOEFFL HAD MOCKED OR FONDLED SEVERAL OF HIS FAMO PATIENTS, CLUDG ELIZABETH TAYLOR, WHILE THEY WERE UNR ANTHIA. AFTER MICHAEL JACKSON’S ATH, HOEFFL CLAIMED THAT JACKSON’S MOTHER HAD THORIZED HIM TO VTIGATE JACKSON’S ATH AND SPEAK TO THE PRS. (SHE HAD APPARENTLY GIVEN HIM A HANDWRTEN NOTE GRANTG PERMISSN TO “STOP & RRECT ALL THE BAD MORS ABOUT MY SON,” BUT WAS SWIFTLY RCD BY HER LAWYERS.)ONE OF THE FIRST THGS HOEFFL DID WAS TO WRE A LETTER TO ARNOLD KLE:DR. KLE: PRR TO HIS ATH, MICHAEL JACKSON ASKED YOU TO SEND ME A PY OF HIS MEDIL RERDS. THOSE RERDS WERE REVIEWED AND ARE NOW THE HANDS OF THE LOS ANGEL POLICE DEPARTMENT.IN YOUR OWN WRG AND YOUR OWN PUBLIC STATEMENTS, IS FOUND EVINCE THAT YOU:(A) RUED MICHAEL’S HEALTH.(B) RUED HIS APPEARANCE.(C) RUED HIM EMOTNALLY.(D) YOU ED HIS DEMEROL AND OTHER PRCRIPTN PA MEDICE ADDICTN.(E) YOU STCTED DEBBIE ROWE TO JECT LARGE QUANTI OF DEMEROL WHILE SHE WAS ALONE HIS HOME.(F) YOU PREVENTED HIM OM ENTERG A DG REHABILATN PROGRAM.(G) YOU PREVENTED HIM OM NTUG HIS DANGERO TOUR.(H) YOU ADMISTERED IV DIPRIVAN [A BRAND NAME FOR PROPOFOL] TO HIM YOUR OWN OFFICE.(I) YOU STCTED OTHERS TO UNSAFELY ADMISTER IV DIPRIVAN(M) YOU ARE FELY NOT THE FATHER OF HIS TWO OLR CHILDREN AND ARE MAKG DULENT CLAIMS THAT YOU ARE.(N) YOU NTRIBUTED TO THE ATH OF MICHAEL JACKSON.ON JULY 24, 2009, THE BRISH TABLOID THE SUN REPORTED HOEFFL AN TERVIEW DISCSG THE MEDIL RERDS THAT JACKSON HAD PURPORTEDLY GIVEN HIM 1993, TAILG SOME OF HIS VISS THAT YEAR TO ARNOLD KLE:THE SUN HAS SEEN PROOF THAT DR KLE TREATED JACKO WH VAST AMOUNTS OF THE PAKILLER DEMEROL. THEY SHOW HIS FIRST MAJOR BATTLE WH DG ADDICTN OCCURRED SHORTLY AFTER THE DOC TREATED HIM WH FOUR TIMES THE DAILY MAXIMUM REMEND AMOUNT OF THE DG.JACKO’S EX-PLASTIC SURGEON AND IEND DR STEVEN HOEFFL SAID THE EVINCE OM KLE’S 1993 FIL WAS “HORRIFYG READG”. HE SAID: “I HAD NO IA MICHAEL WAS BEG GIVEN THIS SANE AMOUNT OF DEMEROL.“THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT YOU SHOULD GIVE A PATIENT OF HIS WEIGHT AND BUILD SEVERE SURGIL PA IS 200MG A DAY. MICHAEL WAS BEG GIVEN 800MG A DAY.“I FEEL DR KLE WAS OVER-TREATG HIM TO MAKE MONEY. I HAVE LNCHED A LAWSU AGAST DR KLE FOR D. IT IS MY OPN THAT HE GOT MY PATIENT ADDICTED TO DEMEROL.”A MONTH LATER, THE SAME TABLOID, HOEFFL SPECULATED THAT KLE WAS ALSO VOLVED JACKSON’S E OF PROPOFOL: “MURRAY WOULD HAVE UNTED ON KLE TO BE THE SOURCE OF PROPOFOL AND GUI HIM S E.”KLE FIRED BACK WH A SLANR LAWSU, SAYG THAT HOEFFL’S ACCATNS WERE “LUDICRO, UTTERLY FALSE, AND BASELS,” AND THAT HOEFFL KNEW . IN ANOTHER FILG, FOUR MONTHS LATER, KLE’S LAWYER SAID, “FOR REASONS NOT APPARENT TO DR. KLE, DR. HOEFFL VELOPED AN TENSE ANTIPATHY TO KLE THE YEARS PRECEDG