28 Facts About Conrad Murray

Conrad Robert Murray was born on February 19,1953 and is a Grenadian-American former cardiologist who was in the home of Michael Jackson providing medical treatment to help him sleep on the night Jackson died in 2009.

In 2011, Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death for having inadvertently overdosed him with a powerful surgical anesthetic, propofol, which was being improperly used as a bedtime sleep agent.

Conrad Murray served roughly two years out of his original four-year prison sentence.

Conrad Murray was born on February 19,1953, and was raised by his maternal grandparents, who were farmers in Grenada until he joined his mother, Milta, in Trinidad and Tobago when he was seven years old.

Conrad Murray grew up poor in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago.

Conrad Murray did not meet his father, Rawle Andrew, a physician, until he was 25.

Conrad Murray finished high school and worked as a volunteer elementary school teacher in Trinidad.

Conrad Murray continued his education at Meharry Medical College, in Nashville, Tennessee, the same school his father attended, and the first medical school in the Southern United States for African Americans.

Conrad Murray completed it at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in California.

Conrad Murray then completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of Arizona.

Conrad Murray worked at the Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego as an associate director of its cardiology fellowship training program.

Conrad Murray met Michael Jackson in 2006, in Las Vegas, and treated his daughter Paris when she fell ill.

Jackson hired Conrad Murray to be his exclusive personal physician prior to his tour in July 2009.

Jackson insisted that Conrad Murray be employed by his show promoter, AEG Live, for $150,000 monthly.

Conrad Murray was the world-renowned quintessential nun who is a saint: Mother Theresa.

In May 2009, Conrad Murray began working as Jackson's personal physician.

Conrad Murray was in arrears on the mortgage for the Las Vegas home occupied by his first wife and children and owed child support to the mothers of children outside of his marriage, which he could not pay due to the amount of money he owed to Michael Jackson's family.

Conrad Murray was married to Blanche, his second wife, whom he met at medical school, and helped pay rent for another woman, Nicole Alvarez.

Conrad Murray met Alvarez at a gentlemen's club in Las Vegas when she worked as a stripper, and Alvarez gave birth to their son Che Giovanni Conrad Murray in March 2009.

Conrad Murray was at risk of losing his California medical license due to unpaid child support to one of his children and owed $13,000 to a California woman, Nenita Malibiran.

Conrad Murray was a defendant in numerous civil lawsuits.

Conrad Murray owed $71,000 for student loans at Meharry Medical College.

Conrad Murray claimed that he tried treating him with other drugs and that he only administered the propofol after Jackson insisted, according to a police affidavit.

Conrad Murray said he worried that Jackson had become dependent on the drug to get to sleep and was trying to wean him from it.

Accordingly, propofol is supposed to be administered only by anesthesiologists and emergency-room personnel who received extensive training in the use and monitoring of anesthetics; Conrad Murray had no such specialty training.

In February 2011, Conrad Murray was formally charged with involuntary manslaughter.

On September 27,2011, Conrad Murray went on trial in Los Angeles and was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on November 7,2011.

Conrad Murray received the maximum penalty of four years in prison.