Details About Michael Jackson’s Medical Records: Lady Gaga Is Not the Buyer

You may have read that a man named Brian McDaniel, holding Michael Jackson’s medical records from 1984, is trying to sell the documents. It was also claimed that Lady Gaga is eager to buy them. (News)

Tim Miller, the representative of the man who intended to sell Michael Jackson’s medical records, claims that his statements were distorted by the media. For this reason, he contacted the MJWN website and provided information regarding the auction of these documents. Miller said that the medical records of patients are kept by the hospital, and that the hospital often destroys them after ten years.

Miller says that Michael Jackson’s medical records were found by his client in 2005 inside a trash bin in a public park. Miller says the hospital has not made any claim about these documents and has not considered them lost or stolen. Miller adds that, under common law, the finder has ownership rights, and a person who finds something in a public place is considered its owner. Based on Miller’s argument, Brian McDaniel is now the owner of Michael Jackson’s medical records and has control over them.

Miller says the medical documents and medical photos of Michael Jackson relate to two different times. First, one month after the fire incident in February 1984, and second, the surgery performed on Michael’s scalp after that incident, in December of the same year, at Brotman Hospital.

Miller says his client paid to sell cans and bottles he found in trash bins in order to cover his living expenses. McDaniel was working as a house buyer and seller at the time, but his job was slow, and he collected trash to feed his children. He then found Michael Jackson’s documents and considered it a gift from God that could one day make him wealthy. Miller says his client, who is now an ambulance driver, had no connection to any medical facility—and especially not Brotman Hospital—at that time.

Miller also says Lady Gaga has not said she intends to buy these documents, and that the media is only assuming she is eager to make the purchase because she had taken other items belonging to Michael Jackson in the past.

When reviewing Miller’s statements, questions arise for us. First, in these medical records there is a letter signed by Michael Jackson. By signing this letter, Michael officially requested that the documents be delivered to one of his assistants. The hospital is the owner of the medical records and keeps them for several years, but after the documents’ expiration date, they were supposed to be handed over to Michael’s team members.

In this regard, it should not be overlooked that Michael Jackson’s home was searched by the police twice, and in February 2004 many items from his home were seized and confiscated by Thomas Sneddon, the then District Attorney of Los Angeles. Since Brian McDaniel found these documents in 2005, some believe the documents ended up with Daniel either intentionally or accidentally through Sneddon. Such an assumption is not very likely, because the documents were found near the hospital’s headquarters and appear not to have been returned to Michael or his people from the beginning, which would indicate hospital negligence. These documents were also not part of the auctioned Jacksons’ storage.

The second point relates to a matter Miller refers to as the law of “the finder is the owner.” Such a thing is not stated in the law, and it is also specified that the finder must take all possible steps to find the original owner of the items and return them to him.

Source: eMJey.com / MJWN