JACKSON’S MISE. BOTH DOCTORS PROVID RELATED, BUT DIFFERENT, MEDIL TREATMENT TO A SMALL DRE OF CLIENTS.” HOEFFL HAD ATTACKED KLE “FOR PERSONAL REASONS AND TO OBTA AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE HIS PETN WH DR. KLE A VERY SMALL WORLD OF POTENTIAL CLIENTS.” THE SE IS STILL PENDG, AND HOEFFL HAS CLED TO MENT.GOOD-BYE LIZON APRIL 30, 2010, KLE TOLD THE WEB SE TMZ THAT MICHAEL JACKSON WAS A HOMOSEXUAL AND THAT KLE’S OFFICE MANAGER, JASON PFEIFFER, HAD HAD AN AFFAIR WH HIM. PFEIFFER WAS “THE LOVE OF [JACKSON’S] LIFE,” KLE SAID. THE TELEVISN SHOW EXTRA HAD JT AIRED AN TERVIEW WH PFEIFFER, WHO CLARED, “I WAS MICHAEL JACKSON’S BOYIEND HE WAS VERY PASSNATE, HE WAS VERY SEXUAL.”PFEIFFER TALKED TO ME ABOUT HIS RELATNSHIP WH JACKSON, WHICH HE SAID VOLVED THREE OR FOUR EPISOS KLE’S EXAMG ROOM, BEFORE JACKSON RECEIVED HIS DEMEROL SHOT, AS WELL AS ONE STANCE DURG A R RI.WHEN NEWS OF THE PURPORTED AFFAIR BEME PUBLIC, JACKSON FANS AROUND THE WORLD EPTED, MAKG ATH THREATS AGAST BOTH PFEIFFER AND KLE. ON TMZ, JACKSON’S BROTHER JERMAE SAID, “ARNIE KLE? FUCK HIM. HE’S FULL OF SH. MICHAEL WAS NOT GAY.” THE MOST STGG ASSLT ME OM ELIZABETH TAYLOR, KLE’S LONGTIME FENR, WHO POSTED A FOUR-PART TWEET ON TWTER:DR. ARNIE KLE CLARED ON MAY 2 THAT HE DID NOT BETRAY MICHAEL JACKSON BY SAYG PUBLICLY THAT HE HAD A HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIP … WH SOMEONE “ARNIE’S” OFFICE. IT SEEMS HE SUPPLI NOT ONLY WOMEN (DEBBIE ROWE), BUT MEN TOO … HOW NVENIENT JT WHAT WE WANT OUR DOCTORS. AND THEN TO SAY HE DID NOT BETRAY MICHAEL’S NFINCE. NO WONR HE HAS ATH THREATS I THOUGHT DOCTORS, LIKE PRITS, TOOK AN OATH OF NFINTIALY. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON HIS SOUL.LATER, KLE TOOK BACK HIS STATEMENT ABOUT THE PURPORTED AFFAIR, POSTG ON FACEBOOK, “ALLEGATNS ABOUT … JASON BEG MICHAEL JACKSON’S LOVER ARE RIDICULO. THAT STORY WAS MA UP.”BY THEN PFEIFFER’S POSN AS OFFICE MANAGER HAD VOLVED, ACRDG TO HIM, TO “THIS CULTURE OF WEIRDNS.” AFTER MOVG TO KLE’S HOE LOS ANGEL, PFEIFFER TOLD ME, “I WANTED TO KILL MYSELF, I WAS SO UNHAPPY.... I WAS THIS BIG MANSN, THIS GILD GE THAT YOU ULD NOT LEAVE. HE N LL ME 24–7, ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT.” IN HIS UNTERSU, HE SAID THAT KLE REPEATEDLY WARNED HIM, “I FOUND YOU THE GUTTER AND THAT’S WHERE YOU’D BE WHOUT ME.” IN SEPTEMBER 2010, PFEIFFER WALKED OUT OF THE PALM SPRGS HOE AND DROVE KLE’S WHE BENTLEY TO LOS ANGEL, WHERE HE PICKED UP HIS OWN R AT THE DOCTOR’S HOE THERE AND LEFT FOR GOOD.THE STAT QUOIN TELEVISN TERVIEWS AND ON FACEBOOK, KLE HAS REPEATEDLY AND VIGOROLY NIED THAT HIS DEMEROL JECTNS HAD ANYTHG TO DO WH JACKSON’S ATH. IN HIS PHONE LL WH ME, KLE SISTED THAT HE’S NOT THE VILLA BUT THE VICTIM OF A VAST NSPIRACY. “IF YOU DON’T THK EVERYTHG’S TERNNECTED— IS,” HE SAID. HE IMPLIED THAT THE POWERS BEHD JACKSON’S EBACK WERE ENGAGED DARK MANVERS. “A.E.G. WAS BEHD THE WHOLE THG,” HE SAID.JACKSON’S MOTHER AND HIS CHILDREN HAVE FILED A WRONGFUL-ATH SU AGAST A.E.G., ALLEGG THAT THE PANY NTRIBUTED TO MICHAEL’S ATH BY PRSURG HIM TO GO THROUGH WH A NCERT TOUR HE WAS PHYSILLY UNABLE TO ENDURE. (WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE ALLEGATNS, A.E.G.’S ATTORNEY MARV PUTNAM SAID, “THIS LAWSU IS RIDICULO. NO ONE—LEAST OF ALL THE JACKSONS—BELIEV THE NCERT PROMOTER A.E.G. ED MICHAEL JACKSON’S ATH.”)ON NOVEMBER 29, 2011, CONRAD MURRAY WAS GIVEN A FOUR-YEAR SENTENCE FOR VOLUNTARY MANSLGHTER. IN A DOCUMENTARY THAT AIRED EARLIER THE MONTH, HE PORTRAYED HIMSELF AS AN UNFORTUNATE BYSTANR AT JACKSON’S ATH, “ENTRAPPED” BY HIS PATIENT.KLE SAYS ’S UP TO HIM TO FIGHT FOR JTICE. “I HAVE TO SET THE RERD STRAIGHT ON MICHAEL,” HE TOLD ME. “SOMEONE HAS TO GET MONEY FOR THE CHILDREN. IT’S NOT GOG TO BE THE FAY. THEY ARE ALL TOO LUNATIC-Y ALL OF THE MONEY IS GOG TO BE EATEN UP BY ALL OF THE RPORATNS, BY THE GREEDY PIGS.”MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISMEANWHILE, KLE NTU TO FIGHT FOR HIS PROFSNAL LIFE. HE IS UNR VTIGATN BY THE MEDIL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA. ACRDG TO THE DAILY BEAST, THE BOARD HAS QUTNED WNS REGARDG KLE’S ALLEGEDLY G ALIAS ON PRCRIPTNS, DISTRIBUTG DG SAMPL TO HIS PATIENTS, AND PRCRIBG NARTICS TO HIMSELF.ON NOVEMBER 30, KLE POSTED ON FACEBOOK THAT A NEW PATIENT HAD ARRIVED AT HIS OFFICE. “AFTER I EXAMED HIS SK HE PRENTED ME WH A SUBPOENA OM THE CALIFORNIA MEDIL BOARD [ISSUED] BY KIMBERLY WILSON [A SENR VTIGATOR WHO HAD REPORTEDLY MASQUERAD AS A NEW KLE PATIENT HERSELF, ONLY TO BE TOLD THE DOCTOR WAS NOT THE OFFICE] AND PAID ME WH A DULENT CRED RD. FOR KIMBERLY WILSON TO E SUCH CRIMAL AND DULENT MEANS TO SERVE ME A SUBPOENA IS ILLEGAL AND I FEEL SHE HAS PROVED HERSELF UNF TO EVALUATE ANY ASPECT [OF] MY MEDIL PRACTICE OR THE JACKSON CASE.”KLE HAS CLAIMED THAT WILSON WAS GUILTY OF “ELR ABE” AGAST HIM. IN A FACEBOOK POST TLED “THE CALIFORNIA MEDIL BOARD: A NOVEL BY KAFKA,” HE CLAIMED THAT WILSON HAD TOLD HIS NURSE, “I AM GOG TO GET HIM.” HE WROTE, “IF YOU ARE TLY NCERNED WH [MY] ABILY TO PRACTICE I SUGGT YOU DISCS WH MY PHYSICIANS WHO WILL ASSURE YOU I AM BOTH PHYSILLY AND MENTALLY HEALTHIER THAN I HAVE EVER BEEN THE LAST 15 YEARS. AWKLE.” (A SPOKMAN FOR THE MEDIL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA SAYS THE BOARD DO NOT MENT ON VTIGATNS. HE ADDS, “AS TO WHAT DR. KLE CLAIMS ABOUT THE MEDIL BOARD OR S VTIGATORS, I AM HAPPY TO REMD HIM THAT HE N FILE A PLAT OR MENT ABOUT BY SIMPLY GOG TO OUR WEBSE.”)SHORTLY AFTER THAT, KLE POSTED A RIGNATN LETTER OM ONE OF HIS ATTORNEYS, WHICH THE LAWYER SUGGTED THAT KLE FD NEW REPRENTATN IMMEDIATELY AND REMD HIM TO APPEAR FOR A SCHLED MEETG WH THE MEDIL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA ORR TO KEEP OM POSSIBLY SPENDG HIS LICENSE TO PRACTICE.IN NOVEMBER, KLE HELD FORTH AT A PARTY TO CELEBRATE THE OPENG OF HIS NEW OFFIC, SMALLER QUARTERS A UPLE OF BLOCKS AWAY OM HIS LONGTIME OFFIC ON NORTH ROXBURY DRIVE. AT THE BEVERLY PARK HOME OF DR. PL NASSIF AND HIS WIFE, REAL HOEWIV OF BEVERLY HILLS STAR ADRIENNE MALOOF, KLE SAT ON A THRONE-LIKE CHAIR, WEARG A BLACK EVENG JACKET AND AN ELECTRIC-BLUE SRF, GREETG HIS FANS. “WE WERE TOLD HE HAD A SKIG ACCINT,” SAID GREG MILAM, WHO TERVIEWED HIM AT THE PARTY FOR SKY NEWS, REFERRG TO KLE’S HAVG TROUBLE WALKG ON HIS OWN. MILAM WAS GIVEN A VIO OF SHARON STONE’S GLOWG TTIMONIAL ABOUT KLE. HE WAS ALSO GIVEN A GUT LIST FOR THE PARTY, WHICH CLUD WARREN BEATTY, CHARLIE SHEEN, AND CARRIE FISHER, NONE OF WHOM SHOWED UP WHILE MILAM’S FILM CREW WAS THERE. KLE’S LATER FACEBOOK POSTGS, HOWEVER, REPORTED THE ATTENDANCE OF RUPL AND DYAN CANNON.ON JANUARY 23, AS VANY FAIR WAS GOG TO PRS, SOME OF KLE’S POSSSNS—RANGG OM A BENTLEY ONCE OWNED BY CHER TO A SET OF DIAMOND CUFF LKS GIVEN TO HIM BY ELIZABETH TAYLOR, TO CLOTHG AND MEMORABILIA OF MICHAEL JACKSON’S—WERE SCHLED TO BE CTNED OFF BY BONHAMS.NONE OF THIS HAS SUBDUED THE FIANT DOCTOR OR SILENCED HIS REMAG LOYAL PATIENTS. “I WENT TO SEE HIM LATE LAST YEAR,” AN ACTRS WHO HAS BEEN A PATIENT AND IEND FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS TOLD ME. “HE WAS AS MARVELO AS ALWAYS. I TST HIM WH MY FACE.” KLE RECENTLY POSTED ON FACEBOOK: “I HAVE SURVIVED THE MURRAY TRIAL (WHICH WAS AN ABSOLUTE HOAX), BOTOX LAWSU, MY NURSE’S MARRIAGE, AND MY BANKPTCY. TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE IMATED AND WILL IMATE ME I WISH YOU GREAT LUCK I WILL ONLY GET BETTER!”MARK SEAL

He also alleged that Jackson's two-month affair wh Pfeiffer was the only gay relatnship that Jackson ever had.

JACKSON'S ALLEGED GAY LOVER: 'HE KNEW HE WAS ABOUT TO DIE'

The man who claims he was Michael Jackson's gay lover says Dr.

Kle's recent Facebook post, llg MJ's gay affair a lie.

As we prevly reported -- Kle himself had told TMZ that Michael Jackson had a gay relatnship wh Jason...

MICHAEL JACKSON'S DAD -- 'HE WAS NOT GAY'

Kle lled durg TMZ Live last Friday, and said Michael was gay and Jason was "the love of his life. Kle told Saturday, "Was he gay? And, Kle says, as far as he knows, Jason's alleged two-month relatnship is the only gay relatnship Jackson ever had.